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- ...BARKER GENEALOGY ... FOURTH GENERATION.
#43 JAMES was a freeman (in Middletown, RI) in 1722, Member of the Town Council 1743-66, in 1758 was deputed to enlist soldiers, the old tenor bills issued in 1750, called 9th Bank, were redeemed in 1764, opposed by James in rhyming protest.
"I do beg leave for to protest
Against this bill, which doth transgress
Against our Sovereign Lord the King,
Likewise injustice is therein,
For I can't see, upon my soul
Why two fifths should discharge the whole."
He married 21 Jan 1724 Mary, dau. of William and Mary (Tew) Peckham. b. 7 Sept 1704; d. 12 June 1728; mar (2) ---- 1730 Margaret, dau. Jeremiah and Mary (Clark) Weeden. b. 1701; d. 8 May 1785.
BERKSHIRE HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, VOL. 1, PUB. 1892.
Early Settlements in Cheshire, List of conveyences recorded in the
first ten books of Pittsfield Registry of Deeds running to persons
named as residents of Rhode Island, page 85:
James Barker, Middletown, R.I., June 9, 1773. Land in
Lanesborough, being part of Lot No. 21 and 76 in the 2nd division, containing 57 1/2 acres. B. 10. p. 550.
.... September 4, 1773. Land in
Lanesborough, 1 acre.
(John Barker, Newport, R.I., June 9, 1773. Land in Lanesborough, being part of lot 21 and 76 in the 2nd division, 76 acres, B. 10, p. 550.)
NOTE: A LATER REFERENCE STATES THAT JAMES AND JOHN
WERE BROTHERS.
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