David Barrett (1710 - 1792)

Born 18 Feb 1710 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Descendants

Died 1792 at about age 81 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

David was born in 1709. David Barrett ... He passed away in 1792.

Named as husband of Abigail Spaulding^[1][2]

Probate

In his will written 10 February 1792 (proved 6 November 1792), David Barrett expresses that his wife Abigail and Phebe Spaulding are to be supported in sickness and in health. Well-beloved son David Barrett receives six shillings as he has already received his portion of the estate. Daughter Abigail Bearse receives one-half of the indoor movables except wearing apparel and one cow. Daughter Ziporah Spaulding receives the other half of the indoor estate. Son Lemuel Barrett receives the great bible and the large dog irons in the kitchen fireplace. The library is to be divided among his three sons and two daughters. Granddaughter Sarah Fuller receives twenty shillings at her marriage. Sons Lemuel and Moses receive the livestock, farming tools, and carpenter tools. Lemuel Barrett is named sole executor. He adds a postscript that the bequest given to daughter Ziporah Spaulding is to go to Willard Fuller her adopted son who is heir of Willard Spalding. The estate was valued at £201.13.9, £121 being the value of the stock animals.^[3]

[Willard Fuller and Sarah Fuller are children of Elisha Fuller and Sarah Call. Sarah Call was David Barrett’s granddaughter, daughter of daughter Sarah Barrett and her husband James Call, making Willard and Sarah Fuller his great-grandchildren.]

Children

David Barrett and Abigail Spaulding were parents of fourteen children born at Killingly. Those children who lived to adulthood were

• Sarah Barrett who married James Call
• David Barrett who married Bathsheba McIntire
• Abigail Barrett who married Benjamin Bearss
• Samson Barrett who served in the French and Indian War as a young man and perhaps died in service.
• Ziporah Barrett married Samuel Spalding and adopted Willard Fuller. Ziporah had no children (or no surviving children) of her own.
• Lemuel Barrett married Sarah Alton
• Moses Barrett married Hannah Fuller

Sources

• Barrett, William. Genealogy of Some of The Descendants of Thomas Barrett, Sen., of Braintree, Mass., 1635 (D. Ramaley & Son, Saint Paul, Minn., 1888) Page 23
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-Y5C2 : 3 November 2017), Moses Barret in entry for David Barret, 18 Feb 1710; citing Birth, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 868,435.

1. ↑ https://www.americanancestors.org/DB59/i/11810/333/134664742
2. ↑ https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1565/i/53406/1/1423624636
3. ↑ Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut, Probate Packets, Bacon, Joseph-Bates, M, 1752-1880, Estate of David Barrett, number 309