BARNES Mary

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850; Pahaquarry, Warren, New Yersey

Notes:

1850 Census indicated Mry could not read or write

Family/Spouse: STEPHENS Joseph. Joseph was born in 1796 in New Jersey; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. STEVENS Elizabeth was born in 1835 in New Jersey; and died.
2. STEVENS Harriet was born in 1837 in New Jersey; and died.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850; Pahaquarry, Warren Co. N.J sheet 552

Notes:

Research compiled by Joanne Sholes
Bible records of Strunk/Barnes family
Rec. of St. James Episcopal Ch. Delaware, Warren Co. New Jersey. (rec. Brenda Miller)
Bible records in possession of Edna Mae Strunk

William married KIRKHUFF Catherine on 28 Oct 1801 in Knowleton , Warren County New Jersey. Catherine was born in 1783 in New Jersey; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Presbyterian
• Census: 1850; Pahaquarry, Warren Co. N.J sheet 551
• Census: 1860; Pahaquarry, Warren, NY page 41

Notes:

Marr. Rec. Warren Co. N.J. Bk. A Pg. 37 name spelled Carhoof. stated bo th were from Knowleton, Believe Charlotte, William and Margaret all marri ed Siblings.
Letter written by John Royal Barnes 1910 from Binghamton N.Y. (rec. Bren da Miller)

1860 Census NJ Warren. Listed head of household. Anna and Ebenezer are ot her residents. Also living with the family is Mary Etzler...age 12.

Marr. Rec. Warren Co. N.J. Bk. A Pg. 37 name spelled Carhoof. stated bo th were from Knowleton, Believe Charlotte, William and Margaret all marri ed Siblings.
Letter written by John Royal Barnes 1910 from Binghamton N.Y. (rec. Bren da Miller)

1860 Census NJ Warren. Listed head of household. Anna and Ebenezer are ot her residents. Also living with the family is Mary Etzler...age 12.

Several researchers have connected Catherine to James and Mary Zimmerman K irkhuff. Need to confirm.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer/Land owner
• Religion: Episcopal
• Alt. Birth: 22 Oct 1755; Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey

Notes:

Family bible. Printed and sold by Collins and Co. N.Y. 1814 in the possess
ion of Bernard Smith Stroudsburg PA.

rec. Brenda Miller
Mentioned in early Warren Co NJ Will
Identified in will of grandfather Thomas KitchenResearch compiled by Joan ne Sholes

Warren Co. N.J. Abstracts of Divisions and Petitions filed at the Courthou se Belvidere, N.J. from 1825 - 1846. Abstracted by H. Alleman & P. Weibez hl 1978. Petitioner: Amos Barnes, location on the road from Centervil le to Columbia in right of himself as son and heir-at-law. States th at he has purchased the shares of William, Charlotte, Jacob & George. Hei rs at law and relationship to deceased. Recorded 05 Jun 1842 St. Jam es Episcopal Ch Funeral Records. Was in Warren Co. Knowleton in 1830 Cens us Pg. 381 Father possibly named John. Family bible. Printed and so ld by Collins and Co. N.Y. 1814 in the possession of Bernard Smith Strouds burg PA.

Possibly brother of one John Barnes.
According to Snell's book on Warren Co, brothers William and James Barn es had a farm in Knowlton Township. John Barnes was member of the Episcop al Church in Knowlton Township. A Reverend Albert Barnes from Philadelph ia preached a sermon when a church was dedicated there in 1850.

(rec. Brenda Miller)
Mentioned in early Warren Co NJ Will
Records of Brenda Miller
left land in Amwell

