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Author: Douglas Paul Barber
JONATHAN BARBER (1745-1839) P-108498
Jonathan Barber was born 15 May 1745 at Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, a son of Daniel Barber and Deliverance Tefft.
His military service was in the regiment originally called Babcock’s, but later Lippitt’s Regiment, the State of Rhode Island authorized the formation of the regiment to defend against British attack, January 8, 1776. A great-great-grandson of Mayflower passenger George Soule, Jonathan Barber, joined the infantry as a private.
According to his pension file, he served 17 months: four in 1776, four in 1777, five in 1778, and four in 1779.
In 1776, he served under his brother Captain Daniel Barber, and Colonel Robert Brown; in 1777 under Captain Samuel Gordon and Colonel Charles Dyer; in 1778 under Captain Jonathan Bates and Colonel Charles Dyer; and in 1779 under Captain George C. Wilcox and Colonel Charles Dyer.
According to his pension application, he guarded the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island and at Wickford at North Kingston and near Point Judith on South Kingston for three months in 1776. For one month he substituted for his father, Daniel Barber, Sr., under Captain Daniel Barber, Jr., and was attached to Colonel Robert Brown’s regiment. In 1777, he was again on the shores of Narragansett Bay and Point Judith. In October he was in General Stone’s or General Spencer’s Expedition. In 1778, he was drafted under Captain Jonathan Bates of the first company at Exeter and was at Rhode Island in General Sullivan’s Expedition. He was drafted under Captain George Wilcox and was in service at Rhode Island when the British troops left in 1779.
Private Jonathan Barber and his wife Sabra Stanton lived at South Kingston but eventually settled at Exeter, Rhode Island with their ten children: Russell, Henry, Delia, Sabra, Susannah, Sally, James, Jonathan and Elizabeth. Jonathan lived to be 94 years old. He died 28 June 1839 at Exeter, Rhode Island, and was buried at the Barber lot at Exeter’s Rhode Island Historical Cemetery #62.
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