Joan Barton

Children include Joan

Joan Barton came of a family of Thornbury, in Gloucestershire, or the country close by. On 28 May 1621 she married Richard Smith in Thornbury church. The parish register records it in a single line: "Richard Smyth and Johan Barton 28 May 1621."

Her family stayed near Thornbury. Years later her son Richard wrote from Rhode Island to "his uncle William Barton at Morton or Moreton", a hamlet about a mile from Thornbury church. That William Barton was very probably her brother. A William Barton stood as sponsor when her eldest child, Joan, was baptised at Thornbury in January 1623/4.

She had five children baptised at Thornbury: Joan in January 1623/4, Katherine in August 1627, James in December 1629, Richard in December 1630 and Elizabeth in March 1631/2.

In the 1630s she went with her husband and children to New England. The family lived first at Taunton, in Plymouth Colony, and then in the Narragansett country, where her husband built the first English house among the Narragansett people, at Cocumscussoc near the present Wickford. The family held it for about forty years. In the spring of 1648 her eldest daughter married Thomas Newton without her parents' consent, and was married to him again at New Amsterdam with her father's blessing.

She died before her husband, who died in 1666. The date and place of her death are not recorded.

Children

Joan Smith b. 1623

Sources

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Richard Smith, First English Settler of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island (Boston, 1937), p. 3, quoting Phillimore's Register of Thornbury; archive.org richardsmithfirs00updi, leaf 26

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Richard Smith, First English Settler of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island (Boston, 1937), p. 4, quoting Phillimore's Register of Thornbury; archive.org richardsmithfirs00updi, leaf 27

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Richard Smith, First English Settler of the Narragansett Country (1937), pp. 3-4 and 22, quoting Phillimore's Register of Thornbury (archive.org richardsmithfirs00updi)

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Cite: Heirology, "Joan Barton", https://heirology.com/ancestors/joan-barton-90527e.