John
Barnard
Born about in England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Stace) Barnard
— married
about 1634 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died before
before about age 66
in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts
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Disambiguation Notice
- John Barnard, was born about 1598 and married Mary Stace. They sailed in 1634 on the ship Francis. He was an original proprietor of Hartford and in 1659 removed to found Hadley, where he died in 1664, and left no children.
- A different John Barnard was born about 1604 in Dedham, Essex, England, and married Phoebe Whiting. They probably sailed from Ipswich to Boston in 1634 on the ship Elizabeth. He was a proprietor of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1636, and had several children. He died in June 1646, at Watertown.
- Elizabeth (Barnard?) Dix was not the daughter of John Barnard who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and cannot be the daughter of John Barnard-441 of Hartford.
Biography
John Barnard was born about 1598. He was age 36 when he sailed on the Francis in 1634; accompanying him were his wife Mary (Stace) and a boy Henry Hayward who was related to either John or Mary.[1][2]
He named several relations in his will, which may lead to his origins being discovered. But for the moment specific dates and places of baptism and specific fathers including Thomas of Chevington are not proven.
The marriage of John Barnard and Mary Stace occurred in 1634 in England. She was 38 when she sailed on the Francis. She left inheritances for the children of her brothers Daniel and William Stace in her will. They died in 1649 and 1660, in Burnham, Essex England.[2]
John Barnard was buried in Hadley, Massachusetts, 23 May 1664 according to the manuscript of vital records kept by John Pynchon[2]
Timeline
Timeline [3]
- 1634: April: John Bernard, age 36, sailed on the Francis, Ipswich to Boston, with wife Mary, age 38, also bringing Fayth Newell, age 14, and Henry Haward, age 7.[1]
- 1634: profession - maltster[3]
- 1634/5: March 4, Massachusetts freeman, listed among other men from Cambridge. [4]
- 1634 & 1635. Received grants of land in Cambridge. His houselot belonged to John Bridge by 1639[5]
- 1635: October, with Adventurers who settled Hartford in advance of main group[6]
- 1639-40: Received 24 acres in the land division[3] He owned eleven parcels at the Feb 1639/40 land inventory[7] All of John's land in Hartford was sold 27 Sep 1663 to Henry Hayward a kinsman.[8][7] John also owned at some time land in nearby Wethersfield[9]
- 1642-43: Deputy[3]
- 1644: Townsman[3]
- 1649: Townsman[3]
- 1653: Townsman[3]
- 1656: exempted by General Court from watching and warding[3]
- 1657: Townsman[3]
- 1659: with William Goodwin's group who left Hartford to found Hadley "withdrawer"[3]
- 1663: Mar 31: Hadley sealer of weights and measures[10]
- 1665: Mar 29: Served on the Hampshire County petit jury[11]
- 1664: May 23, buried at Hadley, Massachusetts Bay Colony[3]
- 1664: May - left widow, Mary, no children[3]
Will & Inventory
In his will dated 21 May 1664 and proved 27 September 1664, John Barnard of Hadley made his wife Mary Barnard, sole executrix. His house, land, etc. at Wethersfield, he left to his wife and after her decease to the children of his kinsman Henry Hayward. His house, land, etc at Hadley he also left to his wife, but after her decease, it was to go towards the maintenance of a school. "to my kinsman Morgan Bedient ... my dwelling house & homelot with my malthouse & all other outhouses upon my lot as also my piece of land that lieth homeward in the nook or aquavita bottle" and to "Thomas Bedient ... all other parcels of land that do or shall belong to me in Hadley. Morgan & Thomas were not yet of age and provision was made for their inheritance, should his wife die before they turn 21. He also made bequests to "my cousin Steele's two daughters Mary Steele & Sarah Steele," John Steele (minister at Hartford), his maid, Mary Beckwith, Francis Barnard and John Barnard his son, and his sister Mary Bedient, should she come to New England. His inventory was taken 10 June 1664 and totaled £600 9s. 8d.[12]
No recorded children. Anderson
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Camden Hotten. "The Original Lists of Persons of Quality..." London: Hotten (1874). pp 278, 279.see at archive.org
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Anderson pp. 160, 161.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Trumbull, J. Hammond. The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 Vol 1, page 229. Boston: Edward L Osgood Publisher, 1886.
- ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Vol. 1 1628-1641 p. 370(William White, Boston, 1853-)
- ↑ Anderson: citing The Records of the Town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703 . . . (Cambridge 1901) pp 9, 13; The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New towne" and the town of Cambridge . . . (Cambridge 1896) pp 34, 55.
- ↑ The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records pages 7-13.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928) Vol. 14 Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 pp 217-220
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Sketch for Henry Hayward.subscription$
- ↑ Anderson: citing WetLR: Wethersfield, Connecticut, Land Records 1:72
- ↑ Anderson: citing Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Court Records 1:24
- ↑ Anderson: citing Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Court Records 1:30
- ↑ Anderson citing HamCCR - Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Court Records 1: 35-37, 1:51
- The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records, database, Internet Archive. Extracted from William DeLoss Love, Ph.D. The Colonial History of Hartford: Gathered from the Original Records. (Hartford, Connecticut, Publisher: William DeLoss Love, 1914), page 7-13.
- The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, database,Internet Archive, extracted from J. Hammond Trumbull Editor, The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 (Boston, Massachusetts: E. L. Osgood 1886) Vol 1, page 229.
- Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, database online, entry for John Barnard.
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John Bernard sailed on the Elizabeth in 1634, with his wife Phebe and sons John and Samuell. (Passenger List for the Elizabeth, 1634) John Bernard was born in 1604 in Dedham, Essex, not 1586 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He could not have married Elizabeth Bushell in 1612.
John Barnard never wen tt o Hartford Connecticut. He lived out his life in Watertown, Massachusetts.