“Mollie Barnes is my name …”: a New England Daughter Identified

Sources and Bibliography

[#1109] = Probate of the estate of Joseph Barnes of Concord, Mass., probate file #1109, Probate Papers, Middlesex Co., Mass., Series I, FHL film #0386011

[1771Vt] = Vermont 1771 Census by Jay Mack Holbrook, Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, Mass., 1982

[1790C – 1880C] = Federal Census records for the year stated

[1855C, 1865C, 1875C] = New York State Census for the year stated

[AA] = American Ancestry, Vol. IV, Joel Munsell’s Sons, Publishers, Albany, N.Y., 1889

[ABJ] = Journal kept by the family of Amos Barnes, in the possession of Helen Barnes (scanned pages viewable on Ancestry.com)

[ABJ2] = later copy of the above-mentioned journal in History Room, Conway, N.H. Public Library

[AbWAG] = Abstracts of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State 1787-1835, Administrations, Mayville NY, Surrogate, Chautauqua Co., July 1, 1931

[AGRP] = Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots

[AKFB] = Averill-Kibbey Family Bible, in the possession of Bunny Averill

[ARC] = Ancient Records of Concord [Mass.] for the Period 1655-1784, FHL film #0964882

[ATR] = Acton Town Records, viewable online at www.actonmemoriallibrary.org. Joseph Barnes is mentioned on pp. 12-14, 17, 19, 24, 34, 39, 64-65, 81-82, 101

[Avery] = The Averell-Averill-Avery Family by Clara A. Avery, Chicago, 19__??, viewable online at Ancestry.com

[AVR] = Vital Records of Acton, Mass. (from MAVR)

[Balcom] = A First Book of the Balcombe Family by Frank W. Balcombe, 1942

[Bass] = History of Braintree, Vermont by H. Royce Bass, Tuttle & Co., Rutland, Vt., 1883

[Best] = The Amidon Family by Frank E. Best, 1904

[BF] = The Boynton Family, compiled by John Farnham Boynton & Caroline (Harriman) Boynton, 1897

[BFYB] = Barnes Family Year Book, Vol. I, Barnes Family Assoc., by Trescott C. Barnes, Grafton Press, NY, 1907

[Bouton] = History of Concord [N.H.]: from its First Grant in 1725 to the Organization of the City Government in 1853 by Nathaniel Bouton, pub. by Benning W. Sanborn, Concord, N.H., 1856

[Brook] = Brookfield [Vt.]’s “Family & Grave” book & “Family” book, FHL film #27926

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[BVR] = Vital Records of Bradford, Mass. (from MAVR)

[CarlVR] = Vital Records of Carlisle, Mass. (from MAVR)

[CF] = The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 by William John Eccles, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969

[CGE] = Charlestown Genealogies and Estates (communicated by Helen Barnes)

[CharVR] = Vital Records of Charlestown, Mass.

[ChCh] = Church Records, 1632-1789, First Church, Charlestown, Mass., viewable on FamilySearch

[CM] = The Connecticut Magazine

[Cong] = The Congregationalist (1891-1901); Dec. 15, 1900; 85, 50; American Periodicals Series Online, p. 904

[CQ] = “The Tories of Connecticut”, by James Shepard, pub. in the Connecticut Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, May and June, 1895

[CT] = Public Records of the State of Connecticut, Oct. 1776 to February 1778, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1894

[CVR] = Vital Records of Concord, Mass. (from MAVR)

[DVR] = Vital Records of Danvers, Mass. (from MAVR)

[EA] = The Essex Antiquarian (database at www.americanancestors.org)

[EFH] = Early Families of Hartford by Lucius Barnes Barbour, Genealogical Publishing Co., , 1982

[Ellis] = History of the Town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire: with the Report of the Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration …, Press of G.H. Ellis, Boston, 1876 (also ref. as [HTP] & [PHC])

[Fair] = “The Double History of Westminster, Vermont” by Rev. F. J. Fairbanks & Rev. Alfred Stevins, pub. in the Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. V, Press of Jameson & Morse, Chicago, 1885

[FAW] = Families of Ancient Wethersfield by Henry R. Stiles viewable at Ancestry.com

[FHL] = Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

[FIW] = French & Indian War Muster Rolls, Mass. Archives, FHL film #2426719

[FTM] = FamilyTreeMaker user website (information from these sites did not include source citations so data needs to be checked for accuracy. This source is cited because the information has been found nowhere else to date and may be significant if it can be verified.

