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Ambrose Barbour

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Birthplace: Culpeper County, VA
Death: KY, United States
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Son of James Barbour, Sr. and Sarah (Todd) Barbour
Husband of Catherine Pendleton Barbour
Father of Philip Barbour; Robert Barber; James Barbour; Elizabeth Pendleton Hardin; William Barbour and 1 other
Brother of Col. James Barbour, Jr.; Lt. Col. Thomas Barbour, Sr.; Elizabeth "Betty" Johnson; Fanny Smith; Philip Barbour and 2 others

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About Ambrose Barbour

Colonel Barbour was a wealthy farmer who had emigrated from Virginia some years before, and was connected by blood with the distinguished family of that State bearing his name. He was brother of Thomas Barbour, whose distinguished sons, Phillip P. and James, attained the highest civic honors. Phillip P. Barbour was Speaker of the Lower House of Congress and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, while James was Governor of Virginia, United States Senator, and Minister to the Court of St. James.

Ambrose Barbour

MyHeritage Family Trees Palmer Family Tree_2014-07-20 in Nichols Web Site, managed by Member Birth: 1737 Parents: James Barbour, Sarah Barbour (born Todd) Siblings: James Barbour, Thomas Barbour, Mary Barbour, Fanny Barbour, Elizabeth Barbour, Philip Pendleton Barbour

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Ambrose Barbour (James, James.) lived in Orange county, where he married Catherine Thomas, a sister of Mary Pendleton Thomas, who married his brother. Thomas Barbour. They afterwards moved to Kentucky.

Their children were : 1. Philip, who died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1794 unmarried; 2. Major James Barbour, of Kentucky, m. Letitia Green; 3. Lucinda, m. Benj. Hardin; 4. Richard Barbour, of Kentucky; and 5. Lucy m. Mr. Davis, and went South.

Major James Barbour was an officer in the war of 1812. His wife, Letitia Green, was a daughter of Willis Green (Duff, Robert).
Their children were : 1. Catherine, m. J. Wesley Vick, of Vicksburg, and had Kate, Martha, Nannie, Amanda; 2. James Barbour, a banker of Maysville, Ken tucky, who m. Elizabeth Foster, of Maysville, and had James F. Barbour, who m. Elizabeth Taylor, and Rev. John Green Foster Barbour, a Presby terian minister of Gillery county, Kentucky; 3. Martha, m. Rev. B. M. Hobson, having Barbour and Lewis Green; 4. Rev. Lewis Green Barbour, m. Elizabeth Ford, of Richmond, Kentucky, and had several children.

He is the author of a poem, entitled "The End of Time," which has attracted a good deal of favorable criticism. Lucinda and Benjamin Hardin had a daughter, Mary, who m. Letcher. Their descendants, as well as those of this Richard, and of Lucy, who married Davis, are unknown.

Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia Page 186 & 187
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b9oBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...

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Ambrose Barbour's Timeline

1733
1733
Culpeper County, VA
1750
1750
1753
1753
1775
October 29, 1775
Virginia, United States
1778
1778
Orange Co, VA
1784
February 29, 1784
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
1790
1790
Culpeper County, VA
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KY, United States