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• Barber, A. D. of Sanford, Lee County, N.C. Republican. Candidate for U.S. Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1942; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1944. Burial location unknown.
• James W. Barber Feb 13 1998
  I'm trying to find proof of Cherokee Indian Ancestry in my family. I know my great-grandmother or great-great-grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee Indian, her name was Buella Jones. She lived in Oklahoma for a time. My last name is BARBER, which is English. My great-grandfather Aaron Barber married Buella JONES and her name was changed. Another possible name that I have heard mentioned but found no connection is SKAGG or SKAG. Can anyone help?
  

Below is an entry on a Barber Site Forum by Roy Maynor

I don't have any Barbers in my line, however, I'm quite interested in Barbers from a colatteral point of view.

I'm Coharie Indian. The Coharie Indians are from Sampson and Harnett counties in southeastern North Carolina. The state of North Carolina recognizes the Coharie as one of seven tribes of American Indians currently located within, and originating from, the state of North Carolina. We trace our history back to about 1730, when the first white settlers began to occupy Sampson and Harnett counties. We identify ourselves as Indian but also recognize that we are a tri-racial people. (Anthropologists refer to us as a "Tri-Racial Isolate.")

One of the surnames found among the Coharie is CHANCE. The oldest CHANCE that I'm aware of is IVENS CHANCE. Now, what's interesting is that the surname CHANCE is found among the Mattamuskeet Indians of coastal North Carolina, particularly in Hyde County, NC. (NOTE: Some refer to the Mattamuskeet Indians as the Machapungo Indians. Historically, the Mattamuskeet/Machapungo Indians are associated with the Coree Indians; also of coastal NC.)

Now, the Indian CHANCES are often linked or associated with the Indian BARBERS. From my understanding, these two Indian families were extensively intermarried during the period between the late 1700s to about 1850 or so. Common surnames among the Mattmuskeet Indians of Hyde and neighboring counties were CHANCE, BARBER, MACKEY, COLLINS, LONGTOM (or, TOM), and SQUIRES.

During the 1790 to 1850 censuses, these families were listed as "Free Persons Of Color," which, more ofen than not, meant Indian. Additionally, the term, "mulatto" often meant Indian too. You referenced Mr. Paul Heinegg's monumental work, FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA. While I have the highest regard for Mr. Heinegg's work, he erroneously assumes that ALL "free persons of color" were African American and that mulattos were of a white and black mixture only. Neither assumption is correct. Indians intermarried with whites and blacks at a very, very early date. In fact, inter-racial unions began prior to the first English foot touching land on Roanoke Island in 1587 (See Capt. Juan Pardo and the Spanish settlements along the James River in Virginia, and at Santa Elena in South Carolina, as well as the 300 or so newly freed African slaves and the 300 of the newly freed Brazilian Indian slaves which Sir Francis Drake left on Roanoke Island one year prior to Sir Walter Raleigh's famous "Lost Colony" and the official beginning of American history.... But I digress).

Anyway, the Mattamuskeet Indians were allied with the powerful Tuscarora Indians during the Tuscarora Indian War of 1711 to 1713. After the war, the Tuscarora and the Mattamuskeet shared a reservation somewhere near Hyde County. Apparently, they didn't get along as well in peace as they had as allies, so the Tuscarora were removed to a new reservation in Bertie County circa 1717, and the Mattamuskeet were given a reservation in Hyde County at about the same time.

By 1761, the Mattamuskeet had sold off all their reservation land to neighboring whites. (Somehow or another, in 1792, a small group of five female Mattmuskeet Indians re-sold the reservation land to a white person, even though it was no longer theirs to sell.)

For several decades during the early 1800s, the local white authorities "bound out" virtually every Mattamuskeet Indian child as an apprentice to a white family. The children were often bound out as young as 18 months old. The net effect of this "apprenticing policy" at such an early age effectively erased any memory of Indian-ness from these children. Most of these children, upon reaching adulthood, married into the African American race and their offspring became submerged into that race.

