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May 14, 1634, and represented Salem in the General Court in 1635, 1638,
1647, and 1655. He was an intelligent man, and often served as selectman,
deputy to the General Court, etc. He opposed the sentence of the General
Court against those who petitioned for freer franchise. He followed the
occupation of tailor. His death occurred at Salem, April 28, 1673, at the
age of seventy-three years.
Popes "Pioneers of Massachusetts" says that an Anna Barney was a
member of the church at Salem, in 1637, and queries whether she was
Jacob's wife; but in the settlement of his estate, Sept. 30, 1673, the relict,
Elizabeth, is called the mother of Jacob, only son of the deceased, and he
is called her son. As he was born in England before 1634, Anna could not
have been the wife of his father in 1637. There is little doubt that Jacob
Barney, the elder, was son of Edward Barney of Bradenham, County of
Bucks, England, yeoman, who bequeathed in his will of Oct. 9, 1643, to
"son Jacob Barney, if he is living at the time of my death and come over
into England. " Edward's wife may have been Isabel Rooles, daughter of
John Rooles, of Turfile, County of Bucks, England.
The children of Jacob and EHzabeth Barney were: Jacob; Sarah, who
married John Grover, and died in November, 1662; John, baptized Dec.
13, 1639; and Hannah who married John Cromwell, who died in September,
1700.
(II) Jacob Barney (2) was born in England, and was married Aug.
18, 1657, in Salem, Mass., to Hannah Johnson, who died June 5, 1659. He
married (second) April 26, 1660, Ann Witt, daughter of John and Sarah
Witt, of Lynn. His children were: Josiah; Hannah, born May 30, 1659;
Hannah (second), March 2, 1661; Sarah, Sept. 12, 1662; Abigail, Oct. 31,
1663; John Aug. 1, 1665; Jacob, May 21, 1667; Ruth, Sept. 27, 1669;
Dorcas, April 22, 1671; Joseph, March 9, 1673; Israel, June 17, 1675;
Jonathan, March 29, 1677; Samuel, Feb. 10, 1679; and Hannah (third),
Feb. 6, 1681. Mr. Barney was a Baptist minister and founded the churches
in Charlestown and Swansea, and was probably the one who founded the
First Baptist Society in Boston in 1668. He removed from Salem not
earUer than 1673, going to Bristol and Rehoboth. His will was made July
13, 1694, and probated Feb. 25, 1695, his widow Ann being appointed
executrix. She died March 17, 1701, in Rehoboth.
(Ill) Joseph Baraey, son of Jacob (2) and Ann (Witt), born in
1673, came to Rehoboth in 1690 with Josiah, his half-brother, and married
Constant Davis, daughter of James and Ehzabeth Davis, of Haverhill,
Mass. Their children were: Elizabeth, born in 1694, who married Joseph
Mason, of Swansea; Daniel, born in 1697, who married Alice (or Freelove)
Wheaton; Joseph, who married Joanna Martin; John, who married (first),
Hannah Clark, and (second) Keziah Horton; Esther, who married Daniel
Davis, son of Elisha and Grace (Shaw) Da\'is; Ann; Seu-ah, who married
John Davis, June 30, 1732; and Anna.
(IV) Daniel Barney, son of Joseph, born in 1697, married Freelove
Wheaton, and had chilidren: Mary, born in 1739; Constant, in 1731; Betsy,
in 1733; Anna, in 1734; Daniel, in 1736; (married Rachael Bowen) ; David
and Jonathan, 1741; Beniah, 1744; Sarah, March 2, 1737.
(V) Daniel Barney Jr., son of Daniel, bom in 1736, married
Rachael Bowen, and had children: Daniel; Nathan; Jonathan; Peleg;
Reuben; Ebenezer, and Rhoda.
(VI) Jonathan Barney, son of Daniel Jr., married (first) Elizabeth
(Betsey,) daughter of Marmaduke Mason, and their children were : Mason,
Rachael, Hannah, Nathan, Jonathan, Betsey, Mary, Nancy, Anthony,
Alanson and Matilda.
(VII) Mason Barney, son of Jonathan, born in 1782, married in
1802 Martha Smith, who died a few years later. He married (second) in