Jacob Barnes, of Isle of Wight County

c 1677 England to America. Jacob Barnes emigrated at about this time according to The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.3 The source stated that he visited his brother in England in 1709 after an absence of 32 years.

Family

His wife was a daughter Smith (not proven)

Child 1 - Edward Barnes Edward Barnes, of Edgecombe County (Disputed)
c 1680 / 1685 Edward Barnes, who married Sarah Pope, was born. This Edward Barnes appears to be the son of this Jacob Barnes of Isle of Wight Co., VA, because Jacob Barnes was a member of the same Quaker meeting as Sarah Pope, and he witnessed the will of William Frizzell, which mentions Frizzell’s granddaughter, Susan Pope—the sister or half-sister of Sarah Pope. (Edward died in 1762 in Edgecombe Co., NC.)

CHILD 2 - Anna, NOT PROVED DAUGHTER OF JACOB Barnes
From Thomas Boylan of Rome, GA, "The Barnes Family," p. 5 (no date). Thomas Boulger was married to Sarah Smith (dau of William and Mary Smith); Sarah Boulger and both of her parents left wills in Isle of Wight naming a granddaughter (and niece) as Anna Barnes - another of the Smith daughters, Ann, had married a Wesson (Weston) (see wills of Isle of Wight). Thus Jacob Barnes was very involved with the Smith family, perhaps having married a Smith.

CHILD 3 - Jacob NOT PROVED SON OF JACOB THE ELDER Barnes
27 Nov 1738 Isle of Wight Co., VA. The estate of Jacob BARNES was appraised by Robert King, Humphrey Marshall and William Smith with Francis Floyd signing also; this was recorded 27 Nov 1738 (WillBk4:219). He may have been the Jacob Barnes who died in 1720, but he also may have been that Jacob’s son.

Notes

Deed Book I

page 609  Jacob Barnes, age 43 years, Wm. Smith and Mary his wife, he being 58, made dep. Richar Williams, Jr., age 28. Richard Hampton age –, deposed.

page 612 John Parker and wife Mary give to brother Francis Parker land on western side of an Island commonly called Hugh’s Island which his father Thomas Parker, decd., bought of Wm. Rogers, part of a patent of 470 acres, said John Parker to have free outlet through it 9 Dec. 1693.  Jacob Barnes, Eliz Altman, Danl Miles.

According to the book, "Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Volume 2," Oxford Historical Society, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1885, p. 278 GoogleBooks, the following letter of Joshua Barnes, son of Edward Barnes & Mary Mills, a Greek scholar at Cambridge, the following concerns this family:

Edward Barnes, who marry'd first wife Anne Cock, by whom he had 8 children, Eliz. & John &c. both who dy'd of ye Great Plague 1664. wth all their children. His second wife Mary Mills, Daughter of 1 John Mills Atturney of ye City of Salisbury, whose Brother was Mayor of Salisbury. Of her he had 13 children, Mary, now living, marryed to William Meredith, a Cheshire man, a Baker, Jacob, now living in Virginia, &c. Martha, Wife of Felix Rhymes an Oxford Man, by whome one Daughter Mary, marryed to Richard Millard, who 40 has two Sons, Rob. & Rich, both living, & a Daughter dead. ... “Joshua Barnes I, who dyed a 7 etat. Abrahams, two, both dead, Isaac, Daniel, Sarah, and Joshua, II, now 50 years old, 1704. The above seems somewhat involved and difficult, so is copied litteratum."25 (p. 204)

Historical and Genealogical Notes and Queries. (1908). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 16(2), 199-210. Retrieved June 17, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/4242946. Page 203.

J. Barnes wrote to T. Hearne (quoted above) that “he is at Hemingford to meet his only brother Jacob, who after 32 years’ absence, made a voyage from Virginia, where his wife and children are, only to see the writer.” ... This J Barnes was Joshua Barnes FRS (10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712), whi was an English scholar. His work Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) was an Utopian romance.[1] Barnes was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor.

Research notes

http://www.williambarnesgenealogy.com/barnes_families/Jacob_Barnes_...

“Jacob Barnes Timeline in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, and People Associated with Him.” Jacob was born 1649 - Probably London, England. His parents were Edward Barnes and Mary Mills if the article about Jacob is accurate. [Thomas Barnes of Isle of Wight , was born bef 1645 - probable brother or other relative]. Edward Barnes, of Edgecombe County son of Jacob Barnes, Married Sarah Pope.

Children of Edward Barnes and Alice Cock:

Amey b:1636, Elizabeth b:1637, John b:1639, and Ann b: 1642. Four more children were born between 1638-1644. One may be Thomas of Isle of Wight Co, VA (Thomas was born in 1640) Thomas Barnes, of Isle of Wight County

Children of Edward Barnes and Mary Mills:

Mary b: 1646; Joshua b:1647, d: before 1653; Joshua #2 b:1653; Abrah b: 1655; Isack b:1657; Abraham #2 b:1659; and Sara b:1664. “Edward Barnes and Two Wives of London.” < PDF >

References

• “Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Volume 1” By Thomas Hearne. Page 278. < PDF >; GoogleBooks
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/o/r/f/Todd-L-Orf/GENE17-0017.html
• https://www.ancestry.com.au/boards/surnames.barnes/5000.3.1.1?viewT...
• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bragg/234/ From "Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County,VA 1647-1800",by Blanche Adams- Chapman: Vol.I,pg.13: James Bragg will. Names children: James,Elizabeth,and Ann. Wife:Elizabeth,and another heir: James, son of Thomas Barnes. Witnesses:William Lugg and Thomas(??-sp.) Recorded 4-29-1670,probated 9-9-1670. GoogleBooks
• The Thomas Barnes listed married James Bragg's dau. Diana. His own will is recorded in the same book on 6-9-1683.This Thomas was the son of the immigrant,Edward Barnes.He was born in 1646 in Isle of Wight Co. He had a son,John Sr.,who married Ann Jones;they in turn had a son named Thomas.
• ” Barnes Families of Isle of Wight County Virginia and Edgecombe/ Nash Counties North Carolina” 1992 - 24 pages. Edward Barnes of London, England was the probable father of Thomas Barnes (1645-1683) who died in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Thomas was the ancestor of both Chrisitan Barnes (1755-1797), who married Isaac Farmer, Jr., and Mary barnes (1724-1789), who married Robert Simms II. Includes the associated families of Bragg, Jones, Pope and Powell. GoogleBooks
• 3The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XVI – July, 1908, pp. 203-204.
• http://www.williambarnesgenealogy.com/
• “Edward Barnes and Two Wives of London” (Revised 28 January 2014) < PDF >
• “Jacob Barnes Timeline in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, and People Associated with Him” (2017) < PDF >
• ”Family Group Record for Jacob Barnes and wife [daughter] Smith” < PDF >