Thomas Barker
BIRTH
1713
Rhode Island
DEATH
FAMILY
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Barker, Thomas
(1713-1789)
Thomas Barker was an Edenton attorney, legislator, and colonial agent, as well as the husband of Penelope Barker. His long absence in England during the imperial crisis left Penelope to manage their North Carolina affairs and lead the women’s protest remembered as the Edenton Tea Party.
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WIFE
Penelope Barker
(1728-1796)
The exact date and place of Thomas Barker’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Barker with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.