Person:Robert Barnes (2)

From Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland

On 13 June 1734, with Peter Barnes, he patented a 154 acres Brother's Level, and on 24 Sep 1749, he patented 420 acres Addition to Brother's Level. In 1752, he and his wife Lois conveyed 60 acres of the latter tract to Peter Barnes.

He also owned tracts called Barnes' Purchase (296 acres which he had patented), His or Mine, purchased from William Harrison, and 18 acres which he patented as Stony Hills.

In 1736, he served on the jury of the Anne Arundel County November Court. He was a member of the Grand Jury at the June Court, 1741, and at the June Court, 1748, he appeared as a surety for Adam Shipley who was licensed to keep an ordinary. He himself was granted a license to keep an ordinary in June 1758.

By 1770, he had moved to Frederick County, where he had assigned his right to the 18 acre Stony Hills to John Dorsey (endorsement, dated 19 March 1770, on back of the patent).

In 1773, as Robert Barnes of Anne Arundel County, he gave bond to his son Robert, Jr., to convey to him 100 acres of Barnes' Purchase, and Addition to Brother's Level. It was sold at public sale to James Brown and 200 lbs., but the assignment was not received at the death of Robert Barnes, Sr., and so in 1779 Joshua Barnes, heir-at-law, and Ezekiel and Silvanus Barnes, sons and heirs of the will of Robert Barnes, and now living in Washington County, conveyed the land again. The deed was witnessed by Jos. Chaplin and Richard Davis.

Robert Barnes died leaving a will... in which, as Robert Barnes, Sr., of Chew's Farm, he named as heirs daughters Rachel (and possibly her sons Joshua, Robert and Nathan), Katy (and her son Peter), and Sarah, and sons Joshua, Robert and Nathan. To his two youngest sons Sylvanus and Ezekiel he gave 1/2 part of the lot adjacent the lot where he dwelt, and known as #14, Plat of Frederick Town, Plat #123. The will was witnessed by John Phillips, Richard Davis, and Lecon Davis.

Another reading of his will, by Carol Gehrs Mitchell gives this interpretation: Robert Barnes, Sr., of Chew's Farm... described himself as being in a weak condition. He gave bequests of 1 s. each to his daughter Rachel, sons Joshua, Robert, Nathan, daughter Katy's son, Peter, and daughter Sarah. To his youngest son Sylvanus and Ezekiel he gave 1/2 part of the lot adjacent the lot where he dwelt, and known as #14, Plat of Frederick Town, Plat #123.

Katy could have been a nickname for Katherine or Keturah.

The Barnes Family of Fleming County, Kentucky by Larry D. Bowling and Pat Donaldson, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1992, p 566-576, suggests a descendancy for this man.

1. ↑ Barnes, Robert W. Colonial families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (Family Line Publications)
   p. 4.
2. ↑ Vital Records Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

   MPL EI#2:128; BY&GS#2:508; BC#9:473; BC#10:58;
   Land Records BB#10:58;
   Judgement Records IB#1:219, ISB#1, also June 1758 Court:265;
   Index to Maryland Patents, MSA;

3. ↑ .

   Washington County Land Records B:91-95, Frederick County Will Book A#1:585; A#1 and GM#1:585-586, abstracted in Western Maryland Genealogy Quarterly, 5 (Jan 1989):20.

4. ↑ Researcher.

   Linda L. Mitchell