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Subject: Re: John Paul Barringer's Parents
Date: 13 Jul 2005 23:53:18 -0600

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I do not know how they got the information that john paul's parents were Johann Matthaus Wilheim and Anna Catherina Boger. His Parents were Wilhelm and Paulina (Dekner) Barringer. They died on the ship palina and are buried in the Atlantic ocean. My sources are family and The book History of Elgin Crossroads and Nearbys. Elgin is a small town in North Alabama. That is where I am from. I am related to John Paul Barringer. John Paul is my 7th great grandfather. here is how I am related John paul had a son John From his first marriage to Anna Eiseman. John had a Son Jacob who had Edmund who had Felix who had Ruthie who had Leona who had Diane who had Melissa who had me Tina. This line of the barringer family ended up in Elgin Alabama. Wilhelm and Paulina were old, but they decided to make their immigration trip to America carrying a political description of French Hugonots from the Low Countries. The voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania took about four!
weeks. Both of the old parents died and were buried at sea from the ship “Palina” with John Brown as master. John Paul, the oldest son, was born June 4, 1721, in the Duchy of Württemburg, Germany on the slopes of the Franconian Alps (now called Franconia). He crossed to the French border (he also spoke French) and walked down the Rhine River to Hanover, stayed there for some time, and then took a ship at Rotterdam for Philadelphia. He was the first Barringer to settle in America arriving September 30, 1742. After five years he sent to Germany for his parents, brothers, and sisters. He first settled in the Wyoming Valley, Luzerne, Pennsylvania (a few miles northwest of Wilkes-Barre, PA). John Paul married Ann Eliza Eisman and had two children( John and Catherine). He also married Christina Blackwelder and had ten children ( Paul, Matthias, Martin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther, Daniel, Jacob, Leah, and Mary "polly"). John Paul Barringer often signed his !
name Paulus Behringer. John Paul Barringer in his later years was refe
rred to as a bearcat meaning he had the strength and endurance of a bear with the swiftness and eagerness of a cat. Pioneer John Paul is buried at Saint John’s Lutheran Church in Mt. Pleasant, NC. To better fit in with their English neighbors, the Behringer’s changed their German name to the English version of Barringer. John Paul Barringer built his house and a mill (quarrying and cutting his first millstones from local granite) and was reported to live a Baronial life (his home was named Mount Pleasant) operating his mill, trading, and farming rich lands. John Paul was captain in the Colonial militia and for twenty years was a magistrate of the Crown—he was visited by Lord Tryon, the royal governor who noted the visit in his journal dated August 31, 1768. As a magistrate for the Crown, he refused to comply and issue the royal order of 1776 to quell the rebellion (the Revolutionary War). Pioneer John Paul Barringer was rounded up by David Fanning 80s gang and sent t!
o prison in Camden South Carolina and he returned to his home in 1780. John Paul was too old to fight in the Revolutionary war but he did outfit his eldest son, John who became a captain the Continental Army.
Other Sources: http://www.gencircles.com/users/tmerrill/1/data/109
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

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