William Barnett (Georgia politician)
William Barnett | |
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Member of the Richard Henry Wilde | |
Personal details | |
Born | Amherst County, Virginia Colony, British America | March 4, 1761
Died | April 1832 Montgomery County, Alabama, U.S. | (aged 71)
Resting place | Gilmer-Christian-Barnett Cemetery Montgomery County, Alabama |
Political party | Democratic-Republican |
Spouse(s) | Mary Meriwether[1] |
Children | 6 |
Parents |
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Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War *Siege of Yorktown |
William Barnett (March 4, 1761 – April 1832) was an American slave owner,[2] politician and soldier.
Early life
William Barnett was born in Amherst County in the Virginia Colony on March 4, 1761, to Nathaniel and Susanna (née Crawford).[3] Early in his life, they moved to Columbia County, Georgia.[4] He had a brother Joel.[5]
American Revolutionary War
At the start of the
Marquis de Lafayette and were participants in the surrender of Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown
.
Political career
Married 1785 to Mary Meriwether.[6]
Barnett returned to
Democratic-Republican to the 13th United States Congress
and served from October 5, 1812, until March 3, 1815.
After his congressional service, Barnett was appointed in 1815 as a commissioner to establish the boundaries of the
Creek Indian reservation
.
Later life and death
He moved to Montgomery County, Alabama and died there in April 1832. He was buried in the Gilmer-Christian-Barnett Cemetery, near Mathews Station in that county.
References
- Lampkin, Charles (1970). Descendants of John Crawford, 1643. Acme Press. OCLC 141934.
Notes
- ^ Northen, William J.; Graves, John Temple (1910). Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from Its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development. A. B. Caldwell. p. 83.
william barnett georgia state senate.
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 19, 2022, retrieved January 24, 2022
- ^ Lampkin, p. 70
- ^ "Barnett, William, (1761–1832)". United States Congress. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
- ^ Knight, Lucian Lamar (1917). "A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians".
- ^ "Ancestry". Ancestry.com.