Thornton Barrett Sr. (1740 - 1806)

Born 20 May 1740 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Bowker) Barrett — married 14 Oct 1758 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died Jun 1806 at age 66 in Winchindon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Corporal Thornton Barrett Sr. served with 18th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Thornton Barrett Sr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A006719.

Thornton Barrett was born May 2, 1740, in Hopkinton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. On October 14, 1758, in Hopkinton, Thornton married Abigail Bowker, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Bowker.

Thornton and Abigail resided first at Hopkington, MA, and then Winchendon, MA and then Bethlehem, Grafton county, New Hampshire. Children of Thornton and Abigail include:

• Jerusha Barrett Wheeler, daughter, born March 20, 1775, at Winchendon, died Feburary 3, 1833, married Levi Wheeler (1775-1850) .^[1]
• Thornton Barrett, Jr. born March 27, 1777, in Winchendon, married Betsy Runnels .^[2]
• Joseph Barrett, born July 1, 1783, in Winchendon, died March 3, 1858, in Bethlehem, New Hampshire .^[3]
• Henry Barrett, born 1787, in Winchendon, died in Scioto county, Ohio.^[4]

Thornton Barrett, Sr. died in June, 1806, at the age of 67 years and is buried in the Mount Washington Cemetery, in Bethlehem, Grafton County, New Hampshire. There is a photograph of his obelisk shaped tombstone on his Find A Grave memorial. ^[5]

• Fact: Census (1790) Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Residence (1790) Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Residence (1800) Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
• Fact: Burial (June 1806) Mount Washington Cemetery: Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #92823833
2. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:34X4-ZF3 : accessed 2017-05-12), entry for Thornton /Barrett/, Jr
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #95769054
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #173833879
5. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 December 2018), memorial page for Thornton Barrett (2 May 1740–Jun 1806), Find A Grave: Memorial #82067705, citing Mount Washington Cemetery, Bethlehem, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703) .

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-09-16), "Record of Thornton Barrett", Ancestor # A006719.

• History_of_the_Town_of_Winchendon (Rev. Abijah Perkins Marvin, 1868); p. 445

• "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2RW-RG3X : 17 March 2018), Thornton Barrett, 20 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, Winchendon, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,020,676.

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 1, p. 685

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4P4-T8G : 5 November 2017), Thorton Barret, 20 May 1740; citing Birth, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 954,365.

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKG-ND1 : accessed 28 December 2018), Thornton Barrett, Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 665, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 4; FHL microfilm 568,144.

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR3-ZZ4 : accessed 28 December 2018), Thornton Barrett, Bethlehem, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States; citing p. 660, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 20; FHL microfilm 218,679.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-KMKK : 1 March 2021), Thornton Barrett, 20 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711081.

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Source Information: Volume: 255

• Vital Records of Winchendon, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1909); p. 11

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Malcolm Osmer for creating WikiTree profile Barett-8 through the import of Elijah Hosmer_2013-02-03.ged on Feb 3, 2013