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Patricia Oliver Holloway
Description: Descendants of Samuel Barron I
Generation No. 1
1. SAMUEL1 BARRON I was born Abt. 1700 in Bristol, England, and died Abt. 1750 in Mill Point, Hampton, Elizabeth City, Virginia. He married UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1712.
Notes for SAMUEL BARRON I:
He came to America like some 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 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.
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Patricia Oliver Holloway's notes: I think the two Barron sisters (Ann and Mary) married two younger Cunningham brothers of our William Cunningham that married Susanna Roe. If James and Richard Barron sisters (Ann and Mary) had married brothers of William Cunningham, then (James and Richard Barron) would be William Roe Cunningham Uncles.
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'. In order for William Roe Cunningham to be Samuel Barron nephew - If she is correct our William Roe Cunningham's father, William Cunningham had a sister and she married Captain Samuel Barron.
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Children of SAMUEL BARRON and UNKNOWN are:
i. SAMUEL2 BARRON II, b. Abt. 1730, England.
Notes for SAMUEL BARRON II:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
SAMUEL BARONS
Male
Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 25 JAN 1729 South Molton, Devon, England
Death:
Burial:
Parents:
Father: SAMLL BARONS Family
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Samuel, Jr., moved to North Caroline.
ii. MARY BARRON, b. 1732, England; m. (1) BARTAIN SERVANT; b. Abt. 1720; m. (2) JOHN CUNNINGHAM; b. Abt. 1716, York County, Virginia.
Notes for MARY BARRON:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
MARY BARONS
Female
Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 12 NOV 1727 South Molton, Devon, England
Death:
Burial:
Parents:
Father: SAMLL BARONS
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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, brother of her sisters husband (see Ann Barron).
iii. RICHARD BARRON, b. Abt. 1734, Virginia; m. RECECCA; b. Abt. 1725.
Notes for RICHARD BARRON:
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.
iv. JAMES BARRON I, b. Abt. 1736, Virginia; d. 14 May 1787, on a return voyage of the ship, from Holland; m. JANE COWPER, Abt. 1760; b. Abt. 1740.
Notes for JAMES BARRON I:
Virginia Soldiers of 1776-Affidavits.
Norfolk Borough, 27 Oct., 1830. Certified that Commodore James Barron of the Va. State Navy died many years ago, leaving two sons:--Commodore James Barron of the United States Navy and Samuel Barron, decd. as his only heirs at law. That Samuel Barron, son of Commodore Barron, died leaving a son and a granddaughter, Elizabeth B. Armistead (the only heir of his deceased daughter). Copy teste, Swepson Whitehead, Clerk.
James died on a return voyage of the ship, from Holland.
v. ANN BARRON, b. Abt. 1738, Virginia; m. (1) THOMAS WOOTEN; b. Abt. 1727; m. (2) JAMES CUNNINGHAM, Abt. 1760; b. Abt. 1720, York, Virginia; m. (3) JAMES JOHNSON, Abt. 1770; b. Abt. 1727.
Notes for 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,
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.
vi. WILLIAM BARRON, b. Abt. 1744, Old Point Comfort, Virginia; d. 1796, At Sea; m. UNKNOWN, New England; b. Abt. 1740.
Notes for WILLIAM BARRON:
William Barron was a zealous patriot from the very commencement of the Revolution. He was killed by the bursting of a gun on board the Boston Frigate on it's way to France.
vii. ROBERT BARRON, b. Abt. 1746, Hampton, Virginia; m. LOYALL, Abt. 1768; b. Abt. 1750.
Notes for ROBERT BARRON:
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.
viii. DAVID BARRON, b. Abt. 1748, Hampton, Virginia; m. UNKNOWN; b. Abt. 1740.
Notes for DAVID BARRON:
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.
Surnames: BARRON and CUNNINGHAM
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