George Barlow

• Preferred Name: George Barlow^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 4 AUG 1684 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N1.7597 LONG: E70.4931
  
• Birth: ABT 1602 in Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.35 LONG: E0.85
  
• Burial: 1684 with note: Same name and family
  
• Arrival: 1657 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3605 LONG: E71.0591 with note: see American history
  
• FSID: MG8Z-DVQ
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Certainly a 'colorful' character--See Collaboration for more stories about George Barlow.
  From barlowgenealogy.com:
  George Barlow was born probably around 1620 and probably in England. He arrived at Sandwich, Massachusetts, around 1657 with no wife and, according to some accounts, as many as seven children. Nothing is definitely known of his origins although a number of possibilities have been proposed. Many writers, notably Hawkins and DeVries [18], have stated that this George Barlow and the George Barlow of Exeter, New Hampshire, are the same. However, Noyes, Libby and Davis [17] state that the George Barlow of Exeter died at Scarborough, Maine, and left a widow Cicely who subsequently married Henry Watts. Another genealogist, Claude W. Barlow [28], has stated that the George Barlow of Sandwich came from England to the Plymouth Colony sometime before 1657 and that he "had two young sons whose mother may have died in England."
  George Barlow took the Oath of Fidelity at Sandwich in 1657. On June 01, 1658, the previous constable of Sandwich, William Bassett, had completed his year's service. He was replaced by George Barlow as constable of Sandwich and special marshall for Sandwich, Barnstable and Yarmouth. His duties were those of jailer, the administration of punishments and the collection of fines and fees.
  The authorities of Massachusetts were determined to keep their territory free of contrary religious beliefs and the Society of Friends, the Quakers, was especially prohibited. At first the Quakers were merely banished, but when this didn't work the oppressions became harsher and harsher. In Sandwich, where the majority of the residents were disposed to accept the Quakers, George Barlow pursued his duties with uncommon zeal. Those duties included the right to appraise property, choose the goods to be taken in forfeiture and to receive all fees and fines, with ten percent for himself.
  The Plymouth Colony Court records are full of the accounts of George Barlow's activities. In his book Cape Cod, Its People and Their History [29], Henry C. Kittredge wrote of George Barlow: "It was his habit to take not what would be most valuable to the authorities, but what would be most poignantly missed by the Quaker families." He tells the story of Priscilla Allen, whose husband was driven out of town, leaving her and the children with only a cow. The marshall took the cow, all the corn in the house, a bag of meal that had been given by neighbors, and her only copper cooking kettle. Kittredge further wrote that George Barlow had, "so far as can be discovered from contemporary authorities, not a single good trait."
  Or, as the history of Sandwich puts it, "Sandwich thereby went abruptly from a democratic town run by its own citizens, to a little police state run by a stranger with wide powers, who turned out to be a nasty and drunken man as well." Interestingly, no ill-feelings were held against his descendents, some of whom married into Quaker families. The actions taken against the Quakers were brought to an end late in 1661 by a decree issued by King Charles [30].
  Nothing is known of George Barlow's FIRST WIFE. She has been given as Mary Vincent Stetson, a daughter of Vincent Stetson, of Milford; which Milford is not given. However, this seems to be mixed up with Mary Stilson, wife of George Barley and daughter of Vincent Stilson, all of Milford, Connecticut. Mary Stilson was born between 1665 and 1670, which excludes her from being the first Mrs. Barlow [31].
  George Barlow married SECOND Mrs. Jane Besse sometime before March 04, 1661/2, as shown by a Plymouth Colony Court record of that date. Jane, whose MAIDEN SURNAME IS NOT KNOWN, was the widow of Anthony Besse, one of the first settlers of Sandwich. Anthony Besse was born in 1609, came to New England on the James in 1635, married Jane about 1638-40 at Sandwich, and died in 1657 at Sandwich at the age of forty-eight. Jane's age is not known from the records, but since her first child was born about 1639 and her last in 1671 she would probably have been born around 1620-25, and thus would have been around 32-35 at the time of Anthony's death.
  Anthony and Jane Besse had eight children: Dorcas Besse, born about 1639 and probably married to John Presbury/ Preston; Anna Besse, born about 1641 and married to Andrew Hallett, Jr.; Nehemiah Besse, born about 1643 and married to Mary Ransom; Mary Besse, born about 1645 and married to Francis Allen in 1662 (the record of their marriage gives her as Mary Barlow); David Besse, born on May 23, 1649, did not marry and was killed on March 26, 1676, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in King Philips War; Jane Besse; Elizabeth Besse, born about 1656 and married to Joseph Bodfish; and Rebecca Besse, born in 1657 after her father's death and married to William Hunter.
  
