Jacob BARNEY, Jr.^[1]

Abt 1630 - 1693  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Jacob BARNEY
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	Abt 1630	of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, England
  Christened	1634	Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	GBFA-1
  _UID	F53A8B746863C44492954F17D882921E9879
  Died	12 Feb 1693	Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
  Person ID	I23307	Branch 001 Roger De Toneii 1029 FR
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2006

  
  

  Father	Jacob BARNEY, Sr.,   b. 1601, of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, England ,   d. 28 Apr 1673, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Anne,   b. Abt 1605, Godley Par., Manchester, England ,   d. Abt 1634, of Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Married	Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, England
  Family ID	F8695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne WITT,   b. 1637, Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. 17 Mar 1701/2, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts  (Age 65 years)
  Married	26 Apr 1660	Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts
  Children	1. Hannah BARNEY,   b. 2 Mar 1660/1, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 1681, Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts  (Age < 19 years)   2. Sarah BARNEY,   b. 12 Sep 1662, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Aft 1692  (Age > 31 years)   3. Abigail BARNEY,   b. 3 Oct 1663, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. John Witt BARNEY,   b. 1 Aug 1665, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. 1 May 1728, Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts  (Age 62 years)   5. Jacob BARNEY,   b. 21 May 1667, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 1692, Massachusetts or Rhode Island  (Age < 24 years)   6. Ruth BARNEY,   b. 27 Sep 1669, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. 1717, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island  (Age 47 years)   7. Dorcas BARNEY,   b. 22 Apr 1671, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. 19 Sep 1697, Bristol, Bristol Co., Rhode Island  (Age 26 years)   8. Joseph BARNEY, Lt.,   b. 9 Mar 1672/3, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. 5 Feb 1730/1, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts  (Age 57 years)   9. Israel BARNEY,   b. 17 Jun 1675, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   10. Jonathan BARNEY,   b. 29 Mar 1677, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Nov 1706, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island  (Age 29 years)   11. Samuel BARNEY,   b. 10 Feb 1678/9, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts   12. Hannah BARNEY,   b. 6 Feb 1680/1, Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Aft 1746, of Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island  (Age > 66 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F8696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From GBFA, p.5: "Jacob Barney was a farmer and a Baptist minister, interested in organizing Societies of that faith. This may have been the reason for his removal from Salem to Rehoboth some time after 1681. His children are all recorded at Salem; his will, dated July 20, 1692, names his wife and all the children save the first two Hannahs and son Jacob." The statement about him being a Baptist minister has been repeated in nearly all the compendiums; many of them also go on to state that he founded Baptist churches in Charlestowne and many other places. But I HAVE NEVER FOUND ANY EVIDENCE that this Jacob Barney was a minister. He is not mentioned in the records of the early Baptist church in Massachusetts. There is a record of a Jacob Barney being baptised in the Baptist church in Boston, but I rather think it might have been Jacob Sr. The Barney family packed up and left Salem, selling all their property there in January 1691, just a few weeks prior to the beginning of the witchcraft business in Salem. But I have found no actual connection between the witchcraft persecutions and the decision to leave Salem. They went to Rehoboth, then a part of Plymouth Colony.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4663] Stafford Data Branch 14.