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Major Amos Spafford and Olive Barlow

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Generation 1

1.

Nathan Barlow was born 26 March 1726, Suffield Connecticut, and died 17 January 1812, Town of Lee, Oneida Co New York

He married 1.) Martha Gates, 29 March 1748.  She was born 08 April 1722 in Pomfret Connecticut, and died 17 April 1765 in Granville Massachusetts

He married 2.) Margaret Purchase, 19 October 1765 in Granville Massachusetts.  She was born c1739, and died 20 October 1791 in Granville Massachusetts.

Children of Nathan and Martha are:

  Ebenezer Barlow, born 29 April 1750, Granville Massachusetts, and died c1825
  Abner Barlow, born 11 March 1752 Granville Massachusetts, and died 28 March 1858, Canandaigua New York
He married Mary Antis before 1779 in Massachusetts.  She was born c1761, and died 14 August 1822 in Canandaigua New York
  Ann Barlow, born 14 January 1753, Granville Massachusetts, and died 22 October 1755, Granville Massachusetts
2. Olive Barlow
  Heman Gates Barlow, Sr., born 13 August 1758, Granville Massachusetts, and died 04 December 1788, Rutland Co Vermont
He married Diana Bancroft.  She was born 18 October 1760 in Granville Massachusetts
  Nathan Barlow, born 08 July 1761, Granville Massachusetts, and died September 1830
He married Philota Pratt, 1784.  She was born 17 April 1768, Granville Massachusetts, and died 1810, Florence, Oneida Co New York
  Children of Nathan and Margaret are:
 
Jonathan Barlow, born 23 June 1769, Granville Massachusetts, and died 16 December 1820, Granville Massachusetts
He married 1.) Margaret Root before 13 January 1797 in Granville Massachusetts. She was born 23 March 1766 in Hampden Co Massachusetts, and died 11 May 1804 in Granville Massachusetts.
He married 2.) Anna / Annis Gillet.  She was born 25 July 1784, Sharon, Norfork Co Massachusetts, and died 13 August 1853 in Iowa
 
Margaret Barlow, born 23 November 1773, Granville Massachusetts, and died 12 September 1793, Canandaiqua New York
She married John Cooley, Jr., 26 December 1790 Canandaiqua New York.  He was born 01 August 1769 in Granville Massachusetts, and died 21 April 1817 in Canandaiqua New York
Generation 2
2.

Olive Barlow was born 26 August 1756, at Granville, Hampden Co Massachusetts, and died 18 January 1823, Waynesfield, Woo Co Ohio.

She married Amos Spafford 03 July 1773.  He was born 11 April 1753, at Sharon, Litchfield Co Connecticut, and died 03 August 1816 at Waynesfield, Wood Co Ohio. 

They located at Granville, Massachusetts; removed to Orwell Vermont, and in 1804 emigrated to Ohio, settling at Fort Meigs on the Maumee River. He received his commission as major during the War of 1812.

Ancestry Message Board:  November 04, 2002

Ohio Bicentennial   Friday, May 09, 2003   Perrysburg and Major Amos Spafford to be honored with an Ohio Historical Marker

COLUMBUS – An historical marker dedication ceremony honoring Amos Spafford and Perrysburg, will take place this Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m., at Ft. Meigs Memorial Park, 29100 E. River Rd., Perrysburg. At 10 a.m., bones from Spafford Cemetery that the city of Perrysburg accidentally dug up in July 2001 will be reburied. Tours of Fort Meigs will be available, beginning at 11 a.m. Judy Justice, co-chair of the Perrysburg Bicentennial Committee will give a speech, “In Old Perrysburg with the Spaffords,” at 1 p.m.

Amos Spafford and his family were among the first settlers of Perrysburg in 1810. Most settlers fled from the area during the War of 1812, but returned after the war ended. The town was reestablished as the “Orleans of the North.” It was officially platted in 1816 and named Perrysburgh by Spafford in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s naval victory over the British fleet in Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Amos Spafford and Perrysburg is one of many topics around the state receiving Historical Markers from the Ohio Bicentennial Commission’s Longaberger Legacy Initiative and the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Historical Marker program began in 1953 for the state’s sesquicentennial. The program has been given new life and emphasis leading up to Ohio’s 200th Birthday.

Amos parents: SAMUEL SPOFFORD and ( )
He is spoken of in Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1751-57, p. 173, as administrator of the estate of Thomas Spofford, late of Sharon (probably his brother), in 1753.

Mrs. Spofford, whose maiden name is unknown, after the decease of her husband, in 1762, married Rev. Mr. Hawley, of Suffield, Conn.

Children of Olive and Amos are:

  Samuel Spafford, born 13 July 1775, Granville Massachusetts.  He married Catherine Mabee
  Anna Spafford, born 24 December 1780, Granville, Massachusetts.  She married John Craw
  Chloe Spafford, born 26 January 1785, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont   
  Guy Spafford, born 26 November 1786, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont, and died 04 May 1790 at Orwell, Addison Co Vermont
  Adolphus Spafford, born 16 January 1792, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont, drowned 18 April 1808 in Lake Erie
  Auroras Spafford, born 29 January 1794, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont.  He married Mrs. Mary Rolph Jones
  Jarvis Spafford, born February, 1796, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont, and died 1797, Orwell, Addison Co Vermont

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