Bethia Wells1

F, b. 1653, d. 14 April 1733
FatherWilliam Welles II b. b 10 Feb 1605/6, d. 13 Nov 1671
MotherMarie _____ b. c 1619, d. Apr 1709
     Bethia was born in 1653 in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Bethia married Jonathan Horton I Captain, son of Barnabas Horton and Mary Langton, circa 1672 in the Town of Southold. In 1698, Jonathan and Bethia were listed on the Town Census at the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Enumerated in this household were Jonathan Horton, Bathia, Jonathon Jr., William, James, Mehitobel, Mary, Abigaill, Patience. Bethia's husband, Jonathan, died on 23 February 1707 in the Town of Southold leaving her a widow.2 Bethia departed this life on Tuesday, 14 April 1733 in the Town of Southold at age 80 years.3 She was buried there in the First Presbyterian Church burying ground in the village of Southold. The insription on her tombstone reads: HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF Mrs BETHIAH HORTON WIFE TO CAPt JONATHAN HORTON DECd APRIL Ye 14th 1733 IN Ye 80th YEAR OF HER AGE .4

Family

Jonathan Horton I Captain b. 23 Feb 1646, d. 23 Feb 1707
Children

Citations

  1. [S340] Rev. Charles Welles Hayes, William Welles of Louthold and his Descendants A.D. 1638 to 1878., pages 27 - Bethia Wells m. before 168o, Capt. Jonathan Horton. She is said by the "Salmon Records" to have been aged 8o at her decease in 1733, which would fix her birth in 1653. These "Salmon Records " were a private, yet semi-official register kept for many years, at first by William Salmon, afterwards by other members of the 2d Congregational Society of Southold. Though generally accurate, it often errs in over-estimating ages, especially of old persons, known to the writer only by report. The dates of birth of the other children of William I. and Mary Wells will show the grounds of my probable conclusion as to Bethia's. In regard to her parentage, Mr. Moore says (in a letter of Oct. 29, 1875), " that Bethia was not a sister of John Tuthill, I gather from a general study of the whole, without being able to tell you from memory, perhaps but a small part of the data that influenced me.": 33, & 407.
  2. [S181] William Salmon, The Salmon Records, a Private Registar of Marriages & Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y., and of persons more or less closely associated with that place, 1696-1811., page 29 - Captain Jonath Horton 23 February 1707 - age 80 years.
  3. [S181] William Salmon, The Salmon Records, a Private Registar of Marriages & Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y., and of persons more or less closely associated with that place, 1696-1811., p. 26 - Widow Bethia, relict to Capt. Horton, died between 11th & 16th.
  4. [S2257] Edward Doubleday Harris, Ancient Burial-Grounds of Long Island, N. Y, pge 169.