COL. FRANCIS BARBER, A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION.

BY JAMES L. O’NEILL, ELIZABETH, N. J.

Published in THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY, Secretary-General. VOLUME VII. BOSTON, MASS., PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, 1907.

“Patrick Barber was born in County Longford, Ireland, and was the father of Col. Francis Barber, who was a gallant soldier of the American Revolution. The colonel himself was born (1751) in Princeton, N. J., and long resided in Elizabethtown, N…