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Ebenezer was 13 when his father died. He moved to Bristol in 1727.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary
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EBENEZER, Southington, s[on]. of Thomas of the same, m[arried]. 8 Apr. 1699, Deborah Orvis, and d[ied]. 1756, leav[ing]. fifteen ch[ildren]. as Mr. Porter assures me.

From Barnes Genealogies
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He settled in the south part of the present town of Bristol, and built a large tavern which he conducted during his lifetime. His place was at the junction of the road east of the mountain, and the Plainville road.

Ebenezer Barnes was appointed ensign of train band at the parish of Southington, in Farmington, in 1737: appointed captain in 1742: appointed lieutenant of South Co. in town of Farmington, in 1768. (Colonial Records of Conn.)

He had sixteen children...

"In 1718, Ebenezer Barnes, of Farmington, was paid six shillings for killing wolves." (Historic Addresses)

From Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut
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It is claimed that, in 1729, Ebenezer had become the first permanent settler in what was to become the City of Briston. This would be along the north side of what is supposedly part of the 40-acre thumb of lowland which had in 1663 been granted to his father and three others in joint adventure.

From various Internet sources
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The Barnes family before 1745 established a sawmill and gristmill near their tavern, taking their power from the Pequabuck River, about where the present dam of the Bristol Brass and Clock Company stands. In 1745 there is mention of the Barnes tavern in the New Cambridge town records.

From Ten Generations of Barnes in Bristol, Connecticut
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In the will of Thomas Barns, his son, Ebenezer, was given a choice of one of the outlands possessed by his father. In selecting a settlement in what was then Poland, he may have been influenced not only by the fact that his father, Thomas Barns, had received a land grant in the eastern tier of lots, but also that his mother-ion-law, the widow Orvis, had also received an allotment in the same section... Ebenezer Barns became the first permanent settler of Bristol in 1728...

At the time Ebenezer Barns settled in Bristol, George !! and Queen Caroline were sovereigns of New England as well as of the British Isles...

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Ebenezer Barns' settlement in Bristol is the fact that he was over fifty years old when he left the settlement of Farmington to pioneer in the wilderness. He must have been a man of extraordinary physique and determination to found a new home under such conditions. No one of the present day can have any conception of the amount of labor involved in establishing a farm in primeval New England. Undoubtedly he had been trained in the school of hard knocks, since his father died when Ebenezer was thirteen, and it is probable that he had to shift largely for himself after that time.

... fifteen children were born. Of this number eleven were born in Farmington and four in Bristol.

There is no evidence that Ebenezer Barns fought in the numerous so-called French and Indian wars...

...He was, therefore, far from isolated in his new home, and his settling upon this colonial highway [an old Indian trail ... prior to the construction of the turnpike in 1804, followed the Indian route... the only highway from Farmington to Mattatuck] probably explains why he became Bristol's first tavern-keeper.

...Ebenezer Barns was moderator of this first meeting [of the "Winter Society"... This was actually the organization of the first Congregational Church of Bristol, the history of which has been continuous since that date.] On December 6, 1742, the first service was held at the home of John Brown who lived on King Road north of the Barns homestead. The Rev. Thomas Canfield, who later held a life pastorate in Roxbury, was the preacher. The Congregational Church in Roxbury now has in its possession a diary in Mr. Canfield's handwriting in which he states that he preached "at ye mountain, now called Cambridge in Farmington," from December 6, 1742, through the winter. This is the first reference we have to the name Cambridge as applied to what is now Bristol. It is evident that the name was popular, for a year later, when the General Assembly was petitioned by the local settlers for a "distinkt sosiaty," it was officially named New Cambridge.

From Lois B. Morrill
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Book "Ten Generations of Barnes" ... has pictures & history about Ebenezer's home/tavern at a crossroads in nearby Bristol, CT. Some of the paneling from his home was used for the interior of a wing of the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol; & Ebenezer Barnes is named on the historic marker in front of the Burlington City Hall.

From Connecticut Colony Records
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October 1742Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes, Joseph Gaylord, and sundry other persons that are settled on the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth divisions of land in the town of Farmingtown, that lye west of the reserved lands (so called) in said town, shewing the great difficulties they are under to attend the publick worship of God in the society to which they do belong, in the winter season ; and praying for liberty to hire preaching among themselves for the winter season annually : This Assembly grants to the memorialists and such other persons as shall settle on the divisions of land abovesaid, within the limits following, (vis.) beginning at the south end of said divisions, and thence to extend north five miles, liberty of hiring some orthodox and suitably qualified person to preach to them for the space of six months annually ; said terms to begin on the first of November ; with all such rights and privileges as are allowed by law to other such societies in this Colony.

May 1744On the memorial of Ebenezer Barnes and others, inhabitants of that tract of land in Farmingtown called the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Divisions, lying west of the Reserved Lands, (so called,) praying to be formed into a distinct ecclesiastical society... be called and known by the name of New Cambridge.*

* Now Bristol.

May 1745Upon the memorial of Ebenezer Barns and others, inhabitants of the fourth society in the town of Farmingtown... Resolved by this Assembly, that all the unimproved lands within the limits of said society or parish... to be taxed at six pence money, old tenour, per acre per annum... toward the settling of a minister and building a meeting house...

From The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
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The next year, 1728, Ebenezer Barnes, from Farmington, and Nehemiah Manross, from Lebanon, bought lands, built houses, and moved hither their families. Mr. Barnes's house has never been removed, and now forms the central part of Julius E. Pierce's residence in East Bristol; this was undoubtedly the earliest house of which any part now remains. Mr. Barnes's descendants have always remained here, and have been among our best-known families.

