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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 8:ASA BARROWS OF PARIS, ME. PT3
In my last post, Asa Barrows said in his statement he knew of no living witness that might
verify his service record.
On August 21, one stepped forward:
“I, Francis Sturtevant, of Paris in the county of Oxford in the
State of Maine, a pensioner of the United States, on oath declare,
that to my certain knowledge, Asa Barrows, of Hamlin’s Gore in
said county, inlisted into the army of the United States, in the
revolutionary war, on the continental establishment at Plymton,
in the county of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, for the term
of eight months, in April 1775. The company in which he served
was commanded by Capt. Joshua Benson and the regiment was
commanded by Col. Cotton in the Massachusetts line-and was
stationed at Roxbury near Boston under the command of Gen.
Thomas-and I am satisfied that he faithfully served the term of
eight months.
Francis Sturtevant”
The signature, like Asa Barrows’, is larger, and a bit shaky looking in contrast to the
excellent penmanship of the statement. Below his signature is the following:
"State of Maine
County of Oxford s.s. August 21,1832. The above named
Francis Sturtevant, to me known as a man of truth, personally
appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by
him subscribed-Before me-
Thomas Clark, Justice of the Peace."
A seal is affixed to the bottom left hand corner of the image:
(Image 13)
The next image is of the same page, but a smaller scrap of paper lies across the blank area under Thomas Clark’s signature:
STATE OF MAINE
__________
Oxford County, ss.
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts
in and for said County of Oxford, here by certify, that
Thomas Clark Esq. whose genuine signature is annexed
to the foregoing Deposition of Francis Sturtevant
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of
Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office, this 28th day of August in the
year A.D. 1832.
R.K. Goodenow Clerk of Oxford
County Courts.
(image 12)
There follows another document. Most of it is preprinted but there is part of one sentence
crossed over:
“And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion,
after the investigation of the matter, ((start of crossed out
portion))and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department, ((end of crossed out
portion)), that the above applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states. said applicant having
adduced the deposition of Francis Sturtevant, under oath,
duly administered, in corraboration of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery, Judge”
At the bottom of the page is another preprinted form.:
“I, Joseph G. Cole, Register(written over the crossed out word
“clerk”)of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa
Barrows for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office this 28th day of August A.D. 1832.
Joseph G. Cole Register.”
(Image 7)
The following spring Asa made another appearance before Thomas Clark to claim his pension:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the
Peace and Notary Public, in and for the county of Oxford, Asa
Barrows, who being first duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by
reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot
swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection he served not less than
the period mentioned below and all as a private soldier: viz: For
ten months: and for such service I claim a pension.
Asa Barrows
State of Maine, Oxford, ss, April 27, 1833. Then the above
named Asa Barrows made oath to the truth of the above affidavit
and subscribed the same in my presence, and I hereby certify
that he is a man of truth and veracity. In testimony where of I
have here unto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial
seal the day and year afore said.
Thomas Clark, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
in and for the County of Oxford in the State of Maine.”
Justice Clark’s seal is to the right hand bottom corner of the page.
(Image 8)
Asa died on 13 Sep 1850 at Woodstock, Maine. His last pension payment was made in the third quarter of that year:
verify his service record.
On August 21, one stepped forward:
“I, Francis Sturtevant, of Paris in the county of Oxford in the
State of Maine, a pensioner of the United States, on oath declare,
that to my certain knowledge, Asa Barrows, of Hamlin’s Gore in
said county, inlisted into the army of the United States, in the
revolutionary war, on the continental establishment at Plymton,
in the county of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, for the term
of eight months, in April 1775. The company in which he served
was commanded by Capt. Joshua Benson and the regiment was
commanded by Col. Cotton in the Massachusetts line-and was
stationed at Roxbury near Boston under the command of Gen.
Thomas-and I am satisfied that he faithfully served the term of
eight months.
