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From: "Perry Streeter" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] John's dau., Jemima (BURROUGHS) BARBER; Lebanon Township; 1700s
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:54:21 -0500


Can anyone offer any further details on Jemima (BURROUGHS) BARBER, William
BARBER, or Joseph BARBER?

In 1753, we find another association between Matthias Barbar
and Nathaniel Foster in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The
inventory of the estate of William Barber of Lebanon Township was
taken on 16 January 1753 by Nathaniel Foster and Andrew Bray. On
18 January 1753, Jemima Barber declined her right to the
administration of William's estate "in favour of her father, John
Burroughs" (New Jersey Colonial Documents--Calendar of Wills 1751-
1760). On 6 March 2002, Fred Meek provided important further
details that connected Matthias Barbar not only to William Barber
but to and Edward Barber as well.

Only one other person is mentioned in the will. In
the inventory it says William owned four bushels of wheat
from Matthias Barber. Did Matthias owe him wheat because
William had an interest in the land Matthias farmed?
This mention of Matthias along with the mention
Nathaniel Foster (a [probable] brother [or possibly the
father] of Jane Foster, wife of Matthias) makes William
Barber of Trenton [sic, Lebanon Township] a probable
brother of Matthias Barber of Sussex County.
William's wife was Jemima Burroughs [disputed
below], a daughter of John Burroughs, who was acquainted
with Edward Barber.

Indeed, "four Bushel of Whete of matthias Barber" are included
in the Administration Bond & Inventory on the Estate of William
Barber, Hunterdon County 1753 (File 328J). William Barber must
have also been born circa 1733 or earlier.
At first glance it would certainly seem that Jemima
(Burroughs) Barber was the widow of William Barber. Certainly
there was a connection between Jemima and William but it may not
have been that of husband and wife. According to the on-line B-Be
Surname Index of Colonial Families of Philadelphia, (edited by John
W. Jordan, published by Lewis Publishers of New York in 1911 in 2
volumes) at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/
bios/cfofphil/b-1.txt, Jemima Burroughs, daughter of John
Burroughs, married Joseph Barber rather than William Barber (page
1670). If there is no error in the original work or in the
transcribed index, then the nature of the connection between Jemima
(Burroughs) Barber and William Barber is unclear.

Source = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~streeter/BARBAR.TXT

Perry Streeter (mailto:)
List Owner,
Greenwood, New York USA
http://www.perry.streeter.com

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