Deborah Barnes

Not the same as Jane Dix & not the wife of Edward Dix of Watertown, nor was she their daughter.

Disambiguation

There WAS a Deborah Unknown Dix who as a widow with three young children moved to Connecticut where she married Robert Barnes but she WAS NOT the "widow" of Edward Dix of Watertown, and there is only one Edward Dix of Watertown identified (and he WAS NOT the 19-year old immigrant to Virginia on the "Thomas & John" before anybody starts thinking in that direction. Anderson in "Great Migration" has thoroughly differentiated those two men.

http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/dix.html

Edward [SIC - UNKNOWN] Dix and his wife, Deborah, came from England and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. They were in the fleet with Governor Winthrop, in 1630. He appears to have died at that place, prior to the removal of his immediate family into Connecticut, leaving a widow and three children. The widow, Deborah, married (second) October 16, 1667, Richard Barnes, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, by whom she had five children, between 1669 and 1683, according to certain published records; but the dates seem somewhat averse to the fact.

Dix children

1. Leonard
2. John, who was in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1676; was taxed there in 1683; sold his house and land in 1686; owned land in Hoccanum, near the mouth of the river bearing that name, in 1679; joined the Second Church of Hartford, September 10, 1686; married Mary Bidwell; children: Sarah, John, Margaret, Daniel, Elizabeth, Susanna and Joseph.
3. William, died in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1676.

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Barnes children include

1. Sarah, d. Richard Sr. and Deborah, Dec. 10, 1669. (p. 22)
2. Deborah, d. Richard Sr. and Deborah, Mar. 1, ––––. [1671-2. MR] (p. 20)
3. Mary, d. Richard and Deborah, Jan. ––, 1678. MR (p. 21)
4. Richard [Barnce. MR], s. Richard Sr. and Deborah, Jan. 16, 1673. (p. 22))

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-161 cites

1. New York Genealogical and Biographical Register, 2:142
2. Farman, Elbert Eli, Foreman-Farman-Forman Genealogy,New York: Tobias A. Wright, p, 154 (https://books.google.com/books?id=QHxMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA154 accessed 13 Apr 2021).
3. Stiles, Henry R., The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, New York: The Grafton Press, 1904, Vol. 2, p. 302 (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/180119-the-... accessed 13 Apr 2021)
4. Avery, Samuel Putnam, The Warren, Little, Lothrop, Park, Dix, Whitman, Fairchild, Platt, Wheeler, Lane and Avery pedigrees of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1847-1920., New York : New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1925, p. 118 (https://archive.org/details/warrenlittleloth00aver/page/117/mode/1up accessed 13 Apr 2021).
5. Leonard, Ermina Newton, Newton genealogy, genealogical, biographical, historical; being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants, Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut, Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut, Newtons of Virginia, Newtons near Boston, De Pere, Wis. B. A. Leonard, 1915, p. 62 (https://archive.org/details/newtongenealogyg00leon2/page/61/mode/1up accessed 13 Apr 2021).
6. Bond, Henry, and Jones, Horatio Gates Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town., Boston : N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, 1860, p. 198 (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/198/mode/1up accessed 12 Apr 2021
7. Bond, Henry, and Jones, Horatio Gates Genealogies of the families and descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston : to which is appended the early history of the town., Boston : N.E. Historic-genealogical Society, 1860, p. 753 (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/753/mode/1up accessed 12 Apr 2021)
8. Savage, James, A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860, Vol. 2, p. 53 (https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic02savarich/page/53/mode/1up accessed 13 Apr 2021).
9. Barnes Family Association, Barnes, Trescott C., comp., The Barnes family year book; an annual publication issued under the authority of the Barnes family association, New York: The Grafton Press, 1907, Vol. 1, p. 6 (https://archive.org/details/barnesfamilyyear01barn/page/6/mode/1up accessed 13 Apr 2021).
10. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts (Franklin P. Rice, Marlborough, Mass., 1908)
11. Marlborough Marriages: BARRENCE, Richard & Deborah Dicks of Watertown, Dec. 16, 1667. (p. 219)
12. Marlborough Deaths
13. BARNES, Deborah, w. Richard, Jan. 20, 1689. (p. 340)
14. BARNES, Richard Sr., Jan. 22, 1707-8. (p. 341)

• Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V58M-2Z7 : 24 January 2020), Deborah Dicks in entry for Richard Barrence, 1667.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5NH-NT4 : 15 January 2020), Deborah in entry for Sarah Barns, 1669.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM1-2ML : 10 November 2020), Deborah in entry for Deborah Barnes, 1 Mar 1672; citing Birth, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9M-B9P : 10 November 2020), Deborah in entry for Richard Barns, 16 Nov 1673; citing Birth, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9M-1ZY : 10 November 2020), Deborah in entry for Mary Barns, Nov 1678; citing Birth, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-19Y : 10 November 2020), Deborah in entry for Abigail Barence, 3 Oct 1683; citing Birth, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dix-161

The birth and parentage of Deborah Dix are unknown. Some sources say that she was the widow of Edward Dix of Watertown,[1] with some going so far as to say that she arrived from England with Edward in 1630.[2][3] This is clearly impossible, since those same sources note that she had a child by her second husband Richard Barnes as late as 1683, when she would have been nearly 70 (at least) if she had been married to Edward in 1630. Edward's first wife, and the mother of his four children, as shown by the vital records of Watertown, was named Jane; and his widow's name, shown in court records, was Susanna (see Edward's profile for details and sources).

Other sources say that Deborah was the daughter of Edward and Jane Dix.[4][5] This idea may have originated with Bond.[6] Although Bond shows convincingly that Deborah could not be the daughter of Edward Dix in the second edition of his work,[7] she has continued to be identified as his daughter in many subsequent texts.

Both Bond[7] and Savage[8] conclude that Deborah was a widow when she married Richard, with the identity of her first husband unknown. One source identifies her first husband as Leonard Dix.[9]