[GAC] = The Groton Avery Clan by McKendree, viewable at Ancestry.com

[GDEC] = Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn/Coburn … by George A. Gordon & Silas R. Coburn, Walter Coburn, Lowell, Mass., 1913

[GVR] = Vital Records of Groton, Mass. (from MAVR)

[GWC] = Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889, ed. by William Adams, viewable at Ancestry.com

[Hall] = History of Eastern Vermont by Benjamin H. Hall, D. Appleton & co., N.Y., 1958

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[HAW] = History of Ancient Wethersfield

[HB] = Helen Barnes

[Hem] = Vermont Historical Gazetteer (Historical Gazetteer of Vermont), 5 vols., compiled by Abby Maria Hemenway

[HGEF] = History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America by Guy S. Rix, Concord, N.H., 1901 (also ref. as [Rix])

[HGSC] = Historical Gazetteer of Steuben County, New York by Millard Fillmore Roberts, Syracuse, 1891

[HHC] = History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, J. W. Lewis & Co., , 1885

[Hibbard] = Genealogy of the Hibbard Family: who are Descendants of Robert Hibbard of Salem by Augustine George Hibbard, the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, 1901

[HRC] = History of Rutland County, Vermont by H.P. Smith & W.S. Rann, D. Mason, Syracuse, N.Y., 1886

[HTD] = History of the Town of Dunbarton by Caleb Stark, G. Parker Lyon, Concord, N.H., 1860

[HTN] = History of the Town of Northfield, Mass. for 150 Years by J.H. Temple & George Sheldon, Joel Munsell, Albany, 1875

[HTP] = see [Ellis]

[IGI] = International Genealogical Index

[Lapham] = Genealogical Sketches of Robert and John Hazelton and Some of Their Descendants by William B. Lapham, pub. by F. H. Hazelton, Portland, Me., 1892 (No original sources given. Other sources trump his data if there is disagreement.)

[LIP] = Life of Israel Putnam (“Old Put”): -General in the Continental Army by Increase Niles Tarbox, Lockwood, Brooks and Company, Boston, 1876

[Lyford] = History of Concord, New Hampshire, James O. Lyford, editor, Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1903

[MassD] = Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, database at FamilySearch.org

[MAVR] = Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, database at americanancestors.org

[MDB] = Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, database at FamilySearch.org

[Melvin] = Palmer Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass., and His Descendants by Miss Emily Wilder Leavitt, Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1901-1905

Please note that the dates of the volumes of deeds below refer to the date on which the transactions were finally recorded in the town books, NOT the dates on which the transactions took place which were sometimes as much as 20 years earlier.

[MMD61-62] = Middlesex Co., Mass. Deeds, Vol. 61-62 (1763-1765), FHL film #0554035

[MMD63] = Middlesex Co., Mass. Deeds, Vol. 63 (1764-1765), FHL film #0554036

[MMD64] = Middlesex Co., Mass. Deeds, Vol. 64 (1764-1765), FHL film #0554036

[MMD102] = Middlesex Co., Mass. Deeds, Vol. 102 (1790-1793), FHL film #0554060

[MSS] = Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, database at Ancestry.com

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[MSSRW] = same as above

[Mudge] = Memorials, being a genealogical, biographical and historical account of the name of Mudge in America from 1638 to 1868 by Alfred Mudge, Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1868

[Munger] = Munger Scrapbook, held by Irvine J. Gaffney, Collins Town Historian, Collins, N.Y.

[NEHGR] = New England Historic Genealogical Register, journal of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.

