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JOHN BARLOW was born c1760 in VA or NC died September 12, 1829 in Natchez Adams Co Mississippi, probably buried in Adams Co Mississippi He married LYDIA ... possibly BRYANT ... c1789-90. She was born c1768-75, and died after 1846 in Mississippi, probably buried in Simpson Co Mississippi. |
John Barlow was married to Lydia, c1789-90, the first two sons that we have been able to find are shown on census records to have been born in North Carolina; William Bryant
Barlow c1791 and Henry c1794, and daughter Missouri was born in the same time period. Our family has always contended that John was the son of William Barlow of Robeson Co North Carolina, most of this has been based on 'preponderance of the evidence' which I will not accept. A DNA test by a Robeson Co descendant has shown that no relationship exists. Clinton Barlow, a professional genealogist who has written many family genealogies, has always thought our family to be connected to his Isle of Wight Barlow families, and I spent a lot of time trying to find a connection, locations and naming looked very good for that. However, DNA testing by 3 different families, all tied to Isle of Wight has proven that no relationship exists between our John Barlow and the Isle of Wight families. Thus far, our only connections are to John Barlow of Fairfield Connecticut, James Barlow of Ireland, and Rev. John of Wilkes Co North Carolina, and these are distant relationships. The only close relationship we have found is to William Barlow of Wilkerson Co Georgia. I'm leaning toward John being a brother to William, but do not know how to prove that. |
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The 1790 census of NC, shows 4 John Barlow's, 2 of those, John and John Jr. of Wilkes Co have
been thoroughly researched and proven to be the from the lineage 'Bunches of Barlows.' DNA has shown a relationship to that family, but
a very distant one. No census from 1800 or 1810 has been concluded as our John. |
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Land Lotteries in Georgia - These are names of our family, and thought to be ours, though Isle of
Wight family researchers also make claim to these records. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery shows John Barlow, Henry Barlow and William Barlow. Each drew blanks, thus received no land 1807 Georgia Lottery shows again, John, Henry and William Barlow, all living in Washington Co Georgia, this time they all successfully won land in Kendricks Militia District in Wilkinson Co Georgia. John won #257 in District 21, William won #104 in District 15, and Henry won #236 in District 16. Eileen Carter from the Wilkinson Co mailing list gives me the following information: Land lot 15 is Pulaski County, 16 is Pulaski and part of Laurens, 21 is Pulaski. The deed and mortgage records for Pulaski County on microfilm, local Family History Center. Deeds and mortgages, 1807-1920; index, 1807-1939 / Georgia. Superior Court (Pulaski County). Here will be a complete record. Perhaps I will order this film in time and find new answers. John's son Henry and William Bryant would probably be too young to have been eligible for lottery drawings. William, I believe, is the same as that in the lineage of William Barlow and Edith Mathoda. They too, have a son named Henry, but he is also too young to have been in this drawing. William's ancestors make claim to his father being James Barlow who was a Revolutionary Soldier in Virginia, he married Lucy Edwards, and died in Louisiana. I believe DNA testing has disproven that, as James is a part of the Wilkes Co Barlow families, and though a relationship is shown, it is too distant to be father and son relationship. I was unable to follow Henry after that lottery. No census records were found with Henry as head of household. Could he have been the elder, perhaps father of William and John, and deceased at the time of the 1820 census? |
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Our family has always thought these to be our Barlow's ... but the some researchers of the Isle of Wight Barlows also make claim to
them. With records in Georgia having been burned, it is almost impossible to find documentation to prove whose family these come from. However,
if we follow in time to Washington Co in the early to middle 1800's ... we find that the family of William
Barlow and Edith Mathoda were in Washington Co Georgia until his death in 1818, and they had sons, Henry, and William, but I find
no record of John. This family remained in Washington, Wilkinson, and surrounding counties, many are still there today. Recent DNA
testing has proven our family to be closely related to William and Edith Mathoda Barlow, but that absolutely no relationship exists
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The first found that we know is our John:
But where are Lydia and the children? Could this be them?-----
Thomas may be a son of John and Lydia, though we do not have any other records indicating Thomas as a son. There was a Thomas; living in Louisiana who was killed in the War of 1812, who may be the same. One researcher, Katherine Goza, now deceased, tells that she had communication with descendants of this family, and that they admitted Thomas was a son of John and Lydia. I have not seen any records to prove that though. Locating John in the 1790 census might help verify at least how many sons were born to them. Conflict: Thomas Barlow, IOW has traced their lineage and proven the Thomas in Edgefield SC, 1810, next door to his son, Richard, and neighbor Rbt Briant to be theirs. I believe that proves the passport above will not be our family. The will of Thomas Barlow, IOW was found, along with land records from Edgefield SC, and Laurens Co Georgia as a further source for that family. That is not to say that the Thomas in Louisiana is not a son of John and Lydia. It just remains a mystery as to when, where, and how he arrived in Louisiana, and as to when Lydia and children arrived in Mississippi. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old Naturalization Records show John Barlow and Daniel Cranfield were naturalized
