Family: Joseph Barter / Lydia Matthews (F12207)

• Male Joseph Barter

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1745	Barter's Island, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
  Death	Oct 1840	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Burial
  Marriage	15 Nov 1759  [1, 2]
  Father	Samuel Barto | F11971 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth Averill | F11971 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Lydia Matthews

  
  

  Birth	1745	Maine, USA
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  Male Nicholas Barter

  
  

  Birth	1762	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Death	27 Dec 1814	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA
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  Spouse	Lydia barter | F11964
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  Female Esther Barter

  
  

  Birth	31 May 1779
  Death	20 Apr 1855
  Burial		Trevett, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Joseph Barter | F12214
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  Female Abigail Barter

  
  

  Birth	4 May 1768
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  Spouse	Stephen Lewis | F12162
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  Female Mary Barter

  
  

  Birth	27 Oct 1768
  Death
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  Spouse	John Stover | F12163
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  Male Joseph Barter, Jr

  
  

  Birth	18 Jul 1771	Bailey Island, Cumberland, Maine, USA
  Death	Oct 1840	Maine, USA
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  Spouse	Sarah Pinkham | F12208
  Marriage	19 Aug 1794	USA

  
  

  Male Samuel Barter

  
  

  Birth	25 Feb 1777	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Death	21 Nov 1868	Trevett, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Burial		Samuel Barter Cemetery, Trevett, Lincoln, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Sarah Abbott | F15038
  Marriage	24 Sep 1799	Barter's Island, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
  Spouse	Margaret Day | F15039
  Marriage	16 Nov 1820	Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine, USA

  
  

• Sources

  [S993] History-BARTER (Brothers Samuel and Joseph), (Name: Ancestry.com;), Samuel Barter Jr and Joseph Barter of Townsend, Maine. SAMUEL BARTER, JR., was the elder of two brothers who took up the island in Townsend, about 1755-56, that still bears the family name. This name sometimes appears in old records as Barto and it is not unlikely that the family is of French descent. At the date of their coming there were at least four of this family: Samuel, Jr., Joseph, Jennet and Elizabeth. There may have been parents with them, but no known record of this exists. The wives of these brothers each bore the name of Lydia, and for this reason an error occurs in the early records by which the same family of children is recorded under Samuel and Lydia that correctly belongs to Joseph and Lydia, as presented below. Samuel probably had children born soon after 1750, while Joseph's eldest child was born in 1760. Jennet married John Matthews, 1764, and Elizabeth married Jonathan Daws, 1768. They settled nearly midway of the island, on the east side, about opposite to where John Matthews settled on Back River. They probably came from Dover, NH. No known record exists of their ages or deaths. Their children, as far as known, follow, but the record is made up from several sources. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/521:21931?ssrc=pt&tid=178474848&pid=182329729352 History-BARTER (Brothers) History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1623-1905 : with family genealogies [S984] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2003;).