The ancestry of Ezra Holton of Northfield, Mass., and Soperton, Ont., 1785-1824 : twenty-eight "stories"/ by Eva L. Moffatt ; edited and correlated by Geoffrey Gilbert

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Number 6 in a series dealing with the ancestry of Geoffrey Gilbert.

Ezra Holton was born in 1785 at Northfield, Massachusetts, the son of Lemuel and Lydia Holton. "His father died when he was just 18 months old and three months later his mother married Oliver Smith of Northfield a widower with 5 children.--P. 25-26. The family moved to Brandon, Vermont in about 1794. "Oliver Smith died in Brandon 11 Aug., 1801. On 10 Jan., 1803, Lydia married a three time widower of about 45, Peletiah Phillips of Brandon."--P. 26. On 24 November 1807, Ezra Holton married Anner Phillips, daughter of his stepfather Peletiah Phillips, at Brandon. Shortly after they moved to Randolph, about 25 miles east of Brandon. Later they moved to Ontario, Canada, settling at Sheffield's Corners (which later became Soperton) in Lansdowne Tp., Leeds County. It is said that Ezra served in the War of 1812 after he moved to Canada. Ezra died in 1824. "Anner married (2) Cleveland Stafford, and died in Lansdowne in 1858, aged 67."--P. 28. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and elsewhere.

Includes Holton, Fisher, Aldis, Edwards, Baldwin, Boykin, Hall, White, Humphrey, Rising, Hinsdale, Hale, Barber, Shattuck, Whitney, Reynolds, Underwood, Allen, Ross, Goodenow, Parmenter, Johnson, Holman, Burk, Hayden, Ames, Axtell and related families.

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