THE BARNES FAMILIES OF GRIMSBY
by Eileen Bickford Hodgson, U.E.
Over twenty years ago as I researched my maternal ancestors of OLMST ED and DAVIS, I watched, also, for references to my grandmother's BARNES f amily which I believed had settled in the area around Hamilton in the er ly nineteenth century. Aside from snippets of information, the most I cou ld find ws in Vol. 3 of ANNALS OFTHE FORTY, published by Grimsby Historic al Society from 1950 to 1959. Grimsby was situated on 40 Mile Creek, so-c alled because it was estimated to be 40 miles from wherethe Niagara Riv er empties into Lake Ontario. Of the 10 volumes that comprise the ANNAL S, 3 to 9 contain data in alphabetical order on 280+ "Loyalist and Pione er Families of West Lincoln, 17;83-1833". The articles vary in length acc ording to the person who provided information on the family. Some, su ch as the NELLES, PILKINGTON, or SMITH families, take up several pages.
Material on the BARNES name covered only about a page, but I recogniz ed a few names and knew that this family must be connected to my own lin e. The information was very garbled and the author must have guessed at t he composition ofthe family. It did not give any indication of where t he family had originated, nor did it lead to further reserch. It was some time before I was able to proceed and then it was only because I found pap ers saved by my grandmother, Louisa Jane (BARNES) OLMSTED, wife of Moss In gersoll OLMSTED, Saltfleet.
No exhaustive research has been done on the BARNES family of Grims by and the following data is given to help those in the same quandary th at I was in. I hope it will lead to the discovery of further informati on on the line of John BARNES as well as on any other BARNES brothers w ho came to Canada. My own line descends from Thomas, who came to Cana da c. 1823 and settled on 100 acres of Clergy Reserve Land in Conc. I II S, east of Oakville in Trafalgar Township, Peel County. It is fairly w ell documented, but there is always more to discover.
There were two distinct BARNES families in or near Grimsby. Accordi ng to church registers and the census, the second family came from Englan d. Thjis explains the confused list of children in the ANNALS which inclu des some who did notbelong to John BARNES and his wife Ruth.
Just as many ofthe earlier United Empire Loyalist settlers came to t he Forty from New Jersey, so did John and Ruth and at least one oftheirchi ldren. The had lived in the extreme northwest of N J on land that chang ed its name frequently until in 1824 part of Sussex County was separated f rom it and given the name of Warren County. A goodbook on the histo ry of New Jersey where the Barnes lived is Vol. II of the 1981 centenni al reprint ed. of HISTORY OF SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY, com piled by J P Snell. In it there is mention of Robert Allison, "an arde nt Episcopalian" who came from England before the Revolution and settl ed in the township of Knowlton. Church services were held in his home unt il land and money were donated, probably largely by Allison, toward the bu ilding of a church which became known as St. James Episcopal Church, Warre n, Delaware. I think it is safe to say that in the N J International Gene alogical Index ofthe LDS, all Barnes listed as being baptised or marri ed in this church are related to John of Grimsby and to my ancestor, Thom as BARNES.
John came to the Upper Canada between the birth of Royal c. 1810 in t he U.S. (1815 Canada Census) and that oftheir daughter Sabra born c. 18 17 in Grimsby. Amanda, probably their first child, was baptised 06 Aug 18 09 in N.J. (IGI for NJ, USA) but there is no mention of her in Grimsby rec ords. John was a stone mason and the proximity of the Niagara escarpme nt with its quantity of stone that couldbe used in his work must have ma de the place attractive to him. He came to Canada at a time when the l og cabins of early settlers were deteriorating and they could afford new s tone houses for themselves, and John was the very man to build them. Als o, he laid the stones for the first St. Andrew's Church. We do not know w here he lived when he came to Canada, but in 1846 he bought the north ha lf of Lot 13, Conc. IV in Saltfleet Township (50 acres) for two hundred po unds. It is situated above Grimsby on the road laid out by Gov. Simcoe al ong the edge ofthe escarpment.
Of the children named in the ANNALS the first one, Charles, who marri ed Ann BUCK
on 22 June 1835, does not belong to John's family. It should be noted th at in the list of marriages on p. 47 of Vol. 10 of the ANNALS, Ann's surna me is give as INCH, not BUCL. William, born 1841, who was killed accident ly on March 1, 1912, by an explosion, was probably of the same famil y, as was Hannah, all perhaps belonging to the BARNES family from England.
