Reverend Thomas Barnard

At the time of his death he [John Barnard] had two sons settled in the ministry : Rev. Thomas Barnard (H. C. 1732) first of Newbury (1739-51) and later (1755) settled over the First church in Salem ; a son, Thomas, Avas settled over the North church in Salem, and died in 1814, making an unbroken line of ministerial succession in Essex county for one hundred and thirty-two years.

References

• ”A genealogy of the descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood, who came from England and settld in New England early in the seventeenth century.” by Osgood, Ira, 1799-1877; Putnam, Eben Publication date 1894. Page 32-33. < Archive.Org > (has errors)