When Dinah Barber was born on 3 May 1729, in Kingston, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Thomas Barber, Sr, was 29 and her mother, Avis Tanner, was 29. She married Joseph Enos Jr on 21 January 1759, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. She died on 19 December 1804, in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Barber Family Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
English: occupational name for a barber, from Middle English barb(o)ur ‘barber’ (Anglo-Norman French barber, Old French barbier, from Late Latin barbarius, a derivative of barba ‘beard’). In the Middle Ages barbers not only cut hair and shaved beards, but also practised surgery and pulled teeth.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from German Barbier ‘barber’ (compare 1 above).
Catalan: occupational name for a barber, barber (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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