The BARBOUR Family of Dedham, Norfolk, MA and Medfield, Norfolk, MA
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CAPT. GEORGE BARBOUR
(b. abt 1615) of Dedham and Medfield m. Elizabeth Clark (d. 1683)
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HANNAH BARBOUR (b.
1654) m. Ebenezer Badcock
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Generation 1
CAPT. GEORGE BARBOUR (b. abt 1615) of Dedham and Medfield
Parents: Unknown
George Barbour was born about 1615, probably near Fressingham, Suffolk, England. [Ref] He married first Elizabeth Clark [Ref] on 24 Oct 1642. [Ref] Elizabeth died on 22 Dec 1683 in Medfield. [Ref] He married second Joan Fisher. [Ref]
Elizabeth, the wife of George, was admitted to the Dedham church on 27 (8) 1643. [Ref] George was admitted after 5 (9) 1643, when his daughter Mary was baptised and before 17 (11) 1646 when his son Samuel was baptised. [Ref]
George emigrated in 1638, probably with others from Fressingham in the company of Rev. John Phillip of Wrentham, Suffolk, England, and settled in Dedham. [Ref]
Anne Vttinge, single woman of Dedham, left bedding to George Berbor of Dedham, single man of Dedham, in her undated will. [Ref]
George Barbour was a freeman on 26 May 1647. [Ref]
In 1650, George was one of the founders of Medfield. [Ref]
He was deputy to the General Court for eight years and town clerk for 22 years. [Ref] He was Captain of the the military company from 1667 to his death. [Ref]
Nicholas Wood of Natick wrote his will on 16 Jan 1669/70. He appointed his friend George Barbour as supervisor. The will was witnessed by Henry Leland and Hopestill Leland. [Ref]
Children of George Barbour and Elizabeth Clark
Generation 2
Parents: Capt. George Barbour and Elizabeth Clark
Hannah Barbour was born on 16 (2) 1654 in Medfield. [Ref] She married Ebenezer Badcock. [Ref][Ref]
References
Church Records
Hill, Don Gleason, ed., The Records of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, and Admissions to the Church and Dismissals Therein, transcribed from the church records in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638 - 1845, Dedham, unknown, 1888.
Family Genealogies
Tingley, Ramon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines: being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife, Martha Pamelia [sic] Meyers, Rutland, VT, Tuttle Pub. Co., 1935.
Memorials
Adams, Arthur, "William Inglis Morse," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 106, 1952, 241-243.
Bartlett, J. Gardner, "Edmund Dana Barbour," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 79, 1925, 339-344.
Public Records
Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 3, 1849, 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352.
Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.
Pulsifer, David, trans., "Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues
Torry, Clarence A, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
Wills
Trask, William, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 184; 48, 1894, 457.