ORIGIN: Halifax, Yorkshire.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Either George Barstow or his wife had joined the second church at Scituate by 24 February 1649/50, when they had a child baptized (NEHGR 57:83]. He attempted to join the church at Cambridge, but this was apparently blocked by Rev. Charles Chauncy.
BIRTH: About 1614 (aged 21 in 1635 [Hotten 131]).
DEATH: Cambridge 18 March 1652/3. On 9 June 1653 "William Barstow, of Scituate," acknowledged that whereas "a suit hath been commenced against me, the said Will|i|am Barstow, by Mr. Charles Chauncy, pastor of the church of Christ at Scittuate, for slandering him, the said Mr. Chauncy, in saying that he was the cause of the death of my brother, G(e)orge Barstow, late deceased; and also in saying that he, the said Mr. Chauncy, sent his bulls abroad to the church at Cambridge, whereby my said brother was hindered from communion with the said church, which was the cause of my brother's death, through excessive grief; in all which expressions and sayings I do humbly and freely acknowledge that I have done the said Mr. Chauncy manifest wrong" [PCR 3:35-36).