as citizens of the United States in the Territory of Mississippi in 1798. Daniel Cranfield was the second husband of Mary Millsaps Barlow after the death of John Barlow Jr. Source: Old Law Naturalization Records, volume 1, page 2 Holmes Co records dated February 16, 1871. I have not seen a copy of this .. but was told of it .. if anyone has a copy of this document, I would be most interested in seeing it. |
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| 1813 Greene County shows John owning 179 acres on Leaf River | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From the research of Gary Barlow, August 2014: This letter in the Mississippi Department of Archives records. In it, John Barlow is recommended to the territorial governor, David Holmes, for the position of constable in Captain Jones' district in Green County July 7, 1813, when the county apparently filled its first such offices. Letter transcribed by Gary, as well as he could read it. Note that is the spelling of Green he uses both times, by the way, so I didn't correct it. I wish I could read what that first office is, but it's just unreadable to me both times it appears. David Holmes was the territorial governor, by the way, and as I think I mentioned, this letter is from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Digital Collection (https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/s488/detail/9652)
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John and Briant / Bryant and Henry Barlow were signers December 14, 1815 - Petition to Congress by Inhabitants East of Pearl River, content researched and shared by Gary Barlow, September 2014: I found a book on the shelves at the Mississippi Archives: "The Territorial Papers of the United States," Vol. 6, The Territory of Mississippi 1809-1817, Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1938. In it I found three petitions to the United States Congress that I had not seen that were signed by John, Briant and Henry Barlow. All three were referred to Congress on Dec. 14, 1815. The first, signed by Briant Barlow, dealt with debts owed on public lands purchased from the U.S. in the Mississippi Territory. The petitioners noted that they had purchased their land in a time of peace, "when there was a reasonable prospect of raising the necessary funds." The petitioners added, "They were often obliged to purchase more land than they really wanted for the purpose of cultivation, in order to obtain situations suitable for residence. To fertile swamp-lands pregnant with disease, they were obliged to add barren pine-lands whose only recommendation was that they afforded a healthful settlement." They said the war with the British deprived them of a market and war with the Indians "drove them from their farms, engaged them in military service, and made their property the sport of the desolating savage." Even the volunteers and the militia had consumed a good amount of their corn and livestock, they said. They asked that the payments they had made be considered full payment for the land they were actually using and offered to relinquish their claims to the portions of their lands they were not using. The second petition, signed by John and Briant Barlow, dealt with the nature of the territorial government. The signers said the population of the part of the Mississippi Territory living east of the Pearl River had grown to the point that it exceeded the population living west of the Pearl River. Despite this, they said, the population east of the Pearl was represented by just 8 seats in the Territorial Legislature while the population west of the Pearl held 16 seats. They asked Congress to undertake a census of the territory, followed by a reapportionment of legislative seats in accordance with the results of that census. The third petition, signed by Henry Barlow, was similar to the first, dealing with the hardships that war had placed on those who owed money for federal lands they had purchased. The signers said that war with the British and Indians had made it impossible for them to make payments due on their land, noting that for more than a year the U.S. Land Office at which they were to make payments had been closed for public safety reasons and mail routes in the Territory were not operative. During that time, they said, interest had accrued on their payments due. They asked Congress to waive the interest due. |
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Source: Richard Roman, Birth of Perry County, The Richton Dispatch Vol 91 No. 18 The year is 1816
--- the county was at the time, Greene Its civil officers during the first year of its existence were: Jacob H. MORRIS: Chief Justice of the Quorum John JENKINS, John GREEN, Jacob CARTER, Craven P. MOFFITT, Associate Justices Alexander McKENZIE, Eli MOFFITT, Benjamin H.G. HARFIELD, William HUDSON, John MOFFIT, Seth GRANBERRY, Lewis W. John McDONALD: Assessors and Collectors George HARRISON: Ranger Joel LEWIS: Surveyor John BARLOW: Constable Wm. TISDALE: Coroner J.J.H. MORRIS: Notary Public Martin CHADWICK: Sheriff Some of the other county officers, 1821-1827,were: Judges of Probate: Griffin HOLLOMON, J.J.H. MORRIS, John F. MAPP, Abner CARTER Lewis RHODES: Sheriff Justices of the Peace: Anthony PITTS, Adam ULMER, Jonathan TAYLOR, Geo. B. DAMERON, Sterling BRINSON, John DEACE, Daniel MILEY, James SIMMONS, Sherod BYRD, Isham H. CLAYTON, James OVERSTREET, Uriah MILLSAPP Assessors and Collectors: Hugh McDONALD, Treasurer; Farr PROCTOR, Go. HARRISON, Lewis RHODES |