  Upon his marriage to Jane Besse, it is believed that George Barlow initially moved into the Besse house in the Spring Hill section of Sandwich. In 1664, when Jane's oldest son Nehemiah Besse became twenty-one and was able to take possession of the lands left to him by his father, George and Jane Barlow moved to Pocasset, Massachusetts, where the region called Barlow's Landing is still associated with the family. The Barlows were apparently a turbulent household. According to a Plymouth Colony Court record of March 4, 1661/2, Dorcas, Ann and Mary Besse were before the Court for "crewell and unnatural practice toward their father-in-law George Barlow." Records of 1662 show that a cow named Daisy, which had been taken by George Barlow, was ordered to be returned to daughter Jane Besse under the guidance of the overseers of Anthony Besse's estate.
  
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  === “The Notorious George Barlow” – Part 2 ===
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  “The Notorious George Barlow” – Part 2 Posted on June , 2014
  
  The Scourge of the Quakers – A Tyrant’s Rise and Fall
  In 1657, George Barlow, a stranger to town with two sons and no wife, swore the Oath of Fidelity in Sandwich, Massachusetts. George declared he was free of legal bond, a member of the church (Congregational, of course), that he would defend the colony and vote on local governance issues. Thus, the forty-something single father, George Barlow met the standard for respectability, but his life prior to this moment seems lived off the record.
  It happened that the term for the current Sandwich constable, William Bassett, was coming to an end. On Bassett’s watch, Boston had disturbing reports that Plymouth Colony folks treated strangers with charity and tolerated differing views on Christianity as matters of conscience.
  The Puritan masters lived in daily terror of eternal damnation and had documented sightings of Satan. They had reports of Quaker missionaries avoiding Boston for alternative routes into the country, so the government alert level was “code red.” And someone in Boston knew George Barlow was the blunt instrument they needed. On June 1, 1658, the General Court appointed Barlow constable for Sandwich – with a special mandate to harass religious dissenters, – and those who aided them.
  The constable was tasked with jailing local offenders, administering punishment, and collecting fines and fees. He was also granted certain powers that included conscripting men to assist him. He could also appraise property and choose what goods to take in forfeiture when people had no money. A perk of the office allowed the constable to pocket ten percent of all monies collected. For a bully like George Barlow, was a dream come true. He could torment Quakers – and anyone else he liked, while making a good living for himself, and earning points with Boston.
  Knowing their faith forbade them taking oaths (for loyalty belonged to god alone) and to harm others, George targeted Quaker men to conscript as deputies. He knew they must refuse, they wouldn’t fight, and they’d be fined. George impoverished several Sandwich families. From those with no money, George took what would hurt the most, –even to the essentials of living, food, livestock, tools, household goods that included cooking pots. He sent men to prison in Boston, leaving behind women and children to fend off cold, hunger, and likely sexual harassment from…Constable George Barlow.
  Prominent Sandwich townspeople sympathized with the persecuted Quakers and helped the affected families. Non-Quakers also refused to serve Barlow as deputies and paid the price. We know of a few men who told George Barlow what they thought of him to his face.
  At the 1 March 1658/9 Court “George Barlow complained against
  William Gifford and Edward Perry in an action of defamation…”
  Thomas Clark told the court in June 1660 that “G[e]orge Barlow is such an one that he is a shame and reproach to all his masters; and that he… stands convicted and recorded of a lie at Newberry.”
  Yet, on October 2, 1660, Boston promoted George to Special Marshal for Sandwich, – and Yarmouth – and Barnstable:
  “marshal Gorge Barlow shall have libertie to apprehend ant forraigne Quaker or Quakers in any pte of this Jurisdiction and to be prosecuted according to order provided in that case.”
  However, at this point, Barlow’s career had reached its zenith. A few months after his jurisdiction expanded, George himself was fined 20 shillings by the court for cruelty to …a Quaker! George had seized Benjamin Allen and locked him into the stocks at Sandwich overnight – with no legal provocation. He was also cited “for other wronges done by him unto the said Allin.” At the same court session, George was also ordered to return a shirt and other clothing he had taken from Ralph Allen. Additionally, the William Allen family was one of those impoverished, and not because William was a Quaker (at the time), but because he allowed Quakers to hold meetings in his home.
  The political tide was turning. The legislature of Massachusetts Bay hanged four Quakers on Boston Common between 1659 and 1661 that included wife, mother and preacher, Mary Dyer. That year, King Charles II “explicitly forbade Massachusetts from executing anyone for professing Quakerism
  George Barlow was less and less able to pass himself off as respectable by any standard. He drank, he picked fights, he disturbed the peace, and he hauled family members into court. After his term in law enforcement ended and with it, his authority over others, George Barlow faded away. There is no record of the day he died. Ironically, the memory of George Barlow remains alive because of the people he victimized.
  The Society of Friends established the oldest continuous monthly meeting in America at Sandwich, Massachusetts and its historians tell a story that is not a literal account, but one that captures the Quaker essence in a charming way. Scott Corbett in his book, Cape Cod’s Way, put it this way:
  “At a time when William Allen was in prison in Boston, Barlow paid a visit to the Allen home. He took the cow and all the food he could find, including some given to Mrs. Allen by neighbors. Then for good measure he confiscated the only kettle she had, and leered at her triumphantly. “Now, Priscilla, how will thee cook for thy family and friends? Thee has no kettle.
  “George,” said Priscilla, “that God who hears the young ravens when they cry will provide for them. I trust in that God, and I verily believe the time will come when thy necessity will be greater than mine.”
  Legend has it that Priscilla Allen was right.
  