William and Matilda BARNES. whose children Ruth, b. 04 Oct 1838 , a nd Robert Allison, b. 25 Mar 1840, were baptised at St. Andrew's, we re my great grandparents, William Thomas BARNES and his second wife Matil da Jane, daugjter of Jonathan DAVIS and granddaughter of William DAVIS, U. E., of Harmony Hall, Mount Albion. William was a blacksmith and later a nd inventor who lived in Hamilton on John St. near where the Courthouse st ands to-day. Louisa Jane, their oldest child, was baptised at Christ Chur ch CAthedral. Ruth, their second child, was named for William's aunt, Ru th BARNES, and Robert Allison, their first son, was named by his fther f or the founder, of the St. James Church in NJ. In later years William BAR NES often travelled to his former home near the Delaware Water Gap to vis it his cousins, sons of John's brother, William BARNES, who remain ed in N J. In 1861 W. T. Barnes died on such a visit. His cousins wro te to Matilda that William thught he had "neuralgia" but the symptoms rese mbled those of a heart attack. (From his diary and family letters in t he possession of the author.)
The other children listed in the ANNALS, Royal, Sabra, and the twin s, Ann and Mary, were all children of John and Ruth BARNES. Mary di ed 28 May 1820, but Ann grew up to marry William Smith of Saltfleet, 11 D ec 1838. It is doubtful whether Sydney (sic) Barnes was John's daughte r, more probably a relative. Her first husband was Joel YALE and the re is nothing about the YALE family in the ANNALS. However, in the N J I GI there is Sidney, baptised 13 January 1808, son of another John BARNES a nd his wife Katherine/Catharine, whose surnames may have been Vusler. Cou ld a mistake have been made in the sex when copying for the IGI? I have f ound mistakes in it before. Was this the baptism of Sydney (BARNES) YAL E? I believe that , since there is no baptism for her or her son in Grims by, she was a widow when she came to Grimsby with Oliver. On 11 Februa ry 1843 she became the first wife of Isaac LEWIS, son of John and Rachel ( Wilcox) LEWIS, and had three children: Marvin Gain b. 22 Feb 1843, Sar ah b. 29 Oct 1845, and son Sidney b. 20 March 1847, who was buried on 02 A pril 1850 when 3 years old. Evidently his mother had puerperal fever aft er his birth for she was buried on 03 April 1847. Both her sons were buri ed in the same plot as John and Ruth BARNES.
From John's tombstone in St. Andrew's Cemetery we can figure th at he was born 17 December 1782, making him younger than hisbrother, Thom as Barnes, born 22 Oct 1777. (Data copied by W.T. Barnes, probably from F amily Bible). John's wife Ruth (surname unknown) was born 12 May 1792. T homas and John were said to be two in a family of seven boys. William, pe rhaps the eldest, remained in New Jersey, where he lived in the long and n arrow township of Pahaquarry beside the Delaware River just below the Wat er Gap. Though I hate to admit it, I am fairly sure that Elisha, who resi ded on Conc. IV, Zorra, and on 15 April 1827 chopped down a tree that fe ll on his house and killed his wife, was a 4th son, for Elisha was a popul ar name in the family. He had just moved to Zorra from Burford Township a nd was left with seven children. (Reid, W. D. Death notices of Ontario, 1 980). Two others may have been James BARNES of Norwich and Amos of Yarmou th, but the last one of the seven is unknown.
After John died in 1866 aged 83, Ruth lived on the farm for twelve mo re years. The Saltfleet 1851 Agricultural Census gives us a good id ea of how prosperous John's farm was. Of 50 acres, 33 were under crop s, 10 under pasture and he had 1 acre of gardens. The other 6 acres we re woodland. He had 21 acres in wheat, Indian corn, peas and oats and h ad produced 15 tons in hay, 60 lbs. wool, 400 lbs butter and 8 bbls of por k. He had 2 bulls or oxen, 6 cows, 3 horses, 30 sheep. Until Ruth di ed in 1878 aged 86 years, her two unmarried children, Sabra and Royal, liv ed with her. Royal worked the farm for her, but when Ruth died she will ed it to Sabra, the younger of the two. From then on thebrother and sist er lived together with Royal as his sister's tenant. The Stoney Creek Po st office was there in 1885 and may have been there in other years. (Salt fleet Township Voters' List for 1885, Polling Sub-division No. 3) Transcr iptions of monumental Inscriptions in St. Andrew's Cemetery, an excelle nt book of this nature, give the information tht Sabra was buried the re 23 July 1890, but there is no Stone on her grave. The ANNALS sttes Roy al died in 1890, also, but no record of where he was buried has been foun d.

