Limited amount of information . . . but perhaps it will help . . . Hope Seguin, Texas jouett@axs4u.net Family Group Report - April 26, 1999 ---------------------------------------- Husband: David BARTON ---------------------------------------- Birth: About 1730 Place: Probably In Prince William Or Fauquier County, Virginia Death: Before 1772 Place: Kentucky Religion: ____________________ Father: Thomas BARTON II (1687-1751) Mother: Mary WILLOUGHBY ---------------------------------------- Marriage: July 27, 1752 ---------------------------------------- Wife: Ruth OLDHAM ---------------------------------------- Birth: About 1734 Place: Virginia Death: After 1807 Place: Franklin County, Georgia Father: John OLDHAM (1708-) Mother: Anne "Nancy" CONWAY (1718-1770) ---------------------------------------- Children... ---------------------------------------- 1. F Child: Elizabeth BARTON ---------------------------------------- 2. M Child: John BARTON Birth: 1757 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Death: January 3, 1839 Place: "Tugalo Region"/Western Borders Of South Carolina (Anderson Burial: Place: Eastern Slope Of Chauga Creek Spouse: Elizabeth PATTERSON OR PENNINGTON ---------------------------------------- 3. F Child: Mary "Molly" BARTON Birth: 1758 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Death: 1851 Place: Perhaps Alabama Spouse: Isaac Stearns WELLBORN Lieutenant Marriage: 1778 Place: Wilkes County, North Carolina ---------------------------------------- 4. M Child: Benjamin "Ben" BARTON Birth: About 1759 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Spouse: Lucy WELLBORN Marriage: March 10, 1779 ---------------------------------------- 5. M Child: William "Billie" BARTON Birth: About 1760 Death: 1827 Place: Morgan County, Georgia Religion: __________________________ Spouse: Anna Spouse: Lucy GARR Marriage: July 11, 1824 Place: Morgan County, Georgia ---------------------------------------- 6. M Child: Willoughby BARTON Birth: About 1760 Place: Probably Tryon County, North Carolina Death: July 4, 1838 Place: Greenville District, South Carolina Spouse: Nancy BARRETT Marriage: March 11, 1777 Place: Greenville District, South Carolina ---------------------------------------- 7. F Child: Nellie BARTON Birth: About 1760 Spouse: WELBORN ---------------------------------------- 8. M Child: Presley BARTON Birth: About 1762 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Death: 1822 Place: Morgan County, Georgia Religion: Reference Note: ®8 Spouse: Elizabeth SWIFT ---------------------------------------- 9. F Child: Frances "Fanny" BARTON Birth: About 1762 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Death: 1821/1838 Place: Wilkes County, Georgia Or Bibb County, Alabama Spouse: Theodorick STUBBLEFIELD Marriage: March 28, 1779 Place: Guilford County, North Carolina ---------------------------------------- 10. M Child: Thomas BARTON Birth: May 15, 1768 Place: Fauquier County, Virginia Death: July 10, 1826 Place: Montgomery County, Alabama Spouse: Sarah KEYES Marriage: 1794 ---------------------------------------- 11. M Child: David Oldham BARTON I Birth: December 20, 1770 Place: Virginia Death: March 1, 1842 Place: Anderson County, South Carolina Spouse: Margaret "Peggy" Or Martha Jane LOONEY Marriage: July 8, 1794 Spouse: Winnie MITCHELL Marriage: February 5, 1835 ---------------------------------------- 12. F Child: Susan BARTON Birth: February 14, 1766 Place: Virginia Or North Carolina Death: April 21, 1837 Place: Clarke Or Oconee County, Georgia Spouse: John THRASHER Sr. Marriage: April 16, 1782 ---------------------------------------- 13. F Child: Ruth BARTON Birth: About 1760 Spouse: Isaac Cloud THRASHER Husband's Notes... ---------------------------------------- Notes: This family lived in Prince William and Fauquier Counties, Virginia until 1771. In 1771 they moved to Surry County, North Carolina. They were one of the earliest families to attempt to settle at Boonesborough, since there is a record of the estate sale of David Barton in Surry County in May 1776, which would suggest that the family had gone to Kentucky in 1775 (after David's death). David Barton was killed by Indians while on an expedition to Kentucky. Legend has it he was with Daniel Boone. There is a monument erected at Boonesboro, Kentucky with David Barton's name engraved on it. The monument is dedicated as follows: DEDICATED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE BRAVE PIONEERS WHO ENTERED THE WILDERNESS OF WHAT LATER BECAME KENTUCKY AND FORMED THE SETTLEMENT KNOWN AS BOONESBOROUGH FIRST FORTIFIED SETTLEMENT IN KENTUCKY WE HONOR THESE AMONG THE FIRST FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY. [Listed among the names is that of DAVID BARTON] ____________________________________________ Dorothy Sturgis Pruett writes that "Abstracts of deeds and other legal documents show that Daniel Boone, the David Barton family, as well as the John Thrasher family, were living on the Yadkin River at the time David Barton is said to have been killed by the Indians on an expedition with Daniel Boone. The name of David Barton is engraved on a monument located at the original Boonesborough, Kentucky site, dedicated to the builders of Boonesborough and the famous 'Wilderness Road'." Reference Note: OUR THRASHER HERITAGE compiled by Dorothy Sturgis Pruett, privately published 1986 _____________________________________ Tradition says that David and Ruth left Virginia and went to Kentucky. Ruth's children were so small--some of them--that they drove a cow along so that her children might have milk. At that time the route to Kentucky went down west of what is now Lynchburg into North Carolina, where they crossed the mountains, then through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky." Reference Notes: ®5 & ®6 In 1765 he (Daniel Boone) went to Florida, traveling from St. Augustine to Pensacola. Two years later (1767) he made his first expedition into the wilds of Kentucky. Reference Note: ®7 Dorothy Sturgis Pruett writes: "It, no doubt, was between 1767 and 1772 that DAVID BARTON was exploring Kentucky with Daniel Boone, as the settlement of the estate of DAVID BARTON was found in Wilkes Co., N.C. showing that his brother-in-law, LAWRENCE ROSS, was appointed Administrator of the estate in 1772." He was declared dead by a Wilkes County, North Carolina court. Last Modified: July 15, 1998 Reference Note 5 Mrs. Jewel Waller Young in her compilation of Cloud Thrasher Barton, 1973. Reference Note 6 LINEAGES AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES A Compilation of Some of the Lineages and Family Lines in The Genealogy of CLOUD THRASHER BARTON, printed by B & W Printing & Letter Service, Dallas, Texas 1973 Reference Note 7 World Book Encyclopedia Reference Note 8 [B/103, 105, 105]