Ebenezer Barnes

Mehitabel MILLER and Ebenezer BARNES were married on 28 September 1743 in Southington, Hartford Co., CT.

Source: http://bradsport.com/aJohnLeonard1615/b43964.htm

Third Generation

83. Mehitabel HANCOCK was born in 1698 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT. She died in 1756 at the age of 58 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT.

Mehitabel HANCOCK and Ebenezer BARNES were married on 28 September 1743 in Southington, Hartford Co., CT. Ebenezer BARNES, son of Ebenezer BARNES and Deborah ORVIS, was born on 7 February 1700 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT. He died on 12 December 1781 at the age of 81 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT.

• Note: The information available about Ebenezer Barnes is thoroughly confused. There was another Ebenezer Barnes b. 1697 who m. Mehitable Miller.

Ebenezer b. 1700 married (1) Abigail abt. 1727 and (2) Mehitable Hancock abt. 1743. The children are variously distributed among them, sometimes before they were married. Mehitable Hancock would have been 45 when she married Ebenezer and probably past child-bearing age. Until better evidence is available, children should not be regarded as proven.

Mehitabel HANCOCK and Ebenezer BARNES had the following children:

+246

i. Phineas BARNES. 247

ii. Elihu BARNES was born on 17 September 1746 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT. He died on 7 October 1777 at the age of 31. 248

iii. Rebecca BARNES was born on 20 October 1748 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT. +249

iv.

https://books.google.com/books?id=WJ_XiLoXvLkC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=...

Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut By Lucius Barnes Barbour

Ebenezer Barnes

• Birth: 1675
• Death: Circa 1756 - CT
• Parents: Thomas Barnes, Mary Andrus
• Wife: Deborah Orvis, Mehitable Hancox

notes

Ebenezer was 13 when his father died; he was still under age when his father made his will leaving him 1/2 of the lands in Pawquabuck Meadow and Conshee, also 4 acres at Rattlesnake Hill, and 1/2 of the rest of Woodland or Outlands lying in the Famington Bounds, after his mothers death when he reached 21. He and his wife were admitted to membership in the Farmington Church 9 Feb 1706/7. He became a Deacon of the church and was active in town affairs building a large tavern. He became blind before his death (almost 90 years). He had 15 childfen over 35 years. He had extensive land holdings. Ebenezer moved to Bristol, Hartford, CT in 1727 and was the first permanent settler of Bristol. Ebenezer, in 1728, built the house at Pierce's Bridge, which was used by the Bristol Brass Company as a Boarding House.

Citations:

• 1. The Making of Bristol, Bristol Public Library Association, 1954, p 3.
• 2. Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, CT, 1946, Chap. 2.
• 3. Barnes Family Yr Bk, Vol I, 1907, p 10.
• 4. Moran MF 824394.
• 5. Barnes Bulletin Volume 3, 1987 p 10.
• 6. Encyclopedia of Conn. Biography,The American Historical Society, 1919 p 182.
• 7. American Ancestry, 1889.
• 8. Comp. of Am. Gen., Vol. VI, p 223.
• 9. Bristol, CT, A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985, p 6 (Photo of Home built in 1728).
• 10. A History of the Orvis Family in America by Francis Wayland Orvis, 1922, p 17.

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Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Ebenezer Barnes

• Name: Ebenezer Barnes
• Spouse: Deborah Orvis
• Parents: Thomas Barnes, Mary Andrus Andrews
• Birth Place: Farmington, CT
• Birth Date: 1676
• Marriage Date: 8 Apr 1699
• Death Place: Bristol, Hartford, CT
• Death Date: 1756

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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Ebenezer Barnes

• Name: Ebenezer Barnes
• Gender: male
• Birth Place: CT
• Birth Year: 1666
• Spouse Name: Deborah Orvis
• Spouse Birth Place: CT
• Spouse Birth Year: 1681
• Marriage Year: 1699
• Marriage State: CT
• Number Pages: 1

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Husband
Name: Ebenezer Barnes

Birth: 1676 -- Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1756 (Age: 79-80) -- Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Wife
Name: Deborah (Orvis) Barnes Birth: Apr 17 1681 -- Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: 1719 (Age: 37-38) -- Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Son
Name: Ebenezer Barnes Birth: Feb 7 1700 -- Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Death: Dec 12 1781 (Age: 81) -- Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

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ocobus does not list Ebenezer as a child of Thomas Barnes of New Haven. Torrey records a marriage between Ebenezer Barnes (1675-1756) and Deborah Orvis (1681-) on April 8, 1699. They lived at Farmington, Connecticut.

