Samuel Barnard

A father and son of the same name (Samuel Barnard) lived at Boston, England, and were most likely Baptists, for the elder Barnard was a subscriber to Robert Robinson’s Ecclesiastical Researches (1792). The author of The Essence, Spirituality, and Glorious Issue of the Religion of Christ Jesus to All God’s Chosen: Exhibited in Remarks on the Expression, “Verily, Verily,” as used by our Blessed Saviour in many Parts of Scripture (1806), is Samuel Barnard the younger (b. 1784). He or his father may well have been a minister, for John Stevens, Baptist minister for a time in Boston, describes a Samuel Barnard in a letter to the Gospel Magazine as a "Minister of the Gospel." The work was published by W. Nicholson of London. Samuel Barnard the elder (1752-1810) was also a banker and merchant in Boston. Neither father nor son should be confused with another Samuel Barnard (d. 1807), who was an Independent minister for many years at the New Chapel, Dagger-lane, Hull, and later at Hope Street, Hull, and finally at Howard Street, Sheffield (1803-07). His publications appeared between 1786 and 1804. Some papers belonging to the Boston Barnards can be found in the Barnard-Talcot-Hollerith family papers at George Washington University. See also Universal British Directory, 2:338; James Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire: A Chapter in Modern Church History (London: J. Snow, 1868), 293, 355; John Stevens, “The Elect Children of Wrath,” Gospel Magazine 2, Second Series (April 1807), p. 172.