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  === The Notorious George Barlow – Part 3 ===
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  The Notorious George Barlow – Part 3 Posted on August 7, 2014
  The Brute and Bully At Home
  George Barlow’s life before 1657 is a void. He brought to Sandwich, two sons, Moses and Aaron, but no wife. Some researchers conjecture the marriage and births took place in England, and that George may have had other children. Presumably, his first wife died and presumably, of natural causes, but this article is about George’s life with a new wife.
  The year 1657 was a milestone for Jane Besse, too, albeit a sad one. Her husband Anthony, one of the town’s original founders, fell ill in February and died in May. In the 18 years before, Anthony and Jane had built a house in the Spring Hill section, improved land, acquired livestock and other necessities which sustained a family of five girls and two boys.
  Some months after burying Anthony, Jane gave birth to his last child. The widow had to cope with the needs of eight fatherless children, a house, farm, animals, – and grief, a burden daunting for the stoutest heart. We don’t know how long the Widow Besse was on her own, and typically, widows remarried. However, what moved Jane Besse to yoke herself to the cruel and tyrannical George Barlow – is beyond understanding.The date of their marriage escaped record, but Plymouth County Court records document that it wasn’t going well. On March 4, 1661/62, Jane’s eldest daughters, Dorcas, Ann, and Mary Besse, went before the court for –“crewell and unnatural practice toward their father-in-law George Barlow.” Apparently, having failed to earn respect at home, George handled his stepdaughters the way he handled everyone who pissed him off, – he hauled them into court. To be fair, details of the case suggest the girls were not entirely blameless, and punishment was duly ordered.
  At the same time, the court recognized the Barlow household was getting out of control. George and Jane “were both severely reproved for their most ungodly living in contention with the other, and admonished to live otherwise.” Conflict was inevitable when George moved in with Jane, – into the house built by, and filled with memories of Anthony Besse. To make that situation work would have required a man of great sensitivity and delicacy, – not a man known from Cape Cod to Boston for his dickishness. George, the evil stepfather, appears in court again on June 3, 1662.
  We learned above that Anthony Besse’s will gave his daughter Jane a heifer the little girl herself probably named Daysey (Daisy). Added on to Jane’s natural affection for Daisy, was the cow’s status as remembrance of her departed father. So George took it away. If he gave a reason for doing so, the court ruled it invalid: “concerning a cow belonging to Jane, daughter of Anthony Bessey, of Sandwich, the Court have ordered G[e]orge Barlow, in whose hands the cow has been for some time, to return her to the overseers of the estate of the said Anthony Bessey, to be disposed of by them for the use and the good of the said Jane Bessey.”
  In that same year (1662), two of the Besse girls he took to court, Ann and Mary, got married. This development would have significantly decreased domestic tension. Then in 1664, Nehemiah Besse, Jane’s eldest son, reached the age of majority and took over his father’s property. This prompted George and Jane to move some miles away from Spring Hill to Pocasset, (part of Bourne, Massachusetts today).
  A change of scene can mean a fresh start in life, a chance to make things better, – but George got worse. On March 6, 1665/66, he was fined ten shillings for being drunk – a second time. Then in May 1665, he was accused of “attempting the chastity of Abigaill, the wife of Jonathan Pratt, by aluring words and actes of force.”
  It seems surprising that after these public transgressions, Jane bore George two sons, John (about 1669) and Nathan (1670). Because she was also cited by the court for the couple’s scream fights, it’s doubtful she meekly forgave him. And, though it is awful to contemplate, the possibility that George also used “actes of force” on his wife is consistent with his character. In 1677 he was back in court for being “turbulent, and threatening to drive away the minister, Mr. Smith.” He returned in 1678 for being a “turbulent fellow” and was bound over for the next court session.
  Fanatical, delusional, or just plain mean, George Barlow apparently believed he was right about everything. There’s no evidence he ever tried to reform his antisocial behavior, or regretted the terrible suffering he caused. He held grudges to the grave. In his will, to Aaron and Moses, sons of his first marriage, George gave only five shillings each, adding, “that is all I give them,” a verbal twist of the knife his sadistic nature couldn’t resist even as he prepared for death.
  As mentioned earlier, George had a will because he had an estate. While it may have amounted to less than his neighbors, – eight acres, a house, farm stock and equipment, and household furnishings, – it refutes the notion that George was destitute and starving on the streets of Sandwich.
  He wasn’t alone at the end either. The sons he had with Jane, John and Nathan, managed to stay in his good graces; he named them co-executors. George left his house, land, livestock, and all remaining worldly goods to the boys and their mother. George made his will on August 4, 1684 and it was probated October 31, 1684, so he also had time to make spiritual reckoning and prepare any arguments he might need for a heavenly court.
  Despite all that passed between them, there’s little doubt Jane Besse Barlow dutifully nursed her truculent husband to the end. The awful George Barlow most likely died in his own bed, surrounded by family on a lovely fall day. He would have imparted his final words (typically religious admonishments) and had a good death. So the tale of George Barlow illustrates that life is not fair!
  Somehow, the Barlow progeny all appear to have been respected members of the community. The sweetest outcome is that some married into Quaker families. Barlow’s boys, John and Nathan, married and had seven sons between them, – but none of them carried the name George.
  