Sources

   Families of Ancient New Haven, compiled by Donald Lines Jacabus, with cross-index by Helen Love Scranton, Nine Volumes in Three (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981) [Omits Ebinezer]

   New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2011) Vol. I, p. 91. BARNES, Ebenezer (1675-1756) & Deborah ORVIS (1681-); i Apr 1699; Farmington, CT.

   Barnes, Trescott C. The Barnes Family Yearbook (The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1907) Page 10  http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnes-189

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"Ebenezer Barnes-Son of Thomas and Mary Andrews Barnes was born about 1676 and died 1756. He married Deborah Orvis April 8, 1699. She was 18 years of age at that time and was the daughter of Samuel Orvis and Deborah Orvis. Samuel was a tanner and shoemaker. Seven children were born to this union and after her death he married Mable (Mehitable) Hancox before 1727. She was the daughter of Thomas Hancox and he married Rachel Leonard 1684 of Farmington and Hartfoed, CT. To this union was born eight more children, making a total of sixteen children born to Ebenezer and two wives. I have the names of children as follows- Stephen(Steve), Abijah, Anna, Gideon, Jedediah, Ebenezer Jr., Thomas, David, Deborah, Lucy, Esther, William, Mary, Amos, Abigail and John."

Ebenezer and Deborah's child Thomas Barnes was B-June 21, 1703 in Farmington, CT. was christened with his Brother David on August 30, 1704 in Farmington, Hartford, CT. He D-1744 in Southington, Hartford, CT. Thomas married Hannah Day, daughter of Thomas Day and Hannah Wilson.

Thomas and Hannah were parents to Lydia Barnes B-Jan. 13, 1735 in Farmington, Hartford, CT. She D-Jan. 31, 1811 in New Britain, Hartford, CT. Lydia married Nathaniel Penfield on Jan. 9, 1755.

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Ebenezer was born in 1676 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1 Ebenezer's father was Thomas Barnes and his mother was Mary Andrews. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Barnes and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were John Andrews and Mary. He had four brothers and five sisters, named John, Daniel, Maybe, Thomas, Mercy, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. He was the youngest of the ten children. He died at the age of 80 in 1756 in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1

   General Notes

       Ebenezer was 13 when his father died. He moved to Bristol in 1727.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

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       EBENEZER, Southington, s[on]. of Thomas of the same, m[arried]. 8 Apr. 1699, Deborah Orvis, and d[ied]. 1756, leav[ing]. fifteen ch[ildren]. as Mr. Porter assures me.

From Barnes Genealogies

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       He settled in the south part of the present town of Bristol, and built a large tavern which he conducted during his lifetime. His place was at the junction of the road east of the mountain, and the Plainville road.

Ebenezer Barnes was appointed ensign of train band at the parish of Southington, in Farmington, in 1737: appointed captain in 1742: appointed lieutenant of South Co. in town of Farmington, in 1768. (Colonial Records of Conn.)
He had sixteen children...
"In 1718, Ebenezer Barnes, of Farmington, was paid six shillings for killing wolves." (Historic Addresses)
From Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut

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       It is claimed that, in 1729, Ebenezer had become the first permanent settler in what was to become the City of Briston. This would be along the north side of what is supposedly part of the 40-acre thumb of lowland which had in 1663 been granted to his father and three others in joint adventure.

From various Internet sources

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       The Barnes family before 1745 established a sawmill and gristmill near their tavern, taking their power from the Pequabuck River, about where the present dam of the Bristol Brass and Clock Company stands. In 1745 there is mention of the Barnes tavern in the New Cambridge town records.

From Ten Generations of Barnes in Bristol, Connecticut

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       In the will of Thomas Barns, his son, Ebenezer, was given a choice of one of the outlands possessed by his father. In selecting a settlement in what was then Poland, he may have been influenced not only by the fact that his father, Thomas Barns, had received a land grant in the eastern tier of lots, but also that his mother-ion-law, the widow Orvis, had also received an allotment in the same section... Ebenezer Barns became the first permanent settler of Bristol in 1728...

