Samuel 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 p. 126

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TENTH BRANCH.

(1512) II. 10. SAMUEL BARBER, sixth son of Robert and Hannah Tidmarsh Barber, m. MARTHA HENRY, of Lancaster, Pa. He erected a fulling-mill near the mouth of"Barber's Run." He was second lieutenant of the first company of Hempfield Township in 1775. He took the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania in Hempfield Township, Lancaster Co., on Aug. 8th, 1777. He moved to Buffalo Valley, Northumberland Co. (now Union), about 1787, in which year he was a resident of White Deer Hole Valley, and was taxed with one horse and two cows. He lived for some time at the mouth of Switzer Run, west of New Berlin, and was killed by the falling of an old building, which he was taking down, in 1792. Martha Barber, his widow, lived in East Buflfalo in 1793, in which year she was taxed on 150 acres of land, one horse and one cow. She was an inhabitant of same place in 1796, when she is mentioned as the owner of a cabin. She lived in the old place (now, or lately, the property of Philip Seebold) as late as 1812.[37] She was quite a noted character in her neighborhood, and known to every one as "Aunt Mattie." She d. about 1826 or '27. p. 126
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• 37 See Linn's Annals of Buffalo Valley, pp. 276, 278.

Issue (Barber) :

(1544) III. 1. ELIZABETH, m. WM. McCONNELL

(1546) IIL 2. MARY, m. MrR SWINEHART.

Issue (Swinehart) :

(1548) IV. 1. ANDREW.

Both families moved to Ohio, and all trace of them
has been lost.

He was killed by the timbers of an old barn that fell upon him. Linn's Annals of Buffalo Valley page 276.

"Deaths 1792.Samuel Barber, who lived at the mouth of Switzer run, was killed by the falling timber of an old barn he was taking down. One of his daughters married William McConnell, the other Swinehart. His widow, Martha, lived on the old place (now owned by Philip Seebold) as late as 1812."

Page 188 has his first name as Thomas.??

Letters of administration for the estate of Samuel Barber granted to Martha Barber and Robert Barber 20 September 1792 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (volume 1, p. 96; probate file 37; bondsmen William McCurdy, Thomas Grant and John Joseph Henry; account filed 9 Oct 1806).

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