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From: Roy C. Leggitt< >
Subject: Re: [BARTON-L] relationship of Clara to Samuel
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:16:01 GMT


"JennH13" apparently wrote:

>> Just how is it that we are related to Clara Barton? I've never been able
>to
>> figure that out...there are too many Clara's and I'm not sure who is THE
>> Clara!!!
>>
>> Jenn

I am an newcomer to BARTON-L, but let me jump right in. While researching my
wife's BARTON line I compiled a little on Clara Barton. Here is an Ahnentafel
Chart for Clarissa Harlowe Barton

First Generation

1.Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born 25 Dec 1821 in Oxford, MA. She died
12 Apr 1912 in Glen Echo, Maryland and was buried in North Oxford, MA.
Barton, Clara, full name CLARISSA HARLOWE BARTON (1821-1912), American
humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross (see RED CROSS).
Barton was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, December 25, 1821, and educated at
home, chiefly by her two brothers and two sisters. She was a teacher at first
and the founder of various free schools in New Jersey. In 1854 she became a
clerk in the Patent Office, Washington, D.C., but resigned at the start of the
American Civil War to work as a volunteer, distributing supplies to wounded
soldiers. After the war she supervised a systematic search for missing
soldiers. Between 1869 and 1873 Barton lived in Europe, where she helped
establish hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War and was honored with the
Iron Cross of Germany. Through Barton's efforts the American Red Cross Society
was formed in 1881; she served as the first president of the organization
until 1904. In 1884 she represented the United States at the Red Cross
Conference and at the International Peace Convention in Geneva. She was
responsible for the introduction at this convention of the “American
amendment,” which established that the Red Cross was to serve victims of
peacetime disasters as well as victims of war. She superintended relief work
in the yellow-fever pestilence in Florida (1887), in the Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, flood (1889), in the Russian famine (1891), among the Armenians
(1896), in the Spanish-American War (1898), and in the South African War
(1899-1902). The last work that she personally directed was the relief of
victims of the flood at Galveston, Texas, in 1900. She died in Glen Echo,
Maryland, on April 12, 1912. She wrote several books on the Red Cross and
Story of My Childhood (1907).
Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c)
1995 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.
From Dictionary of American Biography we find the following:
Barton, Clara (Dec 25, 1821 - Apr 12, 1912), philanthropist, was named by her
parents Clarissa Harlowe. Her father, Stephen, a descendant of Edward Barton
who came to Salem, Mass., from England in 1640, was a typical New England
farmer, upright and intelligent, hard working, devoted to his family, able and
willing to take his turn as selectman and representative in the legislature.
His wife, Sarah Stone, thirteen years younger, and married at seventeen, was
the faithful New england housewife and mother, endowed with practical common
sense, strong will, and a quick temper. Their home was in Oxford, Mass., and
here their children were born. During the first seven years of their union
they had two boys and two girls. No other children came to them until ten
years later when Clara was born.
Clara's grandfather was a brother of Flynt Barton, who was great-grandfather
to Nora Frances Barton (mother of GGS). Otis Barton, son of Flynt, was
grandfather of Nora Frances Barton, so Clara was 2nd cousin to Nora's father,
Greenwood Flynt Barton, Bradley, Me.

Second Generation

2.Stephen Barton Captain was born 18 Aug 1774 in of Oxford, MA. He died
21 Mar 1862. Stephen married Sarah Stone on 1804.
UMI-G1827 The Barton Family:
Captain Stephen Barton, who fought in the Indian War, under "Mad" Anthony
Wayne, and who was present when Tecumseh was slain. He returned home in 1796
at the age of 22. In 1804, Stephen married Sarah Stone, aged 17.
This text is the source of the birth and death dates for the children.
Hook: Capt. Stephen Barton and his wife Sarah had a family of two sons and 3
daughters, the youngest of whom was the justly famous Clarissa Horlow Barton,
known better as Clara Barton the renowned Civil War nurse and founder of the
American Red Cross. She died, unmarried, at Glen Echo, Md., Apr. 12, 1912 in
her 91st year.

3.Sarah Stone was born 1787.

Third Generation

4.Stephen Barton Captain was born 10 Jun 1744 in Sutton records, MA. He
died 21 Oct 1804. Stephen married Dorothy Moore on 28 May 1765.
Stephen Barton was a doctor and lived first in Oxford then in Maine and in
late life in Oxford again but is buried on what was his last farm near
Windsor, Maine. His family consisted of thirteen children, one of whom was
Capt. Stephen Barton, Jr.
National History Magazine, Oct. 1930, The Barton Family of Oxford, Mass., p.
414 indicates his birth date as 10 June 1740 at Sutton. This is also the
source of his thirteen children and some of their spouses.