At the time Ebenezer Barns settled in Bristol, George !! and Queen Caroline were sovereigns of New England as well as of the British Isles...
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Ebenezer Barns' settlement in Bristol is the fact that he was over fifty years old when he left the settlement of Farmington to pioneer in the wilderness. He must have been a man of extraordinary physique and determination to found a new home under such conditions. No one of the present day can have any conception of the amount of labor involved in establishing a farm in primeval New England. Undoubtedly he had been trained in the school of hard knocks, since his father died when Ebenezer was thirteen, and it is probable that he had to shift largely for himself after that time.
... fifteen children were born. Of this number eleven were born in Farmington and four in Bristol.
There is no evidence that Ebenezer Barns fought in the numerous so-called French and Indian wars...
...He was, therefore, far from isolated in his new home, and his settling upon this colonial highway [an old Indian trail ... prior to the construction of the turnpike in 1804, followed the Indian route... the only highway from Farmington to Mattatuck] probably explains why he became Bristol's first tavern-keeper.
...Ebenezer Barns was moderator of this first meeting [of the "Winter Society"... This was actually the organization of the first Congregational Church of Bristol, the history of which has been continuous since that date.] On December 6, 1742, the first service was held at the home of John Brown who lived on King Road north of the Barns homestead. The Rev. Thomas Canfield, who later held a life pastorate in Roxbury, was the preacher. The Congregational Church in Roxbury now has in its possession a diary in Mr. Canfield's handwriting in which he states that he preached "at ye mountain, now called Cambridge in Farmington," from December 6, 1742, through the winter. This is the first reference we have to the name Cambridge as applied to what is now Bristol. It is evident that the name was popular, for a year later, when the General Assembly was petitioned by the local settlers for a "distinkt sosiaty," it was officially named New Cambridge.
From Lois B. Morrill

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       Book "Ten Generations of Barnes" ... has pictures & history about Ebenezer's home/tavern at a crossroads in nearby Bristol, CT. Some of the paneling from his home was used for the interior of a wing of the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol; & Ebenezer Barnes is named on the historic marker in front of the Burlington City Hall.

From Connecticut Colony Records

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       October 1742Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes, Joseph Gaylord, and sundry other persons that are settled on the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth divisions of land in the town of Farmingtown, that lye west of the reserved lands (so called) in said town, shewing the great difficulties they are under to attend the publick worship of God in the society to which they do belong, in the winter season ; and praying for liberty to hire preaching among themselves for the winter season annually : This Assembly grants to the memorialists and such other persons as shall settle on the divisions of land abovesaid, within the limits following, (vis.) beginning at the south end of said divisions, and thence to extend north five miles, liberty of hiring some orthodox and suitably qualified person to preach to them for the space of six months annually ; said terms to begin on the first of November ; with all such rights and privileges as are allowed by law to other such societies in this Colony.

May 1744On the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes and others, inhabitants of that tract of land in Farmingtown called the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Divisions, lying west of the Reserved Lands, (so called,) praying to be formed into a distinct ecclesiastical society... be called and known by the name of New Cambridge.*
* Now Bristol.
May 1745Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barns and others, inhabitants of the fourth society in the town of Farmingtown... Resolved by this Assembly, that all the unimproved lands within the limits of said society or parish... to be taxed at six pence money, old tenour, per acre per annum... toward the settling of a minister and building a meeting house...
From The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884

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       The next year, 1728, Ebenezer Barnes, from Farmington, and Nehemiah Manross, from Lebanon, bought lands, built houses, and moved hither their families. Mr. Barnes's house has never been removed, and now forms the central part of Julius E. Pierce's residence in East Bristol; this was undoubtedly the earliest house of which any part now remains. Mr. Barnes's descendants have always remained here, and have been among our best-known families.

