When David Horton Sr was born on 2 February 1697, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Horton Sr, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Burt, was 21. He married Mary Fowler on 14 January 1730, in Enfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 29 October 1738, in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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