I can not find the author, but it did have a photo included and I did not keep the photo...I found on the Internet, from a Barber relative...last year ..sorry not much help.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Morgan" <dmorgan@efn.org> To: <BARBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [BARBER-L] My Line > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Carl E Rogers wrote: > > > Have you ever seen this article? > > Carl, who wrote the article? Very interesting! > > David > > > > > > ===================Texas Samuel Barber > > I spent three days in July, 1996, researching the Barber family in Maryland, > > hoping to find the roots of Texas' Samuel Barber (d. 1864). What I found was > > lots of new information and plenty of potential Barber ancestors. None are > > obviously our Samuel or his parents; that is, none matches perfectly with > > the little that we think we know about Samuel. But a large family of Barbers > > living within a day's horseback ride of both Hagerstown and Harpers Ferry is > > a strong candidate to be the family of Samuel Barber. I am here summarizing > > what I learned to pass on to other Barber researchers, and encouraging them > > to expand on what I've learned. > > > > Samuel claimed he was from Virginia. He said he was born in Hagerstown, > > Maryland, orphaned, raised by an uncle in Harpers Ferry, and left for > > Louisiana as a teenager. I've concentrated on Maryland here, but there's > > work to be done in Virginia and, given the migration patterns of the time, > > Pennsylvania as well. I visited libraries at the DAR in Washington, the > > Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Rockville, and the Maryland State > > Archives at the Hall of Records in Annapolis. An important source missed was > > the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, unfortunately closed on Fridays. > > > > As shown in the adjacent map, I found Barbers clustered in three areas: In > > St Maries and Ann Arundel counties on Chesapeake Bay, and in the Montgomery > > and Frederick County area. > > > > The St Maries Barbers are mostly descended from Dr. Luke Barber, who arrived > > there from England in 1634. At his death in about 1671 Luke left a very > > sizeable estate to his three sons and two daughters. Published genealogies > > show large numbers of Luke descendants in the counties surrounding > > Chesapeake Bay. Likewise, censuses, tax records, probate records, and land > > patents, show large numbers of Barbers there in the eighteenth century. The > > many Barbers found in Ann Arundel county were pointed out to me by Neale > > Rabensburg. They may be descended from John Barber who married Sarah > > Pingstone there in 1710 and died in 1729. This John Barber could be, or > > (more likely) be the son of any of three John Barbers transported to > > Maryland between 1661 and 1670. I found only two documents related to a > > Samuel Barber in the Chesapeake Counties: one Samuel testified to the will > > of John Evits in Annapolis in 1774 and another (or the same one) signed a > > fidelity oath in Calvert County in 1778. Also a Samuel BARKER signed a > > fidelity oath in 1778 in Port Tobacco, on the eastern shore of Chesapeake > > Bay > > > > The third cluster of Barbers was in Montgomery and Frederick Counties, > > northwest of today's Washington, D.C. These Barbers could, of course, be > > simply an extension of the Chesapeake Barbers or could be descended from > > them. I suspect they're not descended from the St Maries Barbers because > > they have few given names in common. The Ann Arundel Barbers do have many > > names in common, and are potentially the same family. As you will see, the > > evidence of our Texas Samuel's ancestry residing in these Frederick County > > Barbers, while not compelling, is certainly engaging. So I've concentrated > > on them. > > > > The earliest Barber in the Montgomery and Frederick area was John Barber, > > who patented 100 acres in what is now Montgomery County in 1744, naming it, > > fittingly, "Barber's Beginning". He expanded his acreage in 1747 and again > > in 1752. In 1755 he used 53 acres called "Barber's Outlett" to secure a > > debt. Before 1776 the counties of Washington, Frederick, and Montgomery were > > a single county, named Frederick. In those days livestock roamed free and > > persons were required to register cattle that roamed onto their property and > > remained. This secured him against charges of thievery and allowed him to > > later charge the owner for feed. John registered such stray livestock in > > Frederick County in 1774 and John, Jr., presumably his son, had done so in > > 1768. > > > > The family of this John Barber was prominent in the Montgomery/Frederick > > county area for at least a hundred years. It contained at least one Samuel, > > and if our Samuel came from this area it is likely that this is his family. > > I've found no published genealogy on this Barber family, but since they were > > so numerous for so many years I'm confident that more information will show > > up. Descendants are probably in the area today. It's easy to find the > > backbone of the family, even in the face of sparse records because they were > > old fashioned enough to use the names John Sr, John Jr, and John III. In > > cases where simply John is used it is possible to guess which it is, as in > > the case of John Barber's land patents in 1744; clearly this was John Sr. > > > > Maryland conducted an extraordinary census in 1776. While later federal > > censuses until 1850 listed only the name of the head of the household and > > age ranges for other members, this Maryland census listed everybody, male > > and female, adult and child, by name and included their age. People are > > listed by the "Hundred" (a political, military, and census