Can anyone help with info on these members of my family? Best wishes, Ron English, Killeen,TX 1. Thomas Barton (# 1) Birth Date: About 1640/1641 Birth Place: Stafford County, VA Notes: Thomas Barton (#1) bought land in Stafford County, Virgina by deed dated 1 July 1678. He purchased four hundred acres, more or less, "being the upper most part of a greater tract of two thousand acres granted to Captain John Lord by Berkeley, Governor of Virginia" (patent dated 27 Sept 1664) situate, lying and being on Quantico Creek, which when granted was in Westmorland County. When Thomas purchased the land it was in Stafford County, sold and conveyed to Thomas Barton by William Bourne, Samuel Mase and Mary his wife. The wife and number of children of Thomas Barton (#1) us unknown. We do know that one of his sons was Thomas Barton (#2). It is believed by some researchers that he had sons named John and Walter. Walter's will was found and he was unmarried and left his estate to his brothers John and Thomas. Spouse: UNKNOWN Children: Thomas 1.1 Thomas Barton (#2) Birth Date: About 1665 Birth Place: Stafford County, VA Death Date: ? 27 Jul 1773 Notes: Thomas Barton (#2) sold the land that his father Thomas Barton (#1) had bought to Abraham Farrow by deed dated 4 April 1728. The deed was recorded 10 April 1728. In this deed he states that this land was bought in 1678 by my father Thomas Barton. Thomas and his wife Grace lived at Chappawomsic and had a church, which Virginia Provincial Records say was "at Barton's House". On the third Sunday in June 1700, Thomas and Grace were away from home. They had asked a neighbor man, his wife, and three children to come to their house to care for Thomas and Grace's three children. Later in the day a local orphan boy came to the home to play with the children. Sometime that day, a band of Indians attacked the Barton home. The man, wife, and three children, along with the three Barton children were massacred. Only the orphan boy escaped into the woods and managed to hide until the Indians had left at which time he gave the alarm of the attack. Some researchers believe that the three Barton children were: Burr Barton, Valentine Barton, and Charles Barton. There is a letter on file in Virginia Provincial Records telling the Governor of this dreadful event and it is also part of Fairfax Harrison's book "History of Prince William County". Thomas and Grace had a son named Thomas (this is the son referred to as Thomas Barton (#3)). Grace Barton outlived her husband Thomas and she made gift deeds to two minor children, William and Lydia Drummond Barton before her death. She wrote: "Know ye therefore that I, Grace Barton, widow of Thomas Barton, deceased, for the love and goodwill I bear to my children, Lydia Drummond and William, do oblide myself, my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns firmly by the face of these presents to deliver or cause to be delivered to my two children above named when they shall come of age these things following viz I give to my daughter, Lydia Drummond, one cow and calf, one sow and pig, and a gold ring to be delivered to her when she arrives at sixteen years of age, and to my son, William Barton, I give one feather bed and bolster, two blankets, one rug, one cow and calf, one sow and pig and one gun to be delivered to him when he arrives to twenty-one years of age..." witnessed by Thomas Barton and John Metcalf. (The above research was done by Mrs. M. H. Coleman, Austin, TX and Clara Barton, Calvert, TX). Spouse: Grace Drummond Marriage Date: 1685/1690 Marriage Place: Stafford County, VA Children: Thomas 1.1.1 Thomas Barton (#3) Birth Date: About 1700 Birth Place: Stafford County, VA Death Date: 1752 Death Place: Prince William County, VA Notes: Thomas Barton (#3) patented land in Prince William County, Virginia in 1731, the year the area became Prince William County. Three sons are acknowledged as his by the Barton descendants. They are also named in the few existing records of Prince William County. They are Thomas Barton (Sr.), David Barton, and John Barton. The link to show their sonship is based on David, who married Ruth Oldham being named administrator of Thomas's estate. The Barton descendants say that this David was a brother to Thomas Barton who married Sarah Wilson and that he had a brother named John. Soldiers of the Union Army carried off some of this county's records during the Civil War. One book has turned up at Huntington Library, San Marino, California. A descendant of the Union Soldier who stole the book, took it to this Library and offered it for sale, acknowledging that her forbearer had carried it home with him from the Civil War. Huntington Library bought the book and allowed Virginia State Library to make photstatic copies of it. It and another one that Virginia State Library bought under similar conditions are the sources of the land records quoted in this story. Spouse: Mary Willoughby Children: Thomas John David Index Barton (# 1), Thomas 1. Barton (#2), Thomas 1.1 Barton (#3), Thomas 1.1.1