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John Barnard

Ancestry of
John Barnard

(1746–1778)

    John Barnard

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
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    • Birth Date:
    • 12 Dec 1746 
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    • Death Date:
    • 12 Dec 1778 
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    • Capt. John Barnard was in command of an American ship on 12 DEC 1778 when he was overtaken by a British man-of-war and shot dead by one of its officers on his own quarter deck after he had surrendered. The officer was subsequently tried at New Orleans and hung on the yard-arm of his own vessel.

  • Marriages for John Barnard

    • Spouse:
    • Mary Lowell
    • Marriage Date:
    • 14 Nov 1766

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  • Sources for John Barnard

    • 1 Blake, Samuel, Blake Family: A Genealogical History of William Blake, of Dorchester, and His Descendants . . ., Boston: Ebenezer Clapp, Jr. (1857), 44.
    • 2 Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestors and Descendants of John Coney of Boston, England and Boston, Massachusetts, Concord: The Rumford Press (1928), 90-91.
    • 3 Lowell, Delmar R., The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1899), 36-39.