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Subject: Esther Barnard Blake, dau. of Samuel and Mercy Sherman Barnard of Watertown,MA
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:57:44 EDT
Hi! I know someone wanted me to e-mail them back when I had the answer to my
question from a while back about whether Esther Barnard Blake was indeed the
daughter of Samuel Barnard and Mercy Sherman of Watertown, MA.
Unfortunately, I lost the e-mail address and the name of the researcher.
Carrie Schafer
Here are some of the notes of information that I found to help prove a link
between Esther Barnard Blake (wife of Isaac Blake, parents of Andrew Blake
who married Hannah Brintnall -- they had a son, Isaac Blake who married Caty
Pond and they had Sarah Blackinton Blake Giles and Isaac Willard Blake, both
of whom moved to Zumbrota, Minnesota) and Samuel and Mercy Sherman Barnard:
From "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of
Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston" by Henry Bond (Little
Brown & Company, Boston, 1855), p. 872-3
Mar. 20, 1703, wid. Mary, and her sons, William and Benjamin, for oe192, sold
to Samuel Barnard 25 A., bounded N. by Sudbury Road, and land of Mary Browne;
W. by Mary Browne, and partly by land of Serjt. John Fiske. By this deed, it
appears that she retained some of the land assigned to her and her younger
sons, and a subsequent deed shows its amount. Mar. 13, 1705-6, William and
Benjamin B., sold to their brother Abraham, 9 1/2 A., bounded N. by Sudbury
Road; W. by land of Abraham Browne; E. and S. by Samuel Barnard. By a deed
dated Dec. 23, 1715, Capt. Abraham Browne conveyed to his son Jonathan, 14 A.
"in easterly part of my estate," bounded E. by Samuel Barnard; S. by S.
Barnard and John Fiske; N. by highway; W. by Abraham Browne. Mar. 18,
1730-1, James Nutting, of Wrentham, gunsmith, and Mercy, his wife, and Esther
Barnard, spinster (both daughters of Samuel Barnard), for oe450, sold to John
Browne (youngest son of Capt. Abraham), house, barn, shop, and 24 A. land,
bounded N. by highway; W. by Jonathan and Samuel Browne, who held, by deed
and legacy, that western portion, which their father obtained by settlement
and purchase. The next day, Mar. 19, John Browne sold to his brother
Jonathan, the same property for the same sum, subject to a mortgage of oe220,
to Jonathan Nutting, of Wrentham. After this mortgage was paid off (as it
was done), the ancient homestead was again vested in the Browne family.
Obtained from a research at the New England Genealogical Historical Society
in Boston, MA (May 23, 2002). They were unable to locate a copy of Bond's
Watertown at the Library.
"Samuel and Mercy Barnard last appear in the Middlesex Deeds on 28 Feb 1729,
shortly after this, the only Samuel appearing in these deeds is no longer a
Jr., suggesting that his father had died or removed. On Mar. 18, 1731, James
Nutting, gunsmith, and Mercy, his wife, and Esther Barnard, spinster, all of
Watertown, sell land and buildings therein. Samuel alone had sold the two
girls this real estate on 8 Dec 1727, on which date James and Mercy Nutting
were of Cambridge."
While this conflicts with the information from Bond's Watertown, records from
Wrentham, show that a James Nutting, son of James and Marcy, was born Feb. 2,
1731-2 in Wrenthan. This tends to point towards Bond's Watertown information
being more correct. There was also a baptismal notation for another child of
James and Mercy. There are two notions of deaths in Wrentham that could
possibly be the death records for Samuel and Mercy (Sherman) Barnard. On
page 408 of the "Early Vital Records of Norfolk County, Massachusetts to
about 1850, Wrentham Births, Marriages and Deaths (Search and Research
Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033, copyrighted 1998 on CD-Rom):
Barnard, -----, wid. of -----, Aug. ----, 1738 and Barnard, Samuel, Mar. 9,
1738. The researcher at NEGHS pointed out these two deaths to me since
Barnard wasn't really a name found in Wrentham records.
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