tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post288578001296416979..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “Retreat and Resistance” in Salem, 26 Feb.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-69513925317280758572017-03-06T18:57:39.801-05:002017-03-06T18:57:39.801-05:00I'm glad that you made that mistake, though, b...I'm glad that you made that mistake, though, because thereby you helped me discover that the Rev. Thomas Barnard, Jr. is my 2nd cousin 6x removed. I recognized the Barnard name and did a little sleuthing. He and I are both descendants of Edward Martyn, Capt. of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1715. Since your blog is about the start of the Revolutionary War, it might be worth mentioning that Edward Martyn owned the Ochterlong-Adan House in north Boston (which stood at least until the late-19th century, and vied with the Revere house as the oldest in the area); legend has it that Paul Revere stopped by this house just before rowing across the river for his famous ride, seeking something to muffle his oars. <br /><br />Edward Martyn's daughter Sarah was married to the Rev. John Barnard, son of a Rev. Thomas Barnard, father of another Rev. Thomas Barnard, and grandfather of THE Rev. Thomas Barnard, Jr. of Leslie's Retreat fame. The Rev. John Barnard had another clergyman son, the Rev. Edward Barnard...who married his first cousin Sarah Cary, daughter of Mary Martyn (my 6x great-grandmother). Mary Martyn Cary's grandson the Rev. Thomas Cary studied with his uncle Rev. Edward Barnard...which is why the Barnard connection popped into my mind. <br /><br />An uncle of the Rev. Thomas Cary, Nathaniel Cary, was a merchant and appears on lists of public office holders in the 1770s along with John Hancock and John Singleton Copley...until he was run out of town for unpatriotic and unpopular trading practices! A letter from Abigail Adams to her husband mentions the incident, after which Nathaniel Cary fled to Nantucket to join his younger brother. Nathaniel Cary was also an addresser of Hutchinson, but he appears never to have repudiated it, and the whole Cary crew were Congregationalists from their arrival in Charlestown around 1635 until some became Unitarians around 1800. The Rev. Samuel Cary, son of the Rev. Thomas Cary (above, who studied with the Rev. Edward Barnard) was minister at King's Chapel...which changed from Anglican to Unitarian, further adding to a lot of confusion about what denomination ministers were! Capt. Thomas Cary, nephew of Nathaniel Cary and first cousin of the Rev. Thomas Cary, brought back the bell which stands in the gold-domed tower of the 2nd Congregational/Unitarian Universalist Church on Nantucket...yet another "switch-hitting" congregation.<br /><br />These things are all VERY confusing. Even the official history of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company got some details about Edward Martyn and the Rev. John Barnard messed up. The historian conflated two Rev. John Barnards, claiming that Edward Martyn's son-in-law was the Rev. John Barnard of Marblehead, when they were actually two different ministers about eight years apart in age.<br />Pamela Filbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-3684205788047974692017-02-27T12:23:46.271-05:002017-02-27T12:23:46.271-05:00I attended yesterday's community reenactment i...I attended yesterday's community reenactment in Salem. The Rev. Jeff Barz-Snell, current Minister of First Church, with great enthusiasm portrayed the Rev. Thomas Barnard Jr. of the then newly splintered North Chh. of Salem. The people of Salem (est. 200+) had fun and learned some history.Chris Hurley of Woburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11767360457057298740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-72302708291009383262017-02-24T21:56:09.403-05:002017-02-24T21:56:09.403-05:00My mistake. I think I got the wrong idea from Barn...My mistake. I think I got the wrong idea from Barnard being an addresser of Hutchinson who had to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RHc-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA430" rel="nofollow">repudiate that address</a> in May 1775, and references to him as <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17059646" rel="nofollow">leading the North Church</a> instead of a meeting, as that congregation was probably called in his time. (And perhaps also from mentions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barnard" rel="nofollow">other Thomas Barnard</a> of the period.) Thanks! J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-74299790668539776332017-02-24T09:58:49.165-05:002017-02-24T09:58:49.165-05:00The Rev. Thomas Barnard was Congregational (eventu...The Rev. Thomas Barnard was Congregational (eventually Unitarian), not Anglican, per the online history of The First Church in Salem and other sources.Pamela Filbertnoreply@blogger.com