Generation Six

Colonel Nathan Horton, Jr. served as a Captain with the Morris County, New Jersey Militia in the Revolutionary Army from 1777 to 1782 and was said to have been “a man of upstanding character.” He became known as Colonel Nathan when he served as Colonel of the Regiment of the Mitlitia for Ashe County. In 1785 he, his wife Elizabeth, and daughter Hannah, left New Jersey for North Carolina, but Hannah died in Hagerstown, MD before the family could reach North Carolina. They first arrived near the Jersey Settlement in Rowan County, but moved to a farm near Holman’s Ford in Wilkes County. Soon they moved through Cook’s Gap and settled on the New River, Wilkes County (now Watauga) where Nathan acquired 600 hundred acres in a state land grant. Nathan and Elizabeth were two of the original members of Three Forks Baptist Church and are buried in the old church cemetery. Nathan, Jr. spent most of his fortune building a toll road from Cook’s Gap to the Beaver Dams known as Horton’s Turnpike. As an “influential” public servant he represented Ashe County in the House of Commons in 1800, 1801 and 1802 and in the NC Senate in 1805 and 1806.

COLONEL NATHAN6 HORTON (NATHAN5, CALEB4, BARNABAS3, CALEB2, BARNABAS1)1,2was born February 25, 1757 in NJ, and died July 22, 1824 in Wilkes County, Nc Burial: Original Three Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Watagua County, NC4. He married ELIZABETH EAGLES3 July 10, 1783 in New York, Ny3. She was born December 01, 1766 in Westchester County, Ny3, and died May 15, 1854 Burial: Original Three Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Watagua County, Nc4.

i. HANNAH7 HORTON, b. October 15, 17845; d. Hagerstown, Md6.

ii. GENERAL WILLIAM HORTON7, b. August 15, 1786, New River, Wilkes County, Nc8,9; d. November 29, 18459;Burial:
Horton Cemetery, Wilkes County, Nc11 m. MILDRED AMELIA DULA10, Abt. 1814; b. January 08, 1792, Wilkes County,
Nc11; d. September 12, 186911. Burial: Horton Cemetery, Wilkes County, Nc11

iii. JAMES HORTON12, b. February 18, 1789, New River, Wilkes County, Nc13;and is buried in the Original Three Forks
Baptist Church Cemetery, Watagua County, Nc 15; m. (1) SUSANNAH GREEN BROWN; m. (2) SIDNEA WEBB14, Abt.
1815, New River, Nc. Burial: Original Three Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Watagua County, Nc15

iv. MAJOR DAVID EAGLES HORTON16, b. May 04, 1792, New River, Ashe County, Nc17,18; d. July 03, 187018;Burial:
Horton Cemetery, Wilkes County, Nc21 m. SARAH JANE DULA19, November 20, 1817, Wilkes County, Nc20; b. April 29,
179721; d. April 11, 188421.Burial: Horton Cemetery, Wilkes County, Nc21

v. PHINEAS HORTON22, b. January 09, 1795, New River, Ashe County, Nc23; m. REBECKA COUNCILL24, 182725; b.
February 20, 1802; d. August 12, 1863.

vi. SARAH HORTON, b. September 29, 179726.

vii. JOHN HORTON, b. July 11, 180026.

viii. ELIZABETH HORTON, b. September 15, 180326; m. ZEPHANIAH HORTON, JR., April 03, 1825, Ashe County, Nc.

ix. JONATHAN HORTON27, b. February 26, 1806, New River, Ashe County, Nc; d. November 21, 1895, Boone, Nc28;
m.MALINDA HARTZAG29, January 11, 1841, Richland, Ashe County, Nc; b. May 10, 182030; d. April 17, 191131.

1. Arthur, John Preston; A History of Watauga County, North Carolina, 1915, pgs. 321-325.
2. McLaurin Jr., Banks, Descendants of Barnabas Horton of Southold, Vol. 1, revised 1995, pg. 195.
3. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
4. Cemetery Records Wilkes County Area NC, Volume I; published by The Wilkes County Genealogical Society, Inc., pg. 52.
5. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
6. The Hortons in America, Being a Corrected report of the 1876 work by Dr. Geo. F. Horton, compiled by Adaline Horton White, 1929.
7. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
8. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
9. Cemetery Records Wilkes County Area NC, Volume I; published by The Wilkes County Genealogical Society, Inc., pg. 105.
10. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
11. Cemetery Records Wilkes County Area NC, Volume I; published by The Wilkes County Genealogical Society, Inc., pg. 105.
12. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
13. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
14. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
15. Altmayer, Bud; A Family History of Watauga County, pg. 189.
16. Hickerson, Thomas Felix; Happy Valley: History and Genealogy, pg. 40.
17. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
18. Cemetery Records Wilkes County Area NC, Volume I; published by The Wilkes County Genealogical Society, Inc., pg. 105.
19. Hickerson, Thomas Felix; Happy Valley: History and Genealogy, pg. 40.
20. Marriages of Wilkes County: 1778-1868; complied by Brent H. Holcomb, 1983, pg. 95.
21. Cemetery Records Wilkes County Area NC, Volume I; published by The Wilkes County Genealogical Society, Inc., pg. 105.
22. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
23. Descendants of Barnabas Hortron, Vol. I:compiled by Banks McLaurin, Jr., 1990, revised November 1995.
24. Will of Jourdan Councill, Sr., probated May 1839, Ashe County, NC.
25. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
26. Department of the Interior, Revolutionary War Records Section, Pension Bureau, Widow Pension #7779 for Elizabeth Eagles Horton.
27. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
28. Arthur, John Preston; A History of Watauga County, North Carolina, 1915, pg. 323.
29. The Heritage of Watauga County North Carolina, Volume I, 1984, pg. 256.
30. Arthur, John Preston; A History of Watauga County, North Carolina, 1915, pg. 324.
31. Arthur, John Preston; A History of Watauga County, North Carolina, 1915, pg. 323.