Who Was Jane, Wife of Thomas Barlow of VA-KY?
This is a summary of all my documented information about Thomas and Jane Barlow of Bedford-Campbell Co VA and Bourbon-Nicholas Co KY.Jane's maiden name is unknown.
WHAT WE KNOW: We know that the wife of Thomas Barlow who died in Nicholas County, KY in 1808 was named Jane in 1798, 1800, and 1821 deeds.We know that this Thomas Barlow had a daughter named Jane, who was born about 1770 in Virginia. We know that Thomas Barlow also had a daughter named Elizabeth, born about 1771 Virginia.We know that Thomas Barlow's oldest children, sons Jesse (1770), Thompkins (1762), and William Henry Harris (1766) anddaughter Edith (1764), were born about 1762-1771 in Virginia.
We know that Elizabeth Carlton, born abt 1754, married a Thomas Barlow in Albemarle Co VA in about 1766 according to IGI files (I do not have the month/day for this, nor have I seen it -- Elizabeth Carlton would've been about 12 years old and Thomas about 26). Other than having daughters named Jane and Elizabeth born in the first decade of his marriage, Thomas Barlow of Campbell County and Nicholas County refers to his wife as Jane, never Elizabeth.The mother of Elizabeth Carlton was Elizabeth Wallace, wife of John Carlton; some have speculated that the daughter's name was Elizabeth Jane, and she went by Jane to avoid confusion with her mother.However, according to the late Coppage family historian and antiquarian, A. Maxim Coppage, Thomas and Jane Barlow's generation was "too early for middle names", though some of Thomas and Jane's children do have recorded middle names.
We know that the Campbell Co VA - Nicholas Co KY Thomas Barlow purchased an estate of 575 acres on the Staunton River in September 1778 from Charles and Drusilla Talbot in Bedford-Campbell County, VA (Deed Book F, page 127).The will of his presumed father, William Thomas Barlow of Albemarle County, VA, was recorded on 26 June 1778.Albemarle Co VA Will Book 2 page 364. Inventory July 1778.Henry Barlow and John Carlton had purchased 400 acres together in Albemarle County in 1761.
We know that Thomas Barlow of Bedford-Campbell County VA proved in May 1782 that he furnished the commisary of the troops with 250 pounds of beef for its march to Kings Mountain.
We know that Thomas Barlow of Bedford-Campbell County VA proved in March 1783 that he provided beef and bacon to Nathaniel Greene's army on its way to Yorktown.
We know that Thomas Barlow of Bedford-Campbell County VA proved in August 1783 that he furnished beef to the Bedford County militia.
We know that Thomas Barlow resided in Campbell County, VA from 1778 until he and his wife, Jane, sold their estate in 1798 and moved to Bourbon-Nicholas County, KY: there are the three dated vouchers for provisions he supplied during the American Revolution, as well as his signature for the Campbell County marriages of daugthers Edith to Obadiah Tynes in 1784, Jane to William Gosnell in 1788, Elizabeth to Benjamin Gosnell in 1789, and Mary to William Epperson in 1792.These four daughters are listed by their married names in the 1808 Nicholas County KY will of Thomas Barlow, wife Jane.
We know that William Henry Harris Barlow, son of Thomas Barlow of Campbell County, was in Kentucky by 1787, where he married Sarah Kimbrough in 1788.Interestingly, his descendant Samuel Kimbrough Barlow became an Oregon pioneer, and in a nineteenth century biography it states that Samuel's father, William Henry Barlow, explored Kentucky with Daniel Boone (William would've been a very young boy when Boone explored Kentucky in the 1760's) and that his grandfather, William Barlow, rose to the rank of Captain in the American Revolution.However, Samuel's grandfather was Thomas Barlow, who provided patriot service from Bedford-Campbell County, VA, while his great-grandfather was William Thomas Barlow, whose will was recorded in 1778 -- we know of no record of service in the American Revolution.In VA Colonial Soldiers, William Thomas Barlow is listed as having fought in the French and Indian War (1756). Nevertheless, Sam Barlow was an authentic Western character and Oregon pioneer.