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| 1816 census of Greene County shows John's household as follows: 1 male over 21 - John 3 males under 21 - John Jr - Nathaniel Green and George Washington 1 female over 21 - Lydia 5 females under 21 --Missouri, and possibly Sarah are the only ones we have identified. Sons Henry and Bryant had apparently moved away from this household, though they are not shown as heads of household for the census of 1816. Perhaps they remained in Alabama or Georgia or may be been listed as part of another household where they were possibly employed as laborers. |
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1 male over 45 - John 1 male 10-16 - John Jr. 2 males under 10 - Nathaniel Green and George Washington 1 female over 45 - Lydia 1 female 16-26 2 females 10-16 1 female under 10 No clue who these last three females might be |
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| Miscellaneous records Unfortunately, John and Lydia divorced in 1827, this record was found in the attic of either a court house or the archives in Mississippi, by Charlie Brennar in 1996. See transcription below. |
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A lawsuit filed against John Barlow by Griffin Ross on September 24, 1827. In it, Ross accused John of taking a wagon and four oxen without
paying him the $200 they had allegedly agreed to. As you'll see, it went to a
trial by jury and John was found not guilty. In addition, the jury ordered
Ross to pay John's court and attorney fees in the case, so evidently they felt
John had been wronged by Ross' allegations. I have transcribed the entire
eight-page handwritten file and typed it up. I tried to be faithful to the
original on capitalization and spelling, so the grammar and spellings are as
they were written then.
Obviously, September 1827 was not a good month for John as this suit was filed
just 13 days after the date on Lydia's divorce complaint. Still, it may say
something for John's reputation that a jury of 12 of his peers found in his
favor in this case in April 1828.
I'm not sure why this file is in the Mississippi Archives. There are only a
handful of pre-1850 court records from Perry County there, not all of them
complete like this one. I will note that at the end of the file the Perry
County clerk swears that this is a true copy of the proceedings of the case
and signs it with an 1830 date, so I wonder if perhaps this copy was done at
Briant's request in connection with settling John's estate. I had the staff at the Archives make photo-copies of each page
for me, but I was not allowed to photograph it myself, so I don't have photos of the original to send. To find it, it will be listed in a search of the
County Court Case Files in MDAH's online catalog (https://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/) if you search for "Barlow." Researched, contributed and transcribed by Gary Barlow, Sept 2014: |
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| December 1827: Lawsuit of John
Barlow vs. Henry Easterling First came before JP of Perry Co Mississippi and was removed to Circuit Court, December Term 1827 - pg 302 An apparent altercation between John and Henry, no reason given. John was fined five dollars, it was later dismissed. |
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Nothing further was found for John Barlow, Sr., but research done by Kathryn Goza Campbell years ago has contended
that he died in 1829, of yellow fever in Adams Co Mississippi, where he is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave. The record comes
from Adams County Sexton Records, and from a copy of the original document, found in the Southern Galaxy newspaper, I have in my possession.
Southern Galaxy Newspaper, Natchez, Mississippi, Deaths in Natchez, and Adams County Sexton Records
Other Barlows where in the area, the family of Noah Barlow, who comes from the Fairfield Connecticut Barlows, but to date, no connection between his and our family has been found. DNA testing has shown a distant relationship to the Fairfield Barlows and ours. In the research I have seen for these families, none of those list a John Barlow in their families, so perhaps this is ours. The divorce proceedings did not put a good light on John, so perhaps he left the county. Also confirming that he was deceased by 1830 were the tax records of 1830, showing the "Estate of John Barlow," for 377 acres. --see next item-- |
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Family believes Lydia may be a Bryant completely based on the name of Bryant, whom we suspect
is the first child of John and Lydia. Naming customs of the time tells us that most families named their first born son after the father's father, or in this case, both parents fathers. I
have not seen proof that Bryant was William Bryant, that comes from word of mouth passed down through the family. I have spent much time trying to locate records of Bryant families,
the only thing I have found that might be our Lydia comes from a will of William Bryant in Johnson Co North Carolina, found
in loose records in the state archives, Raleigh Co North Carolina.
