Josiah Barker, the sixth child of Noah Barker (3), was born inStratham, March 30, 1727. When a boy he went to Ipswich to learnthe trade of clothier. He married there in March, 1746, MaryHeard, born March, 1725, a daughter of Daniel (a deacon of thefirst church) and Mary (Baker) Heard, of Ipswich. He moved toExeter, New Hampshire, early in 1848, purchasing land there, andfor more than forty years carried on his trade and operated thefulling mill which was given to him by his father's will,jointly with his brother Benjamin, who was also a clothier. Hisaccount books still preserved contain the autographs of nearlyall the men prominent at the time in that vicinity, annexed tomemoranda of settlements of their accounts. He died in 1808.Influenced by the preaching of Whitefield, he joined in themovement for a second parish in the town of Exeter, and wasactive in the long struggle which resulted in 1755 in a grantfrom the provincial assembly establishing the new parish. Hesigned in 1776 the complaint against Maj. Daniel Tilton forrefusing to sell goods, and was on the committee to enforce thenon-importation agreement appointed December 28, 1774. He servedin the revolution in 1777, in Capt. Weare's company of Col.Scammell's regiment (the third New Hampshire). The children ofJosiah and Mary were: 1. Mary, married first, (???) Weeks,second (???) Kimball. 2. Lydia, married Gilman Leavitt, ofBrentwood, New Hampshire. 3. Tamosin, born August, 1753, marriedJonathan Norris, of Waterford, New Hampshire. 4. Daniel, bornApril 22, 1754, married Anna Hill. He was one of the men fromExeter who went to Cambridge on the first call, April 20, 1775,and remaining there when others returned, he was one of severalExeter men who joined Capt. Isaac Sherman's company in Baldwin's(Mass.) regiment, September 26, 1775. He was a member of Capt.Daniel Gordon's company in Col. Thomas Task's regiment, beingone of the two authorized in September, 1776, to reinforce thearmy in New York. After the close of the war he removed toLimerick, Maine, and in March, 1805, became one of the firstsettlers of the township which is now Exeter, Maine. 5. Josiahwho went into the army in 1777, and died in the service whenabout twenty years of age. 6. John, died young. 7. Nathaniel,who went to Limerick, Maine, and later settled upon land ownedby his father in Cornish, Maine (then in Massachusetts), anddied there in 1844. 8. Noah, mentioned below. 9. Ezra, who alsowent to Limerick, and later to Cornish, Maine.