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| Walter Barefoote |
Immigrant Ancestor |
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| Born: England |
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| Died: 03/Oct/1688 NH |
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CHILDREN
Mary Barefoote
Source: Copyright 1999 Perry Streeter; mailto: perry@streeter.com; http://www.perry.streeter.com.
"Barefoote Family--A disguised surname from Barford... This blood was carried
into New Jersey from New Hampshire, as there are slight evidences of the surname
in the former Colony, tho' the name is preserved in New Jersey in the family of
Barefoote Brynson(or Brinson...) whose grand-mother, seemingly, the first wife
of Dr. Henry Greenland, was Mary Barefoote, or else, close association
perpetuated the name, without kinship. She then, was a daughter of Captain
Walter Barefoote of N.H."
Mr. Streeter goes onto describe him as follows:
"Dr. Walter Barefoot (or Barford, as the name is given in England) who came to
Kittery, Maine, in 1656 or 1657, and for thirty years until his death, 1688, was
said to be the most litigating and scandal-raising personage connected with the
Piscataqua region, whether as doctor, captain, prisoner, prison-keeper, Deputy
Governor, land speculator or Chief Justice. He was well-educated and wrote a
good hand. He was a chirchman, but a sturdy and quarrelsome supporter of the
Stuart policy, while most of his neighbors were Puritans, so that the hard
things...said of both Barefoote and Greenland need to be weighed in the light of
these facts. (See "N.E. Gen. Register," Vol.26, for will of Walter Barefoote, by
which he leaves 1,000 acres in Maine to Dr. H. Greenland). (William H. Benedict,
"The Brunson (Brynson--Brinson) Family," Somerset County Historical quarterly,
[Vol. III] [1914])." "
Perry cites another source, (Pioneers, N.H., p13):
"Barefoote, Walter, Captain, gent. Kittery, bought land and house of Capt.
Champernowne, 1658; later home, Newcastle. A partisan of Charles II and of the
Masons; and official in the Provincial govt., involved in many conflict,
1679-1688. Will, 3 Oct prob. 8 Oct 1688; sister Sarah, wife of Thomas Wiggin,
Jr.; Cousin, John Lee and others."
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