A Maine Family's History - Davis / McDowell

Barber

John BARBER, The Loyalist, of New York either a mechanic or carpenter or both with the Engineers as noted in Isabella's pension request and in the Carleton Papers (on a list at Horn's Hook, August 1781, grantee of Port Matoon Association and an Armed Boatman, died in 1836 in St. James Parish.

Spouse: Isabella applied for a pension as a widow of Rev. War Loyalist after John died, received it until she died in 1842. In her 1840 disposition as a widow of man who served in the Revolutionary War in America, she stated her age was 86 and that she and John Barber had been married in Elizabethtown, NY in 1780. She signed with a mark. Documents online in NB Archives.

Children: Mary born 9/18/1784, Nancy, John Jr. married Mary Cook 1816 daughter of Isaac Cook and Susannah Dusten, Elisabeth, Sarah, Duncan McCollison [Barber information per Tom Moffatt tmoffatt@nbnet.nb.ca & Mike McGarry.]

Mary BARBER, resided Oak Hill NB, died 7/8/1855

Spouse: William CROCKETT born 1/10/1782 NH married 3/11/1804

Children: Rebecca Chatman born 8/5/1807 Calais ME married Joseph Davis; Ann born 6/16/1805 Calais married ? Grant; Almira Catherine born 3/23/1810 Calais married Ephraim Hadley Stevens; Mary Isabella born 5/25/1812 Calais married Jacob Stevens; Harriet born 1/9/1816 Calais or Alexander married Barzellia Mosher Babcock; William Harrison born 11/26/1821 Alexander married (1) Mary Ann Flanders m 1847 (2) Hity Ann Esty m 1855 (3) Susan Cole m 1864; Cordelia born 1/25/1824 Alexander married Sylvanus Henry Seavey

William Crockett & Mary Barber information per Grace Meader from Early Families of Alexander A-CHS # 64, 65 & 66. John Barber was a Loyalist. References in "Loyalists to Canada" by Ted Holmes. Page 155 St. Andrews Grantees: John Barber. Page 160 St. Andrews grantees were also grantees of the Port Matoon/Mouton Association (now St. Stephen NB): John Barber. Page 162/3: He was a grantee of St. Andrews and a grantee with the Port Matoon/Mouton Association. He was a Mariner and served in Captain Nehemiah Marks' Company of Armed Boatmen. He was a member of the crew of the dispatch boat "Miranda," used by Captain Marks in claiming lands. John Barber settled along the "Old Ridge Road" near Morristown (St. Stephen NB). His name is recorded in a 1790-1 account book for the Porter family store at Ferry's Point (Calais ME).

Loyalists to Canada: pg 153; The date of he Loyalist grant, to "William Gammon and 429 others," on the town plot of St. Andrews [N.B.], was August 12, 1784. Individuals and families who were granted town lots were mostly Loyalist refugees, officers and men of the 74th Regiment, and Argyll Highlanders who had been stationed at Fort George. There were others from the 64th, 70th, 84th, N.C. Highlanders, Royal Garrison Battalion, and King's Orange Rangers. /P/ The plan for the town of St. Andrews consisted of six parallel streets running from northwest to southeast, and thirteen streets crossing them at right angles, forming sixty square blocks, etc. Each block was divided into eight lots. Three divisions -- Bulkley, Parr, and Morris -- were planned for the settlement, and the streets were to be broad and regular. Grantees were required to build their houses six feet from the street line. This early planning resulted in a beautiful seaside town, which is noticeably attractive even today (1992). pg 155; The names of the St. Andrews grantees were: ... Barber, John ...Henderson, Hugh ... Hitchings, Amos ...Lillie/Lyall, John ... pg 160; The following St. Andrews grantees were also grantees of the Port Matoon/Mouton Association (now St. Stephen, New Brunswick): ... Barber, John ... Lillie/Lyall, John ... pg 161 The following St. Andrews grantees were also grantees with the Cape Ann Association in St. David Parish: ... Hitchings, Josiah, Jr. ... Among the following St. Andrews grantees, are included part of the 74th Regiment, Argyll Highlanders ... Henderson, Hugh ..

Loyalists to Canada, pg 162: Barber, John. He was a grantee at St. Andrews, and a grantee with the Port Matoon (Mouton) Association. He was a mariner, and served in Captain Nehemiah Marks' company of Armed Boatmen. He was a member of the crew of the dispatch boat Miranda, used by Captain Marks in claiming lands. John Barber settled along the "Old Ridge Road" near Morristown (St. Stephen, New Brunswick). His name is recorded in a 1790-91 account book for the Porter family store at Ferry's Point (Calais, Maine). pg 191; 107 lots at Morristown (St. Stephen, N.B.), at the head of tide on the Schoodic (St. Croix River), were granted to "John Dunbar and associates." 54 of the lots, except for lot #42, in the western division of the grant, were known as the marks Division. The 53 lots in the eastern division were known as the Jones Division. pg 193; Grantees with the Port Matoon Association, in the Jones Division, were: Barber, John

Loyalists of New Brunswick by Wright: Some 18 miles up the St. Croix River, at the fishing falls, the Port Matoon Association laid out another townsite. This group composed largely of men employed in the Civil Departments of the army and of Armed Boatmen, had been sent from new York late in Nov. to Port Mouton, Nova Scotia. In Feb. 1784 Gov. Parr reported the only people not pleased were the Commissary General's Dept. Nehemiah Marks formerly of Derby, Conn., who had served with the Armed Boatmen, surveyed possible alternatives, and eventually selected the Schoodic or St. Croix River as the desirable site. Several boatmen, employees of the Ordnance, the Barrack Master Generals, and the Commissary Generals Dept. joined him. The 1784 census noted there were 201 Loyalists with Marks at the fishing falls. When they were laying out the townsite at St. Stephen, they were supposed to have interfered with the garden of one of the squatters who protested that his beans would be ruined. Nehemiah Marks is said to have answered that the King was a gentleman and would pay him for his beans. A-CHS 3/19/85

St Stephen Tax List - 1815 (Transcribed from a xerox copy in the MC files at PANB). To Robinson [Crocker?] Collector of Taxes in the Parish of St Stephen. You are hereby Requested & Directed forthwith to call on the following Persons for their Respective Rates as hereunto annexed to their number, and, You will pay the amount thereof, being Forty Two Pounds Ten Shillings into the hand of the Treasurary of the County for the purpose Directed by Law. Signd. Robert Wattson, William Kennady, William Maybe. ....Robert Hitchins ... Josiah Hitchins ... John Barber ... David Hitchins ... Benj. Henderson

Luther M. Barber of Calais married Mary Fuller of Calais 10/15/1844. Matilda Barber of Calais married William A. Quincy of Calais 5/13/1843. Nancy Barber of Machiasport married Stilman Holmes of Machiasport 12/13/1834

From Library and Archives Canada, Ward Chipman Papers, Muster Master General's Office - Loyalists Musters, 1776-1785 (M.G. 23, D 1, Series I, Volume 24, pages 166-168) Microfilm C-9818 Roll of Men, Women and Children settled near the Falls of Scoodiac River in the Town of S^t Andrews Passamaquoddy, under the Direction of Capt. Nehemiah Marks 11 June 1784 - John Barber, Isabel Barber, Mary Barber child under 10.

Elizabeth BARBER age 89 - Year of Reliev 1840 Charlotte Co. Pensions Old Revolutionary Soldiers and Widows Chargeable on the Relief Fund 1843