This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barnes/Barns Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1419 Message Board Post: Looking for any sort of birth or baptism record that might reveal who his parents and siblings were. He was born ca 1769, probably in either Pittsylvania, or Halifax Co. or perhaps in Charlotte Co. to the east. DNA indicates he was likely related to the Barnes who were early Jamestown settlers, of whom Thomas Barnes (m. to Diana Ann Bragg) was also related.