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Last Name Barres

Given Name Joseph-Fréderick Wallet

alt. Names J. F. W. d. B. ; des Barres / DesBarres ;

Marriage 1st: Mary Cannon ; 2nd: Martha Williams

Children 6 w. Mary Cannon & 11 w. Martha Williams

Year born 1721 OR 1722 OR 1729 in Basel, Switzerland

Year died 1824

Place of death Halifax, nowadays Canada

Father's occupation member of a Huguenot family, Joseph-Léonard Vallet Des Barres et d’Anne-Catherine Cuvier

Relatives

Education mathematics & art at Univ.Basel w. John & Dan.Bernoulli ; in London 1752 at Royal Military Academy Woolwich, in 1756 he enters Royal American Regiment

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Atlantic Neptune published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain (1777) ;

Patronage Royal Navy ; Hydrographic Office ;

Collaborators army cartographer Samuel Holland (1728-1801) ; army cartographer Edward Wright ; army cartographer Thomas Hurd ; cartographer James Smith ; explorer James Cook ;

Techniques marine, topographical, and cartographical map-making

Sample(s) www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/chipman/exhibit.asp?ID=3 ; www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm194.html

Archival sources www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=36955 ; see also Stephen J. Hornsby: Surveyors of Empire: Making of the Atlantic Neptune, 2011

Published sources Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 5,2 (1985) ; Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere (2007: 107-9) ;

other Born in Switzerland, des Barres migrated to England in 1752, sincd 1756 active on the North American continent, now USA & Canada. See also: www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/28629/Bay_of_Gaspee_Maul_Bay_Isle_Bonaventure_Cape_Despair/Des_Barres.html.

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