Rufus Barton b. 1606 Lanchester, County Durham, England d. 1648 Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA: BARTON One Name Study

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1606 - 1648 (42 years)

Name	Rufus Barton
Birth	1606	Lanchester, County Durham, England [1]
Gender	Male
Death	1648	Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA [2]
Burial	Warwick (Barton Lot, Bartons Corner), Kent Co., Rhode Island, [2]
Person ID	I187	Barton Database \| Lineage Rufus Barton, b 1606, England - DNA Lineage V
Last Modified	18 Jul 2019

	Test Type	Taken by	Haplogroup	Test Information
DNA Tests	1 DNA test is associated with Rufus Barton
	Y-DNA-25	Marvin Barton, (twin)	R-M269	Most distant ancestor: Brig. General William Barton, b. 26 May 1747/1748, Warren, Bristol Co., Rhode Island, USA d. 22 Oct 1831, Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island, USA

Family Margaret Mary Honeywell, b. Abt 1610, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 1646/1680, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA (Age ~ 70 years)

Children

	1. Phebe Barton, b. 1632, Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island, USA
	2. Elizabeth Barton, b. 1637, Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island, USA d. 20 Aug 1693, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA (Age 56 years)
+	3. Benjamin Barton, b. 1645, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA d. 9 Nov 1720, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA (Age 75 years)

Family ID F135 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Birth - 1606 - Lanchester, County Durham, England
	Death - 1648 - Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, USA
	Burial - - Warwick (Barton Lot, Bartons Corner), Kent Co., Rhode Island,

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Notes

!NOTE: 15 Dec 2002: The BARTON DNA Project (www.bartonsite.org) has established that Rufus Barton b. 1606 and Roger Barton (The Immigrant) b. 1628, alleged to be sons of Edward Barton b. 1559, may not be brothers since their descendants (according to current pedigrees) have different Y-Chormosome DNA. [Nov 2013 update: Rufus, Roger and Edward are three distinct yDNA profiles. If the three paper trails really do come together, there are at least two non-paternity-events (NPE).] This DNA result conflicts with many published genealogies which have been accepted as "fact" for decades. Here are some possible casuals: (1) either or both Roger and Rufus were Foster or Adopted sons of Edward, (2) either or both Roger and Rufus were not related in any way to Edward, (3) either Roger or Rufus was a non-paternity event (female infidelity) of Edward... but which one? (4) Both Roger and Rufus were sons of Edward but there was a non-paternity event downstream from one of them. Further research is needed to resolve this apparent conflict.

NOTE: 18 July 2019: The claim that Roger Barton and Rufus Barton are brothers has been proven to be a myth. The myth was a result of E. B. O'Callaghan indexing the name of the tenant of the 1642 lease of Everardus Bogardus' land in New Netherlands as Roger Barton instead of Rufus Barton as shown on the extant lease. This error in O'Callaghan's 1865 Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, created a bogus presence of Roger Barton in New Netherlands in 1642.

O'Callaghan's deletion of Rufus Barton's name from the 1642 lease in his 1865 Calendar removed the only record of Rufus Barton in New Netherlands, leading Rufus' descendants to believe their family lore placing Rufus in New Netherlands must have been before records were kept, and that Rufus's 1641 record in Rhode Island followed his removal from New Netherlands.

The bogus logic that Rufus left New Netherland in 1641, and the bogus claim that Roger leased land in New Netherland in 1642, led some people to incorrectly conclude that the two Bartons in New Netherland in 1641/1642 were brothers.

Claims that Roger Barton's father was an Edward Barton have no support in credible genealogy.
July 2019 James C. Barton jim@rogerbarton.com

!RESEARCHER: Dennis Hart, Richmond CA, in the files of Gary Barton as Family Group Sheet Exchange, Family Group Record #5 and Amos or Lois Thomson, Red Bluff CA, in the files of Gary Barton as Family Group Sheet Exchange, Family Group Record #6

!EMIGRATED to America before 1640. Lived in NY, Portsmouth, Warwick RI.

!CITED in "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs", Vol. III, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1911, p.1194.

!CITED in "History of Nebraska", J. Sterling Morton, Jacob North & Co., Lincoln NB, 1905, p. 586.

!CITED in "Alexander Stewart, His Scots Ancestry and American Descendants", Dorothy Kintigh Sidfrid, KNI, Inc., Anaheim CA 1979, p. 149.

!CITED in "The American Genealogist", v. 27, p. 136.

!RESEARCHER: Bob Klumb, 451 Polony Place, Charleston SC 29414-4955 (descendant)

!CITED in The Barton Banner, Vol. 1, No. 7.

!DNA information from the Barton Historical Society's DNA Project Sept. 2002 Phase 1(www.bartonsite.org) raises doubts that Roger Barton (The Immigrant) and Rufus Barton are brothers!

!RESEARCHER descendent Joanne (Barton) Rexford, 315 12th Ave., Vero Beach FL 32962 on 21 Sep 2002. See notes in (BART317).

!RESEARCH Betsey B. Perra , Line Leader - Barton Historical Society who provided Modified Register for Rufus Barton, received from Betsey B. Perra (BART354)

!DNA Project of Barton Historical Society, Phase I - pedigree submission SC 44.26, mtb-studley@att.net

!RESEARCHER Dorene Arnold on 14 Jul 2002 on www.ancestry.com.

!RESEARCHER descendant Dana (Barton) Berry in an email message dated 24 Feb 2004.

CITED in "The Name and Family of Barton" compiled by The Media Research Bureau, Washington D.C., FHL microfilm no. 0874252, item 13. [2018: since discredited as fraudulent and misleading]

Sources
[S3795] Find A Grave www.findagrave.com.
cites Birth Place as City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England but without Source

[S3795] Find A Grave www.findagrave.com.