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LeBar, Amzi, M.D. of Stroudsburg, is of French descent. Spellings-LaBarre, LeBarre, LaBar
The first of the name to come to this county were brothers Peter, Charles and Abram, who landed in Phila. about 1730. After a few days rest they started up the Delaware with the intention of making a settlement on the frontier line, and on the 3rd day they arrived at the Forks of the Lehigh, where the principal white village of that region was then situated, the present site of Easton being occupied by an Indian town. On leaving this settlement they pushed on until they came in the sight of Blue Ridge Moutains, and after prospecting for a few days they selected a homestead on an elevation about three-fourths of a mile from the river, in what is now Mt. Bethel, Northampton Co. For many years they continued to reside there together, but as other settlers came from the north and south each married a German or Dutch wife and decided to found a separate home, Charles retaining the homestead. Peter purchased from the Indians a tract of land above the mountains southwest of the present site of Stroudsburg and adjoining a tract bought by Col. Stroud some years later. He cleared a tract and made a fine homestead, where his remaing years were spent, and a large family of children survived him. Abram settled above the "Notch", not far from the present Delaware Water Gap. He remained many years
II Daniel LaBar, subject great-grandfather, is supposed to be a son of Abram. He married 1st to a Miss Chambers and 2nd Miss Cornelia Van Etten, and had 2 sons, John C. and Daniel E. The latter settled in Wisconsin
III John C. LaBar, subject's grandfather. He married Sarah, d/o John DePue and had 6 children, of whom, 2, Hiram and Benjamin, died in infancy. The others were. J. Depue, Daniel, Moses and Samuel. The father died March 19, 1864, the mother on Oct 5, 1876.
IV. J. Depue LaBar, father of subject, was born July 31, 1814 at Warren Co., NJ. On Aug 13, 1836 he married Sarah A. Bush, d/o George V. and Maria (Stetler) Bush, and granddaughter of George Bush an early settler from Germany, and his wf. Mary (Van Campen). Children; Sarah M., w/o George F. Heller of Stroudsburg, Elizabeth, wf of Col. John Schnoonover, of Truxen, NJ., Susan, w/o Samuel D. Overfield, Amzi (subject), Margaret, w/o Charles S. Hill, of Oxford Furnace, NJ, Mary married Rev. F. P. Dalrymple, pasor at Shawnee (Presbyterian), Hiram, resident of Pennington, NJ. The father died Dec. 1894 and the mother is still living (1900)
V. Dr. Amzi was born Nov 16, 1842 in Warren Co., NJ. In 1868 he married Marietta Bush, d/o Samuel Bush, of Shawnee. Children; John Clyde and Mary.
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