Francis Sturtevant”
The signature, like Asa Barrows’, is larger, and a bit shaky looking in contrast to the
excellent penmanship of the statement. Below his signature is the following:
"State of Maine
County of Oxford s.s. August 21,1832. The above named
Francis Sturtevant, to me known as a man of truth, personally
appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by
him subscribed-Before me-
Thomas Clark, Justice of the Peace."
A seal is affixed to the bottom left hand corner of the image:
(Image 13)
The next image is of the same page, but a smaller scrap of paper lies across the blank area under Thomas Clark’s signature:
STATE OF MAINE
__________
Oxford County, ss.
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts
in and for said County of Oxford, here by certify, that
Thomas Clark Esq. whose genuine signature is annexed
to the foregoing Deposition of Francis Sturtevant
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of
Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office, this 28th day of August in the
year A.D. 1832.
R.K. Goodenow Clerk of Oxford
County Courts.
(image 12)
There follows another document. Most of it is preprinted but there is part of one sentence
crossed over:
“And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion,
after the investigation of the matter, ((start of crossed out
portion))and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department, ((end of crossed out
portion)), that the above applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states. said applicant having
adduced the deposition of Francis Sturtevant, under oath,
duly administered, in corraboration of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery, Judge”
At the bottom of the page is another preprinted form.:
“I, Joseph G. Cole, Register(written over the crossed out word
“clerk”)of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa
Barrows for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office this 28th day of August A.D. 1832.
Joseph G. Cole Register.”
(Image 7)
The following spring Asa made another appearance before Thomas Clark to claim his pension:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the
Peace and Notary Public, in and for the county of Oxford, Asa
Barrows, who being first duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by
reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot
swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection he served not less than
the period mentioned below and all as a private soldier: viz: For
ten months: and for such service I claim a pension.
Asa Barrows
State of Maine, Oxford, ss, April 27, 1833. Then the above
named Asa Barrows made oath to the truth of the above affidavit
and subscribed the same in my presence, and I hereby certify
that he is a man of truth and veracity. In testimony where of I
have here unto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial
seal the day and year afore said.
Thomas Clark, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
in and for the County of Oxford in the State of Maine.”
Justice Clark’s seal is to the right hand bottom corner of the page.
(Image 8)
Asa died on 13 Sep 1850 at Woodstock, Maine. His last pension payment was made in the third quarter of that year:
Source Information
- Title
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
- Author
- Ancestry.com
- Publisher
- Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Reco
Saturday, February 24, 2018
52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 8:ASA BARROWS OF PARIS, ME. PT2
As I said in an earlier post, one of the first Revolutionary War pension files I found for an ancestor was that of my 4x great grandfather Asa Barrows.:
Image 1 is of the first page of the file, with the following written and evenly spaced across the page on one line:
Service Mass. Barrows, Asa Number S. 16038
Image 2 is a preprinted form with handwritten information
added. I’ve bold faced the preprinted words:
Maine 18077
____________________________________
____________________________________
Asa Barrows
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Benson of the regiment commanded
by Col. Cotton in the Massachusetts
line for 10 months.
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.____________________________________
____________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July
1833 and sent to T. Clark
Paris, Me.
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept… 16.66
____
$83.32
_____
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7,1832}
Recorded by Jm Cuffield Clerk
Book 6 Vol 1 Page 4
Image 3 is of perhaps the next page in the same notebook. The right hand page is blank. On the left hand side the following is written:
9669-
Asa Barrows
12th April 1833
Obj(?) 5-14.16.
P.332
10 mos.
$33.35
Thomas Clark, Esq.
Paris
Maine.
Image 4 is the preprinted Brief of Asa’s claim:
Brief in the case of Asa Barrows of Hamlins Gore in the State
of Maine
(Act 7th June,1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?Open court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is
disabled by bodily infirmity? (left blank)
3. How old is he? 81 years.
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.
There are three entries:
April,1775- 8 months as a Private under Capt. Benson and Col
Cotton.
