Tuesday, June 30, 2015

David & Eunice Sherman Barker

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=barker&GSfn=eunice+&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1837&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=31072948&df=all&

Gravestones of  David & Eunice Sherman Barker  

David Barker  ~ 20 Jul 1749-08 Sep 1819

Enlisted on September 23, 1776 into the Revolutionary War
Roll dated Newport, Rhode Island From "Mass. Soldiers & Sailors" Volumne 1, Page 606
Name also appears on list of Prisoners sent in the "Lord Sandwich" prison ship from Newport to Bristol  March 7, 1778

Miscellaneous Volumn 1740-1782

State Archives ( Rhode Island) page 25

Married  01 Oct 1772 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Eunice Sherman ~ 03 Oct 1756-10 Sep 1837  

They lived near Middletown, Newport, Rhode Island

They had 15 children