William married EDMONDS Anna in 1780 in New Jersey. Anna was born on 19 Mar 1755 in New Jersey; died on 28 Mar 1835 in Knowleton , Warren County New Jersey; was buried in Mar 1835 in Knowleton, Warren Co, NJ (Ramseyburg Cem). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Picture of Cem. Stone, Land Rec.
Rec. of Mrs. Calvin. Smith of Stroudsburg, PA. Mrs. Calvin Smith's fami ly is in possession of the Barnes family Bible.
rec. Brenda Miller
Anna's stone reads....
In Memory of
Anna Barnes
Wife of William Barnes
Daughter of John Edmonds
born March 19, 1735 and departed this life
March 28th 1835

Letters written to Edna Barnes Strunk by Mrs. Calvin Smith in 1950's whi le doing research on the Barnes family.

Notes:

Identified in will of Thomas Barnes
Will oif William Barns dated December 1784Early Warren Co Will Dec 7, 17 84 (file 1537 J)
Records of Brenda Miller
Transcription of will:
In the name of God, Amen. I William Brns ofthe Township of Amwell, C ounty of Hunterdon in the Western Division of the State of New Jersey, con sidering the uncertainty of this mortal life, andbeing of sound and perfe ct mind and memory blessed be Almighty God for the same do make and publi sh this my last will and testament in manner and form following, Th at is to say First, my will and order istht all my just debts and funer al charges be paid by my executors herin after named.
Secondly, I will and order that my beloved wife, Hannah shall enjoy o ne third of the produce ofthe plantaation in the township of Amwell on whi ch I nowlive together with the use of all th household furniture of whi ch I may be possessed at the time of my death, during her natural li fe or widowhood.
Item, my will farther is that my said beloved wife Hannah shall have t he use ofthe room in the east end ofthe house in which I now live during h er natural life or widowhood. Alsi, my will farther is that my beloved s on William shall supply my said beloved wife Hannah with sufficient firewo od together with two cows and four sheep, during her said natural li fe or widowhood.
Item, I give and devide unto my beloved son John, my plantation in Knol ton Township in th County of Sussex on which he now lives to him his hei rs and assigns.
Item, I give and devide unto my beloved son William my said plantti on in the township of Amwell aforesaid on I now live to him his heirs a nd assigns.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah, wife of Jacob Snyd er the sum of thirty pounds warrent lawful money of New Jersey aforesa id to be paid unto her by my said two sons John and William at the dea th or marriage of my said beloved wife Hannah.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Ruth wife of Am os Robins the like sum of thirty pounds money aforesaid to be paid unto h er by my said two sons John and William at the death or marriage of my sa id beloved wife Hannah.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my two belovedgrandchildren so ns of my son Samuel the sum of five pounds money aforesaid to be paid to t hem share and share alike by my said son William as soon as they arri ve to the age of twenty one years.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my said beloved son John all the smi th tools, farming utensils and stock that may happen to be on my said plan tation in the county of Sussex at the time of my death.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my said beloved son William all the sm ith tools, farming utensils and stock (except what is already bequethed) t hat may happen to be on my said plantation in the township of Amwell afore said at the time of my death.
Item, my will farther isthat all my household furniture shall be equa lly divided between my said beloved daughters Sarah and Ruth on the dea th or marriage of my said beloved wife Hannah. Lastly, I nominat, constit ute and appoint my said two beloved sons John Barns and William Barns Exec utors ofthis my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wil ls by me made.
In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seven th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred a nd eighty four---1784.

William married KITCHEN Hannah about 7 Jan 1737. Hannah was born in 1719 in Hunterdon, New Jersey; died after 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1719; Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey

Notes:

Identified in will of fatherRecords of Brenda Miller
Early Warren Co NJ will
IGI