I have several NORTON ancestors. There is a Nicholas Norton (abt. 1610 – 1690)
who settled at Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. (see this link http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/surname-saturday-norton-of-marthas.html
) There is also a George Norton ( abt 1610 –
1659) who settled in Gloucester, Wenham and Salem, too.
This is a post about William Norton (1610 – 1694) who arrived in New England aboard the
ship Hopewell on 29 August 1635. William Norton settled in Ipswich,
Massachusetts. There was a John Norton,
who was a minister in Ipswich and Boston, and many genealogists including
Savage and Pope thought they were brothers.
Robert Charles Anderson of the Great Migration series does not agree and
states in The Great Migration, Volume V, page 282 “Further research in
the English records of this family should be undertaken with a view to
resolving this problem.”
There is an article
in The American Genealogist, Volume 16, pages 101 - 115 “George Norton of
Salem, Massachusetts”, that attempts of connect George Norton with John and
William as one big family. This article was written so long ago (1939) that it is
a bit outdated, but it does lay out the English origins of the Norton
family. There are earlier articles about
the Nortons in some NEHGS Register
journals from 1859 and 1874. It appears
that no new research has been published recently on the Nortons.
William Norton married Lucy Downing, the daughter of
Emmanuel Downing, and niece of the Governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop
(1588 – 1649). He was referred to as “Mr.”
in documents, and was a wealthy merchant in Ipswich. They had five children, and the youngest was
born six years later than his closest brother, and so was named “Bonus Norton”. This
is a name that always makes me smile.
Bonus lived in Ipswich and married Mary Goodhue. He later removed to Hingham, Massachusetts
and then to Hampton, New Hampshire where he ran a tavern from 1695 to about
1700. He is buried in the Quaker burial
ground in Seabrook, New Hampshire. I have no evidence he was a Quaker, and his wife had been admitted to the First Church at Hampton.
William Norton and Lucy Downing were ancestors of both
President John Adams and John Quincy Adams, through Bonus’s brother, Reverend John Norton of Hingham, Massachusetts.
My Norton genealogy:
Generation 1: William Norton, born about 1610 and died 30
April 1694 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He
married Lucy Downing, the daughter of Emmanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop. She was born about 1625 in Salem and died 2
May 1697 in Ipswich. They had five
children.
Generation 2: Bonus Norton, born about 1657 in Ipswich, died
on 30 April 1719 in Hampton, New Hampshire; married Mary Goodhue, daughter of
Joseph Goodhue and Sarah Whipple. She was
born about 1664 in Ipswich, and died after her husband (she was administratrix
of his will). They had eight children.
Generation 3: Elizabeth Norton, born 31 March 1703 in
Hampton, died 25 March 1759 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire; married on 20 July
1732 in Hampton to Benjamin Swett, son of Joseph Swett and Sarah Andrews. He was born 2 May 1710 in Hampton and died 6
June 1762 in Hampton Falls. Elizabeth
and Benjamin had four children. Elizabeth was previously married to Thomas
Jenness and had two children.
Generation 4: Elizabeth
Swett m. David Batchelder
Generation 5: Elisha
Batchelder m. Sarah Lane
Generation 6:
Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 7: George
E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 8: George
E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson
Generation 9: Carrie
Maud Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
--------------------------------
The URL for this post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/08/surname-saturday-norton-of-ipswich.html
Copyright © 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
I am also a direct descendant (8th great grandaughter) of William Norton, through his son Bonus Norton. That name always makes me smile, too!
ReplyDelete