Josiah Barney^[1]

1699 - Aft 1776  (77 years)

• Name	Josiah Barney
  Birth	7 Dec 1699	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	GBFA-46
  _UID	4A158AB09A534EE29C1FADF8C3A7C1CF100F
  Death	Aft 1776	Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
  Person ID	I8416	Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family	Freelove Wheaton,   b. 1 Jun 1703, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA d. Aft 26 Mar 1750 (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	31 Jul 1724	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
  	md. by Thomas Church, Justice
  Family ID	F2184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 7 Dec 1699 - Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Death - Aft 1776 - Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  DAR Lineage book 14:156-157; Surname Index, Iowa Genealogical Society, p.22; LDS Computer File Index, Mass., R.I. (IGI); Valentine G. Barney manuscript; Vital Records of Rehoboth, Mass., pp.21, 521; James P. Barney manuscript, p.20; "Jacob Barney, 1634," by Mary Wesbrook, p.272; Abby Barney's files; Winifred L. Holman papers, p.3; Preston Collection: manuscripts; "Deane Genealogy," p.24; Rhode Island Vital Records, 4:8; Vital Records of Freetown, Mass.; Vital Records of Attleboro, Mass.; Bristol Co., Mass. Probates, 8:229; All his sons served in the Revolutionary War. GBFA p.30: He was alive in ca. 1776 when his sons served in the Revolutionary War. Josiah Barney was admitted Freeman at Newport on May 4, 1725 (R.I.C.R. IV:359). On March 16, 1731/2 he sold land in Rehoboth to Thomas Ormsbee (Bk. 26, p.89). On Feb. 34, 1734, called "cordwainer," with wife Freelove of Rehoboth, he sold a meadow in Attleboro to Henry Sweeting (Bk. 22, p.250). Josiah Barney with wife Freelove "of Rehoboth" sold lands in Rehoboth on April 27, 1745, March 1, 1749 and March 26, 1750. Between 1737-47 he had tradesmen living in his household BARNEY GENEALOGY of Angeline (Barney) Mason (filed with George S. Barney letter of 1910): -- here it messes up a little bit; assumes that this Josiah's father is that child of Jacob and Hannah (Johnson) Barney; some say that child was named Josiah, others say Hannah; nearly all researchers believe the child died in infancy. "I wish there was any way of getting at the generation between what I think must have been the two Josiahs, but I know of none." The Vital Records of Rehoboth, Mass. CLEARLY SHOW that Israel Barney married Elizabeth BARRETT. Mr. Preston was wrong in identifying her as Elizabeth Brackett, dau. of Josiah and Elizabeth (Waldo) Brackett. Thus, while her death and burial are correct, the birth information in the GBFA (and derived sources such as "Barneys of America") are not correct. Her gravestone at the old cemetery at Rumford says,"Elizabeth Barney, Ye wife of Mr. Israel Barney, Died April Ye 9th, 1743, in Ye 66th Year of her age." Letter to EDP, Aug. 15, 1908, from Mrs. Lund R. Barney, Springfield, Mass.: "Josiah (5) Barney, b. 7 Dec. 1698, married Freelove Wheaton on 31 July 1724 at Little Compton, R.I." WFT #3:0298 says that the last child, Abigail, b.1755, was the daughter of a second marriage of Josiah, to _____ Stewart.

  
  

• Sources

  [S489] Cliff Barney, Cliff Barney gedcom.