Samuel Barron I (son of Richard Barron)53 was born 09 Jun 1690 in South Molton, Devon, England54, and died Abt. 1750 in Mill Point, Hampton, Elizabeth City, Virginia55. He married Dorothy Bushen on 02 Apr 1727 in South Molton, Devon, England55.
Notes for Samuel Barron I: He came to America like so many others to make his fortune. He was a merchant in Petersburg, Virginia, when he was called to be Commanding Officer of Fort George in Hampton, Virginia.
Samuel Barron was commander of Fort George (Fort Monroe). Fort George was destroyed by the great hurricane of 1749. An account of this tremendous storm was given in the biography of Commodore James Barron, An Affair of Honor, by William Oliver Stevens. Barron's grandfather (Samuel Barron) witnessed the hurricane first hand while stationed at Fort George. The account is as follows: A threatening sky was observed to the southeast over the Chesapeake Bay. The wind increased which soon brought the rain. As the hours wore on the wind and rain increased in fury. Sometimes the downpour slackened. One could hear the sand picked up by the wind from the beach outside and blasted against every object that still withstood the gale. All the while the rising tide was rapidly being piled up to a height never seen before in that area. The waves were pounding on the shore, finally to the very foot of the outside wall at Fort George. A large tree crashed over on its side with its roots in the air and was driven against the land side of the Fort. With the impact the wall yawned and broke. Shortly afterwards the seawall lurched and sank at the point where it was exposed to the wave fury of the storm. Finally the outside wall of the fort gave way, and the filling of sand poured out, leaving the inner wall exposed to the blast without support. When this too fell apart and collapsed, the barracks took the full force of the wind. About sundown, the storm slackened and in another hour the rain and wind had diminished to such a degree that it was clearly spent. The next morning Commodore Barron swept the distant waters with his spy glass. He was astonished to see across Hampton Roads a wide, sand promontory which had not existed there before. A sand spit had been thrown up during the fury of the storm, which was the beginning of Willoughby Spit.
After this, Samuel Barron moved to Mill Creek, Elizabeth City County, Virginia.
He had the following children: James, Samuel, Mary, Richard, William, Robert, David, and Ann.
Samuel Barron Jr., moved to North Caroline.
Richard married three times. By his first wife he had two children; Elizabeth and Mary. By his second marriage, one son, Thomas, lost at sea as captain of a schooner out of Norfolk.
William Barron was a zealous patriot from the very commencement of the Revolu-tion. He was killed by the bursting of a gun on board the Boston Frigate on it's way to France.
James died on a return voyage of the ship, from Holland.
Robert married a Miss Loyall of Norfolk Virginia and had issue; Mary, Elizabeth, Robert, Susan, David, and Ann. The sons died young, and one of the daughters married a Mr. Locke.
David, the only one of the brothers who did not go to sea, settled in Newbern, North Carolina. Married and had issue; Samuel and Ann.
Mary Barron married twice; first, a Mr. Servant, by whom she had issue: Captain Samuel Servant, lost at sea during the Revolution, and Lieutenant Richard Servant, killed in action off Cape Henry. This Lieutenant Servant had one son, Richard, born about three months after his death. Second husband was a Cunningham (see Ann Barron).
Ann Barron married three times; first, a Mr. Cunningham, brother of her sister's husband, and had issue: William Cunningham, lost at sea in 1795 on a pilot boat schooner on which he served as pilot; Samuel, who died in Newbern, North Carolina, in 1795, and James Cunningham, lost at sea during the Revolution while he was serving as a mate. Mrs. Cunningham married, secondly, a Capt. Johnston, and had issue: James and Mary Johnston. She married, thirdly, a Mr. Noden, and had two sons, both of whom died young, one lost at sea at the age of 16. ****************************************************** Still lots of questions?? Patricia Oliver Holloway's notes: I think the two Barron sisters (Ann and Mary) married two brothers of the William Cunningham that married Susanna Roe.. This would make William Cunningham a brother in-law to Ann Barron and Mary Barron and would make William Roe Cunningham II a nephew to Samuel Barron two daughters.
But in some of Lummie Cunningham's notes she writes that 'He (William Roe Cunningham) was nephew of Captain Samuel Barrron, commander of Fort George and cousin of Captains James and Richard Barron'. If she is correct and William Roe Cunningham is Samuel Barron nephew - William Roe Cunningham's father, William Cunningham had a sister and she married Captain Samuel Barron. ********************************************************* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Samuel Barron born 09 JUN 1690 South Molton, Devon, England - father Richard Barron.
More About Samuel Barron I: Date born 2: Abt. 1700, Bristol, England. Family Tree (FTW): 1700 Barron and Cunningham Family.
More About Samuel Barron I and Dorothy Bushen: Marriage: 02 Apr 1727, South Molton, Devon, England.55
Children of Samuel Barron I and Dorothy Bushen are:
+Mary Barron, b. Nov 1727, South Molton, Devon, England, d. date unknown.
Samuel Barron II, b. 25 Jan 1729, South Molton, Devon, England, d. date unknown, North Caroline.
Richard Barron, b. Abt. 1734, Virginia, d. date unknown.
+James Barron I, b. Abt. 1736, Virginia, d. 14 May 1787, on a return voyage of the ship, from Holland.
+Ann Barron, b. Abt. 1738, Virginia, d. date unknown.
+William Barron, b. Abt. 1744, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, d. 1796, At Sea.
Robert Barron, b. Abt. 1746, Hampton, Virginia, d. date unknown.
+David Barron, b. Abt. 1748, Hampton, Virginia, d. date unknown.
Samuel Barron I (b. 09 Jun 1690, d. Abt. 1750)
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