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Did I tell you it it's pronounced Dayton?

 

I don't know what William or any of the others looked like, but suspect they were short, bald, and wore brightly colored clothing. Photography was not even conceived then and if any of them ever sat for a painted portrait, no one knows of these.

Actually, if you look at what people wore in those days, the clothing was a bit brightly colored and highly decorated. They wore the sorts of things you see at Renaissance Fairs, and hippies might have worn such things if it hadn't been for psychedelics.

 My Dayton line ends in 1305 with a Robert de Deighton who would be my 20th great grandfather. The family took its name from the village of Deighton in the parish of Deighton in the east riding of Yorkshire. That would be about four and a half miles south south east from the city of York. That date is the date he was admitted a freeman, and he was a Yeoman. While that means a clerk-secretary to those of us who worked around the Navy, in those days it meant something else. Back then, it meant a gentleman of small estate who was a freeholder and also an officer in the local militia. His son Robert, by the way, was a "pistor" or a maker of small firearms and pistols. Subsequent generations were a tax collector, a sauce maker, a Marshall, and finally William who was a wine merchant.

William de Deighton was my 15th great grandfather. The only date I can associate with him is 1419, the year he was admitted a freeman. All I know about him is that he was a wine merchant in the East Riding of York England. His son, also William, was a brewer and declared a free man in 1452.
  Jonathan Dayton signed the U.S. constitution as a representative of New Jersey. He was the youngest signer of the Constitution. The city of Dayton, Ohio is named after him, and he was actually one of four men who purchased the land on which the city is located. He is also my 9th cousin, 5 times removed.

 

My great grandfather Oscar Hutschenreuther came to America in 1867 aboard the steamer SS Herman from Bremen with his mother and two sisters. They eventually moved from New York to Michigan. Oscar ran a saloon in Bay City, Michigan until prohibition put an end to that. An antique dealer in Indiana contacted me and sold me a miniature growler that Oscar had given out. This miniature salt-glazed jug would only hold a shot or two.

 

 

 

The photo is of Oscar and his wife Elizabeth (Rauschert).

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