Person:Hammutal Unknown (2)

From Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland

For many years family historians have accepted Hammutal, wife of John Barnes, as a daughter of Robert Tivis, but this theory has been dissolved by the discovery that Hammutal Tivis married first Adam Shipley, and second, John Lindsay.

From Hammutal Tevis and Robert Shipley: A Cautionary Tale by Nany Pearre Lesure

Who, then, was Hammutal Barnes? John Barnes probably married in Anne Arundel County as he sold his land there in the 1790's and bought in Baltimore County. A review of Anne Arundel church records for 1733 to 1755 reveals no less than 12 Hammutals - with many variations of spelling - several of whom would be likely candidates, especially those with surnames Frizzell, MacCubbins, and Dorsey....

One final explanation is needed: those Barnes descendants with the Tevis name. John and Hammutal (surname unknown) Barnes had a son Adam, who 5 August 1784 married a Ruth Shipley. The most plausible explanation is that she was Robert Shipley's sister, the daughter of Adam, deceased, and of Hammutal (Tevis) Shipley, later Lindsay. Adam Barnes and Ruth (Shipley) Barnes had a daughter Hammutal, and it appears that she was named for both of her grandmothers. The children of John Barnes' son Adam are descendants from Robert Tevis after all, but on the maternal rather than the paternal side.

1. ↑ Robert Barnes. Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (Anthology of Colonial Families of Maryland 1600s-1900s)
   p. 14-15.
2. ↑ Maryland Genealogical Society. Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin. (Quarterly magazine)
   "Hammutal Tivis and Robert Shipley: A Cautionary Tale".

   by Nancy Pearre Lesure, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1990