  === From http://capecodquakers.org/earlyquakers.html ===
  From http://capecodquakers.org/earlyquakers.html
  "Now the authorities got more and more unhappy in Plymouth colony with this surge of Quakers. I said that there were fines for not attending church, fines for going to a Quaker meeting, fines for hosting a Quaker meeting, fines for not fingering any Quakers seen nearby, going to the authorities and denouncing them. The constable in Sandwich just threw up his hands and said, These are my friends and neighbors. I can’t do this to them, besides, there are too many of them. I haven’t got the time. And he gave up the job. And the authorities decided that a special prosecutor, so to speak, was what was needed. They looked around to find someone who was not tainted with sympathy, and they had to bring in a man whom we could call a carpetbagger from Maine and had failed in several jobs, and he said, I’ll take the job. So George Barlow was sent to Sandwich in 1658, and he said, I’ll clean up this mess.
  "The first month he was there, he hauled 18 Quakers into court for holding unauthorized Quaker meetings, Peter and Lydia among them, by the way. And you have to realize that in fining people in those days, there wasn’t very much cash. If you didn’t have cash, they took commodities. The commodities were of two types of easily portable things. There was livestock, cows were among the favorite prey, also farm implements, goods, and household furnishings, especially cooking utensils.
  "Barlow had a policy of finding out what would be the most hurtful thing that he could take and he would go after that. There is a famous story about his seizing the family cooking kettle from a Quaker woman very much like the sheriff in the old Westerns who said, Aha, my proud beauty! In effect, he said, Aha, Priscilla, how are you going to cook now? How are you going to exist? She is reputed to have said - perhaps apocryphally - God looks after the birds in the forest; I’m sure God will look after us. And by the way, George Barlow, the time will come when you will be in worse shape than we are!
  It’s true that Barlow, after he ceased to be the marshal, began to go into a decline. He became a drunkard; he got into bad shape economically, and he moved out from Sandwich to the shores of Buzzards Bay to an area known now as Barlows Landing where, interestingly, those good Quakers, David and Margaret Douglas now live!"
  Notes
  He was sent down from Boston by the authorities there to try and quell the spread of Quakerism. The persecution suffered by the Quakers, usually delivered by George Barlow, did nothing to stifle them; some of George's own descendants married into Quaker families.
  Simeon Deyo says,
  "This marshal, George Barlow, would boast, that he would think what goods were most serviceable to the Quakers, and then he would take them away when he went to distrain for the fines. But now...grown exceedingly poor, he presumes to say he thought the Quakers would not let him want. And truly, it is said, they relieve his children, notwithstanding all the villainy that he hath shown unto those people."
  The fines and persecution of the Quakers ended; George Barlow, who had been allowed to keep 10% of the fines, lost that income and became destitute. Members of the Society Of Friends did indeed come to the aid of his family when they needed it.
