Vodisa Hall of R. 1799.—Isaac m. Susanna Leach 1805.—Sally m. Stephen Wilbor, Jr., of R. 1809.—Charles m. Patty Learned of Ox. 1810.

   HORTON.—Barnabas Horton (from Winchester, N. H.) m. Polly Morse and settled in S. B. and had David 1785, Sibil 1788, Daniel 1793, Polly 1798, Hannah 1802.—Sibil m. Daniel Tomson 1813.

   Isaac Horton of N. B. m. Betsy Shaw 1805.—Sally Horton m. Aden Packard 1806.—Mary m. Galen Packard 1809.—Jerusha m. Zenus Packard, Jr., 1820.

   HOW.—Azor How settled in S. B., and m. Lydia Pratt 1787, and had Marcus 1787, Olive 1790; his w. d. 1790, and he m. Ruth Cheesman 1791, and had Lydia, Melinda, Salome, Ophir, Martin, Abigail.   Marcus m. Deborah Hatch, D. of Joseph Joslyn 1813.—Lydia m. Absalom Osborne 1812.—Melinda m. Abner Shelly 1812.—Salome m. Libeus Smith 1814.—Ophir m. Mary T. Reed 1818.—Martin m. Lurana Lindsay 1820.—Abigail m. Melzar Holmes 1818.

   HOWARD.—John Howard, with his brother James, came from England and settled in Duxbury; he was among those able to bear arms there in 1643.   James, it is said, went to Bermuda, and John came to W. B., and was one of the proprietors and original settlers in the town a. 1651; was young when he came over, and it is said, lived in Capt. Miles Standish's family; was a man of much influence in the new plantation; one of the first military officers in Bridgewater; took the oath of fidelity here 1657; his descendants still own and live on the place where he first settled; he always wrote his name Haward, and so did all his descendants till after 1700, and the early town records are conformable to this spelling; but for the last century it has been invariably written Howard.   It is remarkable that the two names of Hayward and Haward, which have always been known as distinct families, were uniformly pronounced alike, Howard.   They were perhaps the same originally, and both Hayward; but, in writing, John omitted the Y.   There was supposed to have been some connection between the families, but perhaps it arose altogether from intermarriage, as John m. Martha , D. of Thos. Hayward, and was a younger man even than Thomas Hayward, Jr.—He d. about 1700.—He had John, James, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Sarah, Bethiah, Ephraim.—Elizabeth m. Edward Fobes.—Sarah m. Zaccheus Packard.—Bethiah m. Henry Kingman.—He was licensed to keep an Ordinary or Tavern as early as 1670, and it is remarkable that a public house has been kept there by his descendants ever since till within a few years.

   2.   John (s. of John 1) m. Sarah, D. of Robert Latham, and lived in E. B. where Dea. Samuel Keen now lives, till a. 1703, when he sold to Edw. Mitchell, his uncle by marriage, and re-