Simon Barrett moved back to Hope from Camden in 1800. He bought a small six acre lot on the southeast comer of lot 87 where he built his home.127 A few years later he purchased a seventy acre portion of the Proprietor lot 88 next to it.l28 This interesting deed appears in the Registry of Deeds dated Mar. 19, 1800. "Simon Barrett of Barrettstown, for eighty-six dollars paid by Thomas Shea, trader of Camden, do sell one undivided seventy-fifth part of one half acre of land on which the meeting house in Camden now stands, together with a pew situate in the lower part of said house, numbered eleven, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging" signed by Simon Barrett in the presence of William Gregory, Jr., and Elisha Gibbs.

This no doubt indicated that he was making Barrettstown his permanent residence. He joined the local Baptist group in Hope some years later.