Richard Barnard and Frances [Unk]

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Husband Richard Barnard ¹

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         Father: [Ancestor] Barnard (      -      )
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Wife Frances [Unk] ¹

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Children

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1 M Richard Barnard ¹

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           Born: 1684 1
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           Died: 1767 1
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         Spouse: Ann Taylor (      -      ) 2
           Marr: Abt 1715

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2 M Thomas Barnard ^{1 3}

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            AKA: Thomas Bernard,3 Thomas Burnard 3
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           Died: 1732 - Chester, Delaware Co, PA 1 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Swain (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Sarah Carter (      -      ) 1 3

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3 F Sarah Barnard ¹

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         Spouse: Joseph Coburn (      -      ) 1

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4 F Mary Barnard ¹

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         Spouse: Jacob Roman (      -      ) 1

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5 F Lucy Barnard ¹

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         Spouse: Thomas Dutton (      -      ) 1

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6 F Lydia Barnard ¹

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         Spouse: Daniel Walker (      -      ) 1

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7 F Rebecca Barnard ¹

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         Spouse: Enoch Flower (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Barnard

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He was the ancestor of the Chester and Delaware County family of this name in Pennsylvania.

He served as a grand juror at Chester, A.D. 1686, and died previous to May 5, 1698. He owned land near Chester as early as 1683. Letters of administration on his estate were, on May 11, 1698, granted by William Markham in Philadelphia to the widow, Frances Barnard. There is a tradition among the descendants of this man that he came from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, when a young man, and that he accompanied William Penn, but this is, as yet, unsupported by evidence. There is an English tradition that he left England about 1642. Attempts have been made to harmonize these traditions, and letters, now [1881] in the possession of a member of the family, from a gentleman of the same name in the Parliament of England who is a grandson of Sir Francis Bernard, colonial Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts, declare that "Governor Penn was well known to our family. I have great reason to think that you may claim descent from Richard of Astwood, who in the troubled reign of Charles I. is supposed to have emigrated. The family were well acquainted with Admiral Sir William Penn, the father of the celebrated Mr. Penn, the founder of the State of Pennsylvania, and if Richard had already emigrated he might easily have been attracted to the new settlement where a family friend presided. I am fully aware that some of our family settled in America, which might probably have induced my grandfather to seek that appointment." These letters were followed by a pedigree, commencing with Godfrey Bernard, A.D. 1240, and a photograph of the correspondent, which bears a resemblance to Simon Barnard, of Philadelphia, James Barnard, of West Marlborough, and some of the Barnards of an older generation.
The late compilation of John Camden Hotten, entitled "Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, &c.," published in 1874, contains a ship's list in which the name of Richard Barnard, aged twenty-three, appears as having sailed Feb. 17, 1634, from London to Barbadoes in the ship "Hopewell," Capt. Thomas Wood. It is now thought that this is the same individual. [HCC 1881, 473]

Dr. Smith, in his "History of Delaware County," says that Richard was a Quaker, as all his children appear to have been. If this be correct, he must have become so after his settlement in Pennsylvania, as George Fox did not begin to preach his doctrine until 1648, or several years after Richard Barnard had left England. However that may be, it is certain that most of his descendants have been Friends, one of the most noteworthy of whom was

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 473.

2 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 476.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 118.