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JABEZ
BARLOW, one of the forty-eight who
came with Putnam, and one of the associates that began the settlement
at Waterford, in 1789, was a brother of Joel Barlow, the poet and
diplomatist, who owned several shares in the Ohio Company. "The
Barlows were what is known in Connecticut as 'good stock;' that
is, they were respectable land-holders, paid their tithes promptly,
and gave no one occasion to speak ill of them." Jabez Barlow
was unmarried, and lived alone in a cabin on his clearing, a mile
below Fort Frye, where he declined to take refuge after the Big Bottom
massacre, because, he said, "as he had never harmed the Indians, they
would not injure him." A narrow escape, on the 11th of March,
1791, when an assault was made upon the Fort, led him to change his
mind and resort to it for safety during the war, after which he
returned to New England.
 Source:
The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers -
Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888 |