Now, I said all the preceding in order to set the stage for the final piece of information I want to present. Yesterday, I received a copy of a 1995 doctoral dissertation written by a Dr. Arwin Smallwood, Ph. D. Dr. Smallwood's dissertation examines the Tuscarora reservation in Bertie County (mentioned several paragraphs earlier). That reservation was known as "Indian Woods." Dr. Smallwood, in recounting the events of the Tuscarora Indian War of 1711 - 1713, mentions a Tuscarora war chief. I do not have the paper with me as I type this, thus, I cannot recall the Indian name of the Tuscarora war chief, however, I do remember that this war chief's name, as he was called by the English, was BARBER!

So, for those of you who've heard stories of Indian ancestry in your family, perhaps this is the source.

In a follow up to the above Roy Maynor entered this:

The Indian name of the Tuscarora war chief was CO - RET - NI - ENA. The whites called him Chief Barber.

This below appeared on the same Barber Forum as the above by Lilliam Barnes.

My great-grandmother was Eliza Ann King Barber,(Indian Piney Woods) she was born abt 1808 in NC. She was brought to the Hyde County mainland from Ocracoke by Indians.
She served as a midwife into the 1890's and was known as Aunt Liza King. She died November 10, 1912. She married John Wesley King and they had 16 children.
Now the big question, both she and her husband were free people of color. They are shown on both the 1850 and 1860 Hyde census records as King. Sometime in early 1870
they all changed their last name to Barber, even her husband. If anyone has an explaination for this please let me know. By the way, they never left the county and Eliza
was still known as Aunt Liza King until her death.

I found this information surfing

Certificate #73; Book 10

• Name: JENNETTE, Willie Lee
  Born: Aug. 28, 1898
  Sex: Male
  Birthplace: Engelhard, Hyde Co., NC
  Attendant at Birth: Liza King; Address: Engelhard, NC
  Father: Robert Jennette; white; born 1875 in Engelhard, NC
  Mother: Docia Davis; white; born 1874 in Georgetown, S.C.

Newspaper clipping I found on the web

September 27, 1775
The Pennsylvania Gazette

Vessels wrecked at the Bar.

Capt. Barber, of Pasquotanck, the crew saved. Capt. James, of Marblehead, two men saved. Capt. Hastie, of Glasgow, one man lost. Capt. Cisson, of Whitehaven, four men saved. Captains Sandelin, Vollantine and Hackburn, of North-Carolina, all saved. Capt. Clarke, of Edenton, four men lost. Capt. Thompson, of Glasgow, one man lost. Captain Cullen Clark, of Virginia, all saved. Capt. Parker, of Pasquotank, on shore at Hatteras. Capt. Drinkwater, ashore. Three vessels, masters names not known, ashore at Hatteras. Captains Collier and Hayman were drove off, but since returned.

I found this marriage recorded in Martin County, NC

Benjamin Barber and Emmerline Gardner married Mar. 19, 1874

10/17/03

To whom It May Concern:

I am the sixth generation from John Barber who married
Sarah Martin by son Robert (Robin) Barber by son John
Martin Barber (buried in Marshall County, MS) by son
Elias Jackson Barber (same cemetary) by son
Charles Austin Barber (1880-1974) buried in Tate
County, MS by son Harold Aubrey Barber (1912-1979)
buried in Forrest County, MS and me James Milling
Barber (1943- ) living in Hattiesburg, MS in Lamar
County.

James M. Barber

7/16/04

Found this while surfing.  Source:  James Barber

JAMES BARBER (b: 1762 VA) married MILLIE and moved to NC.

1. JAMES HENRY BARBER (b: 16 Mar 1785 NC; d: 17 Apr 1857 Clark CO.,
MS) m: MARY ANN COLLINS

JAMES HENRY BARBER (b: 16 Mar 1785 NC, d: 17 Apr 1857 Cark CO.,
MS) married MARY ANN COLLINS (b: 1787 NC, d: 1859 MS) in 1812.
They lived in GA, AL.

1. CASSIE BARBER (b: 1819)

2. JOHN BARBER (b: 1821)

3. JAMES HINTON BARBER (b: 1823 GA) m: HESTER BOYKIN

4. ISAAC NEWTON BARBER (b: 19 Mar 1826 GA; 8 Dec 1888 Milam CO.,
TX) m: TABITHA GARDNER

5. SEABORN JONES BARBER (b: 1829 AL) m: FRANCIS GARDNER