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You say that your Grand Father Marion
Dayton told you his Grand Father was
Henry Dayton and came from England--
I must be allowed to for the present doubt
but that in some way the different
Grandfathers were mixed up and an
unintentional error made. If Henry
Dayton and a brother had bought a
township on Long Island I should have
before this have learned where it was
as I have been all over the East End.

As your records state that Henry
Dayton Jr was born in 1728 it will
be reasonable to assume that his
father Henry Sr must have been born
as early as 1700 about and that the
other of the two brothers must have
been born within say a dozen years of 1700.

Now according to your tradition
as it has been told to you--these two
brothers who were born about 1700
(came to America and were living at
the commencement of the Revolution then
being aged probably over 70 years as
the Revolution became active in 1776.)

You will at once see for
yourself how improbable it is that
persons so advanced in age would
take an active part in whig-ism and
toryism--much more, so act as to
be obliged to flee & forsake property.

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I am therefore inclined to think that
the story of there being two bros, a
tory and whig etc--as belonging
to some other family. Of course we
do not want any tory that we can get rid
of.

You say 'Henry Dayton settled in
Lyme or New London Conn or near
those places? Henry Dayton Jr was
born there--these are two important
facts and I would like to have
you tell me if they are certainly true.

I am inclined to think however
there may be error as to these two points
if my theory, which I will now explain,
is the true condition of things.
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I enclose you a copy of a will of
a Henry Dayton who was born
about 1700 and who lived in
the vicinity of Setauket and Port
Jefferson Long Island. He was
a man of a great deal of
property for those days, when
Long Island land was very valuble.

His second son Norton Dayton was