5.Dorothy Moore was born 12 Apr 1747 in Oxford, MA.

Fourth Generation

8.Edmund Barton was born 5 Aug 1714 in Farmingham, MA. He died 5 Aug
1882. Edmund married Anna Flynt.
The family lived at Oxford and Sutton, Mass. Records for the children are
Sutton, Mass. records:

9.Anna Flynt was born 9 Jun 1718 in of Salem, MA.
Eldest dau. of Stephen Flynt and Hannah Moulton, of Salem. Granddaughter of
John Flynt, of Salem, and great-grandaughter of Thomas Flynt who came to Salem
before 1650.

Fifth Generation

16.Samuel Barton was born 1664 in Prob at Salem, MA. He died 12 Sep 1732
in Oxford, MA. Samuel married Hannah Bridges on 1690.
Hook, p 131: Saqmuel and Hannah Barton lie buried in the Oxford cemetery
which is west of the Commons.
Samuel and Hannah (Bridges) Barton in company with members of the Towne,
Bridges and one or two other families took up land in Farmingham, Mass. early
in 1693. Here his second child, Mercy Barton was b. May 22 1694. Here he and
his family lived until 1716, when he purchased one thirtieth of the English
settlement at Oxford. At the same time he sold his farm in Farmingham. The
Oxford deed conveyed to him for 85 pounds, current money of New England, one
home lot, more than 100 acres of land in several different parcels and in
addition, one fourth ownership in a corn mill and one fourth interest in a saw
mill located on some of these lands. (Suffolk deeds, Vol. 34, p. 101.).
Samuel Barton helped promote, organize and finance the first church in Oxford.
It wwas formally organized on Jan. 3, 1721 (new style) with Samuel Barton and
his wife Hannah signing the convenant with others. He was released from the
church in Farmingham Jan. 15, 1721 He founded the Oxford, Mass., branch of the
Barton Family, 1716; also owned a mill there.
UMI-G1827, The Barton Family indicates Samuel also owned a mill there. Father
of eight children, of whom the youngest son was Edmund.
Genealogy of The Barton Family of the Town of Marshall, Oneida County, New
York, Compiled by Edward S. Barton in 1920 indicates the following:
p17. Samuel Barton, son of Matthew, born about 1664. He as well as his
father and grandfather lived in the era of Salem wichcraft. His grandmother,
drawn into one of the trials, hotly discredited the craze as "a fantasy."
Samuel Barton is on record as a witness in the trial of elizabeth Proctor, for
wichcraft, in Salem. March 20th, 1691-2, at which time he was twenty-eight
years of age or thereabouts. He defended at his own peril witches brought
under accusation by the fanatic Mercy Lewis.
In 1690 he married Hannah, daughter of Edmund Bridges, Jr., of Salem, and
Sarah Towne, who was the sister of Rebecca Nurse, hanged on Salem Hill for
witchcraft in 1692. The year following that event Samuel craft in 1692. The
year following that event Samuel with his family with his family and the
Townes moved to Watertown, where they received the usual "warning" that
newcomers got when moving into a Puritan colony, under date of June 16th,
1693.
They did not stay but a shor time in Watertown, going to Farmingham, where
they lived for twenty-three years. Samuel Barton was a member of the
Farmingham church. In 1716, selling a farm in "upland, swampland and meadow"
at Farmingham, they moved to Oxford, Mass. In June 1716, he bought the Elliot
grist-mill, in Oxford, and Oct. 19, 1716, bought in Oxford, home-lot, lands,
meadows, etc., amounting to a thirteenth part of the village, also one-fourth
part of a "corn-mill and one-fourth part of a saw-mill, standing on the
home-lot. The home-lot and mill were probably near the foot of the Mary
Turner Hill, at the place since owned by the late Asbel M. Howes. In
September, 1720, he was one of the founders of the Oxford Congregational
Church, "moved by obligation to promote the Kingdom of their Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ (after social prayer and conference together) they declared each
one to the other that they were desirous to lye in the foundation and build up
a Church of Christ in Oxford." Samuel Barton & wife signed the covenant
January 18th, 1720-1. He was dismissed from Farmingham Church to Oxford
January 15th 1724.
Samuel Barton died Sept. 12, 1732. His wife died March 13, 1727. His will
was proved Sept. 23, 1732. He gave in his will all his lands and movable
estate to his son Caleb. His youngest son, Edmund Barton, a soldier in the
French wars, married Anna Flint of Salem. Among his children was stephen
Barton, born June 10, 1740, and this Stephen Barton had a son Stephen, born
Aug. 18, 1774, who was "Clara Barton's father."
National History Magazine, Oct. 1930, The Barton Family of Oxford, Mass., p.
404 - 407 has more information on this Samuel Barton.

