!SAMUEL BARRETT (1) was born in England or Ireland of French parents around 1626. His ancestor was Guillaume Barrette of Charente to Tartas 1142 A.D. The Barrett Family members were Protestants in faith and left France when it turned to Catholicism.
England was also having religious problems, so the Barrett's were, most likely, pushed into Northern Ireland.
Samuel (perhaps with brothers Humphrey and Thomas) came into Boston Harbor.
He was in Wethersfield, CT by 5 Dec 1645, when he was ordered by Particular Court to serve Arthur Smith one year for 8 lbs. ("Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut." 1852 by Royal R. Hinman of Hartford, p.145).
On 16 Mar 1656 Samuel was with Thomas Wheeler and 15 other men when they came into Vredeland, the Dutch territory of West Chester (now the Bronx) with the approval of the Dutch.
Samuel was a weaver and a seeker of opportunity. He applied for land in Bedford, a new CT town bought from the Indians in December 1680 by 22 men from Stamford. It seems that he may have been in Stamford and known some of these men. He was accepted
on 2 Dec 1681 as an inhabitant; however he did not go to Bedford. This may have been because of his wife's illness and her death. After Hannah's death he married Leiah. Samuel died on his Lower Yonkers Plantation before 28 Dec 1691 around the age of
65 years because at this time Leiah Barrett turned all of Samuel's property over to his son, John.
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The following is from the New York Colonial Manuscripts, Volume 6, Page 335 on file in the Archives at the New York State Library, Albany, New York. The charred condition of the manuscript on the sides is due to the fire which occurred in the State
Capitol in 1912. These records were originally turned over to the State by the Holland Society of the State of New York. Many of the records were burned but this particular volume, although in a charred condition, was saved. The volume entry was
made on March 16, 1656.
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Honored Sr. with the Rest of your honored Court the Governor and Court to the New Netherlands:
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May you be pleased to take in to your consideration the humble request of your poor and humble petitioners that whereas it doth appear that you make claim to the place where we want to be the writ of the high and mighty States of the Netherlands we whose names are underwritten are willing to submit ourselves unto the government of the said Netherlands for as long as we continue within their jurisdiction provided that we may enjoy our liberties in choosing our officers for the administration of such laws as may be maid for the good of our township which we now inhabitas also we may have our arms restored according to your promise which was taken from us: whereby we may be able to attend ourselves from such as may uninsth a salt us and to make such laws and orders as may be for the particular good and welfare of the said not being repugnant to the general laws and to distribute our lands unto the inhabitans now admitted according to just proposition as lyckwyse to refuse such inhabitans as may be comfortable to us in particular and the good of the general as far as we are able to judge.
Thomas N. Neuman (?) Caniff John Brandish
Thomas Wheeler Nichlas Hill Edward Waters
Robbert Basset William A. Binsull (?) Samuel Barit
Isaih Gilbert John N. Yennat (?) William Ward
John Ross Robert C. W. Miaken (?)
Robert Ross Obediah Gilbert

SOURCE: (1)Katharine Barrett Kelly