Dec. 1776 1 month and 12 days as a Private under Capt. Perkins.
July 1780 14 days as a Private under Col. Churchill.
5. In what battles was he engaged? None.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Plymton,Massachusetts.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by
documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or
authentication? and if so,in what respect? Correct.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers
agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
Image 5 is of a largely blank piece of paper, perhaps the outside of an envelope or folder. Handwritten at the top is “Asa Barrows” with the numbers “9669” written below it. At
the bottom of the page is the signature, “Thomas Clark, agent.”
Image 6 is the statement of Asa Barrows:
STATE OF MAINE.
______
County of Oxford, ss.
ON this 20th day of August, A.D. 1832,personally appeared
in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting,
Asa Barrows,a resident of Hamlin’s Gore in the County
of Oxford and State of Maine,aged 81 years,
who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth,
on his oath, make the following declaration , in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June
7, 1832. That he enlisted in the service of the United
States as a private((this part crossed out))under the
following named officers and served as herein stated
((end crossed out portion)) in April, 1775 at Plymton in the
county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, his then
residence, and served for the term of eight months, in the militia
company commanded by Capt Joshua Benson, in the regiment
commanded by Col. Cotton; and mustered in Middlebury,
the ajoining town, marched to Roxbury near Boston,where he
was stationed under Gen. William Heath; at the expiration of
said term was discharged by Gen. Thomas -which discharge he
lost a long time since.
On an alarm in December 1776, he marched as a volunteer in the
militia company from Plymton, under the command of Lieut
Joshua Perkins to Barrington, in Rhode Island; was there
stationed & served about six weeks, at the expiration of which he
was verbally discharged. And on the last of July, 1780,he
marched (inserted later here: “as a volunteer” end insertion)in
the militia company from Plymton aforesaid to Tiverton (under
the command of Capt. Pereg Churchill) in Rhode Island where he
was stationed and served about two weeks,and was there
verbally discharged. He has no documentary evidence to prove
his service as a volunteer as aforesaid, and he knows of no
person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his
service as volunteer aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or annuity except the present, and declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of
any State.”
Asa Barrow’s larger and less refined signature is written at the right hand corner of notation of “before Stephen Emery, Judge.” It might be the judge’s actual signature or perhaps his clerk
signed his name.
A few observations. I was curious how far Asa marched on these three occasions and went to the Rand McNally page which has a mileage calculator. Of course, the distances are driving distances and Asa and his fellow soldiers might have taken a more direct cross country route but it still gives
me a good idea on the marching involved.
Plympton to Boston is 48 miles.
Plympton to Barrington RI is 44 miles.
Plympton to Tiverton RI is 39 miles.
Interesting that Boston is the furthest away of the three.
The march to Barrington must have been in response to the British under Sir Henry Clinton landing
at and occupying Newport. I must confess that I wasn’t aware that the British remained in Rhode Island for most of the Revolution and when you consider that people in this area were still that
close to British forces,it must have been a tense period for them.
Pereg Churchill was, I believe, actually Peleg Churchill
Hamlin's Gore no longer exists. It was annexed in 1872 as I found out over at Chris Dunham's
Maine Genealogy Site.
And Asa Barrows was about to find that someone could swear to his service in the War after all.
Image 1 is of the first page of the file, with the following written and evenly spaced across the page on one line:
Service Mass. Barrows, Asa Number S. 16038
Image 2 is a preprinted form with handwritten information
added. I’ve bold faced the preprinted words:
Maine 18077
____________________________________
____________________________________
Asa Barrows
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Benson of the regiment commanded
by Col. Cotton in the Massachusetts
line for 10 months.
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.____________________________________
____________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July
1833 and sent to T. Clark
Paris, Me.
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept… 16.66
____
$83.32
_____
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7,1832}
Recorded by Jm Cuffield Clerk
Book 6 Vol 1 Page 4
Image 3 is of perhaps the next page in the same notebook. The right hand page is blank. On the left hand side the following is written:
9669-
Asa Barrows
12th April 1833
Obj(?) 5-14.16.