... These early families were all Congregationalists. Every Sunday a little procession went through the woods eight miles to the old church at Farmington... the meetings had been held at private houses; the houses of Ebenezer Barnes, John Brown, Stephen Barnes, Abner Matthews, and John Hickox having each been used for that purpose.
Sources:

       Author: Frederic Wayne Barnes and Edna Cleo (Bauer) Barnes

       Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut

       Publication: Name: Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD 1994;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       It was written prior to the corruption of the BARNES Family lines from Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut. This book was also written prior to any that are "popped out of a computer" using FTM. It is a scholarly work and is well researched in addition to being heavily documented.

Page: p. 7, 16 and citing

       Text: The Making of Bristol, Bristol Public Library Association, 1954, p. 3; The Barnes Family Yearbook, Vol. 1, 1907, p. 10; Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, CT, 1946, Chap.

       Author: James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England.

       Title: 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

       Publication: Name: 1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994;

       Repository:

       Name: http://genweb.net/~books/savage

Note:

       The electronic version adapted under the direction of Robert Kraft (assisted by Benjamin Dunning) from materials supplied by Automated Archives, 1160 South State, Suite 250, Orem UT 84058 in the following ways:

       missing lines have been added wherever they could be located (vol. 2 could not easily be checked since line format was not replicated; the corrections found in vols 1-4 have been integrated into the text; page numbers have been represented between double brackets; hyphens have been resolved, and some abbreviated names. NOTE that letter by letter verification has NOT yet been attempted.

       copyright for the new electronic version by Robert Kraft, July 1994.

Preface (part)

       SOME explanatory introduction to so copious a work, as the following, will naturally be required; but it may be short. In 1829 was published, by John Farmer, a Genealogical Register of the first settlers of New England. Beside the five classes of persons prominent, as Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants, ministers in all the Colonies, and representatives in that of Massachusetts, down to 1692, it embraced graduates of Harvard College to 1662, members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, as also freemen admitted in Massachusetts, alone, to this latter date, with many early inhabitants of other parts of New England and Long Island from 1620 to 1675. Extensive as was the plan of that volume, the author had in contemplation, as explained in his preface, calling it "an introduction to a biographical and genealogical dictionary, "a more ambitious work, that should comprehend sketches of individuals known in the annals of New England, and "a continuation of eminent persons to the present time." Much too vast a project that appeared to me; and the fixing of an absolute limit, like 1692 (the era of arrival of the new charter), for admission of any family stocks, seemed more judicious.

has a large number of abbreviations - I have made some attempt to write them out fully in brackets
Page: p. 121

       Author: Collected and compiled from original sources by Rev. Geo. N. Barnes

       Title: Barnes Genealogies

       Publication: Name: The Rieg & Smith Printing Co.; Location: Conneaut, Ohio; Date: 1903;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       Including a collection of ancestral, genealogical and family records and biographical sketches of Barnes people.

Page: p. 13

       Author: Compiled By Trescott C. Barnes, Secretary and Genealogist

       Title: The Barnes Family Year Book, Vol. I - 1907 & II - 1908

       Publication: Name: Vol. I -The Grafton Press, New York; Vol. II - Winsted Printing and Engraving Co, Winsted, Conn.; Date: 1908;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       An annual publication issued under the authority of the Barnes Family Association.

Page: p. 9

       Author: Selim Walker McArthur

       Title: McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines

       Publication: Name: Portland, Me., Anthoensen Press, 1964;

       Repository:

       Name: Ancestry.com

Note:

       Source Medium: Book

       Author: Fuller F. Barnes

       Title: Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, Connecticut

       Publication: Name: privately printed; Date: 1946;

       Repository:

       Name: State Library of Connecticut

Note:

       Author was ninth generation from Thomas Barns

Page: Chapter 2

       Author: Frederick R. Barnes

       Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington Connecticut

       Publication: Date: 1934;

       Repository:

       Name: Connecticut State Library

Note:

       "In Relation to Inheritable Tendancies" completes the title

       Title: Researcher Lois B. Morrill

       Author: Royal Ralph Hinman

       Title: Genealogy of the Puritans

       Publication: Location: New York; Date: 1856;

       Note:

       Royal Ralph Hinman was the son of General Ephraim Hinman, a successful Connecticut merchant, and his wife Sylvania [French] Hinman.