  An anecdote concerning George Barlow comes from "The Narrow Land" by Elizabeth Reynard. She tells a story of an elderly, lonely George, down on his luck, hallucinating after a night of drink. He reminisces about his past experiences as an enforcer against Quakerism. The story enumerates many incidents, including his persecution of the Allen family.
  One vision recalls how he had sought the detention of two fugitives he had apprehended (Christopher Holder and John Copeland). He brought them before the selectmen, since there was no magistrate available. The selectmen declined to take action, and Barlow locked them up in his own house. The story says George would have starved them, but his own wife Jane smuggled food to them and they actually got fatter. The tale ends with George, blinded with memories of his past transgressions, lost in a snowstorm, never seen alive again. He died in 1684.
  http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pahlow/barlow1.htm
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  A "renegade Episcopal minister"
  "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families" by Amos Otis, Vol 1, pg 69 published in 1888
  "Barlow was appointed June 1, 1658, Marshal of Sandwich, Barnstable and yarmouth. His name adds no honor to the annals of the Old Colony...a hard-harted, intolerant, tyrannical man, abusing the power entrusted to him, and seemingly taking delight in confiscating the property of innocent men and women. or dragging them to prison, to the stocks or the whipping post."
  "In his family he exercised the same tyrannical spirit, and it is not surprising that the aid of the magistrate was frequently called into requistion to settle the difficulities that arose. The reader of the Colony records may think Besses were not the most amiable women. perhaps they were not, but in these family quarrels Barlow was in fault, and deserving the infamy which will forever attach to his..."
  from the BARLOW site at Genforum.com...posted by Sheryl Clark
  "In his (Georges) will he names the children as Aaron, Moses John and Nathan ..dated 1684, from his 2nd marrage to Jane Bessey. From his first marriage it names Samuel, George and William and a bried mention of a Sarah Barlow marrage to Robert Laurance of Falmouth...and calls her "the daughter of a marshall". Also Elizabeth Barlow whom married Robert White as "daughter of a marshall". Georges 2nd wife was jane Besse, and his first was Mary Vincent Stetson...of Milford ( which apparently cannnot be proven)
  From Genforum...submitted by Gerry Hannond...Barlow, Mary
  "George , before Gen Court , Sept 19, 1637. Settled at Sandwich. Constable. he m Jane, widow of Anthony Bessey, whose daughters were before Plymouth Cout Mar 4, 1661-2 for ill treating him.
  He made his will on Aug 4...prob. Oct 31 1648. beq to wife, sons John and Jathan, to Arron and Moses B. The widow made will Aug 6, probated Oct 5, 1693: bequeath to sons nohn and nathan B and Nehimian Bessie, to daughters Ann Hattlett, Elizabeth Bodfish and Rebecca Hunter
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  George Barlow replaced William Bassett as the constable in Sandwich MA. His duties were those of jailer, the administration of punishments and the collection of fines and fees. Once he took over these duties "Sandwich thereby went abruptly from a democratic town run by its own citizens, to a little police state run by a stranger with wide powers, who turned out to be a nasty and drunken man as well"...this from the history of Sandwich.

