Ebenezer Barker (abt. 1706 - 1771)

Ancestors Descendants

Biography

Ebenezer Barker was born on 15 Mar 1706 in Andover, Massachusetts to parents Lt. Stephen Barker and Mary Abbott.

He married Abigail Morse on 21 Dec 1730. She was born in 1705 and died 24 Dec 1771. They had seven children all born in Methuen Massachusetts:

1. Ebenezer born 5 Nov1731 died 18 Aug 1805
2. Nehemiah born 11 Feb 1734 died 20 Jan 1810
3. Moses born 10 Apr 1737 died 1821
4. Asa born 13 Apr 1739 died 12 Sep 1742
5. Enoch born 10 May 1741 died 13 Sep 1760
6. Judith born 24 Mar 1743 married 30 Mar 1770 Jacob Merrick
7. Asa born 1745 died 26 Jul1789^[1]

He was the first teacher in the schools, then a yeoman and was appointed Justice of Peace 4 Feb 1762.

He died from drowning in the Merrimac River in Methuen, Massachusetts on 24 Dec 1771.

Sources

1. ↑ Barker Genealogy by Elizabeth Frye Barker, Frye Publishing Co, New York, 1927, p 163, 173, 174

*Source: S7 Abbott, Lemuel Abijah Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass. : of his joint descendants with George Abbott, sr., of Andover, Mass., of the descendants of Daniel Abbott, of Providence, R.I., of some of the descendants of Capt. Thomas Abbott, of Andover, Mass., of George Abbott, of Norwalk Ct., of Robert Abbott, of Branford Ct., with brief notes of many others of the name, original settlers in the United States; Boston: Abbott, 1906 (Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005)

• Source S116 Barker, Elizabeth Frye, Barker Genealogy (New York: Frye Publishing Co, 1927)

• North America Family Histories 1500-2000

• US Newspaper Extractoins from the Northeast

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• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

• American Genealogical-Biographical Index

• Massachusetts Compiled Marriages

• Massachusetts Town Birth Records

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