John Barnum (1699 - 1757)

Born 1699 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Died 3 Oct 1757 at about age 58 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

This profile is part of the Barnum Name Study.

Birth 1699 Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Death 3 OCT 1757 Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

His inventory was recorded on 5 December 1757 in Danbury.^[1]

John died intestate and a number of divisions occurred regarding his estate settled Danbury, CT 30 Mar 1764

On 4 April 1758 widow Ruth Barnum was named and was called “mother-in-law”, which apparently meant step-mother. In addition, John’s children were named, as follows: Richard Barnum, eldest son; Mary Wilkes, wife of Matthew Wilkes; Elizabeth Knapp, wife of James Knapp; Sarah.^[2]

On 14 October 1760 widow Ruth Barnum was shown as remarried, the wife of John Knapp.

On 30 March 1764, Ruth Barnum Knapp was shown as deceased. John’s children were named again. This time Sarah was called the youngest daughter and was married to John Wilkes, Jr.^[3]

The Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family incorrectly identifies John's second wife, Ruth, as the mother of the children of Sarah Boughton.

"The Barnum Family, 1350-1907" confuses Captain John Barnum with his own grandson, leaving out two generations and mistakenly showing him as the father of his great-grandchildren.

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TNC8 : 14 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 80-81, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 1, 1739-1767, Pages 141-143.
2. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TFBR : 21 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 263, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 119.
3. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TFB5 : 22 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 284-286, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 159-162.

• Barnum, Eben Lewis. & Barnum, Francis. Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum, 1625-1695 (Meals Printing Company, Gardner, Mass., 1912).
• Boughton, Gary Alan, and Bigelow, Mary J., A Line of Matthew Boughtons of Danbury, Conn. (1661-1821), The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1990) Vol. 65, Page 101.
• Barnum, Noah Greeley. The Barnum Family, 1350-1907 (Privately Printed, Albion, NY, 1907).
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55.