Thomas Barnum Jr. (1663 - 1730)

Born 9 Jul 1663 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Husband of Sarah (Beardsley) Barnum — married 1693 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 17 Dec 1730 at age 67 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

This profile is part of the Barnum Name Study.

Thomas Barnum Jr. has English ancestors.

Thomas Barnum Jr. was married to a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

According to Connecticut Genealogy, Vol. II, pp 442-443, Thomas Barnum, son of Thomas, was born July 9, 1663, in Fairfield, Connecticut and removed to Danbury with his father's family. Other sources show him born in Norwalk on 9 July 1663; died at Danbury in 1731.

The will of Thomas Barnum of Danbury was dated 17 Dec 1730 and proved 27 Dec 1730. The will shows sons Thomas (the eldest), Ephraim, Ebenezer, and Joshua (4th and youngest); wife Sarah; daughters Sarah Hoyt and Esther Judd; grandson John Wilkes (his mother Susannah had a portion in her lifetime); youngest daughter Mary Barnum. Thomas left an estate valued at £190, 5s, 2p.^[1] (That amount is equal to about $45,500 in 2005 dollars).

According to New England Marriages prior to 1700, Thomas Barnum (1663-1731) married Sarah (Beardsley) around 1684-1690 in Stratford, Connecticut.

Connecticut Genealogy shows their children as: Thomas; Sarah m. (perhaps Joshua) Hoyt; Ephraim m. Mehitabel; Susannah m. Wilkes; Ebenezer m. (by 1717) Abigail Skeels, daughter of John of Woodbury; Esther m. Judd; Joshua; Mary.

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T2QY  : 3 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 621-622, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 273-274.

• Hill, Susan Benedict. History of Danbury, Conn. 1684-1896 (Burr Printing House, New York, 1896) Page 14 & Page 49
• Commemorative biographical record of Fairfield County, (Higginson Book Co., 1899) Page 33
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Norwalk, Page 5.
• Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700
• Cutter, William Richard New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, (Clearfield Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1913) Vol 3, Page 1443
• 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)
• Savage, Mary Tisdale, Savage, Tisdale and Allied Families, Genealogical and Biographical (New York, NY: American Historical Society, 1926)
• Hughes, Thomas P. and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776, 12 volumes. (Albany, NY: Munsell, 1887-89)
• Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (1930-32)
• Connecticut Genealogy, Volume II/Pages 442-443.
• William Richard Cutter, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley; a Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913)
• Hall, Edwin. The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut (James Mallory & Co., Norwalk, 1847)

• Page 191: Thomas Barnam, the sonne of Thos. Barnam, borne the 9th of July, 1663.