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BARLOW  of  BARLOW

 Fall Issue - November  1995

A. Maxim Coppage, Founder                           Edson L. Barlow, Editor

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Ivar, Jarl of the Uplanders, who lived in Norway in the eighth century, may be the first identifiable ancester of
Thomas BARLOW. (Jarl means king, but a king in those days was any thug who could gather a few tough guys
together to beat on some farmers for taxes.) Some of his descendents went with Rolf the Ganger around the year 900
to conquer Normandy and took the name d'Hauteville from territory they occupied.  Later some of the d'Hautevilles
got territory near Le Havre called Habitot and they took the name d'Habitot. Some of the d'Habitots went with William the Conqueror to England in 1066, and one, Urso d'Habitot, got a lot of loot in the midlands, including the manor of  Barleie, or Barlow, in Derbyshire.

The d'Habitots of  Barlow started being called Barlow in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, and they spread
out to other parts of England.

Henry of Attercliffe, who called himself Barley and who died in 1589, had quite a few descendents in the Sheffield
area, particularly the famous cutlers who made the Barlow knives. One of his descendents was a Lieutenant Colonel  William BARLOW (1710-1790) who served forty-six years in the army and retired to a place near Newton-in-the-
Willows in Yorkshire. He was a younger son of a handed family who were wealthy enough to be able to spend the
2000 pounds or so to buy a Lieutenant Colonelcy for William. William had a son George, who had two sons, Thomas
and John, another son who was a physician and a daughter who married a Lomax.

Thomas BARLOW was born around 1779 probably at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England, and was a son of George BARLOW. He died on June 7, 1878, at Hogansburgh, Franklin County, New York, and was buried there.
Thomas BARLOW was apprenticed in the weaving business, but he was more interested in building up control over other weavers by becoming an entrepreneur. He came to make a very tidy fortune for himself as a result of war prosperity in the continued on next page

Thomas Barlow of Franklin County, New York (continued)

Napoleonic Wars. In 1809 he married a sixteen year old girl named Elizabeth HEAP; he was about thirty. I think it highly probable that Thomas was from a family on the downgrade, because, although he was a weaver and illiterate,
he was quite knowledgeable about business, and he had a brother who was a doctor and a brother-in-law who was
quite well-to-do. Thomas had to have capital to build a mill and he probably made money by handling the business of
other weavers.

After the war ended in 1815, things got much tougher. Thomas decided to take his capital and invest it in business in the United St ates, where he thought opportunities were better and restrictions not so severe. The rather harsh laws
on emigration were lifted about 1825, so he set out to look over the possibilities. Eventually he decided on central New
York near Utica in Oneida County where the newly completed Erie Canal was encouraging an infant cloth industry.
In addition to setting up a home weaving business in Deerfield, near Utica, he built a mill, the first in the town according to a historical plaque erected by the state, and ran that for several years.

The mill was wiped out in 1832 by a spring flood. Accordingly, he went onto a farm near Marcy, Oneida County, and concentrated on weaving for four years until he had accumulated enough money to buy a place in northern New York.
Thomas brought his family to America in 1827. His wife and seven children (the oldest was fifteen and the youngest
was a babe in arms) left England in April and landed at New York City on July 18, 1827, traveling on the 450 ton ship Trident which carried 250 passengers, mostly emigrants.

In 1836, Thomas moved to Oswego County, New York, and it was from there that he bought a farm at Brasher, St.
Lawrence County, New York, which was mostly wilderness. He sent his older sons to build it up first and they lived in
a cabin on the bank of the river that ran through the property. They built a house, calling it "Bonnie Mount" after a home in England.  For awhile Thomas thought of staying in Oswego County and he sold "Bonnie Mount" to his brother John BARLOW in 1838. John had come to America at about the same time that Thomas did. But Thomas apparently changed his mind and he bought "Bonnie Mount" back in 1839 and moved his family into it. John moved to a nearby farm and later moved away from the area.  Thomas used modern agricultural methods which had been developed in England in the late 1700's to meet the ever increasing demand for food here but which were mostly unused in America because land was so plentiful. He and his sons made out very well farming when they had cleared most of their 189 acres. His sons worked the farm on shares and then went off on their own when they accumulated enough to do so.
Eventually, Thomas decided to cash in his accumulated capital and try milling again. In 1852 he moved to Hogansburgh in Franklin County and went into partnership with the Olivers in a gristmill. Later he was on his own. During the Civil War he made quite a tidy fortune in this, but things got tough again after the war and he lost most of what he had built up. Finally, in 1868, he sold "Bonnie Mount" to his son William who had been working it on shares. Thomas had built
up capital in the Napoleonic Wars, lost it in 1832 in a flood, built it up again in the weaving business and put it into a farm, built it up again in milling during the Civil War and lost it again.

