Anna (Barker) Eames (1709 - bef. 1790)

Born 19 Oct 1709 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Anthony Eames — married 25 Mar 1725 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Descendants

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Biography

Anna, daughter of John and Hannah (Eames) Barker, was born at Marshfield, MA on October 19, 1709. She married there Anthony Eames on March 25, 1725. They resided in Marshfield until 1740-1745 when they removed to Connecticut. There is no record of Anna's death but she died prior to Anthony's will, dated August 3, 1790.

Sources

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ85-8L9 : 15 January 2020), Anna Barker, 1709.
• Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, (West Greenwich: Rhode Island Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1970), p. 29 (birth); p. 144 (marriage)
• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comp., revs. John Bradley Arthaud, MD, FASG, et. al, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Richard Warren, Part 2 of 3, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2011), p. 174

Notes

MF 18-2-174 states that Ann'a mother was Hannah Cushing. This is inaccurate. Her father John is the son of John Eames and first wife Desire Annable who married second Hannah (Loring) Cushing. Anna's mother is Hannah Truant. GSMD has been contacted.