Arthur Barrett was born in England about 1680, came to America in 1700, and settled in Pennsylvania. He was a Quaker who left England to avoid the persecution by the English government. His name appears in the Concord Monthly Meetings in Chester county, Pennsylvania when he declared his intentions to marry Lydia Chambers. They were married and lived in East Nottingham, Chester County, where their nine children were born, until 1739. Arthur's transfer certificate to the Hopewell Monthly Meetings in Frederick County, Virginia, is dated March 19, 1739. The reason for this transfer certificate bears explanation.
Alexander Ross married Katherine Chambers, a sister of Lydia Chambers, and he became a brother-in-law of Arthur. Ross was also a Quaker of Scotch-Irish descent and came to America as an indentured servant at the age of eleven years. In 1733, he was granted 100,000 acres of land from the Governor of Virginia on a stream called Opecan. Arthur and Lydia, along with seventy other families, were included in the patents to the land and formed another Quaker Colony in Frederick County, Virginia. Arthur and Lydia lived on 710 acres of choice land located on the west slope of Apple Pie Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia the rest of their lives.
Arthur died in 1745 and was buried in Virginia.
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