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In 1872 Thomas and his wife moved to North Lawrence in St. Lawrence County where his son-in-law Daniel HOAG
had gone to run a store. In 1873, Elizabeth died there.

In January 1877, at 97, Thomas married a propertied widow named Charlotte TAGGART who claimed to be 100
years old. He hoodwinked her into thinking that he was wealthy and they made a will giving all their property to the survivor. But she was better at hoodwinking because she was really only fifty years old. He died in June 1878 at age
99 (his gravestone says he was 87) and all she got was a small house in North Lawrence. She lived another seven
years, died in August 1885, and was buried next to her first husband Hugh TAGGART in the North Lawrence Cemetery.

Thomas and Elizabeth (Heap) BARLOW had eleven children:

i. Mary BARLOW was born in 1810 at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England, and died in infancy.

2. ii. John BARLOW was born on December 8, 1811, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.

iii. Ann BARLOW was born on October 26, 1813, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
     She died on August 22, 1860, at Scriba, Oswego County, New York, and was buried there in the North Scriba
     Cemetery. She married Henry QUONCE around 1835. He was born on September 10, 1804, and died on
     December 18, 1865.

     Their children were:

     Eliza Ann QUONCE
     Henry QUONCE
     Charles QUONCE
     Albert QUONCE
     Maria QUONCE
     Russell QUONCE
 

iv. Eliza BARLOW was born on April 27, 1816, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
     She died in 1896 at Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington. She married Daniel HOAG
     around 1835. He was born around 1814.
     Their children were:

     Martin HOAG
     Mary Ann HOAG
     Charles HOAG
     Caroline Elizabeth HOAG
     Josephine HOAG
     Samuel HOAG
     Myra HOAG
 

3. v. William BARLOW was born on February 23, 1819, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.

vi. Mary BARLOW was born on July 24, 1821, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
     She died on May 25, 1904, at Proctorsville, Windsor County, Vermont, and was buried in the Bombay, Franklin
     County, New York, Cemetery. She was recorded with her parents at Brasher, New York, in the 1850 census.
     She married Alexander SEARS around 1853. He was born in 1805 and died in 1884. He had married first
     Samantha FISH and their children were: Mandana SEARS, who subsequently married Charles BARLOW
     Clamana SEARS, Maritta SEARS, Henry SEARS and Samantha SEARS.

    The children of Alexander and Mary (Barlow) were:

     Elizabeth SEARS
     Thomas SEARS  (who died in infancy)
     Eliza SEARS
     Thomas SEARS
     Mary SEARS and Addie SEARS

4. vii. Samuel BARLOW was born in 1823 at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.

5. viii. James BARLOW was born on February 18, 1826, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.

6. ix. Charles BARLOW was born on October 8, 1828, at Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York.

x. Caroline BARLOW was born on August 23, 1831, at Deerfield, Oneida County, New York.
    She married Gideon ST. DENIS on July 2, 1858, at Hogansburgh, Franklin County, New York.
    He was born around 1838 and died in 1897. She died in 1920.

   Their children were:

     Rudolf ST. DENIS
     Thomas ST. DENIS
     Mary ST. DENIS

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Thomas Barlow of Franklin County, New York (continued)

xi. Elizabeth BARLOW was born on October 28, 1834, at Marcy, Oneida County, New York.
     She married Julius ST. DENIS, Gideon's brother, around 1866.
     She died on February 9, 1900, at Brasher Falls, New York, and was buried in the Brasher Falls Cemetery.

