Thank you Beth, you are now in my ballbark. Keep them RI and MA, Hortons
coming. Ron
Beth Hurd wrote:
from
History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Biographical
NY: The American Historical Society, Inc.
1920
pp. 231 - 232:
"CONSTANT SIMMONS HORTON -- The late Constant Simmons Horton, assistant
superintendent of police and chief of detectives of the city of Providence,
R. I., was a descendant of a family which has been prominent in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island for a period of more than two hundred and
fifty years. He was of the seventh generation in direct descent from the
founder, Thomas Horton. The coat-of-arms is as follows:
(I) Thomas Horton, immigrant ancestor and founder of the family in
America, was of Welsh ancestry, according to family tradition, and was a
relative of Thomas Horton, who settled early in Charlestown, Mass. He
settled in Milton, Mass., formerly Dorchester, as early as 1669. His first