Hopefully those two books wern't sold in a garage sale.. susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOAnKERm" <joaker@pmt.org> To: <BARKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: [BARKER] BARKER, Jesse /Pace Barker > "Our earliest know BARKER ancestor was JESSE BARKER who we find in > EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, South Carolina as early as 1785. It is believed > that he was born about 1755 either in North Carolina or in Virginia, and > that he was probably a Grandson of our immigrant BARKER ancestor." > > "The first name of BARKER of which we found record in VIRGINIA was James > of Shropshire, England. He came to Virginia in 1636. George Barker > from the same place lived in James City, Virginia, and Jonathan Barker > lived in Charles City County; William and JAMES BARKER from SUFFOLK, > ENGLAND settled in HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA the same year; and a George > Barker settled in Charles River County. In 1637 Jeremiah Barker from > Shropshire, England, settled in Accomac County; Sylvester Barker in > Upper Norfolk County and Robert Barker in James County." > > Apparently the above information was from Thomas Pace Barker who lived > in CALIFORNIA and died in 1971. Apparently Thomas Pace Barker had done > extensive research on this Barker Family. I understand that he wrote a > book. However, apparently all of his research and all of the books > burned in a house fire in California. I understand that at the time of > the fire he was an elderly gentleman and that he never reconstructed his > research. Also, I HEARD THAT HE MAILED A COUPLE OF THE BOOKS BEFORE THE > FIRE. If this is correct someone somewhere out there is sitting on a > real treasure of information --- information that we are having trouble > reconstructing. > > It has been reported that he served in the Revolutionary War from NC in > 1777. It has also been reported that he was a member of "Marion's Men" > better known as the "Swamp Fox" in the Revolutionary War. > > I have no documentation to support any of the above information. I > guess you could say that it is just the word of mouth information -- > information that we keep and hope someday to be able to prove or > disprove. > > JESSE BARKER is in the 1790 census of Edgefield County SC. > > > > > ==== BARKER Mailing List ==== > BARKER Mailing List Archives Search http://www.rootsweb.com/~scwhite/barker/mailsrch.html > The Searchable Rootsweb Mailing List Archives http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >