Individual Details
Jonathan Barker
(23 Oct 1728 - 29 Apr 1794)
Events
| Birth | 23 Oct 1728 | Andover, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 13 Oct 1750 | Haverhill, Massachusetts - Abigail Mitchell |  | ||
| Death | 29 Apr 1794 | Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
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Families
| Spouse | Abigail Mitchell (1730 - 1806) |
| Child | Mary "Molly" Barker (1751 - 1756) |
| Child | Jonathan Barker (1752 - 1753) |
| Child | Jonathan Barker (1754 - 1824) |
| Child | Benjamin Barker (1755 - 1841) |
| Child | Mary "Molly" Barker (1757 - 1832) |
| Child | Hannah Barker (1759 - 1837) |
| Child | Samuel Barker (1760 - ) |
| Child | Jesse Barker (1762 - 1854) |
| Child | Symonds Epes Barker (1764 - 1820) |
| Child | Amos Barker (1766 - 1830) |
| Child | Elijah Barker (1768 - 1769) |
| Child | Abigail Barker (1769 - 1831) |
| Child | Elsie Barker (1771 - ) |
| Father | Jonathan Barker (1706 - 1737) |
| Mother | Mary Abbott (1709 - ) |
| Sibling | Alice Barker (1731 - 1794) |
| Sibling | Mary Barker (1733 - 1739) |
| Sibling | Hannah Barker (1736 - 1736) |
Notes
Biography
In 1787, Jonathan Barker with five of his sons and others petition to be granted 800 acres in what is the Sunday River area of Mainehttps://archive.org/details/historyofbethelf1768laph/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22jonathan+barker%22
Property
165:12 and 165:13 deeds settling his estate, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZZ-1W59?i=308&wc=MCBP-729%3A361613201%2C362015201&cc=2106411The real estate from the estate of Jonathan Barker was settled in two transactions. On 17 April 1798, the heirs of Jonathan Barker conveyed their undivided nine-tenths parts to Amos Barker of Methuen for $533.33. Those heirs conveying the property of their honored father were Jonathan Barker, Benjamin Barker, and Jesser Barker of Sunday River, Symonds Epes Barker, Samuel Barker, Solomon Jennings and Molly his wife in her right, Daniel Morse and Hannah his wife and her right, Joseph Osgood and Abigail his wife in her right, and Elsie O’Niel, all of Methuen. The property was a 95-acre homestead with dwellings and barn. On the same date, Abigail Barker widow of Jonathan relinquished her right of dower in the property to Amos Barker for the sum of fifty pounds.1
1 Massachusetts Land Records, Essex County, 165:12, 165:13
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).