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Barrett, Samuel (b. 1626, d. BEF 28 DEC 1691)

Note: !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 Barretts 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 honoured Court the Governour 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 humbell petisinors 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

Reference: 1

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Betts, Hannah (b. , d. 26 JAN 1639)

Note: !Hannah Betts died before 23 Nov 1688.

Death: 26 JAN 1639 Barnstable, Ma

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Betts, William (b. ABT 1615, d. 12 FEB 1673)

Note: !William Betts came to America in the "Thomas and John," Richard Lambard,
master, from Gravesend, 6 January 1635, aged twenty years. He joined the
church at Scituate, Massachusetts, 25 October 1635, and married there 23
November 1638, Alice, a "maiden of the Bay." In the following year he removed
with Mr. Lathrop and the church to Barnstable, where he remained some years,
and where three of his children were baptized. He later removed to Connecticut
and then to Westchester County, New York. In 1662 he lived at Oost Dorp, where
he was magistrate by appointment of Peter Stuyvesant (13 September 1662). He
was named as a patentee in the English patent for the town of Westchester,
granted in 1668. On 6 July 1668, in partnership with his son-in-law, George
Tippets, and Joseph Hadley, he purchased about two thousand acres of land
extending across the country from the Hudson to the Bronx, and about five
hundred feet from the present City of Yonkers. The same year he removed to
his new plantation in the Kings Bridge, and the next year became overseer of
the court at Fordham. His will, dated 12 February 1673, styled him of "Yonkers
Plantation," and named wife Alice, sons Samuel, Hopestill, and John, daughter
Mehitable Tippets, and John, son of Samuel Barrett. He died in 1675, survived
by his wife, Alice, sons: Samuel, Hopestill and John, daughter Mehitable
Tippets, and grandson, John Barrett, son of deceased daughter Hannah.

SOURCE: (1) Morman Family History Library, IGI, by Lorraine Roberts Taylor,
1674 Woodland Drive, Provo, Utah 84604.

Death: 12 FEB 1673

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Barrett, John (b. ABT 1658, d. BEF 23 OCT 1722)

Note: !Under date of 23 November 1688, Samuel Betts and John Betts, "now of Yonkers,"
made a deed of gift to their "sister's son John Barrett," and by deed dated 28
December 1691, Leah, widow of Samuel Barrett, conveyed to her "son-in-law, John
Barrett," the real and personal estate of her deceased husband. This John
Barrett, called of Yonkers, recorded the mark of his cattle 8 March 1685/86.
In 1713 he was Collector of Lower Yonkers, and in this year he deeded to
Jacobus Van Cortlandt land which his father Samuel Barrett had purchased. John
Barrett spent his entire life in the Kings Bridge District. John Barrett died
before 23 October 1722, on which date Samuel Barrett conveyed to Abraham
Barrett "land of which their father John Barrett, deceased, was siezed."
Barrett Creek, mapped in the 18th and 19th centuries, is now filled in by
Soundview Park fronting on the Bronx River.

SOURCE: (1) Katharine Barrett Kelly

Death: BEF 23 OCT 1722

Reference: 2

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Martha, {sp#6} (b. 1660, d. ?)

Note: !Martha/Mary was John Barrett's wife.

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Barrett, Abraham (b. ABT 1675, d. BEF 10 SEP 1733)

Note: !Abraham Barrett bought his brother Samuel's share of John Barrett's
plantation. This was recorded 23 Oct 1722. Abraham continued the ear mark of
his father - being a cross on ye near ear & a half penny under each ear.
Under date of 5 January 1722/23, he and wife Martha conveyed some ten acres
of land in Rye bounded westerly by the Kings Road, etc, etc. His will is dated
February 26, 1732 and proved September 10, 1733 and named therein wife Martha;
eldest son John, not yet twenty-one years of age; son Abraham, and daughters
Mary, Ann, and Martha.

SOURCE: White Plains, NY, Deeds
23 Oct 1722 Lib E p.319
1724 Lib F p.207
1726 Lib F p.165
1727 Lib F p.212

Death: BEF 10 SEP 1733 Lower Yonkers, Westchester, NY

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Barrett, John (b. 1720, d. 31 JUL 1802)

Note: !John Barrett moved to Cortlandt Manor. He was a Revolutionary War soldier.
He was Town Supervisor in 1760 and was in the Census of 1790. His will is
dated 23 Apr 1799 and was proved 1 Sep 1802. He lies buried in the old Van
Cortlandt Cemetery at Peekskill. His tombstone reads:
In
memory of
John Barret
who departed this life July
the 31st, 1802
In the 82nd year of his age
An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Death: 31 JUL 1802 Cortlandt Twsp.Westchester, NY

Burial: Peekskill , Westchester Co.NY

Reference: 12

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Elizabeth, {sp#12} (b. 15 SEP 1729, d. 15 JUN 1788)

Death: 15 JUN 1788

Burial: Peekskill , Westchester Co.NY

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Barrett, Martha (b. 1750, d. 19 MAR 1831)

Note: !Martha Barrett (Lickley) is buried in the Episcopal Cemetery called St. Peters
in Peekskill.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Handbook Of Barrett's
Note: Handbook Of Barrett's Glendon E.Wheeler 1634 N.Darcy Ave.Simi Valley Calif.93065

Death: 19 MAR 1831 Putnam Valley, Put.NY

Burial: St Peters Cem, Peekskill, NY

Reference: [M059a] 38

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Lickley, John (b. 1734, d. 17 NOV 1807)

Note: !John Lickley (Likley, Likely) was a tenant of Col. Beverly Robinson, under the
system of rental practised in the manors before the Revolutionary War. Actual
sale of lands in fee to settlers was rare, it being that the persons residing
upon the land did not acquire possession of the soil until the Revolution
brought about the disintegration of the manors. He purchased on 27 Oct 1783
from the Commissioners of Forfeiture 96 3/4 acres of land in Philipse Precinct
"already in his possession", to which he added 87 acres on 19 Apr 1787, 276
acres on 16 Apr 1795, and small lots from Abraham Baker and Levi Owens in 1797.
He was an educated man, town clerk of Philipstown and a man of local
infleuence in Dutchess County (now Putnam County). He appears to have been a
Presbyterian and a friend of Rev Silas Constant. He died aged 73.