   Their children were:

     Josephine ST. DENIS
     Caroline ST. DENIS
     Annie ST. DENIS
     Bertha ST. DENIS
     Lillian ST. DENIS

Second Generation

2.  John BARLOW was born on December 8, 1811, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
He came to America with his mother in 1827, at which time he was listed as age 13 on the passenger list.
He remained with his parents until the 1840's when he married.

John BARLOW married Minerva JACOBS around 1840. She was born in 1808 in Vermont and she died in the 1850's.
She had married first William JOHNSON who died around 1840, and their children were:

     Charles JOHNSON
     Jane JOHNSON
     Olive JOHNSON

John and Minerva BARLOW had no children.

John BARLOW had an 108 acre piece of property which he bought from the Alexander Brodie estate for $651 in 1865.
His step-son Charles JOHNSON lived with him for a long time and later his brother William's son Ira. In his last years he
lived with his brother William and when he died in 1884 at Brasher, New York, he willed his property to either William or Ira. He was buried in the Barlow plot of the Carville Cemetery at Helena, St, Lawrence County, New York.

3. William BARLOW was born on February 23, 1819, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
He came to America with his mother in 1827. He lived with his parents until he married, at which time he moved to
a hamlet called Dug Way in Oswego County, New York, where he started a cooperage business. In the 1850 census he
was recorded as a farmer at Scriba in Oswego County. When his brother Samuel moved west around 1850-51, William probably moved back to the family homestead at Brasher. After 1854 when his father went into the milling business
he ran the family farm himself and he was recorded there in the 1860 census. In 1868 he bought it from his father.

William BARLOW married Sarah SPRINGER around 1848 in Oswego County, New York.
She was born in 1829 in New York and she died in 1905.

Their children were:

i. William BARLOW was born in 1849 and died in the 1860's.

ii. Ira BARLOW was born in 1850 and died in 1895.

iii. Sarah BARLOW was born in 1852 and died in the 1860's.

iv. Henry BARLOW was born in 1853 and died in the 1860's.

v. Jane Ann "Jen" BARLOW was born in 1854 and died in the 1930's.

vi. Edwin BARLOW was born in 1858 and died in the 1880's.

vii. Mary "Mame" BARLOW was born in 1862 and died in the 1930's.

viii. Abigail BARLOW was born in 1867 and died in the 1900's.

William BARLOW died in 1900 at Brasher, New York. He, his family and his brother John were buried in the Barlow
plot of the Carville Cemetery at Helena, New York, although there are no stones to mark their graves.

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Thomas Barlow of Franklin County, New York (continued)
 

4. Samuel BARLOW was born on November 6, 1823, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
He came to  America with his mother in 1827, at which time he was listed as age 3 on the passenger list.
He remained with his parents until about 1848 when he went to Chicago, Illinois, to try his hand in the clothing business.

In 1849 he ran a restaurant and saloon at Toledo, Ohio, and about 1850 he was in New Orleans, Louisiana.
About 1852 he went to California and subsequently he was in Oregon in the mining business, all according to his account of his life in the History of St. Lawrence County. However, he was recorded in the 1850 census as a farmer and living with his parents at Brasher, New York. In 1853 he returned to Brasher, reputedly with a fortune of $50,000.
In 1854 he married and purchased a farm from Avery Campbell. He was, however, mostly a gentleman farmer because his main interest was with a mercantile establishment in Hogansburgh.

From 1866 to 1870 he operated a gristmill and sawmill, which he had purchased from his father for $10,000.
He subsequently sold this mill to Mills and Folsom for $11,000.

Sometime about 1880 Samuel BARLOW built the big house on the corner in Hogansburgh, but apparently he did not
live there very much. He made trips to California, twenty-three according to family tradition. He gave a small place in  Brasher Falls to his impoverished sister Elizabeth ST. DENIS and he sold most of his eastern property, his 264 acre
farm and other land acquired from tax sales, in the 1880's or 1890's.

