Don't know if this information helps at all . . . but . . . Hope Seguin, Texas jouett@axs4u.net Family Group Report - April 11, 1999 ---------------------------------------- Husband: Thomas BARTON I Sr. ---------------------------------------- Birth: About 1665 Place: Stafford County, Virginia Death: About 1731/1732 Father: Thomas BARTON I (-1681) Mother: (Barton, Thomas I, Wife Of) ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Wife: Grace DRUMMOND ---------------------------------------- Death: 1699 ---------------------------------------- Children... ---------------------------------------- 1. M Child: Thomas BARTON II Birth: 1687 Death: About 1751 Spouse: Mary WILLOUGHBY Husband's Notes... ---------------------------------------- Notes: Thomas Barton's wife and children (except for Thomas Barton, Jr.) were killed by Indians in 1699. ______________________________________________ THOMAS BARTON #2 was born in Stafford County, Virginia ca 1665. He died between 27 July 1731 and 13 August 1732. He married ca 1685/90 in Stafford County, Virginia to Grace Drummond. 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 their home. They had asked a neighbor man, his wife and three children to come to their house and 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, his wife, and their 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. There is an authentic letter on file in Virginia Provincial Records telling the Governor of this dreadful event and Fairfax Harrison tells it in his "History of Prince William County" word for word except he does not give the Barton's name; but does give the date and the name of Chappawomsic and the number of people slain. Grace Barton outlived her husband Thomas and she made gift deeds to two minor children, William and Lydia Drummond Barton before her death. "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 oblige 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. Some family researchers believe that Burr Barton, Valentine Barton and Charles Barton were children of Thomas and Grace, however this has not been authenticated and needs further research. _____________________________________________ Reference Note: ®290 Wife's Notes... ---------------------------------------- Notes: OR did Thomas marry a Mary Wells and was she also killed . . . then did he later marry Grace Drummond????? _______________________________________________________ Last Modified: November 10, 1996 Reference Note 290 THE BARTON BOOK compiled by Robert Dacus Nally for the Barton Historical Society, copyright 1994. Barton Historical Society PO Box 495 Lyman, South Carolina 29365