According to her father, Daniel Yerxa’s will, Barbara and her sister, Sarah Ann, were bequeathed two lots of land laying in the Parish of Fredericton together with all the land he owned on an island in the River St. John north of Fredericton to be equally divided between the two daughters - Barbara Pickard, wife of Moses Pickard, Jr., and Sarah Ann Pickard, wife of Amos Pickard. A son Dudley was 26 years of age in 1851. He was a farmer proprietor.