Richard Barnes

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Husband Richard Barnes ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 M Gilbert Barnes ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1636 - Massachusetts 1 2
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General Notes: Husband - Richard Barnes

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The early ancestors of the Barnes family were among the most rigid dissenters, or non-conformists of England, and several of them suffered martyrdom for their adherence to their faith, notably among whom was Dr. Barnes, who was burned at the stake. Several members of this family were among the first Puritan fathers who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Richard Barnes was born in England, and while yet a young man migrated to Massachusetts, and participated in all the trials and labors incident to the establishment and improvement of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. In the year 1636, he enlisted in a company of Massachusetts volunteers, who assisted their brethren in Connecticut in driving the warlike and treacherous Pequods from the Mystic river. Like many of his comrades in arms, he was attracted by the beauty and fertility of the Connecticut valley, and resolved to make it his future home. Accordingly, in the year 1638 or 1639, he removed his family from Massachusetts and settled on a part of the site of the city of New Haven. His occupation was that of farmer. He raised a large family of children, attained a ripe old age, and lived to see a considerable portion of the land from which he had removed the pristine forests, covered with substantially built houses, forming the capital city of the colony, and himself one of its most wealthy citizens.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 530.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 93.