Samuel and his brother James were fairly close. They were together at Chicago and in California. Each named his oldest
son after the other. Samuel stopped many times on his transcontinental trips to visit James, a fact remembered vividly
by James' grandchildren, who lived and grew up with him.

Samuel and his older brother William were great sporting men; they used to take off for a week or two at a time and
the rest of the family never knew where.

Samuel BARLOW married Martha McELWAIN in April 1854 at Brasher Falls, New York. She was born in 1825 in New York and was a daughter of John and Martha (McCarter) McELWAIN.

Their children were:

i. James BARLOW was born in 1855 and died in the 1930's.

ii. Allison BARLOW was born in 1857 and died in the 1940's.

iii. Lyman BARLOW was born in 1858 and died on July 15, 1871.

iv. Martha Etta BARLOW  was born in 1863 and died in the 1900's.

Samuel BARLOW died in 1907.

5. James BARLOW was born on February 18, 1826, at Newton-in-the-Willows, Yorkshire, England.
He came to America with his mother in 1827, at which time he was listed as age 1 on the passenger list.
Family legend has it that James got into trouble with a girl. He deserted her and went west, possibly with his brother
Samuel about 1848.

James BARLOW's first marriage was to a girl whose name is believed to be Margaret HUTCHENS. They had no children.
James married second Mary Ann EGAN. She was born in 1832 in Canada and she died in 1882.
Supposedly James deserted her as soon as he could and ran off to California, where he stayed for seven years. But he came back around 1858 and settled at St. Paul, Minnesota, where his wife had gone to be with

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Thomas Barlow of Franklin County, New York (continued)

her family. He hauled timber, worked a farm and later ran a boarding house.  About 1880 he apparently borrowed money from Samuel and bought a 135 acre farm that he lived on until his death.  He was not a particularly good
farmer and he never finished his farm house.  He dealt in land options for awhile but was usually in debt.

James' and Mary Ann's children were:

i. Elizabeth BARLOW was born on February 18, 1850, probably at Troy, New York.
   She married James MARSHALL, the son of William and Mary Ann MARSHALL, on January 18, 1868.
   She died on February 11, 1903, at Athelstane, Marinette County, Wisconsin.

ii. Charlotte BARLOW was born in 1861 and died in 1876.

iii. Samuel BARLOW was born in 1865 and died in 1939.

iv. Karon BARLOW was born in 1869 and died in 1948.

v. Ambrose "Frank" BARLOW was born in 1874 and died in 1949.

James BARLOW died in 1910 at St. Paul, Minnesota, and was buried in the Mounds View Cemetery in Ramsey County,
Minnesota.

6. Charles BARLOW was born on October 8, 1828, at Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York.
Charles helped to run the homestead farm until sometime in the 1850's when he apparently rented an 82 acre farm from Alexander Brodie. He bought this farm from the Brodie estate in 1861 for $365. In 1864 he bought a 48 acre
"back lot" from Asa Mason for $1140 and in 1868 he bought the 65 acre Francis McGee plot from his brother Samuel for $2369. He avoided going into the service during the Civil War by paying for a substitute.

Sometime around 1872 he seriously injured one arm and suffered from the pain of it ever after. In the late 1880's he went to Virginia for awhile with his son Alexander and then subsequently started buying up land in the "hard scrabble" area. He started to make brick, using the clay from his purchased land, but that venture fell through because the clay wouldn't make good brick.

In 1895 Charles sold his farm for $6500 to Henry Lantry and purchased a store and saloon at Brasher Iron Works, a
small settlement north of Helena.  Unfortunately, he was his own best customer. He became involved in further land buying schemes and eventually ended up with over 600 acres in the area of Brasher Center and Brasher Iron Works -mostly the most worthless land imaginable.

Charles BARLOW married Mandana SEARS, his sister Mary's stepdaughter, on March 13, 1858.
She was born in 1839 and died in 1910. She was the daughter of Alexander SEARS from his first marriage.

Charles' and Mandana's children were:

i. Alexander BARLOW was born in 1859 and died in 1947.

ii. Charles BARLOW was born in 1862 and died in 1930.

iii. Mary BARLOW was born in 1864 and died in 1933.

iv. Maritta BARLOW was born in 1867 and died in the 1950's.

v. infant, died in infancy.

vi. Samuel BARLOW was born in 1873 and died around 1938.