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Apparently county lines changed often, and so did their records, and most were lost in court house fires. Looking through
land grant records, I find a lot of Bryant's, but no listing for Barlow. So who is this Henry Barlow? Our John has been
called John Henry by family throughout the years, but I have never seen a record using that name. The only Barlow I found in
Johnson Co North Carolina was in 1850 census, which would be in the wrong time frame.
LYDIA BARLOW VS. JOHN BARLOW
Bill for Alimony &C Filed in my office 11th September 1827 Griffin H. Williamson Clerk,
3. Dist.
The State of Mississippi, Third Chancery District To the Honorable Joshua C. Clark, Chancellor of the State of Mississippi Humbly complaining, herewith unto your Honor, your Oratrix, Lydia Barlow of the County of Perry and State aforementioned that about the year AD 1789, your Oratrix intermarried with one John Barlow, her present husband and to whom she has born children, ten of whom are now living, seven of which are married. That your Oratrix has always conducted as an Orderly, industrious, careful and obedient wife to her said husband. That when she intermarried with the said John the said John was very poor not being worth the sum of one hundred dollars, that the said John is now the owner of about twenty slaves, the most of which are young and likely, that he is also possessor of large and valuable tracts of land, breeds much stock in horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, etc., and your Oratrix would further represent unto your honor, that she your Oratrix hath ever been during her said marriage, instrumental in not only taking care of whatever belonged to her said husband but also in earning the substance which he hath accumulated. That year after year she not only done and performed with her own hands the labor of ordinary housework necessary for a for a female and poor family, but that she also assisted and than not a little in cultivating and gathering the crops of the said John. That for many years she had been esteemed and respected as a midwife for which services alone and by her performed, she hath received very considerable sums of money not one dollar of which was used by your Oratrix ever expended for her own private use or benefit but on the contrary, was always strictly required by the said John to be laid up and used by him either to pay some debt already contracted or to assist in adding another Negro to the stock already on hand which indeed some for many years to have engaged both the entire attention and affection of the said John. And your Oratrix would further represent unto your honor that during the greater part of the many years your Oratrix has been the wife of the said John not withstanding the affection, attention, industry, and economy of your Oratrix, yet the said John would hardly allow her the bare necessities, much less the comforts of life. Yet your Oratrix submitted thereto without a murmur. Yet so it is may it please your honor that the said John regardless of all solemn duties as a husband has for more than a year last part abandoned the bed of your Oratrix and hath taken to himself one of the female slaves of the said John with whom he resides and lives at a distance of about four miles from the dwelling house of the said John, that not content with this outrage upon your Oratrix as well as upon society he has kept your Oratrix of almost all and every article either for sustenance, labor, or comfort -- having taken the very bedding and covering with a scanty exception, wheels, cards, loom etc. etc. and leaving your Oratrix with her young daughter destitute of meat, sugar, coffee, and indeed of almost every thing. Also having now carried away one of the only pair of smoothing irons belonging to the place and they being a pair which your Oratrix had procured by her own industry and your Oratrix would further represent unto your honor that your Oratrix some time in June last had the painful misfortune detecting the said John now a man of upward of sixty years of age in the very act of adultery with the said slave with whom the said John in a most brutal and violent manner beat and abused your Oratrix and your Oratrix would further represent unto your honor that she your Oratrix is now nearly sixty years of age that having labored hard all her life and that she is now infirm and that from the treatment exercised toward her by her husband the said John that she has nothing but poverty and old age awaiting her through the close of life. And you Oratrix would further represent unto your honor that your Oratrix now is and always hath been an inhabitant and citizen of the State of Mississippi for the last ten or fifteen years. In tender consideration whereof and in consignment of your Oratrix being remediless according to the strict rules of the common law. And only retenable in your Honors court now therefore may it please your Honor to grant unto your Oratrix your Honors -- Writ of Subpoena, etc. commanding the said John, etc. and also to grant unto your Oratrix such order and decree as to your honor shall seem right and agreeable to equity and good conscience the promises being considered and your Oratrix as is duty bound will ever pray etc. J. W. Morris, for Complainant The State of Mississippi - Perry County Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of in and for the County and State aforesaid Lydia Barlow, who on oath deposeth and saith that the facts as set forth in the foregoing bill are strictly true to the best of her knowledge, recollection and belief and further that she hath good reason to believe and does believe that the said John Barlow is about to remove himself from this state and without the jurisdiction of this Court and therefore prays a write of Ne Excut etc. Her Mark Lydia Barlow James Finlay, J.P.
