Christopher Barett

Christopher Barrett

• Birth: Apr 13 1562 - Westfall, Suffolk, England
• Death: Nov 27 1598 - Norwich, Norfolk, England
• Parents: William Barrett, Margaret Pettingale, widow of William Wingfield
• Married: Elizabeth Clarke

From Subject: Mayor Christopher Barrett of Norwich Date: 30 Mar 2005 07:41:33 -0800

Descendants of Margaret (Barrett) Huntington of Connecticut might be interested in the following tidbit, ca. 1636, concerning her father, sometime Mayor of Norwich:

By reason that there be many seates over our heads wee are oftentymes exposed to much danger as alsoe to have many scornes and contempts (vizt) as in the maioralty of Mr Christofer Barrett a great bible was lett fall from above and missed very litle of hitting him upon the head & broke his spectacles ... And not long before the tyme of Mr Barretts maioralty some made water in the gallery over the Aldermens heads and dropt downe into their wifes seats who sate close att their backs ... That in the tyme of the present maior that now is upon that Sunday the day before the knights of the shire was chosen in October last Alderman Shipdham justice of peace and sitting next the maior some body most beastly did conspurcate and shitt upon his gowne from the galleryes above. And the Sonday imediately after some from the galloryes lett fall a shooe which narrowly missed the maior's head And att another tyme one from the said gallery did spitt upon Alderman Barrett's head.

[_Norwich since 1550_ (London: Hambledon & London, 2004), p. 92, citing Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 220, fos 149-50]

notes

Info from "The Huntington's in America", page 11.

The book states, "...Margaret Baret was the daughter of Christopher Baret, who was Mayor of Norwich, England, in 1634 and 1648, and died in August, 1649."

The spelling of Baret is different on the same page, so I have copied it exactly as the book has it. I put the birthplace of Christopher Baret as Norwich, England, though that is assumed.

From futher reading in the book it is this Margaret who came to the United States in 1633. It states," MARGARET HUNTINGTON, WIDOW, CAME IN 1633. HER HUSBAND DIED BY THE WAY OF THE SMALL POX. SHE BROUGHT _____ CHILDREN WITH HER. This is practically all that is certainly known of the progenitor of the Huntington family in America. The rest is tradition, inference and conjecture.

I can find no other info on them in the Huntington book yet.

1/4/07 CB