Thomas Barnes

Abt 1620 - 1689  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Thomas Barnes  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1620  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Death	Between 9 Jan 1688 and 7 Mar 1689  [2]
  Alternate death	Bef 7 Feb 1690	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Alternate death	10 Jun 1691	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [7]
  Person ID	I19310	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Mary   d. Between 6 Jan 1663 and 27 Jan 1663
  Marriage	Bef 1645  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Barnes,   b. Abt 1645
  Family ID	F17071	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Andrews,   b. 15 Apr 1643   d. Aft 7 Feb 1690 (Age > 47 years)
  Marriage	Aft 23 Mar 1663  [2, 4, 8]
  Family ID	F11638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  First appears in Hartford in 1637, serving in the Pequot War, for which he was granted 50 acres in 1671. Removed to Farmington by 1650, where he was a sergeant of the training band in 1651. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. His first wife Mary, maiden name unknown, was indicted and tried for witchcraft on 3 Jan 1663, in Farmington, and hanged, along with Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith, on the 25th following. It is notable, and unavoidably disturbing, that the father of Thomas Barnes's second wife, John Andrews, has to have been involved in these proceedings, as he was the town constable at the time. It is also notable and definitely disturbing that Thomas Barnes appears to have done nothing in defense of his first wife, nor did he attend her trial and execution. But he did pay the jailkeeper the fee of 21 shillings for keeping her in jail for the three weeks between her trial and her execution.

  
  

• Sources

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