After he was admitted to the bar he practiced law in Roxbury, CT for many years. From 1823 to 1833, Hinman acted as the Postmaster of Roxbury. In September of 1844, he was appointed the Collector of Customs of the Port of New Haven.
In 1835, Hinman along with Leman Church and the Hon. Elisha Phelps were appointed to revise the public statutes of Connecticut. From 1835 to 1836, the committee compiled and published the private or special acts of the state, eventually comprising a total of 1,640 pages. In 1838, Hinman and Thomas C. Perkins were appointed to further revise the statutes ...of the state, the Revisions of 1838, which eventually became a published work of 717 pages.
Hinman also published other works including the Antiquities of Connecticut and A Historical Collection of the Part Sustained by Connecticut During the War of the Revolution. He was also the author of numerous other historical publications as well as a member of the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey state historial societies.

       Page: p. 141-142

       Title: Researcher Sherrie Haines (Barnes)

       Author: James Hammond Trumbull

       Title: Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut 1633-1884, The

       Publication: Name: E.L. Osgood; Location: Boston; Date: 1886;

       Repository:

       Name: GenealogyLibrary.com

Note:

       1367 pgs.

       Title: Researcher Lynn Dielman

       Note:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marr794&i...
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Ebenezer was born in 1676 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1 Ebenezer's father was Thomas Barnes and his mother was Mary Andrews. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Barnes and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were John Andrews and Mary. He had four brothers and five sisters, named John, Daniel, Maybe, Thomas, Mercy, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. He was the youngest of the ten children. He died at the age of 80 in 1756 in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1

   General Notes

       Ebenezer was 13 when his father died. He moved to Bristol in 1727.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

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       EBENEZER, Southington, s[on]. of Thomas of the same, m[arried]. 8 Apr. 1699, Deborah Orvis, and d[ied]. 1756, leav[ing]. fifteen ch[ildren]. as Mr. Porter assures me.

From Barnes Genealogies

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       He settled in the south part of the present town of Bristol, and built a large tavern which he conducted during his lifetime. His place was at the junction of the road east of the mountain, and the Plainville road.

Ebenezer Barnes was appointed ensign of train band at the parish of Southington, in Farmington, in 1737: appointed captain in 1742: appointed lieutenant of South Co. in town of Farmington, in 1768. (Colonial Records of Conn.)
He had sixteen children...
"In 1718, Ebenezer Barnes, of Farmington, was paid six shillings for killing wolves." (Historic Addresses)
From Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       It is claimed that, in 1729, Ebenezer had become the first permanent settler in what was to become the City of Briston. This would be along the north side of what is supposedly part of the 40-acre thumb of lowland which had in 1663 been granted to his father and three others in joint adventure.

From various Internet sources

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       The Barnes family before 1745 established a sawmill and gristmill near their tavern, taking their power from the Pequabuck River, about where the present dam of the Bristol Brass and Clock Company stands. In 1745 there is mention of the Barnes tavern in the New Cambridge town records.

From Ten Generations of Barnes in Bristol, Connecticut

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       In the will of Thomas Barns, his son, Ebenezer, was given a choice of one of the outlands possessed by his father. In selecting a settlement in what was then Poland, he may have been influenced not only by the fact that his father, Thomas Barns, had received a land grant in the eastern tier of lots, but also that his mother-ion-law, the widow Orvis, had also received an allotment in the same section... Ebenezer Barns became the first permanent settler of Bristol in 1728...

At the time Ebenezer Barns settled in Bristol, George !! and Queen Caroline were sovereigns of New England as well as of the British Isles...
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Ebenezer Barns' settlement in Bristol is the fact that he was over fifty years old when he left the settlement of Farmington to pioneer in the wilderness. He must have been a man of extraordinary physique and determination to found a new home under such conditions. No one of the present day can have any conception of the amount of labor involved in establishing a farm in primeval New England. Undoubtedly he had been trained in the school of hard knocks, since his father died when Ebenezer was thirteen, and it is probable that he had to shift largely for himself after that time.
... fifteen children were born. Of this number eleven were born in Farmington and four in Bristol.
There is no evidence that Ebenezer Barns fought in the numerous so-called French and Indian wars...
...He was, therefore, far from isolated in his new home, and his settling upon this colonial highway [an old Indian trail ... prior to the construction of the turnpike in 1804, followed the Indian route... the only highway from Farmington to Mattatuck] probably explains why he became Bristol's first tavern-keeper.
...Ebenezer Barns was moderator of this first meeting [of the "Winter Society"... This was actually the organization of the first Congregational Church of Bristol, the history of which has been continuous since that date.] On December 6, 1742, the first service was held at the home of John Brown who lived on King Road north of the Barns homestead. The Rev. Thomas Canfield, who later held a life pastorate in Roxbury, was the preacher. The Congregational Church in Roxbury now has in its possession a diary in Mr. Canfield's handwriting in which he states that he preached "at ye mountain, now called Cambridge in Farmington," from December 6, 1742, through the winter. This is the first reference we have to the name Cambridge as applied to what is now Bristol. It is evident that the name was popular, for a year later, when the General Assembly was petitioned by the local settlers for a "distinkt sosiaty," it was officially named New Cambridge.
From Lois B. Morrill

