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IV 1, George Deverell, of Jamaica, West Indies. Children of Proposilus: IV 3, Eliza 

 Barney. IV 4, Joshua Barney. IV 5, Nathan Barney. IV 6, Hannah Carey. IV 7, William 

 Barney (1781-1838), held the rank of major in the War of 1812 and was deputy naval officer 

 for the port of Baltimore. IV 8, Louis Barney (1783-1850). IV 9, Anne Stedman Van Wyck. 

 IV 10, Henry Barney, born 1790. IV 11, Caroline Barney, born 1787. IV 12, Nathaniel Wil- 

 liams. IV 13, Adele Barney. IV 14, Isaac Waddy. IV 15, John Barney (1785-1856), was a 

 member of Congress from Baltimore, 1825 to 1829. IV 16, Elizabeth Nicholson Hindman. 

 IV 17, James Rogers of Delaware. 



Children's children of Propositus: V 1, Mary Deverell. V 2, Nathan Barney (1819-1902) 

 was a well-known inventor; he organized the Barney Dumping Boat Company. His automatic 

 dumping boat, used by the New York street-cleaning department, dumps 700 tons in 60 seconds. 

 He invented fish-plates to hold the ends of railroad rails together. V 3, Elizabeth Wother- 

 spoon, of New York. V 4, Joseph Nicholson Barney (1818-1899) in 1832 entered the United 

 States navy, but resigned in 1861 to enter the Confederate States navy, with the same rank of 

 lieutenant. For gallant service at Hampton Roads in the engagement between the Monitor 

 and Merrimac he was made commander. He went to Europe to see to the fitting out of vessels 

 for the Confederate States navy but his health failed in 1863. For a time he retired to farm life 

 in Virginia but afterwards engaged in the insurance business. V 5, Eliza Jacobs Rogers. 



Children's children's children of Propositus: VI 2, George Deverell Barney (b. 1865), a 

 surgeon of note; he devised a new treatment for consumption and demonstrated the communi- 

 cableness of bovine tuberculosis to man. VI 3, James W. Barney, cashier of a Kansas City bank. 

 VI 4, Thomas Holcomb. VI 5, Elizabeth Barney. 



Children's children's children's children of Propositus: VII 1, Rebecca Holcomb. VII 2, 

 James and Thomas Holcomb. VII 3, Franklin Porteoua Holcomb (born 1884) graduated from 

 the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. 



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BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



ADAMS, W. F. 1912. Commodore Joshua Barney. Privately printed. Springfield, Massa- 

 chusetts. 228 pp. 



BARNEY MARY. 1832. A Biographical Memoir of the late Commodore Joshua Barney. Boston : 

 ' Gray and Bowen. xvi + 328 pp. 



