Barachiah Macy

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Elizabeth Millikan Woodward was chosen Elder of the Lost Creek Monthly Women's Meeting on March 25, 1815. Quaker ministers were those called by God to travel and take their message to a wider audience of Meetings, so it was the duty of the Elders to take care of the business meetings, and to monitor the actions and travels of the ministers. On November 1, 1815, she married widower Barachiah Macy at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting.

Barachiah and Elizabeth Millikan Woodward Macy were granted certificates to Springfield Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana on September 27, 1828. They were accompanied by Elizabeth's son Jesse Woodward and Barachiah's daughter Lydia Macy.

Barachiah Macy was born 24 February 1760 in Nantucket. Many New Garden, North Carolina, meeting members came from Nantucket - their migration starting soon after that of the Pennsylvania Quakers. Barachiah Macy married first to Lucinda Barnard, daughter of Benjamin & Eunice Barnard of Guilford County, North Carolina. She was born 3/17/1767 and died 4/5/1810 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

Daughter Lydia Macy, born 11/5/1808, married Lewis Thornbrough, son of Henry and Ann Maulsby Thornbrough, and grandnephew of Hannah Thornbrough Woodward, on 3/25/1829, at Springfield Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana.

Son William Macy, born 10/4/1786, had a son Perry T. Macy who married Charity Mills on 3/13/1850 in Morgan County, Indiana, and a son William M. Macy who married Julia Ann Mills also on 3/13/1850 in Morgan County, Indiana. Charity and Julia Ann Mills were daughters of Henry and Hannah Woodward Mills and granddaughters of William and Elizabeth Millikan Woodward.

The other children of Barachiah and Lucinda Barnard Macy were Mary, born 3/8/1784, died 3/21/1785; Mary born 12/17/1788; Jonathan born 5/6/1791; Anna born 9/15/1793; Matilda born 2/17/1796; Eunice born 4/7/1799, died 5/15/1801; Elihu born 7/11/1801, died 3/9/1802; Isaac born 4/2/1803 and John born 6/3/1806.

For more information on the Macy family see the Worth Web Site. William Macy, father of Barachiah is #442 on this site and is a descendant of John Worth of Nantucket.

Barachiah(Berechia) Macy married Lucinda (Barnard) Macy

3-20-1783 at New Garden, N.C.and moved to Lost Creek, Tenn. in 1802.  They moved from Tenn. to Economy, Indiana.Barachia died 28 August, 1832 at his farm in Economy, Ind. Barachia and his wife Lucinda were the parents of 11 children.  Lucinda Barnard, wife of Barachia was a native of Nantucket, Ma, the eldest of nine children born to Benjamin and Eunice(Fitch)Laniard, who had moved to North Carolina.

(MAYFLOWER DECSENDANT)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 29 2024, 11:40:18 UTC