Andrew Thomas Barbee

Any ancestors before this person in this line are probably questionable.

Children:

Thomas Barbee, born 1690, Stafford Co, Virginia

Mary Barbee, born 1692

Andrew died early; had only two children. Andrew's descendants stayed in the Virginia area until after the Rev. War, when they migrated to Kentucky, Ohio and then westward. After Andrew Barbee died, Sarah married Thomas James, of Potomac Creek in Stafford Co. VA, abt 1699.

We can speculate that our first Virginia ancestor could have been a William Barby who appears as one of the twenty head rights of George Morris and John Pigge for their purchase of 1000 acres in New Kent County, Virginia on December 14, 1660. This William Barbee could have come over even earlier than 1660 since headrights were often saved up and used much later for the securing of large land grants.

This William Barby could have had at least two sons: (1) Andrew Barbee from whom many Virginia and Kentucky Barbees are descended, and (2) William Barbee whose Will was recorded in Middlesex County Virginia, showing him to have been a prosperous planter who died in 1720/1. This William Barbee was the progenitor of the multitude of Barbees of Chatham, Orange, and Wake Counties in North Carolina.

ANDREW BARBEE OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA

FIRST VERIFIED ANCESTOR

The Barbee family of "Oakland", Danville Kentucky can be traced with certainty from Andrew Barbee of Stafford County, Virginia, according to an old family chart completed by * Daisy Barbee. Andrew died in Stafford County before September 11, 1699, the time of the Inventory of his Estate by his widow, Sarah Barbee, who, following her husband's death had married Thomas James. The "Inventory" was presented at Court in November 1702 and included mostly livestock and among other things "two sizeable chests, and old sword and guns," also a certain amount of household gear. This inventory was done especially for the benefit of the two orphans, Thomas and Mary Barbee, who were not yet of age at the time of their fathers death. Thomas Barbee was born 1690 so he must have been round nine years old. We know that Andrew Barbee and his wife, Sarah, had these two children, Thomas and Mary Barbee, because of a Gift of Deed the children received from George Mason II, dated April 9, 1701. The land given had been inherited form George Mason I who had come to Virginia in 1651/2 and settled near the Brents, Fowkes, and Peytons on land drained by Potomoc Creek and Accokeek Run and near the mouth of Aquia Creek. This had been the home plantation for the father, but, while retaining his leadership in the area, George Mason II moved his home plantation northward to Pohick on Doeg's Neck and land on which "Gunston Hall" eventually would be built by his grandson, George Mason IV, who wrote the Bill of Rights for the United States Constitution.