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Thomas Barnes (1610-1690)

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Thomas Barnes, Sr. was born circa 1610 in Barking, Essex, England to Roland Barnes (1585-1634) and Alice Cooper (1580-1615) and died 10 June 1690 of unspecified causes. He married Mary Chapman (1601-1663) 1648 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. He married Mary Andrews (1643-1708) 23 March 1663 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut.

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Biography

THOMAS1 BARNES, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1615 in Essex, England, and died bef. 07 Feb 1689/90 in Farmington, CT (probate).

The ancestry, origin, and when and to where in the American colonies Thomas Barnes removed his unknown. He was in Hartford by 1637 as he served in the Pequot War of that year and was granted 50 acres for his services in that war in 1671. In 1639 he was one of the inhabitants “who were Granted lotts to have onely at the Towne's Courtesie wth liberty to fetch wood & keepe Swine or Cowes was By proportion on the Common”, and in the land inventory of February 1639/40 he held: two acres and two roods on which his dwelling house stood located on the west side of the road from Centinel Hill to the Cow Pasture; one rood in the Soldiers Field; two acres in the Pine Field; and four acres on the east side of the Great River.

He removed to Farmington by 1650, where he was a sergeant of the training band in 1651 and joined the Farmington church about 30 January 1652/3.

Thomas Barnes made his will 9 Jun 1688, which was proved 6 Mar 1689/90.

Hartford Founders Monument

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Hartford Founder's Monument at Old Church Graveyard

Hartford society1

[FoundersOfHartford.org].

The original brownstone monument erected in 1837 was replaced by this one in 1986, by the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford. It stands in the Ancient Burying Ground, which is located to the rear of the First Congregational Church at the corner of Main and Gold Streets in Hartford. This cemetery is also known as Old Center Cemetery. It lists the original Founders of Hartford.

1637 Pequot War

Pequot war

A 19th-century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War.

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.

In late 1636 and early 1637 the burgeoning Connecticut colony faced armed conflict in the Pequot War 1636. The Connecticut towns decided to send a force of more than 70 soldiers along with Narragansett and Mohegan collaborators into an attack upon a Pequot settlement on May 26, 1637. While Ludlow did not participate in what became known as the Mystic massacre, his role in the General Court meant that he took part in the decision to send the force. After the destruction at Mystic Ludlow did leave the Windsor area to pursue Sassacus and other Pequot survivors, first to Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut river, then westward toward the Mattabesset village known as "Sasqua" or "Unquowa". On July 13, 1637 the battle in swamps around Unquowa signalled the final military defeat of the remaining Pequots.


Marriage and Family

He married (1) MARY ______ abt. 1648 in prob Hartford, CT. She died 25 Jan 1662/63 in Hartford, CT (executed for witchcraft). He married (2) MARY ANDREWS 23 Mar 1663/64 in Farmington, CT, daughter of JOHN ANDREWS and MARIE BARNES. She was born 15 Apr 1643 in Farmington, CT, and died aft. 13 Mar 1707/08 in Farmington, CT (named in husband’s will).


Thomas Barnes’s first wife Mary was indicted at a Particular Court of Connecticut on 6 January 1662/3 on charges of witchcraft. A jury found her guilty and she was executed on 25 January 1662/3 in Hartford, one of the last to be executed as a witch in Connecticut.

Mary married, as his first, to Thomas Barnes. Soon after her death, Thomas married, as his 2nd (contract 23 Mar 1662/3), to Mary Andrews (Andrus) who was probably half his age.[2] The contract required Thomas to apprentice his existing children (all except Benjamin), and to give her the house, homelot, orchard, a comfortable maintenance, and more? Children of THOMAS BARNES and Mary (__) w\o Thomas BARNES are:

  1. Sarah BARNES was born 1650 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died AFT 1700 in Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. She married John SCOVILLE 29 MAR 1666 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. He was born 1635.
  2. Joseph Barnes (1655-1741) - born 26 MAY 1651 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 23 JAN 1740/41 in Southington, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
  3. Benjamin BARNES was born 24 JUL 1653 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 24 APR 1731 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Kimberly MALLORY. He married Sarah INGERSOLL ABT 1684 in Farmington, Hartford, CT.
  4. Hannah BARNES was born 1657 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut, and died 1663.



Children


Offspring of Thomas Barnes, Sr. and Mary Chapman (1601-1663)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Sarah Barnes (1650-1689)
Joseph Barnes (1655-1741) 26 May 1655 Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States 23 January 1741 Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States Abigail Gibbs (1661-1753)
Benjamin Barnes (1653-1731)
Hannah Barnes (1657-1663)
Thomas Barnes (1636-1679) 18 October 1636 Cumberland, England 2 July 1679 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Abigail Goodenow (1642-1678)


Offspring of Thomas Barnes, Sr. and Mary Andrews (1643-1708)
Name Birth Death Joined with
James Barnes (1666-1730)



Siblings


See Also

The information given in this genealogy is backed up by an article entitled “Thomas Barnes of Hartford and some of his Descendants” in “The Barnes Family Year Book”, Trescott C. Barnes,Vol. V, Grafton Press, New York, 1907

Thomas Barnes Disambiguation

  • See Also: Thomas Barnes - disambiguation / Profiles for two similar Thomas Barneses:
  • Thomas Barnes-217 (this profile) - Thomas of Hartford then Farmington with correct spouses and children attached. 1st wife executed for witchcraft in Hartford CT.
  • Thomas Barnes (1591-1689) of New Haven then Middleton - See Barnes-775

Many genealogies freely confuse the several Thomas Barneses of Connecticut. Because these men immigrated from England, probably in the 1630s, and lived in colonial Connecticut in adjacent counties, it is quite difficult to keep the facts concerning them separate, but they are indeed unrelated individuals. To add to this confusion, there were at least two other Thomas Barneses in the nearby Massachusetts Colony who were alive at about the same time (Trescott, 1907, p. 4-5).[1]


References

  1. ^ John Winthrop, Journal of John Winthrop. ed. Dunn, Savage, Yeandle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 228.
  2. ^ Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres", in History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," Man in the Northwest 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103–114; Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172

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