John Barber

• Reference: Barber Full Text: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbarbe00barb see also https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbarbe00barb/page/n3/mode/2up... Genealogy of the Barber Family-The Descendants of Robert Barber of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. By Edwin AtLee Barber, A.M. Philadelphia, Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co. 1890 pp. 34-35

Genealogy

SECOND BRANCH.

(183) 11. 2. JOHN BARBER, eldest son of Robert and Hannah Tidmarsh Barber, was b. in Chester, Pa., 8th mo. 13th, 1720. He m. MARY _____, previous to Nov. 5th, 1747, as appears in a release of that date, [24] in which " John Barber and Mary, his wife " are the grantors named therein.

By a quit-claim deed dated Aug. 11th, 1747, " between Robert Barber of the township of Hempfield in ye County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania, Cordwainer, and Hannah his wife of the one part and John Barber of the township of Hallam in the County and Province afs/d" Yeoman oldest son and heir at law of the s/d Robert Barber," [25] the old Barber mansion in Chester was conveyed to John, who shortly after sold the property to one Peter Dicks. At his father's death John received 50 acres on east end of tract near Columbia, Pa.

Very little is known of this son, but according to the narrative of Miss Sarah Barber, he is supposed to have been killed by Indians near the present site of Pittsburgh, where he had gone to trade in furs. This has become a family tradition, but whether true or not, we have now no means of ascertaining. Samuel Evans,
Esq., of Columbia, has recently discovered, through an old document in the Register's Office at Lancaster, that John Barber died in the year 1759 ; Jacob Furry and Samuel Bethel were the appraisers.[26] By a quitclaim deed dated June 7th, 1768, Mary, [27] the widow of John, released her dower to Hannah Barber, Administratrix of Robert Barber, deceased, for a consideration of £37. In the division of the personal property of the latter, made by order of the Orphans' Court in 1769, it is stated that John, Thomas and Elizabeth Barber, minor children, died intestate, under age, unmarried and without issue, a manifest error, so far, at least, as applied to John, who was married and twenty-nine years old when his father died in 1749. It is believed that John left no issue. pp. 34-35
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• 24 Vide Book G, p. 302, West Chester, Pa., court records.
• 25 Ibid., p. 277.
• 26 The Administrator's bond was dated May 5th, 1759. In the appraisement of the " Sundrys Belonging to the Estate," the item 15 lb of Beaver " occurs.
• 27 " It appears John Barber is gone out in marriage, therefore two Friends is to go and treat with him." From Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Sudshury, 5th mo, 5th, 1755. At a Monthly Meeting of Sadshury "held at Lampiter," 1st of 3d mo. 1756, *' After Deliberate Dealing with John Barber for his outgoing in marriage, two friends is to prepare a testimonial against him."