Norton Line from Somerset to Martha S Vineyard Via Benjamin Norton to Jeremiah Norton IN Nz

Nicholas Norton immigrated from Somerset to Massachusetts. He had 5 children whose descendants would re-marry back into their Norton blood relatives. These five children were all ancestors of JEREMIAH CROWELL NORTON. They were:

ISAAC
JOSEPH
BENJAMIN
RUTH
ESTHER

This is one line through BENJAMIN born 1659

(UNKNOWN) NORTON born about 1510 Somerset, England

Had the following named children:
WILLIAM
JOHN died about 1576; tanner
ROBERT died 1590 Wells; innholder

WILLIAM NORTON born about 1535 Whitelackington, Somerset; tanner

Had the following named children:
NICHOLAS
WILLIAM

NICHOLAS NORTON born 1562 Whitelackington, Somerset; died 1616 Broadway, Somerset; Parish Church Warden;

Had the following named children:
JOHN born about 1590 Broadway, Somerset
JOAN buried 1598
JAMES buried 1678 Broadway
JOSEPH baptised 3 Feb 1607
NICHOLAS
ELIZABETH baptised 1612 Broadway

NICHOLAS NORTON born 1610 Broadway, Somerset; died 1676 Massachusetts; tanner; married ELIZABETH (ISAAC?) Weymouth, Massachusetts

They had the following named children:
*ISAAC born 3 May 1641 Weymouth, Massachusetts; died about 1723; married RUTH BAYES
JACOB born 1 Mar 1643
ELIZABETH born 1646; married JAMES PEASE
HANNAH born 1648; married:
1. AUGUSTINE WILLIAMS (of Stonington, Connecticut);
2. MR BROWNE (of Killingworth, Connecticut)
*JOSEPH born Mar 1651; married:
1. MARY BAYES;
2. ANN TRAPP
*RUTH born 1657; married MOSES CLEVELAND
*BENJAMIN
SARAH born 1665; married JOHN STANBRIDGE (of Newport, Rhode Island)
PRISCILLA born 1666; married JOHN BUTLER
*ESTHER born 1668; married:
1. SAMUEL HUXFORD;
2. JONATHAN DUNHAM
MARY born 1669; married THOMAS WOOLLEN

BENJAMIN NORTON born 1659; died between Nov 1733 & Jan 1734; farmer; married HANNAH BOLTER (born 30 Nov 1662 Weymouth, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts

They had the following named children:
BENJAMIN born 1686; married HANNAH DAGGETT
NICHOLAS
PHINEAS born 1689; married PATIENCE CLEVELAND
PRISCILLA born Jan 1691; married:
1. JAMES MILLIKEN 25 Oct 1718;
2. HENRY BUTLER 30 Dec 1747
JACOB born 1693
MATTHEW born 22 Apr 1696; married MARY DAGGETT
ZACCHEUS born 1699
SARAH born 1701

NICHOLAS NORTON born 1687 Edgartown; died after Oct 1755; farmer; married MARTHA DAGGETT (born 1688)

They had the following named children:
TIMOTHY born 1710; married LYDIA (UNKNOWN)
JABEZ born 16 Oct 1714; died about 1785; married ELIZABETH ALLEN
ABIGAIL born 1717
HANNAH born 1720; married ISAAC NORTON 25 Nov 1736
THANKFUL born 1722; married JAMES COTTLE
JUDAH
PRINCE born 1728; married LOVE NORTON
AVIS born 1732; died Oct 1785; unmarried

JUDAH NORTON born 1724 Edgartown; died 3 Sep 1813; husbandman; married JERUSHA VINCENT (born 1730; died July 1772) 31 Aug 1749

They had the following named children:
NICHOLAS born 1749; died Feb 1808; married LOVE STEWART
DESIRE born 1752
LOVE born 1755; died 3 Dec 1843; unmarried
DINAH born 1759; married URIAH NORTON
THOMAS MARTIN
BARTLETT born 1772; married PRUDENCE BUTLER

THOMAS MARTIN NORTON born 29 Feb 1764 Edgartown; died 5 Feb 1849; married SUSANNA CLEVELAND (born 29 Sept. 1767 Edgartown; died 14 July 1849) 20 Feb 1794

They had the following named children:
SHUBAEL CLAGHORN
THOMAS MARTIN born 10 Sept. 1796; married ELIZA NORTON 6 May 1824
ARIEL born 19 Feb. 1799; married CORDELIA VINCENT 26 Aug. 1827
SUSAN born 13 Feb. 1802; married:
1. JONATHAN FISHER 13 Feb. 1821;
2. PETER MARTIN COFFIN 8 Sept 1839
EDWARD born 22 Feb. 1805; married:
1. LUCY CLEVELAND 20 Sept. 1829;
2. MARY WILLIAMS.
NICHOLAS born 12 Sept. 1805; married MARY M. JERNEGAN 21 Oct. 1832

SHUBAEL CLAGHORN NORTON born 27 May 1794 Edgartown; died Aug 1871 Edgartown; married POLLY DAVIS NORTON (born 24 Mar 1794 Edgartown; died in Nov 1874 Edgartown) 22 Sept 1816 Edgartown.

Children:
JEREMIAH CROWELL
JANE WEST born 4 Apr 1821 (twin.); married JOSEPH THAXTER 16 Mar 1845.
HENRY D. born 4 Apr 1821 (twin.); married MARY A. BEETLE 6 Jan 1848.
ABIGAIL S. born 29 Feb 1824
SHUBAEL CLAGHORN JR, born 31 Jan 1825.
MARY DAVIS born 14 May 1829; married PHILIP C. SMITH JR. 1 Dec 1847.
DEBORAH A. born 25 Feb 1833; married JERUEL WEST 1 Jan 1852.
CORDELIA V. born 1 Sep 1834

JEREMIAH CROWELL NORTON born 6 June 1819; married MARGARET STUART VINCENT (born 2 Dec 1821) on 6 Oct 1845 in Edgartown.

Child of JEREMIAH and MARGARET:
ABBY, born 14 Oct 1853; married GEORGE NOLAN 1 Jan 1874.

Then he sailed to NZ where he married (possibly bigamously) ANN(A) CLARA SIMONS on 5 July 1862 in Auckland NZ

JEREMIAH died 31st Aug 1897 Northland, NZ.

I hope this can help anyone who are researching these lines.

This is just one of my wife's ancestral lines.