Samuel Harlow

Of Plymouth, where he was born in 1652/3 to William Harlow and Rebecca Bartlett. The Harlow Old Fort House passed to him from his father in the 1692 division and to his son William in 1728. By his first wife, Priscilla, he had a daughter, Rebekah; by his second, Hannah, six more children, William among them.

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Life

  1. 1652
    Born
    27 Jan 1652/3, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

    PCR 8:15. The record names his father.

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  2. by 1728
    Died
    by 1728

    The Plymouth VR enters his and his wife Hannah's deaths with the dates left blank (original p. 210). His house passed to his son William in 1728.

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Family

Father
William Harlow c. 1624–1691
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Mother
Rebecca Bartlett d. c. 1657

Born within William Harlow's marriage to Rebecca Bartlett (20 Dec 1649), more than five years before he married Mary Faunce in 1658.

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Pedigree

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Notes

Of Plymouth. The Harlow Old Fort House passed to him from his father in the 1692 division. By his first wife Priscilla he had Rebekah (1678); by his second wife Hannah, John (1685), Hannah (1689), Samuel (1690), William (26 July 1692), Eliazer (1694) and Priscilla (1695).

The town chose him a constable on 19 May 1690 (Plymouth Town Records 1:201). Later he served as grand juror, tithingman, surveyor of highways, fence viewer and measurer of boards and timber, and was one of the men who counted the blackbirds’ and crows’ heads each household owed the town. In 1696/7 the town granted him “the swampy land by the highway Joyning to his spring” (1:248). On 21 Feb 1708/9 it granted his son John eighty feet square at the end of “his fathers land to build an house,” provided that “his father Samuel Harlow leave out of fence for a publick Road yt knowl of land from his Spring to his shop” (2:22-23; record).

Mollie Pfeiffer’s statement that he and Hannah “both died on the same day, March 22, 1734/5” is not supported: the Plymouth record leaves both death dates blank, and the date probably belongs to the next line in the book (Mary Morton). He was dead by 1728.

Mollie's typescript· 1 passage · 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about him in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about him checked against the records.

  1. Mollie says he lived at Plymouth, held minor offices, and died on the same day as his second wife Hannah, 22 Mar 1734 (the Plymouth record leaves both dates blank; he was dead by 1728).

    SAMUEL HARLOW (2) was a resident of Plymouth, where he held various minor offices. He and his second wife Hannah --------- both died on the same day March 22 , 1734
    p. 45 →

Checked against the records

  • Unlikely
    Samuel Harlow and his wife Hannah died the same day, 1734

    The Plymouth record enters both their deaths with the dates left blank; the date probably belongs to the next line in the book (Mary Morton). Samuel was probably dead by 1728, when his house passed to his son William, and Mollie's own chart (p. 40) has him dying in 1727.

    Read it in the book, p. 45 →
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Connections

In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Samuel's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.

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