The Founders of Hartford
John Barnard, maltster, came, probably in the “Francis,” from Ipswich, 1634, with wife,
Mary aged thirty-eight ; was perhaps the freeman of March 4, 1635 ; removed, 1636, from Cambridge to Hartford, where
he was an original proprietor; he had twenty-four acres in the land division of 1639-1640, and his home-lot was on
the south side of the highway, now Elm St. Chosen deputy, 1642-3; townsman, 1644, 1649, 1653, 1657. Exempted by the
General Court from watching and warding, May, 1656. He was one of the "withdrawers," and removed to Hadley, 1659. He
was buried there May 23, 1664, leaving a widow, Mary, but no children. The widow d. Feb. or March, 1664-5. John
Barnard mentions in his will his kinsman, Francis Barnard, as executor, Morgan and Thomas Bedient, ch. of his sister,
Mary, living in Old England, and the ch. of his kinsman, Henry Hayward, of Wethersfield. His widow left much of
her property to her bros., Daniel and William Stacy, of Burnham, near Mahlon, Co. Essex.
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