[NEXUS] = Nexus Magazine, New England Historic Genealogical Society

[NHDR] = New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947, database at FamilySearch.org

[NHSP] = New Hampshire Rev. War muster rolls, New Hampshire State Papers, email from Helen Barnes, Oct. 10, 2011 (same source as RSRWNH but ref. by Helen)

[Onder] = Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: with Connecting Narratives Explanatory Notes, and Additions by Henry Onderdonk, Leavitt, Trow and Co., New York, 1846

[OCall] = Documentary History of New York, Vol. 4, E. B. O’Callaghan, Albany, 1851; source ref. in [1771Vt] above

[OCWV] = Old Cemeteries of Westminster, Vermont

[PANS] = Public Archives of Nova Scotia

[pension docs.] = Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files database, Ancestry.com

[PHC] = see [Ellis]

[Plym] = burial records, Plymouth Notch Cemetery, www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/bvtplymo

[PMT] = Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com (sources not cited so information must be verified; see FTM)

[PRD] = “The Port Roseway Debacle: Some American Loyalists in Nova Scotia” by Anne Borden Harding, of Cambridge, Mass., NEHGR, Vol. 117, pp. 3-18

[RDMid1] = Index of Grantors A-G, 1639-1799, Record Books of the Registry of Deeds, Middlesex Co., Mass. FHL film #532492

[RDMid2] = Index of Grantees A-G, 1639-1799, Record Books of the Registry of Deeds, Middlesex Co., Mass. FHL film #532454

[Rix] = see [HGEF]

[Rowley] = Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts by George B. Blodgette, Essex Institute, Salem, 1887

[RSRW] = Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War by Jonathan Burton & Abraham Fitts, accessible at Google Books

[RSRWNH] = Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War … 1775, to May 1777, compiled and edited by Isaac W. Hammond, A.M., Concord, N.H., 1885

[RVR] = Vital Records of Rowley, Mass. (from MAVR) OR Vital Records of Randolph, Vt. (context)

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[SAR] = Sons of the American Revolution, application forms of other family members

[Shattuck] = A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts … by Lemuel Shattuck, Russell Odiorne, and Company, Boston & John Stacy, Concord, 1835

[Sliptown] = Sliptown – The History of Sharon New Hampshire 1738-1941 by H. Thorn King, Jr., Charles E. Tuttle, Tokyo, Japan, 1965

[Spofford] = A Genealogical Record: Including Two Generations in Female Lines of Families Spelling Their Name Spofford, Spafford … Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, 1888

[SRB] = Stephen R. Bradley: letters of a Revolutionary War Patriot and Vermont Senator by Stephen Row Bradley, Dorr Carpenter, H. N. Muller, viewable at Google Books

[Sweet] = The Averys of Groton, genealogical and biographical by Homer DeLois Sweet

[Szick] = “Names Submitted to be Part of the Port Roseway Association Group of Loyalists” by Lark Szick, Randal Oulton & Gael Facini, posted at globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette, Apr. 15, 1998

[Taggart] = www.taggartfamily.org/FilmMusicofJohnTaggart.htm

[THS] = The Historical Collection of the Topsfield Historical Society, Vol. I, 2nd ed., Independent Press, Ipswich, Mass., 1895

[Tuttle] = Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vt., 1904

[TVR] = Vital Records of Townsend, Mass.

[VC] = Vermont Chronicle, Westminster; appears in “ Some Vermont Vital Records of the Early 19th Century” compiled by John Elliott Bowman, trans. by Robert M. Murphy, www.vermonthistory.org/documents/transcriptions/BowmanVtVRs.pdf

[VRCharles] = see [CharVR]

[VVR] = Vermont Vital Records, 1760 – 1954 (database at FamilySearch.org)

[WAW] = Washburn by Warren Azro Washburn, D. E. Washburn, Felchville, Vt., 1904

[Weth] = Wethersfield by Beverly Lucas, Wethersfield Historical Society

[Wford] = Vital Records of Westford, Mass. (from MAVR)

[Wind] = History of Windsor County, Vermont, ed. by Lewis Cass Aldrich & Frank R. Holmes, 1891

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