Mordecai Barbour was a Culpeper County Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and a prominent Virginia statesman, planter, and businessperson.
14 Facts About Mordecai Barbour
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Mordecai Barbour served under Captain John Nicholas, Captain John Stewart, and Captain John Woodford and under the command of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.
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Mordecai Barbour was with Lafayette at the Battle of Jamestown, then moved onto Williamsburg and Richmond.
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Mordecai Barbour participated in the Siege of Yorktown and conveyed the prisoners to Winchester.
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Mordecai Barbour began owning and operating water-powered mills in Culpeper County, two of which were purchased by John Strode.
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On May 29,1805, the Virginia Herald carried an advertisement for Mordecai Barbour's cut nail manufactory in Fredericksburg, Virginia "where they will sell, Cut and wrought Nails, Brads, Springs, Sadler's Tacks of all sizes".
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Fredericksburg land tax records from 1805 indicate Mordecai Barbour rented properties owned by John Brownlow and Charles Julian.
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Records indicate Barbour acquired a merchants license in 1806 from George W B Spooner, Commissioner of Revenue for the District of Fredericksburg, for the sum of $15.
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Mordecai Barbour was a resident of Fredericksburg until 1808 when he relocated to Petersburg.
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In 1819, the Virginia General Assembly authorized an act permitting Mordecai Barbour to "receive toll for passing his bridge across the Appomattox river".
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In 1831, Mordecai Barbour received a permit for the erection of a 12-feet-wide toll bridge across the Appomattox River at Exeter Mills.
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Mordecai Barbour married Elizabeth Strode, daughter of John Strode of "Fleetwood" in Culpeper County.
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Mordecai Barbour died at "Weston", the residence of his daughter Frances Mordecai Barbour Minor, in Boligee, Greene County, Alabama on January 4,1846.
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Mordecai Barbour was interred at Bethsalem Cemetery at Bethsalem Presbyterian Church in Boligee.