Cenotaph here
Son of Robert Barber and Sarah Gray.
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Husband of Margaret Knox, whom he married on Sept. 27, 1770, in Worcester, Worcester, MA.
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Note: Capt. William Barber is buried here in the Old Benson Cemetery but he has a cenotaph in the Becket Center Cemetery in Becket, Berkshire, MA.
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"Capt. William Barber was from Pittsfield, Mass, where he had been one of its most prominent and patriotic citizens. He had been one of the town committee of correspondence, and a selectman in Pittsfield in the time of the Revolutionary war; and, as lieutenant, he was in command of a company from Pittsfield, in Col. Simonds' regiment, the the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. He removed to Benson in 1784, and settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, William C. Barber, and died Aug 11, 1789, aged 46 years."
[Source: Hemenway, Abby Maria: The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. 1882: White River Paper Co., Courtesy of contributor DebL]
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Son of Robert Barber and Sarah Gray.
.
Husband of Margaret Knox, whom he married on Sept. 27, 1770, in Worcester, Worcester, MA.
.
Note: Capt. William Barber is buried here in the Old Benson Cemetery but he has a cenotaph in the Becket Center Cemetery in Becket, Berkshire, MA.
.
"Capt. William Barber was from Pittsfield, Mass, where he had been one of its most prominent and patriotic citizens. He had been one of the town committee of correspondence, and a selectman in Pittsfield in the time of the Revolutionary war; and, as lieutenant, he was in command of a company from Pittsfield, in Col. Simonds' regiment, the the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. He removed to Benson in 1784, and settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, William C. Barber, and died Aug 11, 1789, aged 46 years."
[Source: Hemenway, Abby Maria: The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. 1882: White River Paper Co., Courtesy of contributor DebL]
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Cenotaph here
Son of Robert Barber and Sarah Gray.
.
Husband of Margaret Knox, whom he married on Sept. 27, 1770, in Worcester, Worcester, MA.
.
Note: Capt. William Barber is buried here in the Old Benson Cemetery but he has a cenotaph in the Becket Center Cemetery in Becket, Berkshire, MA.
.
"Capt. William Barber was from Pittsfield, Mass, where he had been one of its most prominent and patriotic citizens. He had been one of the town committee of correspondence, and a selectman in Pittsfield in the time of the Revolutionary war; and, as lieutenant, he was in command of a company from Pittsfield, in Col. Simonds' regiment, the the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. He removed to Benson in 1784, and settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, William C. Barber, and died Aug 11, 1789, aged 46 years."
[Source: Hemenway, Abby Maria: The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. 1882: White River Paper Co., Courtesy of contributor DebL]
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Son of Robert Barber and Sarah Gray.
.
Husband of Margaret Knox, whom he married on Sept. 27, 1770, in Worcester, Worcester, MA.
.
Note: Capt. William Barber is buried here in the Old Benson Cemetery but he has a cenotaph in the Becket Center Cemetery in Becket, Berkshire, MA.
.
"Capt. William Barber was from Pittsfield, Mass, where he had been one of its most prominent and patriotic citizens. He had been one of the town committee of correspondence, and a selectman in Pittsfield in the time of the Revolutionary war; and, as lieutenant, he was in command of a company from Pittsfield, in Col. Simonds' regiment, the the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. He removed to Benson in 1784, and settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, William C. Barber, and died Aug 11, 1789, aged 46 years."
[Source: Hemenway, Abby Maria: The History of Rutland County, Vermont: Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. 1882: White River Paper Co., Courtesy of contributor DebL]
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CAPT. Wm. BARBER
May 16, 1743,
Aug. 11, 1789.
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