found: Francis Barber, the doctor's negro servant, 1912:p. 80 (Francis Barber died Jan., 1801)
found: Wain, J. Frank, 1984:t.p. (Frank) p. 4 of cover (Frank Barber; b. in Jamaica; servant of Samuel Johnson)
found: Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed June 8, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Barber, Francis; servant; born 1745 in Jamaica; was born as slave; was brought to England, baptized and given a name; studied at Barton, Teesdale, Yorkshire; attended Bishop's Stortford grammar school (1767-1772); was servant to Samuel Johnson (1752-1756, 1760-1784); was freed from slavery in 1754; worked at London apothecary (1756-1758); served in the Royal Navy (1758-1760); after Jonson's death, received an annuity of £70 and the residue of Johnson's estate; moved to Lichfield, Staffordshire (1784); kept a school, Burntwood, near Lichfield; died in 1801 in unknown place)
found: Individual was a slave.
notfound: Encyc. Brit., 1972;Acad. Amer. encyc., 1981.