subdivision of a > > county) in which they lived, so it's possible to locate them within a > > certain part of the county. Unfortunaty, this census does not list all > > counties or all Hundreds within counties, although Frederick county is > > partially covered. Also, unfortunately, it is not organized by family but is > > simply a list of males and a separate list of females. > > > > John Barber, age 60, is listed in the 1776 census in the Lower Potomac > > Hundred. Also in the same Hundred is Elizabeth Barber, age 39, and children > > Barney, 7, Mary, 16, and Dorothy, 11. Since I got the names from an > > alphabetized list, it's impossible to tell if any or all were in the same > > household, but it should be possible to extract this information by looking > > at the original, which I've not yet found. From this census we can place > > John Sr's birth year at 1716. Thus he was 28 when he bought his first land > > in Frederick county in 1744 and by the time he was 52 in 1768 his son John > > Jr was well established in the county (evidenced by the registration of > > stray cattle). The only other Barbers listed in the county are Thomas and > > Ann, ages 25 and 18, in the Lower Potomac Hundred. Missing, probably because > > they were in Hundreds with missing census records, are John Barber, Jr, and > > Samuel Barber, who do show up in other contemporary records. > > > > Other useful records of the time include a list of militia members as of > > 1776, a tax list of 1777, lists of signers of the Loyalty Oaths of 1778 and > > another census of 1778, together taken to separate Tories from Whigs, and > > another tax list of 1783, taken to finance the War. John Sr and John Jr show > > up on all these lists except the 1778 census (which shows no Barbers at all) > > and the militia list. > > > > A Samuel Barber first appears in Montgomery county as a member of the > > Maryland Militia in 1776. He paid taxes in Linganore Hundred in 1777 along > > with John Barber (no Sr or Jr indicated). Linganore Hundred is in > > northwestern Montgomery County, less than 30 miles from Harpers Ferry. > > Samuel took the Loyalty Oath in 1778 along with John Sr, John Jr, and plain > > John. In 1780 he was fined by a court in Montgomery County. Neither the > > charge nor the amount of the fine was listed, but a common violation at that > > time was selling liquor without a license. In 1783 Samuel, John Jr, and John > > Sr all paid taxes together in Linganore Hundred. Clement, Elias, and > > Elizabeth Barber were the only other Barbers paying taxes that year in > > Montgomery County. Samuel is absent from the 1790 census but shows up again > > in the 1800 census with a wife, two boys and two girls. He witnesses a will > > in 1811 and in the same year appears as an heir in the will of John Barber > > Sr, where Samuel is listed as a grandchild, along with John, Rezin, Ann and > > Delilah. No children of John Sr are listed; he must have survived them all, > > as he would have been 95 years old. For this Samuel, a grandchild of John > > Sr., to be the same as the Revolutionary War soldier, he would have to have > > been born around 1758-1760 and his father born about 1738-1740, when his > > grandfather was 22-24 years old. If so, the father of this Samuel is not > > John Jr, because when John Jr's wife, Lucey, died in 1808 she named her > > children, John and Nancy. So Samuel's father would be another son of John Sr > > either missed in the early censuses or who died before 1776. A strong > > possibility would be the husband of the Elizabeth, age 39, in the census of > > 1776 in the Lower Potomac Hundred, listed with children Mary (age 16), > > Dorothy (age 11), and Barney (age 7). In this case Samuel, at around age 18, > > might be missed by the census because he was absent, serving in the militia. > > > > Could this Samuel be related in any way to our Samuel Barber of Texas? There > > are reasons to believe so. This family is in the right place; it is a two > > day walk to Harpers Ferry and is one day on horseback to Hagerstown (then > > Elizabeth Town). The family contains names we recognize (Samuel, Elizabeth, > > John, Ann) in the Texas family. If this Samuel is indeed our Samuel's > > father, then it's not true that our Samuel was an orphan, since this Samuel > > lived until at least 1811. On the other hand our Samuel could be a son of a > > Barber I didn't find because he died before he owned property or otherwise > > produced a lasting record. Or our Samuel could be a son of Barney Barber and > > was named after his uncle Samuel. In any case it would be very natural for > > any of these Barbers to drift toward Harpers Ferry, since that was where the > > flow of migration was going at the time. Clearly by 1790-1800 there was > > little cheap land in Montgomery County and younger sons of farming families > > were forced in that direction to make a living. > > > > A couple of other interesting possibilities turned up as well. In the March, > > 1778, court session for Montgomery County a complaint was brought against > > one Elizabeth BARKER, for "having a baseborn child contrary to the form of > > the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided information of by Ninian > > B. Magruder." There is an Elizabeth Barber in the 1790 Montgomery County > > census listed as head of household with two males over 16, one male under > > 16, five females, and three slaves, and she is only five lines away from > > Ninian Magruder in the census listing. In 1781 Elizabeth BARKER apprenticed > > one of her sons, James, to a farmer in Frederick County. Could these two > > Elizabeths be the same despite the name spelling? Or, even if they're not > > the same could one of her sons, perhaps the 1778 bastard, be our Texas > > Samuel? > > > > Another intrigueing possibility connects Samuel