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Subject: Catherine BARRINGER--That's It.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:43:43 -0500 (EST)

Hello, Barringers.

Thank you, Erin, for urging us to submit ONE name if that's all we
have--because that's all I have, one unproven, undocumented name:

Catherine (BARRINGER?), b abt 1745?, d abt 1824 Cabarrus Co. NC; m (abt 1763)
Martin HARKEY, b abt 1740-45 poss. PA, d 1807 Cabarrus Co. NC.

Many subscribers to the HARKEY list (where the BARRINGER list was announced
yesterday) posit Martin and Catherine as their earliest known ancestors, but
no one has been able to find a Catherine of the proper age among the
BARRINGERs.

According to a HARKEY family history written abt 1970 by Joseph Harkey ("The
Descendants of H. D. Harkey, Sr., with Notes on the Harkey Family in North
Carolina"), Catherine BARRINGER was the wife of Martin (the Elder) HARKEY.

The following is mostly excerpted from Prof. Harkey's history.

Martin HARKEY was born in Lancaster Co., PA, between 1740 and 1745, perhaps
earlier. His father...may have settled in the northeastern part of Lancaster
Co. Several HARKEYs are buried at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in
New Holland, Earl Township.... [T]raditions handed down in our line (through
Martin's son David) are that the first Harkey came from Holland and that
three sons came south from Pennsylvania and then settled in various
places....

Martin HARKEY, b abt 1740-45 PA, d 1807 Cabarrus Co. NC; m (abt 1763)
Catherine BARRINGER(?), b abt 1740-45, d aft 1821(1824?) Cabarrus Co. NC....

Martin Harkey had settled in Mecklenburg Co. by 1769, where he purchased a
tract of land from Matthias BARRINGER. His property lay in the Crooked Creek
area of what is now Cabarrus Co. In the 1790 census his name is spelled
HARGEY, and there is also an entry for his oldest son, John....

Martin HARKEY was a member of Crooked Creek Lutheran Church in 1797.
According to "The Lost Tribes of N.C.," by Worth S. Ray, he was a public
official of Mecklenburg Co. at the time of the Revolution. He left no
will....

Martin and Catherine (BARRINGER?) HARKEY had seven children: John, Henry,
Jacob, Martin, Catherine, Elizabeth, and David. One of David HARKEY's sons
served under Captain (later General) Rufus BARRINGER during the Civil War.

We'd be most grateful for any information on the family of this Catherine or
any connection to the HARKEY family.

Alma Roark Johnson

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