P.332
10 mos.
$33.35
Thomas Clark, Esq.
Paris
Maine.
Image 4 is the preprinted Brief of Asa’s claim:
Brief in the case of Asa Barrows of Hamlins Gore in the State
of Maine
(Act 7th June,1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?Open court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is
disabled by bodily infirmity? (left blank)
3. How old is he? 81 years.
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.
There are three entries:
April,1775- 8 months as a Private under Capt. Benson and Col
Cotton.
Dec. 1776 1 month and 12 days as a Private under Capt. Perkins.
July 1780 14 days as a Private under Col. Churchill.
5. In what battles was he engaged? None.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Plymton,Massachusetts.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by
documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or
authentication? and if so,in what respect? Correct.
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers
agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
the bottom of the page is the signature, “Thomas Clark, agent.”
Image 6 is the statement of Asa Barrows:
STATE OF MAINE.
______
County of Oxford, ss.
ON this 20th day of August, A.D. 1832,personally appeared
in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting,
Asa Barrows,a resident of Hamlin’s Gore in the County
of Oxford and State of Maine,aged 81 years,
who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth,
on his oath, make the following declaration , in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June
7, 1832. That he enlisted in the service of the United
States as a private((this part crossed out))under the
following named officers and served as herein stated
((end crossed out portion)) in April, 1775 at Plymton in the
county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, his then
residence, and served for the term of eight months, in the militia
company commanded by Capt Joshua Benson, in the regiment
commanded by Col. Cotton; and mustered in Middlebury,
the ajoining town, marched to Roxbury near Boston,where he
was stationed under Gen. William Heath; at the expiration of
said term was discharged by Gen. Thomas -which discharge he
lost a long time since.
On an alarm in December 1776, he marched as a volunteer in the
militia company from Plymton, under the command of Lieut
Joshua Perkins to Barrington, in Rhode Island; was there
stationed & served about six weeks, at the expiration of which he
was verbally discharged. And on the last of July, 1780,he
marched (inserted later here: “as a volunteer” end insertion)in
the militia company from Plymton aforesaid to Tiverton (under
the command of Capt. Pereg Churchill) in Rhode Island where he
was stationed and served about two weeks,and was there
verbally discharged. He has no documentary evidence to prove
his service as a volunteer as aforesaid, and he knows of no
person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his
service as volunteer aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or annuity except the present, and declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of
any State.”
Asa Barrow’s larger and less refined signature is written at the right hand corner of notation of “before Stephen Emery, Judge.” It might be the judge’s actual signature or perhaps his clerk
signed his name.
A few observations. I was curious how far Asa marched on these three occasions and went to the Rand McNally page which has a mileage calculator. Of course, the distances are driving distances and Asa and his fellow soldiers might have taken a more direct cross country route but it still gives
me a good idea on the marching involved.
Plympton to Boston is 48 miles.
Plympton to Barrington RI is 44 miles.
Plympton to Tiverton RI is 39 miles.
Interesting that Boston is the furthest away of the three.
The march to Barrington must have been in response to the British under Sir Henry Clinton landing
at and occupying Newport. I must confess that I wasn’t aware that the British remained in Rhode Island for most of the Revolution and when you consider that people in this area were still that
close to British forces,it must have been a tense period for them.
Pereg Churchill was, I believe, actually Peleg Churchill
Hamlin's Gore no longer exists. It was annexed in 1872 as I found out over at Chris Dunham's
Maine Genealogy Site.
And Asa Barrows was about to find that someone could swear to his service in the War after all.
Source Information
- Title
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
- Author
- Ancestry.com
- Publisher
- Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Reco
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52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 8:ASA BARROWS OF PARIS, ME.
