Barak Scarborough Fisher Sr. (1736 - abt. 1784)

Born 19 Apr 1736 in Buckingham, Bucks, Province of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Butler) Fisher — married 18 Feb 1761 in Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died about 28 May 1784 at about age 48 in Gainsboro, Frederick, Virginia, United States of America

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Biography

Barak was a Friend (Quaker)

Barak Fisher Sr. has English ancestors.

Barack was born about 1736. He passed away about 1784.

Barak Scarborough Fisher was the son John Fisher and Elizabeth Scarborough Fisher. He was born 19 Apr 1736 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He died 28 May 1784 in Clear Brook, Frederick County, Virginia.

Barak Fisher married Mary Butler on February 18, 1761 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at the Buckingham Meeting House where they were members. Two of their children were noted in the minutes before they moved to Frederick County, Virginia in 1763.

When Barak, Mary and the first 2 children left Bucks County, Pennsylvania and came to Frederick County, Virginia, in 1763, a certificate was read and accepted from the Buckingham monthly meeting at Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for both Mary Butler and Barak Fisher in 1763 to be accepted into the Back Creek Church at Gainsboro, Frederick County, Virginia. Barak and Mary's Certificate of Removal was accepted by the Hopewell Monthly Meeting on June 6, 1763.^{[1] [2]}

This Fisher family, as were their forebears, were Quakers.

The family settled on Back Creek near the village of Gainsboro about 9 miles southwest of Winchester, Virginia. According to one biography, it was a time of war with Indians and they had to leave their home several times to seek asylum in more established settlements.

Barak was described as an "industrious, frugal man" who left "handsome beginnings for his children". He made a will on March 9, 1783. His final illness was a lingering one, "perhaps of an arthmatick nature". Barak died on May 28 1784 in Frederick County, Virginia. He is buried with his wife, Mary Butler Fisher, in the Old Back Creek Meeting House Burial Grounds, Gainsboro, Virginia. Mary Butler Fisher outlived her husband by many years.^[3]

There are 9 children named on a gravestone in the Back Creek Church Cemetery. There were 4 sons and 5 daughters:

1. John (1 Feb 1762)
2. Thomas (18 Nov 1763)
3. Joseph (28 April 1765)
4. Sarah (25 July 1768)
5. Mary (19 March 1771)
6. Elizabeth (17 April 1773)
7. Hannah (22 May 1775)
8. Barak (13 Nov 1776)
9. Rebecca (1778)

(It was their daughter Elizabeth who married Thomas Brownfield and moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1805 and began the line of Brownfields there.)

NOTE: Information has been gathered from cemetery listings, records of the Quaker Churches of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Frederick County, Virginia and several biographies and from LDS Family Search

Sources

1. ↑ Minutes of Hopewell MM, June 6, 1763, ancestry.com
2. ↑ Wayland, J.W., Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia, Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell; Two Hundred Years of History and Genealogy, Father's of the Colony, p. 407 (1936) Available here
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #24770734.

• Genealogical History of Fayetteville, PA
• Find A Grave
• Marriage Authorization (Image Posted)
• Ancestry Family Trees https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3077112/person/502250186/facts - Fact: Burial Back Creek, Frederick, Virginia, United States
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 13 August 2017, 21:31), entry for Barak Scarborough Fisher(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LHK9-M6Y); contributed by various users.
• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 for Barak Fisher Pennsylvania Bucks Buckingham Monthly Meeting Births, Burials and Marriage Certificates, 1720-1801. Ancestry.com Tree]
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. (Name: Barak Fisher, Gender: Male, Spouse Name: Mary Butler, Number Pages: 1).
• "Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1700-1821 for Barak Fisher and Mary Butler Bucks Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Buckingham, 1730-1810."
• Mary Butler in the Family Data Collection - Individual Records.
• from Rhonda Reesor family tree