Person:James Barker (46)

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  • HJames Barker1618 - 1678
  • WGrace _____1613 - 1665
m.
  1. Barzillai Barker - 1694
  2. James BarkerEst 1640 - 1722/23
  3. Eunice Barker1642 - 1645
  4. Nathaniel Barker1644 - 1722
  5. Eunice Barker1645/46 -
Facts and Events
Name[6] James Barker
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 1618 Low, Suffolk, , England
Marriage to Grace _____
Immigration[4] 1640 Rowley, MassachusettsArrival
Will[7] 3 Sep 1678 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[3][2] 5 Sep 1678 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[6] 7 Sep 1678 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[7] 12 Sep 1678 Inventory taken 12:7br:1678
Probate[7] 24 Sep 1678 Will proved at Ipswich Court
References
  1. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.).

    Birth date: 1618Birth place: Stragewell, Suffolk, England

  2. 2.0 2.1 Heritage Consulting. Millennium File. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2003).

    Birth date: 1618Birth place: Stragewell, Suff., EnglandDeath date: 5 Sep 1678Death place: Rowley, Esx., Massachusetts, USA

  3. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.).

    Death date: 5 September 1678Death place: Rowley, Essex, MA, USA

  4. Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger an)
    Place: Rowley, Massachusetts; Year: 1640; Page Number: 32.

    Arrival date: 1640Arrival place: Rowley, Massachusetts

  5.   Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.)
    Ancestry Family Trees.
  6. 6.0 6.1 James Barker, in Sidney, Perley. Descendants of James Barker of Rowley. (The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, Mass., 1902 6:101-103)
    p 101.

    James Barker1 was "born at Stragewell in Low Suffolk in Old England," as he says in his will, and was one of the earliest settlers of Rowley, Mass., being made a freeman Oct. 7, 1649. His first wife, Grace, came with him. She died, and was buried in Rowley Feb. 27, 1665. He married, secondly, widow Mary Waite May 22, 1666. He died in Rowley, being buried Sept. 7, 1678; and she survived him, dying, his widow, in Rowley April 12, 1684, and having been blind many years in her old age. Mr. Barker was a tailor by trade. In his will he called George Kilbourn "brother."

  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Estate of James Barker of Rowley, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    3:246-250.

    James' will is lengthy and names: "Beloued Wife Mary," "Son Burzillai my eldest child," "daughter Grace till she be Maried," son James Barker, son Nathaniel Barker, Ebenezer Barker my Grandchild (son of Barzilliai), my daughter Unice Watson, or her children, son in law John Watson, "Loueing friends John Trumble & Nehemiah Jewet to be Ouerseers"

    In a 1668 deposition: "Elizabeth Sticknee, aged about seventy,and of Samuell Sticknee, aged about forty five, that 'James Barker Senior promised upon condition of marriage betwen his son James Barker and mary the daughter of William Sticknee deceased that hee the said James Barker Senior would give ...'