Moses Barron

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Moses Barron (1643–1699), son of Elias Barron and Grace Unknown

Mary Learned (b. 1646/7), daughter of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns

Moses Barron was born on 1 (1) 1643 in Watertown. [1] Moses, Sr., died on 25 April 1699 in Chelmsford. [2] He married Mary Learned by 1669. [3]

Mary Learned was born on 15: 5m: 1646 in Watertown [1] or 7 August 1647 in Woburn. [4] She was baptised on 1: 12 m: 1656 in Chelmsford. [1]

Moses Barron was on a 1 September 1674 list of able-bodied men in Chelmsford. [5, 89] He was a selectman in 1687. [5, 754–6]

Either Moses or his son Moses was appointed school master in Chelmsford on 28 May 1705 [5, 553]

Mary's stepfather John Burge refers to her as Mary Barron in his will of 1 June 1671. [6]

Children of Moses Barron and Mary Learned: Births recorded in Chelmsford. [2]

i. Captain Moses Barron was born on 28 October 1669. Captain Moses Barron died on 16 September 1719, age about 50, in Chelmsford. [2] He married Mary (Bunker) Richardson as her second husband on 2 February 1697/8 in Chelmsford. [2][7] Mary was born about 1679 and died in 1741. [7] She married third Thomas Howe in 1724. [7]

Mary Barron, widow, Jonathan Barron and William Fletcher posted a bond for the estate of Captain Moses Barron on 21 January 1719/20. [8]

Captain Moses's gravestone in Chelmsford says that he died on 16 September 1719, age about 50. [5, 723]

Captain Moses Bararon was a selectman in Chelmsford from 1705 to 1719; he was town clerk from 1707 to 1718 and he was moderator from 1712 to 1714. [7]

ii. Isaac Barron was born on 1 December 1671 . He died on 16 September 1739 in Chelmsford. He married Sarah Goodwin.

iii. Mary Barron was born on 1 March 1673.

iv. Samuel Barron was born on 3 May 1679 in Chelmsford. He died on 14 November 1751 and was buried on 1 November 1751, age 72, in Chelmsford. [2] He married Mary Stearns of Billerica on 28 May 1705 in Chelmsford. [2] She died on 25 June 1743 in Chelmsford. [2]

v. Elias Barron was born on 26 March 1682

vi. William Barron was born on 19 November 1685.

vii. Joseph Barron was born on 27 August 1688.

Endnotes:

1. Watertown Records ..., Records of Births Marriages and Deaths (Watertown: Fred G. Barker, 1894), Birth of Moses (s. Ellis and Grace), p. 10.

2. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1914). Death of Moses (Sr.), p. 361. Mary's baptism (with birth) record (as d. Isaac), p. 92. Births of the children recorded as children of Moses and Mary, pp. 18, 21. Moses Marriage (to Mary Richardson), p. 181. Samuel's marrige, p. 183. Deaths of Captain Moses and Mary (w. Samuel), pp. 363–4.

4. Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890): 2, 148, d. Isaac.

3. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, vol. 1 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 97.

5. Wilson Waters, History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Lowell, MA: Courier-Citizen, 1917).

6. William Blake Trask, "Early Matters Relating to Dorchester and First Church of Dorchester: John Burge," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 40 (1886): 260–1.

7. "Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691–1780," database, AmericanAncestors, citing John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary (Boston: Northeasetern University Press, 1997.), entry for Moses Barron.

8. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," database with images, AmericanAncestors > 1309, images 1–3.

Revised 05-Jun-2023