Beginnings by Cleadie B. Barnett
Barton, Roger Loyalist, of Queens Co, NB
Roger Barton, of Long Island, NY / of Dutchess Co, NY s/o Joseph Barton and Abigail Lewis. He married Elizabeth Miller, Savannah, Georgia
(Children were all chr 17 Feb 1794, Gagetown Anglican Church Records)
01: Roger b. 1760 d. in US
02: William b. 1765 d. 3 Oct 1828, bur Lower Range Cemetery m. Jane Burk
03: Andrew b. 1778 d. 20 Jul 1831 m. 8 Oct 1798, Mary Cross
04: John b. 1780 d. 20 Aug 1842 m. Hannah Miller
05: Joseph b. 1782 d. 29 Dec 1840 m. Hannah Miller
06: Sarah b. 1784 m. David MacDonald
07: Elizabeth b. 10 Aug 1785 d. 11 Jun 1837, Peekskill, NY m. Henry MacDonald or Simon Wright(Loyalist Collection / CBB = not proven)
Ref: - see source list for more proper citation names01: History of Queens County, New Brunswick - Prize Essay in The Watchman, 1868, by E. Stone Wiggins, LLD
BARTON - Rodger. There were several of this name who espoused the Loyalist cause during the American Revolution. Colonel Barton, who commanded a body of forty men, was captured at Staten Island in 1777 and carried to New Jersey. Rev. Thomas Barton, an Episcopal cleargyman, was a friend of George Washington, and was for many years rector at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He refused to lend his influence to the Rebel cause, and retired to New York, where he died in 1780, aged fifty years. His son, Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton, was a distinguished professor in the University of Pennsylvania, where he succeeded the celebrated Dr. Rush. Professor Barton was the first American who published an elementary work on botany. James and Henry Barton, in 1872, were ensigns of the first battalion of New Jersy volunteers. Rodger Barton, a U.E. Loyalist, from whom all the Bartons in Queen's County are descended, was born in Long Island and came to St. John with his wife and family in 1783. He was by trade a blacksmith. In 1786 he moved to the Range, on the farm now owned by Joseph Barton. John Miller, Arthur Branscombe and Mr. Barton were the first settlers on the Range. The hardships encountered by these old pioneers of Queen's County were very great. For the first few years they were obliged to obtain all their provision, which consisted mainly of Indian corn, from St. John, and as they were able to purchase but a small quantity at a time, they were obliged to visit the city in a small boat several times during the summer. On one occasion, to obtain two bushels of corn, Mrs. Barton assisted to row a boat from the Range to St. John and return, a distance of one hundred and forty miles, taking with her her infant but a few months old. Their children were: William who married Jane Burk; Andrew to Mary Cross; John to Hannah Miller; Joseph to Hannah Allen; Sarah to David Macdonald; Elizabeth to Henry Macdonald.
In the year 1829 a party of seven persons, viz. William Sypher, son of Mrs. Sypher, of Newcastle; John Earle, son of Harry Earle; James Morrison, a man in the employment of Joseph Barton, also Mr. Barton's son John and his daughters Elizabeth, Sarah and Hannah, crossed from the Range to Newcastle to attend a wedding. Returning the following morning, one of the young men attempted to climb the mast, when the boat was overturned and the whole party, excepting Hannah and Sarah Barton, were drowned. These clung to the masts, which projected a short distance above the water, as the boat fortunately sank upon a shoal. Sarah, who afterwards married Philip Miler, is still living in Canada.
Andrew Barton, son of Joseph; Joseph, Richard Aaron and John Masters, sons of Joseph; Samuel and William, sons of William; Andrew and John, sons of Andrew, are well-off farmers. The first mentioned is Postmaster at the Range.
William Barton, Jr., a blacksmith settled at the head of Cumberland Bay in 1847. In September 1852, his son John, then four years old, went with his two brothers, Joseph and William, to bring up the cows. Delaying in his duty, the father followed and punished the two elder boys, and the younger to avoid being detected crept into the bushes. On returning to the path, the little fellow took the wrong direction and wandered for eight days between Cumberland Bay and the Canaan River. Over one hundred persons were engaged in the search and had given him up for lost, when he was found by John Barton and John McViccar. He is now living, but suffers from the loss of the right knee-joint from exposure to the cold.
02: Roger Barton's Kinsmen, by
03: Gagetown Anglican Church Records, PANB
04: Early Loyalist Saint John, D. Bell
Background from Wallpaper World / Bars from Hee Yun's Graphic Collection
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