Greetings: Whereas ut us represented to us in our Superior Court of Chancery before the Chancellor of the said State of Mississippi on the part of Lydia Barlow, Complainant, against John Barlow, Defendant, amongst other things, that the said defendant, designs quickly to go unto parts - without the limits of this state, which tends to the great prejudice, damage and injury, of the said Complainant. Wherefore in order to prevent this injustice, We command you, that you, without delay cause the said John Barlow personally to come before you and give sufficient bond and security in the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, lawful money of the State of Mississippi, conditioned that the said John Barlow will not go or attempt to go into parts without the limits of said state, until discharged by our said Court, and in case the said John Barlow, shall refuse to give such bail or security, then you are to commit him the said John Barlow to your prison there to remain in safe, custody until he shall do it of his own accord, and when you have taken such security you are forthwith to make and return a certificate thereof to the Chancellor in our said Court of Chancery, wheresoever, it shall be distinctly and plainly under you hand and seal. Together with the writ.
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No further records have been found telling us the outcome of the divorce, but from tax records, it appears that Lydia was given a portion of the land. She either sold it or gave it to her children, as she removed from Perry Co by 1830.
I have no clue who the young daughter is she mentions. But I am wondering where George and Nathaniel are while this is going on. They would have only been 13 or 14 years of age.
Gary Barlow's research and notes from August/September 2014: At the time Lydia filed her divorce complaint in 1827 Mississippi law required that for a wife to divorce her husband she had to first win her case in chancery court, then petition the Mississippi Legislature to pass a bill approving the court's decision. So I searched page by page through the
Journal of the House of Representatives and the Journal of the Senate for 1828 and 1829 (more than 1200 pages total). No such bill was filed or passed on
Lydia's behalf in either of those years. So at the time of John's death in 1829 he and Lydia could not have been legally divorced. Although the process
of going through court and the Legislature could take several years, I did not search 1830 and beyond because John's death would have made passing a bill to
finalize the divorce moot at that point.
I am sure I didn't miss it as I searched because every bill passed by the Legislature had to go through three readings and a vote, meaning it would have
been listed in the journals on six separate dates, three in each chamber. For the record, the Legislature passed bills approving seven such divorces in 1828
and three in 1829. Since the Perry County court records were destroyed in a courthouse fire in 1877, I know of no other way to confirm how far Lydia got in her effort to
divorce John. We know she and John separated because of the tax records that show her owning land in her own right in 1828, some 20 miles away from him, but as to how that happened we can only speculate. Perhaps she won in court
and he paid up right away rather than wait on final approval by the Legislature. Perhaps they just reached an agreement to separate. Or perhaps
that 80 acres was given to her by her son Briant, as it was adjacent to his property. But barring some hidden trove of records somewhere, I think we will
never know for sure since the courthouse records are gone.
Lydia did not remain in Perry Co after she and John separated, she is shown as head of household
in the 1830 census of Simpson Co with 2 males, aged 10-20, which would be George and Nathaniel. The daughter mentioned in the lawsuit
has either married, died, or is living with another family.
Land records indicate that Lydia
and son George, purchased land along with assignees, David W. Connely and Andrew S./L. Wilson, in Township 2 of the Mt Silas Land Office
in 1838 (I think this is Simpson Co). Again Lydia purchased land
in Simpson Co along with George in 1840, though she is not listed in the 1840 census.
Nathaniel G. Barlow has a female aged 60-70 in his household whom we assume to be Lydia.
Nathaniel G. Barlow has a female aged 60-70 in his household whom we assume to be Lydia.
A document dated 1846 was found showing Lydia had given a slave to her daughter in law, Miranda Barlow, wife
of Henry Barlow, and Lydia could not be accounted for in the 1850 census, so it is assumed she had died.
Kathryn Watkins (deceased) who had done much work on this family, told family
that Lydia was buried on the 'Old Stuckey Place' but that the cemetery had been plowed off into the Pearl River.
The George Washington Barlow Cemetery is located on land in Simpson Co where George, his wife, Flora Byrd, and Charity Millsaps Barlow, wife of brother, Henry are buried, so I think there is a possibility that Lydia, Henry and Nathaniel are also buried there in unmarked graves.
The George Washington Barlow Cemetery is located on land in Simpson Co where George, his wife, Flora Byrd, and Charity Millsaps Barlow, wife of brother, Henry are buried, so I think there is a possibility that Lydia, Henry and Nathaniel are also buried there in unmarked graves.
Research on the family from 1850 forward has been proven through census records, family contacts,
and years of research. Many of those families are outlined here, and also of the allied families. Of course, there are others still
not found, the search never ends.
Recently, (July 2010) there have been several persons who submitted that John was in Fredericksburg Virginia and that he had been married previous to Lydia. I have queried several of those people, but none can tell me where the original information comes from, and no documentation has been shown.