We have found only one Jane of the appropriate age to have been the wife of Campbell County, VA Revolutionary War Patriot Thomas Barlow, who died in 1808 in Nicholas County, KY: Jane Holbrooke Mapp, widow of Robin Mapp of Northampton Co, VA.Jane Holbrooke Mapp, widow, married Thomas Barlow on 6 February 1765 in Northampton County, VA; she was the daughter of Rev. John Holbrooke. However, we now know that the Northampton Co VA Thomas and Jane Barlow had only three surviving children, all girls, and that both Thomas and Jane Barlow of Northampton Co were dead, wills recorded by 1798.The Northampton County Hungar's Parish Thomas and Jane Holbrooke Mapp Barlow's daughters were: Elizabeth Barlow, who married first John Custis November 1789 and second Amos Underhill 13 August 1793; Susanna Barlow, who married Thomas Underhill, 13 August 1793; and Sarah Barlow, who married Michael Mathews 13 July 1790. The record of these marriages is on Hungar's Parish record reel 361, except for Elizabeth's second marriage, which was found in a box of 1794 "loose papers" by a researcher with whom I corresponded in 1987. Before this contradictory proof was discovered, my DAR membership papers were submitted and approved (NSDAR # 696353) listing Jane Holbrooke Mapp as the wife of the Campbell County VA patriot, my ancestor Thomas Barlow, who died 1808 in Nicholas County, KY, leaving a widow, Jane.A future applicant will have to correct this error.
We know that Thomas and Jane Barlow of Campbell County, VA (formerly Bedford County) were alive in 1798, when they sold the 575 acres on the Staunton River to John Sandifer.Conversely, we know that a younger Thomas Barlow (1760-1825), son of Henry and Judith Livingston Barlow, was in Wilkes Co NC by 1794, where he married Susan Childs Isbell; these Barlows subsequently ended up in Scott County, KY and have been the source of many researchers' confusion.We also know that Rev. John Barlow, wife Elizabeth, was in Wilkes Co NC by about 1784, where he was a pioneering Baptish minister and the father of Nicholas County Ky Thomas Barlow's future son-in-law, Eliphalet Barlow.
From recent y-DNA testing of modern Barlows, we know that it is probable that Thomas of Campbell-Nicholas County, Henry and Thomas of Scott County, Rev. John and Eliphalet of Wilkes County, are closely related and descend from the same colonial Barlow progenitor.The hypothesis is that Henry, Thomas, and John were brothers, and sons of the Wm. Thomas Barlow whose inventory and will were recorded in June 1778 in Albemarle Co VA.
We know that the Campbell County VA estate was sold and the sale recorded there in 1798: "Campbell County (to wit) The Commonwealth of Virginia to John Irvine and David G. Talbot Gentlemen of the County aforesaid Greeting whereas Thomas Barlow and Jane his wife by their certain Indenture of bargain and sale bearing date the tenth day of April 1798 sold and conveyed unto John Sandifer the Fee Simple Estate in five hundred and seventy five acres of Land with the appurtenances lying and being in the Parish of Russell in the aforesaid County of Campbell and whereas the said Jane cannot conveniently travel to our County Court of Campbell to make statement..." presumably, because Jane was already in Bourbon-Nicholas County, Kentucky.
We know that Eliphalet Barlow filed a Power of Attorney in Wilkes Co NC , Will Book 2, page 32, "8 November 1800 from Elephelet Barlow of Wilkes Co NC to John Barlow Senr of same, said Eliphelet of lawful age and having occasion to travel into the state of Kentucky, to my father the Power of Attorney..."We know that Eliphalet Barlow married Mildred Barlow in Bourbon County KY on 5 February 1801; we know that Eliphalet's father was Rev. John Barlow, Sr, and that Milly's father was Thomas Barlow, per the 1808 will naming her "my daughter, Milly Barlow".
We know that the Nicholas County Kentucky Court, A.D. 1801, recorded "This Deed of bargain and Sale from Thomas Barlow and Jane his wife to John Barlow [son of Thomas and Jane Barlow] was acknowledged in open Court by the said Thomas and Jane his wife, she having been first privately examined as the Law directs, voluntarily relinqueshes her right of Dower herein and ordered to be recorded."Eliphalet Barlow first appears on Kentucky tax records in 1802.
We know that Jane Barlow survived her husband for several years in Nicholas County, KY, and died about 1821; we know this because she was left a life estate of his property, which was then willed to Eliphalet upon her death.Thomas Barlow's will, recorded in November 1808, left his "beloved wife" a "lifetime use of said house and land, then to go to Eliphalet Barlow per our Article of agreement." On 26 September 1821, a Nicholas County KY Ejectment Deed referenced "John Fowler holding the title of Thomas Barlow for 1530 acres in the county of Nicholas hath recovered in Ejectment in the Nicholas Circuit Court about 52 acres of land from Jane Barlow [who] hath an estate for life therein, the inheritance being in Eliphalet Barlow who has sold his interest therein to William Barlow."