The furthest I can go back is a Lander Barber who, according to family stories, came from England. I have him on the payroll of George Rogers Clark at Fort Pitt in 1775. Then in Washington Co. Pa in 1783 and finally in Ky from 1790 thru 1830. His family and their decendents, thru the 1800's, lived in the NE 1/4 of Ky. I have a record of most of them. While he was in Washington Co., Pa there was also an Andrew Barber in the same precinct of that County. The Rev War records lists him as being from Va. I have been searching for him and his 1st wife and their ancestors for over 20 years. I feel that his true given name might not have been Lander, that he could have taken his given name from people he lived with or worked for. I came to this conclusion due to the fact that while he was in Ky there were quite a few people with the surname Lander. As a matter of fact a John Lander was surety on one of his daughter's wedding. Also puzzeling is the fact that he remarried in 1810 to Catherine Starr in Clark Co. Ky. When he disposed of his personal property in 1828 a Riley and Mahala Barber were the witnesses on the document. Could they be children by the second marriage? Lander was born between 1750 and 1760 according to census records. Riley Barber has been traced to Ill and then Kansas. In 1850 his wife was a Diane according to the Ill census. I hope this info is of use to you. Hal Phillips > -----Original Message----- > From: Becky Striggow [mailto:bstriggo@peachnet.campuscwix.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:00 PM > To: BARBER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BARBER-L] Barbers on the move: Medium-long post > > > I'd like to try an experiment: I wanted to map out where the various > Barber bunches started out from and ended up . > Could you send me the names of your Barbers, the years involved, where > they started out and where they settled? And where they lived in > between? > I was struck by the number of Barbers who are seemingly unrelated but > who lived in Bertie Co., N.C....for example. Or the number of Barber > families who happened to move to Washington, Ga. in Wilkes Co. Or to > Clarke County, Ga. Or the whole bunch who moved to Fla. or to Texas.If > there are a number of Barbers who lived in North Carlina, for example, > and who moved to Washington, Georgia in the same time frame and who > lived in close proximity....then there are questions to ask. > Maybe we could compare notes that way or brainstorm and see what > documents we could be hunting. > I'm primarily interested in the Southern Barbers, but maybe someone > would like to do this for the Northern Barbers, the English Barbers, and > the Australian Barbers. If we're stuck at brick walls and don't have > brickbats we may have to use brute force to tear it down! > I live in Athens, Georgia which is one hour away from Washington, > Georgia and plan to go genealogy hunting when I'm back on my feet. (I've > had 3 surgeries and shingles in the last 13 months....actually, since I > really got into this Barber hunt......hmmmmm.) So maybe I can look for > some information. I plan to start looking at the old newspapers for > Washington and Oglethorpe County. > Any comments, suggestions? > Becky > > > ==== BARBER Mailing List ==== > BARBER Family Mail List Archives: > courtesy of Rootsweb, our gracious host! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Just type in the mail list's name: BARBER > >