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Cap Benjamin Barnes Charles Curtiss Ancestors and Descendants of Cap Benjamin Barnes and Charles Curtiss of Granville, Mass. By Abel Tuttle Barnes Great-grandson of Capt. Benjamin Member New England Historic Genealogical Society SHARON, MASS. ½ ~ :JGift'.s :tlllirrnr There are Joyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you. Give love and love to your life will flow, A strength in your utmost need; Have faith and a score of hearts will show Their faith in your word and deed. Give truth and your gift will be paid in kind, And honor will honor meet. And a smile that is sweet will surely find A smile that is just as sweet. For life is a mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you. -Author unknown. EXPLANATIONS IN this work the family heads are arranged somewhat dif­ ferently from that in common use; as the title-page implies, this is a record of the descendants of Capt. Benjamin Barnes. In the family headings the descendant, whether male or female, is placed first; hence the wife, in cases where she is the descendant, will have her name placed before that of her husband. The direct descent back to Capt. Benjamin is given in small type directly under each family heading. The family heads will be in larger, black-face type, and the direct ancestors' birth number and name in record of ancestors the same. Consecutive numbers will be given children as they appear in this book; these will be in smaller light-face type. To trace any one's descent back and find dates of births and mar­ riages, take descendant's number at family heading and turn back until you find same number under heading of children; then take the number of family head under which you will find your first number and turn back until you find that number in same manner, until you come to Capt. Benjamin. Instead of making the order by generations, as is commonly done in genealogies, I take the children in order from oldest to youngest and carry their line down to the present time. For in­ stance: Capt. Benjamin had but three children, who married and had descendants, - Elijah, Lucy, and Benjamin Jr. Their order in this book will be first, Elijah; second, Benjamin; Jr., third, Lucy and Charles Curtiss. Elijah's first child was Laura; her descendants will in their order be brought down to the present time. Then next Lucy treated in the same way, and so on down to his last child Sophia. Letters and abbreviations: b. - born dau. - daughter m.-married g.-grand d.-died g. g.-great-grand n. m. - never married g. g. g. - great-great-grand n. c.-no children g. g. g. g.-great-great-great-grand * Soldier. See War Records. V INTRODUCTORY AND APOLOGETICAL As a man's memory cannot extend back beyond his birth nor forward after his death, with some deduction at the beginning at least, all historical matters which he may produce extending outside the scope of his memory must be taken from history or the word of others. So in case of this work, while much of it is from memory and records of my own, much more is gleaned from records (many of them contradictory) and from persons living, as to their own families, and in this there are many discouragements. While a few will answer inquiries promptly and fully, much the greater part will delay for weeks or months, and some will not answer at all, even when addressed envelope and postage is sent them. The first class have my hearty thanks and gratitude; the second, my conditional thanks and sympathy; but toward the last I refrain from making any expression of my feelings here. This will be all the apology I shall make for blank spaces and errors. Many attempts have been made, and are still being made, by individuals to get up genealogies of all the people of any one name from their origin, this must of necessity prove a failure; or even of all branches of same name who came to this country, although such productions are of great value and wide interest. This will be more apparent when you apply it individually. Take yourself as one: you had two parents, a father and mother, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and carry this on back for twelve generations ( three hundred years) and you find you had two thousand and forty-eight direct parents and grandparents. Carry this back another three hundred years to twenty-four generations and you find that in six hundred years you have had the enormous sum of eight million, three hundred eighty-eight thousand, six hundred and eight direct parents. For these reasons the writer believes that ancestral history can best be preserved by taking up, by some interested member of a family line, from grandfather or great-grandfather, bringing same down to the present, than by undertaking such a herculean task as getting all lines of any name, and a greater semblance of accuracy can be obtained. vi Introductory and A pologetical vii My experience, extending over a period of about ten years, satisfies me that any one undertaking it will find that the labor and expense will be sufficient to satisfy his ambition in this direction. I believe that greater interest and care should be taken in keeping and preserving individual family records for the benefit of posterity. A. T. BARNES. THE NAME BARNES Very little, I might say nothing, is known as to our direct line in England. There were many prominent men in high positions there by this name among the gentry. There were also many among the sturdy yeomanry. When in Scotland in 1899, I visited the Historic Library in Glasgow, but could find nothing to connect our ancestor, Thomas Barnes, with any of the many lines of our name which I found there. A friend of mine well versed in genealogical matters told me once that I was descended from the line of martyrs of that name, who were burned at the stake for their religious beliefs because they would not recant. Savage says in his Genealogical Dictionary," The patronymic Barnes was originally spelled 'Bainie,' probably from the Saxon 'Beoon,' or, which is more likely, from the Norse 'Bjorne,' a warrior." T. C. Barnes, in "The Barnes Family Year Book," says it "was brought to England by William the Conqueror, being the name of his trusted aide." COAT OF ARMS I have been asked many times what the Barnes coat of arms was. So far as I have been able to learn, we can lay no claim to one. While there were a number of tribes or lines of this name in England who belonged to the gentry and had them of dif­ ferent designs, none can be traced to our ancestor who came to this country, viz., Thomas Barnes of New Haven, Conn., to whom we are able to trace our ancestry with certainty. For my part, I am content to believe that I am descended from the sturdy yeomanry and to be taken for what I am, and not for what my ancestors have been. I have heard a story which I believe to be true; that some time after the Revolutionary War, Capt. Benjamin Barnes sold a cow to one who claimed to belong to the gentry, and who made out the bill. " ----Gentleman, bought of Benjamin Barnes, Yeoman, -One red cow," etc. viii THE BARNES GENEALOGY CAPTAIN BENJAMIN BARNES WAS the seventh child of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Miller) Barnes; born in Middletown, Conn., where his parents resided until some time between 1750-60, when they moved to West Granville, Mass., in which town Capt. Benjamin lived· until his death, and his remains were buried in the cemetery there, which I have visited many times in the past thirty years. Unfortunately, there is no picture of him in existence, and probably none was ever made. He, as well as his ancestors, were thrifty farmers and well-to-do in those times, all of them known to be landowners and prominent in the towns where they lived. Capt. Benjamin bought land in Granville in 1769, 1770, and 1772, the latter the tract on which he built the house, a picture of which is shown in this book. As he died two years before I was born I have no means of knowing his personal appearance only by hearsay. He was physi­ cally a strong man, of medium stature and of kind and genial temperament, ever kind but strict in his family, honorable in his dealings with his fellow men, and a Christian, - by profes­ sion a Presbyterian, but when Methodism came to Granville in 1792-95 he became much interested, but whether he ever joined that denomination I do not know. Nothing I can say will better illustrate the kind of a man he was than to copy from " The History of the Introduction of Methodism into the Towns of Blanford and Granville," by Armor Hamilton. " Soon after, the meetings were removed to Capt. Benjamin Barnes, and a class formed of Anah Barnes, Benjamin Barnes, and Edward Bancroft. He was class leader. About this time, another class was formed in Granville upon Beach Hill. This class was of :five, David Frost and wife, Rubin Farnum and wife, and the wife of Dan Robinson.
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