Rev. Robert Barrett

Brother of Charles Barrett who married Mary Leigh

[Page 181] Barret, Rev. Robert, son of Charles Barret and Mary, his wife, of Louisa county, was a student at William and Mary College; usher of the grammar school; qualified June 28, 1737, master of the Indian school; was ordained minister in England soon after, and on Dec. 25, 1737, received the royal funds to defray his return passage; was minister for many years of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover county. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Robert Lewis, and (second) Anne ———. He had a son, Rev. Lewis Barret, who married Elizabeth Anderson (1753-1773), by whom he had Anderson Barret, of Richmond.