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       Book "Ten Generations of Barnes" ... has pictures & history about Ebenezer's home/tavern at a crossroads in nearby Bristol, CT. Some of the paneling from his home was used for the interior of a wing of the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol; & Ebenezer Barnes is named on the historic marker in front of the Burlington City Hall.

From Connecticut Colony Records

       ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

       October 1742Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes, Joseph Gaylord, and sundry other persons that are settled on the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth divisions of land in the town of Farmingtown, that lye west of the reserved lands (so called) in said town, shewing the great difficulties they are under to attend the publick worship of God in the society to which they do belong, in the winter season ; and praying for liberty to hire preaching among themselves for the winter season annually : This Assembly grants to the memorialists and such other persons as shall settle on the divisions of land abovesaid, within the limits following, (vis.) beginning at the south end of said divisions, and thence to extend north five miles, liberty of hiring some orthodox and suitably qualified person to preach to them for the space of six months annually ; said terms to begin on the first of November ; with all such rights and privileges as are allowed by law to other such societies in this Colony.

May 1744On the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes and others, inhabitants of that tract of land in Farmingtown called the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Divisions, lying west of the Reserved Lands, (so called,) praying to be formed into a distinct ecclesiastical society... be called and known by the name of New Cambridge.*
* Now Bristol.
May 1745Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barns and others, inhabitants of the fourth society in the town of Farmingtown... Resolved by this Assembly, that all the unimproved lands within the limits of said society or parish... to be taxed at six pence money, old tenour, per acre per annum... toward the settling of a minister and building a meeting house...
From The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884

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       The next year, 1728, Ebenezer Barnes, from Farmington, and Nehemiah Manross, from Lebanon, bought lands, built houses, and moved hither their families. Mr. Barnes's house has never been removed, and now forms the central part of Julius E. Pierce's residence in East Bristol; this was undoubtedly the earliest house of which any part now remains. Mr. Barnes's descendants have always remained here, and have been among our best-known families.

... These early families were all Congregationalists. Every Sunday a little procession went through the woods eight miles to the old church at Farmington... the meetings had been held at private houses; the houses of Ebenezer Barnes, John Brown, Stephen Barnes, Abner Matthews, and John Hickox having each been used for that purpose.
Sources:

       Author: Frederic Wayne Barnes and Edna Cleo (Bauer) Barnes

       Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut

       Publication: Name: Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD 1994;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       It was written prior to the corruption of the BARNES Family lines from Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut. This book was also written prior to any that are "popped out of a computer" using FTM. It is a scholarly work and is well researched in addition to being heavily documented.

Page: p. 7, 16 and citing

       Text: The Making of Bristol, Bristol Public Library Association, 1954, p. 3; The Barnes Family Yearbook, Vol. 1, 1907, p. 10; Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, CT, 1946, Chap.

       Author: James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England.

       Title: 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

       Publication: Name: 1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994;

       Repository:

       Name: http://genweb.net/~books/savage

Note:

       The electronic version adapted under the direction of Robert Kraft (assisted by Benjamin Dunning) from materials supplied by Automated Archives, 1160 South State, Suite 250, Orem UT 84058 in the following ways:

       missing lines have been added wherever they could be located (vol. 2 could not easily be checked since line format was not replicated; the corrections found in vols 1-4 have been integrated into the text; page numbers have been represented between double brackets; hyphens have been resolved, and some abbreviated names. NOTE that letter by letter verification has NOT yet been attempted.

       copyright for the new electronic version by Robert Kraft, July 1994.