My 4x great grandfather Asa Barrows was one of the first of my ancestors for whom I found a Revolutionary War veteran pension file. He lived most of his life in what was then a remote region of New England, and as a result the entries for him in the town histories are probably based on family memories and hearsay. William Berry Lapham and Silas P. Maxim have this for Asa in their History of Paris, Maine:
Three brothers by the name of Barrows, came from Middleborough, Mass. They were the sons of Moses and Deborah (Totman) Barrows of Plympton. Two of them, Asa and Malachi, settled in Paris, and Ansel in Sumner.
Asa Barrows was b. July 28, and m. Content Benson of Middleborough, Feb. 12, 1781. He settled on the lot, now the homestead of William A. King. He subscquenth' exchanged farms with Capt. Samuel King, and moved to High street, and afterward to "Hamlin's Grant." He was a prominent member of the Baptist church. Children:
Abijah, b. North Yarmouth, July 30, 1782. He was in the war of 1812,and died in the campaign in Northern New York.
Asa, b. in Paris, May 9, 1784, m. Anna Pike. He d. in Milan, N. H. *
Deborah, b. in Paris, May 21, 1786, d.---- . Hers was the first burial in the Bisco cemetery.
Polly, b. in Paris, Sept. '22, 1788, m. Morton Curtis, a 2d wife, and died 1879, at the age of 91 years.
Hannah, b. in Paris, Aug. 5, 1790, m. Moses Robbins, s. Milan, N. H.
Caleb Bensoni, b. in Paris, April 5, 1793, m. Abagail, dau. of Malachi Barrows, s. Hamlin's Grant; d. in Aroostook, aged about 90.
Rachael, b. in Paris, Aug. 3, 1795, m. John Ellingwood, s. Milan, N. H.
The mother died, 1735, the father died at Morton Curtis' 1850.-pp501-502
History of Paris, Maine: From Its Settlement to 1880, with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771, Together with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix Printed for the Authors, 1894.
I'll be reposting what I have transcribed of Asa's pension file next.
Three brothers by the name of Barrows, came from Middleborough, Mass. They were the sons of Moses and Deborah (Totman) Barrows of Plympton. Two of them, Asa and Malachi, settled in Paris, and Ansel in Sumner.
Asa Barrows was b. July 28, and m. Content Benson of Middleborough, Feb. 12, 1781. He settled on the lot, now the homestead of William A. King. He subscquenth' exchanged farms with Capt. Samuel King, and moved to High street, and afterward to "Hamlin's Grant." He was a prominent member of the Baptist church. Children:
Abijah, b. North Yarmouth, July 30, 1782. He was in the war of 1812,and died in the campaign in Northern New York.
Asa, b. in Paris, May 9, 1784, m. Anna Pike. He d. in Milan, N. H. *
Deborah, b. in Paris, May 21, 1786, d.---- . Hers was the first burial in the Bisco cemetery.
Polly, b. in Paris, Sept. '22, 1788, m. Morton Curtis, a 2d wife, and died 1879, at the age of 91 years.
Hannah, b. in Paris, Aug. 5, 1790, m. Moses Robbins, s. Milan, N. H.
Caleb Bensoni, b. in Paris, April 5, 1793, m. Abagail, dau. of Malachi Barrows, s. Hamlin's Grant; d. in Aroostook, aged about 90.
Rachael, b. in Paris, Aug. 3, 1795, m. John Ellingwood, s. Milan, N. H.
The mother died, 1735, the father died at Morton Curtis' 1850.-pp501-502
History of Paris, Maine: From Its Settlement to 1880, with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771, Together with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix Printed for the Authors, 1894.
I'll be reposting what I have transcribed of Asa's pension file next.
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52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 7: MOSES BARROWS JR. OF PLYMPTON, MA.
My 5x great grandfather Moses Barrows Jr is a mystery and a source of aggravation to me.
First, I haven't found a record of his birth yet. I've searched the online birth records for Plympton, Ma. and the surrounding towns:Carver, Kingston, Rochester, and Hanson. It's possible he was born in Plymouth but those records aren't online. The various genealogy and family history books online do not have a birthdate either.
