Cabarrus County, NC - John Paul Barringer

Captain John Paul Barringer Biography
 
John Paul Barringer was born in Wuttenburg, Germany, on June 4, 1721.  
He came to America when he was 22 years old and landed in Philadelphia 
in 1743.  He was very poor, and found employment and a home with Mr. 
Iseman, whose daughter he later married.  Two children, Catherine and 
John, were born to this union.

He moved to North Carolina before the Revolutionary War, and settled 
in the section now known as the "Dutch Side" of Cabarrus County.  He 
prospered in life, and after some years located on a valuable farm, 
long known as Popular Grove, on Big Dutch Buffalo Creek, three miles 
below Mt Pleasant.  When well up in years, his wife died.  

Later he married Catherine Blackwelder. By this wife he had ten children.
  
John Paul Barringer had great force of character, he was prudent and 
thrifty.  In his religious life he was deeply devotional; and in public 
affairs he was originally a true friend of the House of Hanover, and a 
captain of  the Royal Militia.  When Governor Tryon made a tour of the 
West in 1768, he visited Captain Barringer.  When the struggle for 
liberty came, Captain Barringer sidely strongly with the Patriots.  He 
was too old for regular service, but was otherwise active in the cause 
of freedom and independance.  

During the war he was taken prisoner by the "Fanning Tories", and 
carried to Camden, South Carolina., where he was imprisoned for several 
months.

He died on January 1, 1807, and is buried at St John's Church.

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