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About Lieutenant James Horton
A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of LIEUTENANT.
DAR Ancestor # A058623
Lieutenant James Horton was born July 10, 1741,
died in Rehoboth, Mass., August 10, 1833. In March,
1776, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in Captain
Stephen Bullock's Sixth company. Colonel Thomas
Carpenter's first Bristol regiment of Massachusetts
militia. He was later first lieutenant in Captain Sim-
con Crary's regiment, General John Fellow's brigade,
and was in the list of men stationed in New York for
five months, taking part in the evacuation of New
York and the battle of White Plains. After that battle
he was transferred to Captain Hix's company. Colonel
John Daggett's regiment. Lieutenant Horton was in
command of a company in Colonel Thomas Carpen-
ter's regiment for eight days, August 1, 1780, to August
8, 1780, when the company marched to Tiverton, R. I.,
on an alarm. He was a very vigorous, active man,
and lived to the age of ninety-two years. He was first
buried in a neglected cemetery in Rehoboth, but later,
through the efforts and at the expense of his great-
great-grandsons, Everett S. Horton, of Attleboro, and
Horace F. Horton, of this record, his remains and
those of his son, Cromwell, were taken up and moved
to the cemetery at Rchoboth Center. Lieutenant James
Horton tnarried Freelove Pierce, born November 8,
1JA2. died February 13, 1S09. They were the parents of
eight children, this branch descending from Crom-
well Horton, the fifth child.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84842501/james-horton
Lieutenant James Horton's Timeline
1741 |
July 10, 1741
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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1764 |
1764
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
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1766 |
November 22, 1766
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Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
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1768
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1771
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1773
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1775
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February 23, 1777
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Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, United States
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1779
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