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The following is part of the introduction transcribed from a document left with my wife's family, and recently discovered. The entire document is online at http://genealogytrails.com/mo/pettis/family_norton.htm
It is titled:
Jottings of the Norton's and his own life by William D. Norton, Sedalia, Mo., written in 1907 and 1908.
In about 1822, grandfather had come back from Ohio, sold the old Litchfield Connecticut farm, and in company with my Father and his brother Frederick, started for Ohio. Uncle William D. Norton, my Father's oldest brother, was then with his uncle, David McNeil, in Vienna, now called Phelps, New York, and also a younger brother, Isaac McNeil Norton, was there, clerking for his Uncle, David McNeil Their Uncle, David McNeil was engaged with Bartle in the manufacturing of axes, and finally in the transportation of goods. They owned a steamboat which they decided to sell, and Uncle William D. Norton went down to Albany and after selling the steamboat, was found the next morning, dead in bed at a hotel (supposed to have been apoplexy). His Uncle, David McNeil, died soon after and he was found to be insolvent and his property was sold at a sacrifice. In the meantime, my father with his brother Frederick, and their own Father had gone on to Ohio, where they found their log cabin built and five acres of land cleared, as had been previously arranged by our Grandfather.
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