Joseph A. BARNETT 
Joseph A. was born about 1793 in Doe Hill, Webster Co., VA . Joseph A.'s father was Zachariah BARNETT and his mother was Lucy "Sarah" McCartney . His paternal grandparents were Thomas BARNETT and Jemima UNKNOWN. He had four brothers and a sister, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Zachariah Jr., Thomas , Son , Son, Jane and Andrew. He was the oldest of the seven children. He died in 1860 in Little Birch, Braxton .General Notes
BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Barnett by EHBright@@aol.com
Sutton's History of Braxton County indicates that Joseph Barnett was one of the first to settle in the village of Little Birch (between 1812 and 1815), Lewis County (now Braxton County).Joseph Barnett obtained a land grant of 100 acres on the Little Birch River from the Commonwealth of Virginia in the year 1837. Joseph was born around 1793 in Bath County, the son of Zachariah and Sarah (McCartney) Barnett.
Sarah McCartney, with her brothers, Andrew, Thomas, Joseph, and her sisters, Margaret,Elizabeth and Jenny came direct from Scotland to settle in Virginia. The McCartney family first settled in Pendleton County, but Thomas and Andrew came around 1812 to what is now Lewis and Braxton Counties but was then Harrison County.
On April 9, 1815, Joseph Barnett married his cousin Elizabeth S.McCartney, born November 15, 1800, in Pendleton County, died April 20, 1896 in Lewis County, daughter of Andrew McCartney,who had settled on the head waters of the Little Kanawha Riverin what is now Braxton County. Joseph, with his Uncle Isaac Barnett, traveled to Clarksburg to obtain the marriage licenseon April 3, and since Joseph's father, Zachariah, had just recently passed away, his Uncle Isaac made oath that both Josephand Elizabeth were over 21 years of age.
Source: Families of Orlando, West Virginia
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=orlandowv&id=I1274
Thank you Donna for sharing
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- b.1652 in Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands
- b.~ 1678 in Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands
- b.11 May 1710 in Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands d.1767 in DE
- b.~ 1682 in Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands
- b.1745 in Germany d.1825 in Bath Co., VA
- b.1771 in Germany d.1815 in VA
- b.~ 1793 in Doe Hill, Webster Co., VA d.1860 in Little Birch, Braxton
- b.abt 1770/74 in Scotland
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