Adam Barnes was born about 1760 on his father's estate near West Friendship, which is now Howard County, Maryland. He apparently went up to Baltimore County (now Carroll County) when quite yound and on February 11, 1782, he married Ruth Shipley, daughter of Adam Shipley and sister of Robert Shipley who held "Adam's Garden", a large tract in Baltimore County. Adam Barnes and his wife undoubtedly lived upon the tract "Hopewell" a few years before he purchased it, as their children are said to have all been born there. This place, as was said before, was located in what is now Carroll County, just opposite the village of Garber, about eight miles south of Westminister. It was just across the road from the Mount Pleasant M.E. Church.
Although Adam was an Anglican in his younger days, he became a Methodist at the time when Methodism became the predominant faith in this section. In 1809, he and a group of representative citizens of this section were Methodist vestrymen and purchased a tract of land for the erection of a church.
Adam Barnes' will was dated May 2, 1809, and probated June 17, 1809. In the administration of his estate, the securities were Dorsey Barnes, Sr. and Dorsey Barnes, Jr. In his will he mentions these children in the following order: Rachel, Adam, Naomi Pool, Joshua, Robert, Zachariah, Hammutal, Polly, Henry, Josiah, Margaret, Ruthy, Sarian, and Cassineer and made them his heirs. He later mentioned Samuel, Susanna Williams and Ann Shipley and left them 25 cents each. He left his son, Robert all of his personal and real estate until the youngest child, Cassineer, reached the age of sixteen.The property was then to be sold and the proceeds divided amongst his heirs. Robert was appointed executor.
During the March term of 1820, a case in Chancery was entered by the remaining heirs against their brother, Robert, who lost. Aquilla Garrettson was then appointed by the court as trustee to sell the estate, since the youngest child, Cassineer, would reach the age of sixteen on March 30, 1920. "Hopewell", after being duly advertised, was sold at public auction and was purchased June 6, 1820 by Lloyd Pool, who was the husband of Naomi. In the Chancery records it was stated that the son, Zachariah, was then residing in Ohio. (My great uncle, John Ezra Barnes, who wrote the original family history, wondered if this Zachariah is an ancestor of some of the Barnesville, Ohio Barnes families. Also he wondered if Zachariah may have been responsible for his nephew, Nimrod Henry Barnes, moving his family to Montgomery, Ohio, in the late 1860s). The records also mention daughter Margaret as Margaret Ross and state that she was then dead, leaving a child Naomi Ross as her sole heir. The marriage licenses of Baltimore County give the following data on the marriages of Adam's children:
Rachel Barnes &; Vachel Pool - January 19, 1811
Adam Barnes &; Mary Parrish - April 11, 1801
Naomi Barnes &; Lloyd Pool - March 17, 1807
Joshua Barnes &; Elizabeth Parrish - December 18, 1813
Robert Barnes &; Sarah Smith - December 18, 1813
Polly (Mary) Barnes & Benjamin Haines - January 8, 1817
Margaret Barnes & ? Ross - date unknown
Ruth Barnes & Wesley Driver - November 9, 1817
Susanna Barnes & Abraham Williams - August 16, 1797
Ann Barnes & ? Shipley, date unknown
No information on Zachariah Barnes, Hammutal Barnes, Henry Barnes, Josiah Barnes, Sarian Barnes, Cassineer Barnes, Samual Barnes.
Joshua Barnes is said to have been born in 1786 and died in 1853. He was killed by a falling rock when he and his son were sawing off a piece of soapstone to be used in the construction of the top of a still for distilling wormwood, an important industry in Carroll County at the time. This was narrated to me (John Ezra Barnes) by his great grandson.
Naomi Pool and her husband Lloyd Pool are buried in the cemetery of Mount Pleasant ME Church across from "Hopewell. Many legends are still told of her in this neighborhood. She was, no doubt, an exceptional woman, religious and neighborly and possessed unusual skill in medicine at a time when physicians were rare in that section. She travelled by horseback and saved the lives of many ill people within a very wide area. A story is told of how she saved the life of a child who was besieged by wolves, many of which plagued the settlers in this section. Upon tombstones in Mount Pleasant church cemetery are the following inscriptions:
"Naomi, wife of Lloyd Pool, born June 10, 1785, died May 12, 1873, aged 87 years, 11 months, 2 days"
"Lloyd Pool died Feb. 22, 1863, aged 81 years, 11 months, 8 days"
"Hammutal Tivis, wife of Robert Wilson and daughter of Lloyd and Naomi Pool, died March 11, 1850, aged 25 years."
Note the recurrence of the name "Hammutal Tivis" in the family. Ruth (Shipley) Barnes, the widow of Adam, outlived her husband and married secondly, George F. Miller, Dec. 28, 1809.
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