JOSHUA BARNEY

COMMADORE JOSHUA BARNEY

OFFICER CONTINENTAL NAVY

1759 – 1818

Joshua Barney, born to William Barney and Frances Holland Watts Barney

July 6, 1759 in Baltimore. On March 16, 1780, he married Anne Bedford, his first wife at Philadelphia . They had four sons and one girl, Caroline, Henry, John Holland, Louis and William Bedford Barney. Anne Bedford Barney died July 25, 1806 in Baltimore county, Maryland. In 1809 he married a second wife, Harriett Cole, age 22, from Anne Arundel county Maryland. Joshua Barney is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. Pittsburgh.

Jousha Barney as a United State Naval Officer was a hero of both the

Revolutionary War aand the War of 1812. He first served as a ships mate at age 12, and a commander of a ship at age 16. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy

in 1776 as a Lieutenant and took part in the defense of Delaware Bay.

In 1779 he was captured by the British and imprisoned in Plymouth

England but escaped within two years. During the 1790's he served in the French Navy then returned to America in 1802. 1812 he resumed active duty and was Captain in the Flotilla Service which defended Washington, DC.

Abstract source: ancestry.com, 'find a grave', and, William Francis Brady

Family Tree , of Willards, Wicomico, Maryland, www ancestry.com .