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- !CENSUS:1790;
!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist., SC pg 439-783
Barrat Barfield age 26-44 (1755/74)
50010-20010-0-0;
!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist., SC pg 34
Barred Barfield age 45+ (bef 1765)
42101-13010-0-0;
!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 55
Barret Barfield age 45+ (bef 1775)
230301-11110-0-0;
!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist., SC pg 9
Barrott Barfield Senr age 60-69 (1760/70)
102011001-20101001;
!CENSUS:1840 Macon Co., GA pg 10
Barrott Barfield age 70-79 (1760/70)
0000000001-0000000001;
!CENSUS:1850 Macon Co., GA # 271/271 *;
!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 191-192
BARFIELD.—The Barfield family, in part, live in Hillsboro. They are descendants of Barrett Barfield, who in the thirties resided in Hillsboro, just below Gaddy's Mill, and on the plantation now owned by his grand-son Captain R. H. Rogers; he had by the same wife, and raised them to be grown, twenty two children, sons and daughters ; he, with most of his family, removed West. Writ Barfield, a son, and an excellent citizen, remained, and several of his daughters, who had married—one to Dew Rogers, one to Ebenezer Rogers in the Fork, one to Love Goodyear—they also remained and all raised large families. Writ Barfield was a very worthy citizen, raised a considerable family, several sons ; they and their posterity now are among our people, not personally known to the writer ; and he supposes that old Barrett Barfield, their ancestor, was a son, or brother, or nephew of the celebrated Tory, Captain Barfield, of Revolutionary fame; which appellation, Tory, is now no longer a derisive name—at least, so far as the Barfield family is concerned ; some of the best soldiers we had in our late Confederate War were of that family, of that name and its connections of Barfield blood. The writer may have something to say further on in this book in regard to the word Tory, as an appellation of derision or contempt. Captain Barfield as a leader, though on the losing side in the Revolution, is spoken of as a brave man, fighting for what he believed to be right. A distinctive characteristic of the Barfield family, and especially of the females, was their beauty — perfect in form and features, of medium size and great activity. The men were as agile as a deer. It was said of one of the sons of old Barrett, named Thompson, that he could cut a double summersault (sic)t a dozen without stopping. In a tustle (sic) or a fight, they were hard to handle, even by larger men and of greater strength. Miss Appey Barfield, the youngest daughter of old man Barrett, was as beautiful a woman as ever the writer looked at, weighed about one hundred and twenty-five or thirty, was perfect in form and as pretty as the fabled Venus. The last time the writer saw her was in February, 1835, not long before her father left this country. Writ Barfield, the father of the Barfields, now in Hillsboro, lived to be more than eighty years of age. ;
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1765 - Aft 1850 (> 86 years) Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