17.Hannah Bridges was born 1669 in of Farmingham, MA. She died 13 Mar
1727.

Sixth Generation

32.Matthew Barton was born about 1639 in Essex, MA. He died after 1729.
Matthew married Martha.
Hook, p. 130: Matthew Barton was b. at Salem, Mass., about 1639. He was
still living at Salem in 1729 when he sold the farm of 300 acres at Cape
Porpoise which his father had owned. He was living in Salem in 1668 when he
and his wife, Martha, sold their dwelling house and one other of their land in
that town to William Dicer. This may have been preliminary to removal to Cape
Porpoise where his father lived, because, on April 29, 1671 a time coinciding
with his mother's signing of the administration papers on his father's estate
he made a deposition there in which he declared himself to be of Salem and
about 32 years of age. In 1675 his wife Martha is recorded as a temporary
resident of Salem because of Indian troubles. In 1683 he purchased a house
and lot from the estate of Richard Simmons in Salem and from then on
apparently lived there. Records show that Matthew Barton was a mariner and
shipright and indications are that he operated along the seaboard living in
various places, probably for a time in Portsmouth.
Genealogy of The Barton Family of the Town of Marshall, Oneida County, New
York, Compiled by Edward S. Barton in 1920 indicates the following:
p17. Matthew, son of Edward. He returned to his father's farm at Cape
Porpus, Maine, with his son Samuel. Samuel was born about 1664. Matthew was
a sailor, shipbuilder and farmer.

33.Martha.

Seventh Generation

64.Edward Barton was born in of Essex, MA. He died 1673 in Salem, Essex,
Massachusetts. Edward married Elisabeth.
UMI-G2527, Lieut. Samuel Smith, His Children and One line of Descendants and
Related Families, Compiled by James William Hook, 1953, contains 34 pages of
Barton Family genealogical information beginning with Edward Barton and
follows several lines up through the early 1800s.
Hook, p. 129:
Edward Barton, b. in England, came to Salem, Mass. before 1640. He d.
probably at Cape Porpoise, now Kennebunkport, Maine, not later than 1671. His
wife Elizabeth survived him. He exchanged his house and land in Salem for
property in nearby Marbelhead, later received grants of land at what is now
Portsmouth, New Hampshire and moving there about 1646. He is recorded as
having been a trial juryman in Portsmouth in 1650 and other records as late as
1666 show him subscribing to the minister's salary indicating that he was
still living there. He took the oath of fidelity to the Mass. Bay Colony in
1657 at nearby Exeter, Mass., now New Hampshire. About 1666 he moved on up
the coast to Cape Porpoise and settled on a farm of about 300 acres which he
had purchased from Anthony Littlefield and upon which he had buillt a house.
In April of 1671, Elizabeth gave bond as administrator of the estate of her
late husband which consisted of house, land and marsh at Cape Porpoise valued
at 40 pounds and other property which was sufficient to bring the total value
of his estate to 81 pounds.
Genealogy of The Barton Family of the Town of Marshall, Oneida County, New
York, Compiled by Edward S. Barton in 1920 indicates the following:
p16. Edward Barton was prehaps the son of Marmaduke Barton, who came to New
England about 1632; and settled in Essex County, Massachusetts. Edward may
have come to Essex County at the same time as Marmaduke, for they are first
heard of about the same time. By 1640 Edward had settled in the coast town of
Salem. A little later he was at Exeter and Porsmouth, New Hampshire. He was
made a freeman at Exeter, N. H., 14 July 1657. In 1671 he had a 300-acre farm
at Cape Porpus, Maine. In that year, owing to Indian outbreaks, he was forced
to flee with his family to Salem, where he died in 1673. His son Edward is in
the list of Freemen that took the oath of fidelity at the Court in Permaquid,
July 22, 1674.

65.Elisabeth.

Eighth Generation

128.Marmaduke Barton was probably born in England.

The source of the Barton line from Marmaduke to Clara Barton was taken from
UMI-G1827, The Barton Family.

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If you want collateral information on this line, check my web page
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/roy and click on "My wife's Barton line." It is
mostly about the Rhode Island Bartons but I also included Clara Barton's line.

Roy Leggitt, full time RVer spending the winter on the Colorado River across
from Parker, AZ

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