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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 250
oath in open court. In the record of the proceedings of the
same court the following passage occurs :
"vSeveral of the inhabitants complained, that George Barlow
is a disturbance to the place, the commissioners thought meet to
forbid the said George Barlow any more publickly to preach or
prophesy, under the penalty of ten pounds for every offence."
Soon after the last date he removed to Newbury. Of his
character while an inhabitant of that town, Mr. Thomas Clark
affirmed in open court, at Plymouth, on the 13th of June 1660,
"that he is such an one that he is a shame and reproach to all his
masters ; and that he, the said Barlow, stands convicted and
recorded of a lye att Newbury."
In 1657 he was of Sandwich, and June 1, 1658, he was
appointed by the Plymouth Colony Court, marshal of Sandwich,
Barnstable and Yarmouth, with "full power to act as constable in
all things in the town of Sandwich." Oct. 2, he- was commissioned
to apprehend Quakers coming to Manomett, or places
adjacent, in boats. June 7, 1659, he was allowed to be a towsman
of Sandwich, and June 5, 1661, his authority, as marshal,
was extended to all places in the Colony.
March 5, 1660-1. The court ordered George Bai-low "to
pay a fine of twenty shillings to Benjamin Allen, for causing him
to sit in the stocks at Sandwich the greater part of a night,
without cause, and for other wrongs done by him unto the said
Allen." Barlow was also ordered to return unto Ralph Allen a
shirt and some other small linen, which he took from him, in the
pursuit of Wenlock."
March 4, 1661-2. "George Barlow and his wife were both
severely reproved for their most ungodly living in contention, one
with the other, and admimished to live otherwise." (See Colony
Records, Vol. 4, pages 7 and 10.) In May, 1665, he was put
under bonds for his good behavior, and in the following March he
was fined 10 shillings for being drunk a second time.
The foregoing extracts are from the records of the friends of
Barlow, and it is safe to infer that they did not admit that which
was not true. This evidence establishes the following points
That he was an idle fellow, a disturber of the public peace ; that
he was a shame and reproach to all his masters ; that he was not
truthful ; that he was tyrannical, that he was quarrelsome, and
that he was a drunkard. In addition to the testimony of Gov.
Thomas Prence may be added, it is reported that he made this
remark respecting Barlow, ' 'That an honest man would not have,
or hardly would take his place." (Bishop, page 388.)
The following testimony is extracted from the writings of the
Quakers. I quote from Bishop's New England Judged, (London
Edition) because he is more accurate in his statement of facts
than many of the early writers among the friends. In the fea-