pioneers arriving before 1616 and Abnor’s quota, as a late arrival, would have been 50 acres.

In keeping with his former profession of teaching, Alfred Houston established a school in Jamestown. There he taught his own children as well as those of Abnor and other settlers. Alfred’s only son, Robert Houston, became a minister and in 1657 moved to the Shenandoah Valley, where he preached the Presbyterian faith. In the next century, a descendant of this line, Samuel Houston, born in 1728, emigrated from the Virginia area to North Carolina. He settled on a farm adjoining that of the famous Boone family and his children grew up with the Boone children.

Samuel Houston was in the North Carolina forces when the British invaded the province during the Revolutionary War. lie and his young son, Peter, about 19, fought in the Battle of King’s Mountain in 1780, the encounter in which British Major Ferguson and his force of 900 Tories were defeated and Ferguson himself was slain.

That same year, Peter Houston joined his neighbor, Daniel Boone, in his pioneering adventures in Kentucky. He, with Boone and others, built Fort Houston at the site of the present Paris, Ky. Meanwhile, Peter had been joined by his younger brother, James, and the two eventually settled at Cane Ridge, Ky.

The descendants of Abnor Huston, one of the original settlers at Jamestown, also had an important role in the early development of the Colonies. Two of Abnors sons, Joseph and Samuel, moved from Jamestown with their families in 1640 and settled at Fairfax on the Potomac River. The other son, John, settled in 1654 at a point on the Delaware River, a few miles above the point where the town of Philadelphia was afterwards built. There, he and his associates, cleared several farms and established trade with the Indians. He had been there 18 years when William Penn arrived in 1682 with a grant for the Pennsylvania Territory.

Penn employed John Huston, who was familiar with the area, in surveying his grant, laying it off in sections and counties. Huston also aided in surveying the site for Philadelphia and built one of the first houses in the new town.

This account, which we have summarized from Franklin Warren Houston’s family history, makes Alfred Houston and Abnor Huston, the first Houstons in America. Since this fain-