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- According to Deane, he "was the son of John Barker of Duxbury, and Anna, the daughter of John Williams Sr. of Scituate (married 1632). John Barker Sr. was at Jones's river (now Kingston) 1638. He was drowned, 1652. [He had purchased the ferry (now [1850] Little's Bridge] of John Brewster, son of Elder Brewster, 1641, and was there drowned].
John Barker, Jr. was a serjeant in King Philip's war, and freed from bearing arms at hte close of that war, 'on account of wounds received.' He was afterward a Justice of the Peace, and is mentioned as a lawyer in the Colony records in 1674. His brother-in-law, Capt. John Williams, having no children, gave his farm in Scituate, 1694, to Williams Barker, his grand-nephew, son of John, Esq. This is the well known Barker farm north of the Harbour. . . .
John Barker, Esq. lost his first wife Desire, 1705, and married Hannah Cushing, (the widow of the Rev. Jeremiah), 1706." [4]
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