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| | Jonathan 1803 |
 | | Joseph is listed as living in South Crosby Township, Johnstown District, Upper Canada, on Lot 12, Concession 4 and 5 in 1830, this is the north shores of Sand Lake, near the present town of Elgin, Ontario. |
 | | Jonathan and Nancy and all of the family except son Martin moved from Upper Canada to Dekalb Township, Dekalb Co., Illinois, prior to the American Civil War, Census records say 1855. |
 | | The hand-written marriage certificate of Jonathan Houghton and Nancy Gilchrist is glued to the inside back cover of the Houghton family bible (in the possession of great-grandson Arvid R. Krasche of Woodward, IA, in 2001). |
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