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Joseph Goodbar (d. 1807)
Joseph Goodbar died 1807. He married ?.
Notes for Joseph Goodbar:
One of two boys born in England and left orphans early in the eighteenth century, Joseph was taken by a sea captain and followed a seafaring life. Returning to England and failing to find his brother, he came to America and settled in Rockbridge - then a part of Augusta County, Virginia.¹ Tradition claims that his father, also named Joseph, had been a coach maker in London.²
The earliest document mentioning Joseph Goodbar (1) states that he was paid 6 shillings for 4 days of actual military service in Dunmore's War, 1774.³ This seems to indicate that he served at Point Pleasant on 10/10/1774, a battle now regarded by many authorities as the first of the American Revolution.
On 10/30/1777, Joseph Goodbar leased 83 acres as by patent bearing date, 6/30/1753, lying in the county of Augusta on a branch of Kerrs Creek from Robert Deal and Sarah O., his wife. By 1790 Joseph had acquired by patent an additional 282 acres. Leave was granted him to make an inclusive survey of a location adjoining his old survey. A paper is extant referring to the surveys made for the said Joseph Goodbar - one of 206 acres and the other of 283 acres. His farm was described as being 11 miles west of Rockbridge Courthouse in the vicinity of and northeast of the old Denmark Post Office. The land lay both north and south of U.S. 60 and extended from the present site of Kerrs Creek Baptist Church to the foot of White Rock Mountain. The stream flowing through his farm was for many years called Goodbar's Creek.
Joseph Goodbar's name appears in a List of the Tithables in Captain James Gilmore's Company of Militia dated 6/11/1779. In a List of Taxpayers of 1782, his livestock consisted of 3 horses and 12 cattle.
Apparently, Joseph Goodbar belonged to the
Children of Joseph Goodbar and ? are:
- +Nancy Agnes, b. date unknown, Ireland, d. date unknown.

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