James Barbour, Sr.

Parents are not Samuel Barbour & Mary Harding - need detached (done)

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James Barbour's ancestry was very honorable. There are many legendary accounts of the founding of this family in Virginia, some of them conflicting, and many of them improbable.' What seems to be the most reliable account however, is the following extract from an autograph note in the Bible of Gov. James Barbour:

"The farthest back I have been able to trace with any certainty, is my great-grandfather, James Barbour, who came to this country from Scotland, in the latter half of the 17th Century. He came in the character of a merchantman, and was wrecked on his first adventure.

His friends, as stated by tradition, being rich, furnished him with another cargo which he turned to a profitable account, in (I believe) the county of King and Queen. He had issue, only one son, whom he called after himself, James, who married Sarah Todd, of a most respectable family.

My grandfather's prospects in life were considerably shattered by the second marriage of his mother, by which a second son was born who by some means obtained control of the whole Barbour estate, and squandered it. James then left the home of his childhood, and went to Culpeper county, near the end of the first quarter of the 18th Century, being the first settler of the country lying between the eastern base of the Blue Ridge and the Southwest Mountains. Here he lived, died, and was buried."*

He was a vestryman of St. Mark's Parish at its organization

https://archive.org/stream/jamesbarbour01long/jamesbarbour01long_dj...

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James Barbour emigrated from Scotland in the 17th. century; settled in King and Queen, or in Gloucester county; married Miss Taliaferro, and had but one son, James, erroneously called James, the first, by Dr. Slaughter, who was "defeated of his expectancy" by the second marriage of his mother.

Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia Page 258
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b9oBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barbour-180 cites
  • James Barbour will, Culpeper county [1]
  • James Barbour Inventory [2]
  • Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia, (page 135)
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 7 November 2019), "Record of James Barber", Ancestor # A005857.
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I3897...
• https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm... 1) THIS MAN DIED BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. DATACF. 7/2017. Married 1) ELIZABETH TODD

2) SARAH TODD. Son JAMES, JR. married [1] FRANCES THROCKMORTON