Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . in Houghton, theirson, nuirried Ruth Wheelock, and the issue of their uniou were asfollows: Justice John, boru July 20, 1720; Ezra, born July 29, 1722;Abijah, born September 23, 1723; Relief, born October 23, 1726: Elijah,born June 16, 1728. The latter was a minute man of the Revolu-tionary period and a private in Colonel Benjamin Houghtons Com-pany, Colonel John Whitcombs Regiment, which marched on the alarmof Paul Revere, April 19, 1775, to Cambridge. He was also a pi-ivatein Colonel Asa Whitcombs regiment and Captai
Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . in Houghton, theirson, nuirried Ruth Wheelock, and the issue of their uniou were asfollows: Justice John, boru July 20, 1720; Ezra, born July 29, 1722;Abijah, born September 23, 1723; Relief, born October 23, 1726: Elijah,born June 16, 1728. The latter was a minute man of the Revolu-tionary period and a private in Colonel Benjamin Houghtons Com-pany, Colonel John Whitcombs Regiment, which marched on the alarmof Paul Revere, April 19, 1775, to Cambridge. He was also a pi-ivatein Colonel Asa Whitcombs regiment and Captain Houghtons com-pany; was enlisted April 27, 1775, and mustered out on August 1,following. This interesting i-ecord is shown in Volume VIII, of theMassachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution. Following Elijahcame Parnee Houghton, born April 14, 1730; Philemon, born Jiuie 3,1731: Nehemiah, born October 1, 1732: Ruth, boru April 3, 1734;Lcmual, born September 25, 1735; and Benjamin, horn May 10, 1740. ?]lijah Houghton married Mary Allen October 3, 1764, at Lancas-. 7r<^- n\ HISTORY OF ARKANSAS 1185 ter, Massachusetts. Theii- children were Oliver, born January 10;1765; Elijah, born January 11, 1767; Maverick, born September 22,1768; Loekheart, born January 7, 1771; Sparhawk, born May 23, 1773;and Sophia, born June 15, 1775. Captain Houghton, the father, diedJuly 7, 1810, and his wile passed away May 22, 1818. Oliver Houghton married Abigail Hovey and died September 19,1836, while his widow lived until February 4 of the next year. Theirchildren were Emeline, born July 23, 1792; Eliza, born May 22, 1794;Jeffrey Atherton, born April 26, 1796; Edmund Winchester, bornMay 10, 1798; and Oliver, born November 26, 1806. The eldest son,Jelfrey A., married, reared a family and died at sea, and among hischildren was Jeffrey A., father of him whose name inaugurates thisreview, and who is the third to bear the name. Jeffrey A. Houghton was born in the 20s of the nineteenth cen-tury;
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