Secondly, there is a theory that there was Moses Jr is the gransdson of Moses Sr, not the son; this seems to have started with genealogist Lucien Robinson who puts another Moses Barrows between the other two. But there is no record of the birth of that third Moses.
At any rate, my 5th grandfather Moses Barrows Jr. married Deborah Totman on 29 Dec 1748 at Plympton, Ma. I've found that record. However, no such luck with some of their childrens' births:
Asa Barrow b 28 Jul 1751 at Plymouth, Ma. (my 4x great grandfather)
Moses
Carver
Ansel
Malachi
Mary
I've got a lot of work to do with this family group!
First, I haven't found a record of his birth yet. I've searched the online birth records for Plympton, Ma. and the surrounding towns:Carver, Kingston, Rochester, and Hanson. It's possible he was born in Plymouth but those records aren't online. The various genealogy and family history books online do not have a birthdate either.
Secondly, there is a theory that there was Moses Jr is the gransdson of Moses Sr, not the son; this seems to have started with genealogist Lucien Robinson who puts another Moses Barrows between the other two. But there is no record of the birth of that third Moses.
At any rate, my 5th grandfather Moses Barrows Jr. married Deborah Totman on 29 Dec 1748 at Plympton, Ma. I've found that record. However, no such luck with some of their childrens' births:
Asa Barrow b 28 Jul 1751 at Plymouth, Ma. (my 4x great grandfather)
Moses
Carver
Ansel
Malachi
Mary
I've got a lot of work to do with this family group!
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52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 6: MOSES BARROWS SR. OF PLYMPTON, MA.
There isn't a lot of information available online about my 6x great grandfather Moses Barrows Sr. of Plympton, Ma., and some family trees at Ancestry.com contradict what I have for him.
Moses was born to George and Patience (Simmons) Barrows at Plymouth, Ma on 14 Feb 1697. He married Mary Carver 4Dec 1719, who was related to John Carver, the first Governor of Plimouth Plantation. Moses farmed in Plympton and also was involved in the fledgling iron ore industry at Sampson's Pond. The estate list in his probate file of July 1769 includes the following:
"The 16th part of a furnace by Samson's pond.
The right to the ore in Samson's pond."
The contradiction comes in his family. I have only two sons for him: Seth, born in Plympton in 1719, and Moses Jr, born in 1725. Seth was the administrator for his father's estate. Moses Jr , who is my 5x great grandfather, is not mentioned in the will, but by the time of his father's death he had moved up to New Hampshire,
But of the 42 family trees on Ancestry.com that Moses Barrows Sr. appears on, 18 of them list up to 9 children in the family, including Seth and Moses. None of these others are mentioned in the probate file. I suspect a mix up with another Moses Barrows. I hope to clear up the discrepancy as I add more
of the Barrows family to my data base.
Moses was born to George and Patience (Simmons) Barrows at Plymouth, Ma on 14 Feb 1697. He married Mary Carver 4Dec 1719, who was related to John Carver, the first Governor of Plimouth Plantation. Moses farmed in Plympton and also was involved in the fledgling iron ore industry at Sampson's Pond. The estate list in his probate file of July 1769 includes the following:
"The 16th part of a furnace by Samson's pond.
The right to the ore in Samson's pond."
The contradiction comes in his family. I have only two sons for him: Seth, born in Plympton in 1719, and Moses Jr, born in 1725. Seth was the administrator for his father's estate. Moses Jr , who is my 5x great grandfather, is not mentioned in the will, but by the time of his father's death he had moved up to New Hampshire,
But of the 42 family trees on Ancestry.com that Moses Barrows Sr. appears on, 18 of them list up to 9 children in the family, including Seth and Moses. None of these others are mentioned in the probate file. I suspect a mix up with another Moses Barrows. I hope to clear up the discrepancy as I add more
of the Barrows family to my data base.
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