Preface (part)

       SOME explanatory introduction to so copious a work, as the following, will naturally be required; but it may be short. In 1829 was published, by John Farmer, a Genealogical Register of the first settlers of New England. Beside the five classes of persons prominent, as Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants, ministers in all the Colonies, and representatives in that of Massachusetts, down to 1692, it embraced graduates of Harvard College to 1662, members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, as also freemen admitted in Massachusetts, alone, to this latter date, with many early inhabitants of other parts of New England and Long Island from 1620 to 1675. Extensive as was the plan of that volume, the author had in contemplation, as explained in his preface, calling it "an introduction to a biographical and genealogical dictionary, "a more ambitious work, that should comprehend sketches of individuals known in the annals of New England, and "a continuation of eminent persons to the present time." Much too vast a project that appeared to me; and the fixing of an absolute limit, like 1692 (the era of arrival of the new charter), for admission of any family stocks, seemed more judicious.

has a large number of abbreviations - I have made some attempt to write them out fully in brackets
Page: p. 121

       Author: Collected and compiled from original sources by Rev. Geo. N. Barnes

       Title: Barnes Genealogies

       Publication: Name: The Rieg & Smith Printing Co.; Location: Conneaut, Ohio; Date: 1903;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       Including a collection of ancestral, genealogical and family records and biographical sketches of Barnes people.

Page: p. 13

       Author: Compiled By Trescott C. Barnes, Secretary and Genealogist

       Title: The Barnes Family Year Book, Vol. I - 1907 & II - 1908

       Publication: Name: Vol. I -The Grafton Press, New York; Vol. II - Winsted Printing and Engraving Co, Winsted, Conn.; Date: 1908;

       Repository:

       Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:

       An annual publication issued under the authority of the Barnes Family Association.

Page: p. 9

       Author: Selim Walker McArthur

       Title: McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines

       Publication: Name: Portland, Me., Anthoensen Press, 1964;

       Repository:

       Name: Ancestry.com

Note:

       Source Medium: Book

       Author: Fuller F. Barnes

       Title: Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, Connecticut

       Publication: Name: privately printed; Date: 1946;

       Repository:

       Name: State Library of Connecticut

Note:

       Author was ninth generation from Thomas Barns

Page: Chapter 2

       Author: Frederick R. Barnes

       Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington Connecticut

       Publication: Date: 1934;

       Repository:

       Name: Connecticut State Library

Note:

       "In Relation to Inheritable Tendancies" completes the title

       Title: Researcher Lois B. Morrill

       Author: Royal Ralph Hinman

       Title: Genealogy of the Puritans

       Publication: Location: New York; Date: 1856;

       Note:

       Royal Ralph Hinman was the son of General Ephraim Hinman, a successful Connecticut merchant, and his wife Sylvania [French] Hinman.

After he was admitted to the bar he practiced law in Roxbury, CT for many years. From 1823 to 1833, Hinman acted as the Postmaster of Roxbury. In September of 1844, he was appointed the Collector of Customs of the Port of New Haven.
In 1835, Hinman along with Leman Church and the Hon. Elisha Phelps were appointed to revise the public statutes of Connecticut. From 1835 to 1836, the committee compiled and published the private or special acts of the state, eventually comprising a total of 1,640 pages. In 1838, Hinman and Thomas C. Perkins were appointed to further revise the statutes ...of the state, the Revisions of 1838, which eventually became a published work of 717 pages.
Hinman also published other works including the Antiquities of Connecticut and A Historical Collection of the Part Sustained by Connecticut During the War of the Revolution. He was also the author of numerous other historical publications as well as a member of the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey state historial societies.

       Page: p. 141-142

       Title: Researcher Sherrie Haines (Barnes)

       Author: James Hammond Trumbull

       Title: Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut 1633-1884, The

       Publication: Name: E.L. Osgood; Location: Boston; Date: 1886;

       Repository:

       Name: GenealogyLibrary.com

Note:

       1367 pgs.

       Title: Researcher Lynn Dielman

       Note:

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