... These early families were all Congregationalists. Every Sunday a little procession went through the woods eight miles to the old church at Farmington... the meetings had been held at private houses; the houses of Ebenezer Barnes, John Brown, Stephen Barnes, Abner Matthews, and John Hickox having each been used for that purpose.

Sources:
Author: Frederic Wayne Barnes and Edna Cleo (Bauer) Barnes
Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut
Publication: Name: Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD 1994;
Repository:
Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:
It was written prior to the corruption of the BARNES Family lines from Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut. This book was also written prior to any that are "popped out of a computer" using FTM. It is a scholarly work and is well researched in addition to being heavily documented.

Page: p. 7, 16 and citing
Text: The Making of Bristol, Bristol Public Library Association, 1954, p. 3; The Barnes Family Yearbook, Vol. 1, 1907, p. 10; Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, CT, 1946, Chap.
Author: James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England.
Title: Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's
Publication: Name: 1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994;
Repository:
Name: http://genweb.net/~books/savage

Note:
The electronic version adapted under the direction of Robert Kraft (assisted by Benjamin Dunning) from materials supplied by Automated Archives, 1160 South State, Suite 250, Orem UT 84058 in the following ways:
missing lines have been added wherever they could be located (vol. 2 could not easily be checked since line format was not replicated; the corrections found in vols 1-4 have been integrated into the text; page numbers have been represented between double brackets; hyphens have been resolved, and some abbreviated names. NOTE that letter by letter verification has NOT yet been attempted.
copyright for the new electronic version by Robert Kraft, July 1994.

Preface (part)
SOME explanatory introduction to so copious a work, as the following, will naturally be required; but it may be short. In 1829 was published, by John Farmer, a Genealogical Register of the first settlers of New England. Beside the five classes of persons prominent, as Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants, ministers in all the Colonies, and representatives in that of Massachusetts, down to 1692, it embraced graduates of Harvard College to 1662, members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, as also freemen admitted in Massachusetts, alone, to this latter date, with many early inhabitants of other parts of New England and Long Island from 1620 to 1675. Extensive as was the plan of that volume, the author had in contemplation, as explained in his preface, calling it "an introduction to a biographical and genealogical dictionary, "a more ambitious work, that should comprehend sketches of individuals known in the annals of New England, and "a continuation of eminent persons to the present time." Much too vast a project that appeared to me; and the fixing of an absolute limit, like 1692 (the era of arrival of the new charter), for admission of any family stocks, seemed more judicious.

has a large number of abbreviations - I have made some attempt to write them out fully in brackets

Page: p. 121
Author: Collected and compiled from original sources by Rev. Geo. N. Barnes
Title: Barnes Genealogies
Publication: Name: The Rieg & Smith Printing Co.; Location: Conneaut, Ohio; Date: 1903;
Repository:
Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:
Including a collection of ancestral, genealogical and family records and biographical sketches of Barnes people.

Page: p. 13
Author: Compiled By Trescott C. Barnes, Secretary and Genealogist
Title: The Barnes Family Year Book, Vol. I - 1907 & II - 1908
Publication: Name: Vol. I -The Grafton Press, New York; Vol. II - Winsted Printing and Engraving Co, Winsted, Conn.; Date: 1908;
Repository:
Name: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library

Note:
An annual publication issued under the authority of the Barnes Family Association.

Page: p. 9
Author: Selim Walker McArthur
Title: McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines
Publication: Name: Portland, Me., Anthoensen Press, 1964;
Repository:
Name: Ancestry.com

Note:
Source Medium: Book
Author: Fuller F. Barnes
Title: Ten Generations of the Barnes Family in Bristol, Connecticut
Publication: Name: privately printed; Date: 1946;
Repository:
Name: State Library of Connecticut

Note:
Author was ninth generation from Thomas Barns

Page: Chapter 2
Author: Frederick R. Barnes
Title: Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington Connecticut
Publication: Date: 1934;
Repository:
Name: Connecticut State Library

Note:
"In Relation to Inheritable Tendancies" completes the title
Title: Researcher Lois B. Morrill
Author: Royal Ralph Hinman
Title: Genealogy of the Puritans
Publication: Location: New York; Date: 1856;
Note:
Royal Ralph Hinman was the son of General Ephraim Hinman, a successful Connecticut merchant, and his wife Sylvania [French] Hinman.

After he was admitted to the bar he practiced law in Roxbury, CT for many years. From 1823 to 1833, Hinman acted as the Postmaster of Roxbury. In September of 1844, he was appointed the Collector of Customs of the Port of New Haven.

In 1835, Hinman along with Leman Church and the Hon. Elisha Phelps were appointed to revise the public statutes of Connecticut. From 1835 to 1836, the committee compiled and published the private or special acts of the state, eventually comprising a total of 1,640 pages. In 1838, Hinman and Thomas C. Perkins were appointed to further revise the statutes ...of the state, the Revisions of 1838, which eventually became a published work of 717 pages.

Hinman also published other works including the Antiquities of Connecticut and A Historical Collection of the Part Sustained by Connecticut During the War of the Revolution. He was also the author of numerous other historical publications as well as a member of the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey state historial societies.
Page: p. 141-142
Title: Researcher Sherrie Haines (Barnes)
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
Title: Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut 1633-1884, The
Publication: Name: E.L. Osgood; Location: Boston; Date: 1886;
Repository:
Name: GenealogyLibrary.com

Note:
1367 pgs.
Title: Researcher Lynn Dielman
Note:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marr794&id=I1345