BIOGRAPHY: BARNETT, Capt. Robert - Lincoln County, Kentucky


From: Susan White <DWhite1475@aol.com>
Date: 25 May 1998

Capt. Robert Barnett. Barnett moved into Lincoln county Kentucky 
from Virginia about 1778 and settled first at Bell's Station in 
what is now Madison county Kentucky. There were indian uprisings 
in that area so he moved on to settle Barnett's Station, which 
is at the ford of Hanging Fork Creek and the Dix River. He was 
buried there in 1834. We have copies of Robert's rejected 
Revolution War pension number R538. His children were trying to 
collect. In the deposition of Benjamin Briggs he states that 
Robert was Capt. under Benjamin Logan on the expedition to the 
Blue Licks and that Benjamin Briggs was in Capt. Barnett's 
Company. That they arrived at Blue Licks on the 20th (of March 
1781?) and aided in the burying of the dead and received a 
credit for a months tour. In the deposition of Abraham Estes 
he states that he became acquainted with Capt. Robert Barnett 
in the month of March 1781. That he subsequently in March and 
April 1782 served a months tour of duty under Capt. Robert 
Barnett to the falls of the Ohio River and aided in erecting 
a fort. Estes also stated that he knew Capt Barnett was at the 
burying of the dead after the battle of Blue Licks. He also 
remembered Barnett being on General Clark's two month campaign 
against the Pickaway (the principle town of the Shawnee Indians) 
in October and November 1782. Robert Barnett had five children 
that we know about, namely; Ann, Hannah, William P., Robert Jr., 
and Elizabeth. We know William P. was married but do not know to 
whom. My line is through Elizabeth who married Benjamin May in 
Lincoln in 1813. We believe the other children were unmarried. 


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