Aaron Barlow (abt. 1645 - 1715)

Born about 1645 in England

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1715 at about age 70 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Aaron was a Friend (Quaker)

Aaron was born about 1645. He was the son of George Barlow and first wife, name unknown.

Aaron Barlow was one of a group of fourteen who drew home-lots at Sippican on July 22, 1679, when that area was set aside for settlement. Sippican, Mattapoisett, Agawam and Acushena were areas whose names were derived from Indian villages and which were eventually incorporated as the town of Rochester on June 4, 1686 .

Aaron Barlow moved from Sandwich in 1684 and was one of the original incorporators of Rochester. Aaron Barlow and Joseph Burge were appointed to set up a gristmill on twenty acres which had been laid out on the banks of the Sippican River in 1683. The mill was to have "such Capacitie as She may grind the corne of the Inhabitants for twentie years." Aaron Barlow declined the commission and the work fell to Joseph Burge alone .

In 1689 Rochester sent Joseph Burge as its first representative to the General Court of Plymouth. He was succeeded in 1690 and 1691 by Aaron Barlow.

In 1692, a new Province Charter united the Plymouth Colony with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Plymouth General Court held its final session in July of that year, but the Rochester representative, Aaron Barlow, was not present. Aaron Barlow, along with Samuel Hammond, Samuel White and John Wing, all of Rochester, took the Freeman's Oath on October 15, 1689.

On June 3, 1690, at the General Court of Election that was held at Plymouth, Aaron Barlow of Rochester was chosen Deputy. He was also a selectman of Rochester in 1690.

Aaron Barlow made his will in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts on January 18 1713/14 with a codicil dated 1 February 1714/15 and proved on 3 March 1714/15 in Plymouth. In the will he mentions his wife Beulah, his eldest son Shubel, his son Nathan and his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of "Mark Ginnens" (Mark Jenny), his other daughter, Mary, wife of Jeremiah Griffith, and his granddaughter, Mary Barlow, daughter of Shubel who was not yet 21 years old. His will was probated in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts on March 3, 1714/15. His inventory was recorded in Plymouth. ^[1]

Aaron Barlow was an enslaver his probate inventory lists an Indian boy valued at £16 pounds.^[2]

Aaron died in Rochester, Massachusetts Bay on 4d 12m 1714 [4 Feb 1715] at 69 years of age.^[3][4]

Children

• Elizabeth (1684)
• Mary (1686)
• Shubael (1691)
• Moses (1696)
• Nathan (1697)
• Aaron (1698) in Rochester.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-ZFW3 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1708-1717 and 1817-1861 vol 3-3P > image 193-196 of 710; State Archives, Boston.
2. ↑ ref: img# 195/710.
3. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 711.
4. ↑ Vital Records of the Town of Rochester, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II--Marriages and Deaths, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914, p 341

• Edson Barlow, Barlow Genealogy, 1998-2004 [Link no longer works]

• Vital Records of the Town of Rochester, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II--Marriages and Deaths, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914, p 341