to Louisiana. In the years > > 1803-1810 the part of present Louisiana east of the Mississippi, but not > > including New Orleans, was retained and governed by Spain after the sale of > > the rest of Louisiana to the United States. It was in this district, called > > West Florida, that Samuel first appears in official documents, a complaint > > by Robert Jones that he had abandoned his job illegally and taken some > > property, in 1807. There was another, or perhaps more than one, Barber > > family in West Florida at that time. They lived in Feliciana, just east of > > Baton Rouge and several documents are recorded there naming Mary, Thomas, > > Antonio, and David Barber as well as Briton, Samuel and Eldrid BARKER in the > > years 1802-1804. Among them are two documents executed between David Barber > > and John Murdock in 1802 and 1803, a land sale and a separate mortgage. Back > > in Maryland, fourteen years earlier in 1788, another John Murdock wrote a > > will of about 3500 words length and died some time before 1798. Clearly > > prosperous and educated, Murdock begins by expressing his profound > > dissappointment in his son, William, whom he considered incapable of > > administering either the estate or his own legacy. He leaves the bulk of his > > estate to his brother and two trustees who will pay support to William and > > William's wife and children (only daughters in 1788). The only other bequest > > Murdock makes is land and slaves to one Dorothy Barber, her son John, and > > daughters Elizabeth and Mary. Even though this bequest runs to nearly a > > third of the words in the will, including all of its only codicil, there is > > no explanation of who Dorothy is, or why she is receiving this bequest. Many > > explanations are possible, but clearly there was a relationship between > > Barbers and Murdocks in Maryland, and in Louisiana. Are they connected? > > Another teasing hint comes from the name of John Murdock's brother who was > > trusted to receive the estate--Addison, a name that shows up repeatedly > > among the Texas Barbers. > > > > For the record, here are some dead ends I've already visited: Some have > > suggested that the family name was originally spelled Barbour. I found no > > instance of this spelling among the Maryland Barbers. The spelling is found > > among the Virginia Barbours, which fact argues for a Virginia, rather than > > this Maryland source for our Texas Samuel Barber. In fact, other Barber > > researchers (Villamae Williams and Flavia Fleischman) have been convinced > > that Samuel's ancestry lies among the Virginia Barbours. > > > > I searched as well for a connection between this Maryland John Barber and > > the Barbers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, descendants of Thomas Barber. > > Such a connection would be a likely source of the rumored relationship of > > Samuel Barber to Joseph Warren. The best work on the Thomas Barber genealogy > > is very strong, with genealogy from the 17th to the 20th century, at least > > for descendants who remained in New England--but it contains no John Barber > > that did not die in Connecticut or Massachusetts. > > > > Orphan's Court records for both Frederick (1777-1808) and Washington > > (1786-1805) Counties exist and are indexed, but contain no Samuel, or any > > other Barber. If Samuel was born in Hagerstown and orphaned, no official > > record was kept. > > > > Sad to say, there are no Frederick or Montgomery County civil marriage > > records prior to 1798. > > > > I thought this was very interesting.. > > c. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joan Nestler" <jcnest@gj.net> > > To: <BARBER-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 6:49 PM > > Subject: [BARBER-L] My Line > > > > > > > Hello to All: > > > > > > I have been watching with much interest all of the e-mails about Moses > > > Barber and his descendants. I'm happy for all of you that you have > > > contacts. Unfortunately for me - I have no connection with this Barber > > > family nor any other that I can see so far. The story of my genealogy > > > life <grin>! > > > > > > What I know about my Barber family is as follows: > > > > > > Samuel Barber + Catherine Adams (both born in Ireland - know not where) > > > Adam Barber m. (1) Lanah Clowes 1838, Allegheny Co., PA > > > & (2) Sarah Hetzer 1852, Meigs Co., OH > > > Philip Barber + Jennie Lorentz 1889, Meigs Co., OH > > > Leona Barber + Frank Chambers 1919, Natrona Co., WY > > > me > > > > > > Samuel and Catherine may have been married in Ireland. They lived in > > > Westmoreland Co. with many other Barbers, all of whom were from Co. > > > Antrim, Northern Ireland. Adam and Lanah had only two children who > > > lived to adulthood; Adam and Sarah had 11 children. My grandfather, > > > Philip was their oldest son, b. 1856 in Pittsburgh. Philip and Jennie > > > came west, lived in Aspen, CO, then homesteaded in Lusk, Wyoming. > > > > > > If anyone out there thinks they have even a remote connection to this > > > Barber family, I would be absolutely ecstatic!! > > > > > > Jody Nestler > > > > > > > > > ==== BARBER Mailing List ==== > > > Did you know that only 7% of Rootsweb subscribers support Rootsweb? > > > Thank you for your generous financial support of Rootsweb! > > > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.htm > > > > > > > > > ==== BARBER Mailing List ==== > > Post a Bible Record! http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BarberBibl > > Post a Deed! http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BarberDeed > > Post a Pension! http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BarberPens > > Post an Obit! http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BarberObits > > > > dmorgan@efn.org David W. 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