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Nathan Barlow sent in the following excerpt about John H. Barlow from the book Muzzle Flashes - Five Centuries of Firearms and Men by Ellis Christian Lenz, published in 1944 by Standard Publications, Inc. of Huntington, West Virginia:

"Few business men receive longer and more poignantly inquisitive letters than do the makers of firearms accessories. Many shooters window-shop by mail, expecting, and usually receiving, the mass of desired information.  The manu- facturer must have a talent at his command that could be profitably used in conducting an 'advice to the lovelorn' department. Such qualification made John H. Barlow the dean of all kindly manufacturer-advisors."

"Mr. Barlow belonged to the traditional school that made New England famous for 'Yankee cleverness' in matters of invention and manufacture. He was one of the first makers of tools for reloading metallic ammunition.  He started to market his line of 'Ideal' tools in the year 1884, meeting the demand for a means to conveniently and inexpensively reload the black-powder cartridge cases of that day."

"Today, the Ideal reloading tools are made by the Lyman Gunsight Corporation, of Middlefield, Conn.  And they continue
issuance of the Ideal Handbook, a combined catalog of the tools, their use, and general ballistic information.  That Handbook, modernized, but essentially the same as when first issued by the kindly Mr. Barlow, is an interesting bit of commercial Americana."

"And it's been quite a spell since Mr. Barlow was 'Harping on the Ideal,' - his trade slogan."

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Thomas Barlow of Franklin County, New York (continued)

vii. Thomas BARLOW was born in 1875 and died in the 1880's.

viii. Annie BARLOW was born in 1880 and died in infancy.

ix. Elizabeth BARLOW died in infancy.

Charles BARLOW died on July 4, 1906, at Brasher, New York, and was buried in the Hillside Rest Cemetery at Bombay,
New York.

Orissa WILMARTH was born in 1769 probably in Vermont. She married Ebenezer BARLOW about 1797, again probably in Vermont. She died on 15 September 1855 at age 76 at St. Albans, Vermont.  She may have had a grandmother named Esther STEBBINS. I'd appreciate any information on Orissa's family and ancestry. Her husband Ebenezer BARLOW was a son of David BARLOW and a fourth generation descendent from John BARLOW of Fairfield, Connecticut. He was born in 1766 or 1768 and died on 19 September 1819 or 1814.

Florence Collins, P.O. Box 50, Lake Minchumina AK 99757-0050

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I am seeking the parents and ancestry of Charlotte BARLOW who was born about 1869-70 either at Ely, Orange County, Vermont, or Burke, Caledonia County, Vermont.  She married John Marvin JONES and was living in the Salisbury, Connecticut, area when her children were born: George Marvin JONES, born 1896; Erick Edward JONES, born and died 1897; and Hildreth (Edith) JONES, born 1903.

Christy Stolzer, 11354 Eastview Point, San Diego CA 92131-3550

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I am seeking more information on the parents and ancestry of Henry BARLOW and his wife Judith LAND of Kentucky. Their children were: Henry BARLOW, Jr., born 1763; James BARLOW, born 1757; Mildred BARLOW, born 1758; Thomas BARLOW, born 1760; Elizabeth BARLOW, born 1762; Frances BARLOW, born 1765; and William BARLOW, born 1767
(see page 197, August 1995).

Patricia O'Boyle, 5802 North 42nd Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85019-1820

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I am seeking more information on my great-grandparents, James BARLOW, born in 1833 in Virginia, and his wife Lucinda, born in 1837 in Ohio.  Their son, my grandfather, was Henry Austin BARLOW, born on March 4, 1862, in Mercer County, Missouri.  He married Cornelia Jane JOYCE, who was born on March 25, 1867, in Bethany, Mercer County, Missouri, and was a daughter of Washington and Sarah Holt JOYCE.  Their son, my father, was Harvey Joyce BARLOW, born on September 30, 1897, in Bethany.

Robert J. Barlow  P.O. Box 1302  Hilltop Lakes, Texas  77871-1302 

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