Hester Horton

Hester (Esther) Crafford 1

Sex: F Note:

From 1698 census for Southold, LI, NY

(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~riss/ny/southold/1698_cens...):

   "Homan - Hoaman

   Hester widdow, Hester Junjr (442-3), Mordecai (504)

   "Hester widdow" is the matriarch of this family of the Homans in Long Island. The patriarch was probably John-1 Homan, who died before the census. Torrey suggests she is the Hester named by Caleb Horton in his will in 1699 as his then wife, meaning that she married Caleb between 1698 and the time the will was written.

Torrey lists her surname as "Mapes?"; however, there is a manuscript on file with the Southold Historical Society that suggests her surname was Crafford, and that she was the out-of-wedlock mother of Deliverance Crafford, the wife of 1) William Whitehair and 2) Joseph Reeve; born in Salem, Mass. (That Deliverance called Mordecai Homan her brother in her will, but she might still call him brother if she were a half-sister from the same mother.) Esther Crafford was apparently the daughter of a Mordecai Crafford in Salem, Mass. There are no Homans that I see in the 1686 Southold census, indicating the Homans may have come from Salem after 1686, but before 1698. The marriage of John Hosman to an Esther Crafford, of Salem, is shown in Torrey. (Thanks to Ned Smith, LI researcher for this info on the Homans.)
Hester Junjr is Hester-2 (John-1) Homan, who married William-3 Wells shortly after the census in 1703. (See Southold Town Records - Libers D & E, Extracts w Commentary, pg 161)
Mordecai, listed about 60 names later, apparently in a different houshold, is Mordecai-2 Homan (John-1). He follows Evan and Mary Davis and precedes William and Mary Coleman. Mentioned in Deliverance (Crafford) [Whitehair] Reeve's will as her brother. (The Whitehairs are not in the census and are possibly in Setauket/Brookhaven, whose 1698 census is lost.)"
Marriage 1 John Wedg

Children

   Has No Children Deliverance Crafford b: ABT 1649 in Salem, Massachusetts.

Marriage 2 John Homan

   Married: 23 DEC 1669 in Salem, Massachusetts. 1

Children

   Has No Children Hester Crafford , Jr.

   Has No Children Mordecai Homan

Marriage 3 Caleb Horton

   Married: BET 1699 AND 1700 in Southold, Suffolk County, New York.

Sources:

   Title: 1698 census for Southold, LI, NY

   Publication: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~riss/ny/southold/1698_cens...

   Repository:

   Media: Electronic 

Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jgorski&i...

Salmon Records, 11/28/1740 "Esther Horton Widow 91"

Esther Crafford had a relationship with a John Wedg of Salem Mass which resulted in a daughter Deliverance Crafford, taking the maiden name of the mother. Deliverance Crafford married 1) William Whitehair and 2) Joseph Reeve(s).

After the above relationship, Esther Crafford married John Homan 12/23/1669 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts and had John, Mordecai, and Esther Homan.

Esther married, second, Caleb-2 (Barnabas-1) Horton about 1699 in Southold, Suffolk, NY. Also in that census was daughter Esther Homan (in her house as Hester Junr) and son Mordecai Homan, later in the census.

Caleb Horton was shown without a wife in the 1698 Southold Census, and referred to his wife Hester in his 1699 will. "Hester Homan widdow" was also in the 1698 Southold Census. Esther & Caleb had no children. She remained his widow for 38 years after his death. ___________________

Her daughter, Deliverance (Crafford) Whitehair Reeve, left a will that helps explain the various relationships with her half-siblings. Note that when she refers to brother Mordecai Homan and sister Esther (Homan) Welles, they are actually half-siblings from the same mother.

Page 174.--In the Name of Almighty God, Amen. I, DELIVERANCE REEVE, widow of Joseph Reeve, and formerly widow of William Whitehair of Southold, in Suffolk County, being in reasonable health of body.

I leave to Mordecai Homan, Jr., son of my brother Mordecai Homan, all those houses and tenements in Southold bounded south by highway, west by William Benjamin, east by William Cox, and running north to a black oak sapling in a hollow, marked on the south W. H. and on the north W. W., containing 66 acres, All of which did belong to William Whitehair; Also my meadow grounds situate in Suffolk County, and which did formerly belong to William Whitehair.

I leave to my sister, Esther Welles, all those lands and tenements in Southold, on the north side of the lands above mentioned, bounded east by William Cox, west by William Benjamin, and running north to the Sound, All of which formerly belonged to William Whitehair; Also a desk, and all my wearing apparell for her and her children.

I leave to Eddy Homan, daughter of Mordecai Homan, a good feather bed. All the rest I leave to Esther Welles and Mordecai Homan, Jr.

I make William Welles and Mordecai Homan executors.

Dated December 13, 1740. Witnesses, William Welles, John Conkling, Jr., Richard Hudson. Proved, February 14, 1743/4."

Caleb Horton was born about 1640-1641[1] Death was recorded Oct. 3 1702 Caleb Horton died aged 62 in Salmon Records. [2] (location unknown)[1]and died in Southold, New York[1] in 1702.[1]The name of his first wife and the mother of his children is unknown.[1]His 2nd wife was Hester (_______)[1] who died in 1740.[1]

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