Tristram Barnard (1745 - 1807)

Born 22 Apr 1745 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Folger) Barnard — married 2 Jan 1766 in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Husband of Levina (Gifford) Beard — married 10 Mar 1796 in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1807 at age 61 in Stokes, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Tristram was a Friend (Quaker)

Tristram was born 2-22-1745 (Old Style) to William Barnard and Mary Coffin. (His birth has also been recorded as 5, 3mo, 1743^[1] but the source isn't as reliable as the Quaker records.) January 2, 1766 he married Margaret Folger in Nantucket.^[2] He moved his family to North Carolina.

Tristram passed in 1807 and is buried in the Deep River Friends Cemetery at Hight Point, Guilford County, North Carolina.^[3] His oldest son, Asa, administered the bond when his estate went through probate in Stokes County, North Carolina.^[4] Stokes borders Guilford on the east.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDZ-R6T : 15 January 2020), Tristram Barnard, 1743.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCZW-6JX : 28 December 2022), Tristram Barnard, 1766. Page 76.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #198770324
4. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z7-3KNS : 17 March 2018), Tristram Barnard, 1807; citing Stokes, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm .
5. ↑ Interactive map

• Ancestry World Tree Project: Descendants of Tristram Coffin & Dionis Stevens by Mary Harrell, compmary (at) aol.com
• Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. 1, pp. 524, 775, 797.