Martin Barr and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband Martin Barr ¹

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1 M Abraham Barr ²

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2 M Christian Barr ²

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3 M Jacob Barr ²

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4 M Martin Barr ²

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           Born: 1773 2
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5 F Christina Barr ²

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           Born:  - near Quarryville, Lancaster Co, PA
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         Spouse: John Mowrer (      -      ) 2

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6 F [Unk] Barr ²

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General Notes: Husband - Martin Barr

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There are many branches of the Barr family in Pennsylvania, not all springing from the same source. This branch cannot be definitely placed, but it is supposed they are of German descent. They were in Lancaster County prior to 1790 and lived near Quarryville where stands the famous "Ark" built in that year by Martin Barr, a wealthy distiller, as a residence. This house, at the time it was built, was not only the largest in that locality, but it was one of the finest and best. The main house was sixty-five by fifty-five feet and thirty feet high from the foundation wall to the eaves. The walls were two feet thick, built of stone. Not a nail was used in its inside finish, wooden pegs and pins being used instead. The hall, twelve feet wide, ran through the center and the stairway was winding, continuing to the garret. This stairway was a mechanical marvel and for a century or more was not improved on by modern stair builders.
The Barrs were good farmers and the land always improved under their farming methods. They fed a large number of cattle and had large flocks of sheep.
He lived to be a very old man, dying early in the nineteenth century. He was buried in the Barr graveyard, one of the oldest burying grounds in the country. He and wife were Mennonites.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 160.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 161.