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Subject: [BARRINGER] Rowan-Cabarrus barringers of NC
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 01:01:18 -0400

Someone asked about Catherine Barringer last week.

I have copy of an article written in 1934 titled, "First Barringer
Reunion". It refers to a few Catherine Barringers.
Here are excerpts:


"The descendants of John Paul, Mathias and George Henry Barringer and
their relatives and friends met Tuesday, August 28, at the historic old
St. Jouh's church, six miles east of Concord, for the purpose of
organization. Mr. W.M. Barringer of Statesville, presided over the
meeting."

"The following is the sketch of John Paul Barringer, which was read by
Mr. W.M. Barringer, of Statesville, at the reunion:

John Paul Barringer, or as he wrote his name - Paulus Behringer, was
born in the Duchy of Wurtemburg, Germany, on the 4th of June 1721. He
was the eldest son of a family of six children.
Tradition has it that his father's name was Wilheim and his mother's
Paulina.
Nothing further is known of his family's antecedents beyond the
tradition common in all its branches - that they were French Huguenots
leaving France sometime during 1600 before the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes, some going to England and some to Germany.
John Paul Barringer, the founder of the North Carolina family and the
subject of this sketch, left home when just past his majority, and
sailed from Rotterdam for America on the ship 'Phoenix', Commander
William Wilson, and landed at Philadelphia September 30, 1743.
Within a year after his arrival in America he married Ann Eliza Eisman,
and the young couple settled in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania where
they remained some years and prospered. Two children, John and
Catherine, were born there..............
...in about 1753 they moved to North Carolina and settled on Dutch
Buffalo Creek in Anson County, later Mecklenburg county, now Cabarrus
county, near the afterward famous residence 'Poplar Grove.'
Sometime before he moved to North Carolina he sent to Germany for his
parents and his younger brothers and sisters. Both of his parents died
at sea, but we learn from 'Ruff-Namer of Emigrants' that Mathias
Barringer (Beringer) arrived at the Port of Philadelphia, September 16,
1748, in the ship "Palina," John Brown, Master, and with him probably
came the daughter of the family, Ruff does not record the arrival of
George Henry Barringer, but the record of his purchasing land in
Pennsylvania one year after John Paul landed leads to the belief that he
came over with John Paul but was not of age and no record seems to have
been made of minors or women.
By a letter from Col. John Barnhardt, who knew all the members of the
family, written when he was 80 years of age to the Hon. D.M. Barringer,
we learn that these children were five in number, as follows:"
[note this is in disagreement with the first paragraph that says John
Paul was the eldest of six --susan]
"George Henry Barringer, who settled on Little Dutch Buffalo Creek, two
miles south of a place know as Gold Hill, in Rowan, now Montgomery
county.
The other brother, Mathias Barringer, afterward a captain in Colonial
Militia, married a Miss Bushart and settled in the county of Lincoln,
now Catawba county, two miles from the present town of Newton. During
the Rutherford's Indian Campaign, in 1776, this Mathias Barringer, with
five other members of his company, was ambushed and killed by the
Cherokee Indians, and some years ago a monument was erected to their
memory in the court house square at Newton, where it stands today.
Of the three daughters [sisters of John Paul], Anna Maria Barringer,
the eldest sister, married Christian Barnhardt; another sister named
Catherine married Christian Obenshein or Overshire or Overcash; and
another, Dolly, married Nicholas Cook.
John Paul Barringer played a heroic part in behalf of American
independence although he never learned to speak English. During the
struggle, he was captured by Tories and confined in prison at Camden, S.
C., and was the only one of his Company of prisoners who returned home.
John Paul Barringer was the promoter of the formation of Catawba
county, from Mecklenburg county in 1792, and in 1793 he went to the
Legislature to represent the new county.
A short while before the Revolutionary War, his wife died and in about
1777 he married Miss Catherine Blackwelder and to this union were born
five sons and four daughters. The Barringer family has been represented
in all the wars of our country."

there's more if anyone needs a copy let me know.

Out of the rest of the article is this info on John Paul's descendents:
Two of his sons are Daniel I. Barringer of N.C and Tennessee
And General Paul arringer of the War of 1812 (doesn't say what happened
to the other 3 sons born of Catherine or John from his first wife).

Great grandsons of John Paul are listed as:
Daniel Morean, Minister to Spain and "foremost citizen of Raleigh"
Paul Brandon Barringer, the Mississippi pioneer
William Barringer, "the great preacher" ( I think this is the one that
died walking out onto a new construction area at UNC-G, then Women's
College of Greensboro)
Rufus Barringer, the Confederate Brigadier-General and "fearless
politician"
Victor Clay Barringer, "the Scholar and diplomat"

Next are listed "great-grandsons" again, but i think it means
great-great.
Lewin W. Barringer, "successful lawyer"
Daniel Morean Barringer, Jr., "eminent as a lawyer, geologist and expert
on law of mining"
Col. John Alston Barringer "of the Greensboro bar"
Dr. Paul B. Barringer of the University of Virginia faculty

susan

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