• m. 1633 in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Elizabeth Barlow, b. 1644 in England, United Kingdom     d. 18 JUN 1709 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

1. Title: Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991
   Author: Wills, Inventories, Etc, 1637 to 1685, County of Barnstable; Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts Description Notes: Wills, Inventories, Etc, 1637-1685 Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data:Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts.
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/134773965;
   Note: George's will to his sons and his wife.
   Page: Gives a historical record with an actual account of his life.
   
2. Title: George Barlow in the Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991
   Author: Wills, Inventories, Etc, 1637 to 1685, County of Barnstable; Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts.
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/618011:9069?tid=&pid=&queryId=0aceb4010706709238129ee4a33bbe7f&_phsrc=Hvd18235&_phstart=successSource;
   Note: Name: George Barlow Residence Date: Abt 1684 Residence Place: Sandwich Will Date: 31 Oct 1684 Probate Date: 4 Aug 1684 Probate Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Inferred Death Year: 1684 Inferred Death Place: Massachusetts, USA Others Listed Relationship George Barlow John Barlow Son Nathan Barlow Son
   Page: Same name and family
   
3. Title: George Barlow, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-WPNF : 10 July 2020), George Barlow, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-WPNF;
   Page: Same name and family
   
4. Title: Story of A Cow
   Publication: Name: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Barlow;
   
5. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
6. Title: U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
   Author: Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/139264:3824;
   Note: Name: Jane Barlow Maiden Name: Besse Gender: Female Marriage Date: 4 Mar 1661 Marriage Place: New England, USA Death Year: 1693 Spouse: George Barlow
   Page: Same name and family
   
7. Title: George Barlow in entry for George Barlow, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
   Author: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWQ1-H8Z : 4 February 2023), George Barlow in entry for George Barlow, 1633.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWQ1-H8Z;
   
8. Title: George Barlow in entry for George Barlow, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
   Author: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2V7-92Y : 5 February 2023), George Barlow in entry for George Barlow, 1640.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2V7-92Y;
   Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.