| BIRTH | Based upon her marriage, and assuming it is her first, Rachel was born circa 1625. |
| DEATH | She died sometime after the birth of her sixth child in 1649. |
| NAME VARIATIONS | Surname variations include: Fitt, Fitts, Fitt, Fitz, Fitch, Fits. |
| INDICATION OF IDENTITY |
Her identity is traditionally based upon the marriage of Robert FITT and
Grace [LORD] which occured circa 1629-1632. One school of thought is that
Rachel is the child of Grace & her first husband [not known] LORD.
Another belief is that she is a child of this couple. A likelier scenario -- given ages --
is that Rachel is a sister of Robert FITTS, who called her husband William Barnes
"my brother" -- not "my son" -- in his will.
Robert is #21 on the list of 68 men who were "The first or Original list of ye townsmen of Salisbury in ye booke of Records" as recorded by Thomas Bradbury at a town meeting of 3d:12m(February):1650[1,2]. At the same meeting virtually the same list (minus three men who were crossed out) were allowed to "be accompted townsmen and comoners" of the new town[2]. Robert was further assessed 11s. 5d. in taxes on 25 December 1650[2] and assessed 9s. 7d. on 18d:5m:1652[3]. |
| MARRIAGE | Sometime before the birth of their first child in 1643 Rachel married William BARNES, in Salisbury, Essex co., MA[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. |
| CHILDREN (surnamed BARNES) |
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i. | Hannah BARNES |
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ii. | Deborah BARNES |
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iii. | William BARNES |
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iv. | Jonathan BARNES |
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v. | Rachel BARNES | Please see her own page. |
| GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G9) Grandmother |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 4079 |
| SOURCES |
1. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+,
(Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+),
[NEHGR], 3:55. 2. Ibid. 3:56. 3. Ibid. 3:57. 4. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 5. Hoyt, Daniel Webster, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., with Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine, 3 vols., (Providence: [Snow & Farnham], 1897-1917), [Salisbury Fam], 157,875. 6. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vols. 1+, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870+), [NYGBR], 37:141. 7. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:123 8. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 7:40. 9. Pillsbury, D.B. & F.H. Getche, The Pillsbury Family: Being a History of William and Dorothy Pillsbury (or Pilsbery) of Newbury in New England, and Their Descendants to the Eleventh Generation, (Everett, Mass.: Massachusetts Publ. Co., 1890), [Pillsbury], 161,581,633,676. 10. Treat, John Harvey, The Treat Family: a Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America, Containing More than Fifteen Hundred Families in America, (Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press, 1893), [Treat], 12. 11. Clement, Percival Wood, Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, ([Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co., 1927]), [Clement], 46,80. 12. Fitts, James Hill, Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America, (Clinton: W. J. Coulter, 1869), [Fitts], 1.
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