Nathaniel
Barnum
Born in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Barnum
and Mary (Hurd) Barnum
Husband of
Thankful (Briscoe) Barnum
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Nathaniel Barnum and John Barnum
Died about
at about age 56
in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Jun 2011
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Biography
This profile is part of the Barnum Name Study.
m. Thankful ____
Birth
- 1701 Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony
His inventory was completed on 1 November 1757 in Danbury.[1]
Research Notes
- Death
- bef. 1 Nov 1757. Date of will.
At one time, the entry for this Nathaniel Barnum showed a death date of 5 February 1778 and a will date of 5 February 1778/79, based upon undocumented research by a Barnum descendant. However, an inventory was subsequently found for the estate of Nathaniel Barnum, dated 1 Nov 1757 and approved 6 Mar 1758. The executrix of the estate was Mrs. Thankful Barnum. It appears that the inventory applies to the subject of this entry, Nathaniel Barnum born 1701, son of Richard Barnum and Mary Hurd.
The earlier death and will dates, then, must either be errors or must apply to a different Nathaniel Barnum. Although it's tempting to assign that death date to Nathaniel Barnum born 1745, a son of this Nathaniel, the Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family shows that son as living and fathering children as late as 1785.
Sources
- ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TNCQ : 14 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 83, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 1, 1739-1767, Pages 147-148.
- 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 Co., Gardner, Mass., 1912) Page 9
- Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1886) Vol. 2, Page 1118
- Barnum, Noah G., The Barnum Family, 1517-1904 (Privately Printed, Albion, NY, 1904)
- Barnum, Noah G., The Barnum Family, 1350-1907 (Privately Printed, Albion, NY, 1907)
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The children of the above-named Nathaniel Barnum later stipulated that they divided the land that went to Thankful (the Late Widow of Nathaniel Barnum deceased) according to their father’s wishes. Recorded in Vol. 4, page 40. The children named in the agreement were John & Nathaniel Barnum, and Ame Clark, wife of Samuel Clark of Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts. Dated Feb 5, 1778. So it is my opinion that the earlier death date is correct and later documents support this because Thankful had died, and they divided the land that was given to her 1757. Samuel and Ame Clark had four children, one of them was named Thankful.
edited by David Watkins