Person:John Barrows (4)

"There are records showing that on 6 Mar 1666 John was fined 10 shillings in Plymouth because of his refusal to give evidence in connection with the Grand Inquest. The Treasury Accounts for 8 Jun 1666 shows under the category “Debts due by fines and otherwise to the country--John Barrow, 00:10:00”. (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth County Records, Pg. 116) The list of Plymouth townsmen dated 15 Feb 1668 included John and a 16 Jun 1668 list of those entitled to vote included John Barow and Robert Barrows. John was granted land there and on 15 June 1674 a grant of land to him was excepted with certain rules. On 9 April 1684, at South Meadows, 10 upland acres were laid out to John, next to his meadow land on the northwest side of the river. On 24 November 1684 he was granted 30 acres of land."

"On 6 April 1692, his will was proved before William Bradford, Deputy Governor, and Epheaim Morton, Assistant. The will had been signed, sealed and declared to be his last will and testament in the presence of John Gray and was signed with the mark of Robert Barrows and the Mark of John Barrows. The inventory of the estate, made by John Gray and John Sturtevant, included 14 lbs of cotton yarn, 2 cows, 3 swine, books and 17 shillings in silver money. The 30 acres of land at Monponset (Plympton) was valued at 5 lbs and the house and land at home and all the meadow at Carver belonging to it valued 25 lbs. In his will, he left his son Robert, all of his land, providing that John's wife Deborah be allowed use of the land as long as she remained his widow. Robert was also to give his brother Benajah, 20 shillings when he became of age. John's daughters were each bequeathed 10 shillings each. The rest was to go to his widow."

1. ↑ John Barrows, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:127.

   "John (Barrows), Plymouth, had w. Deborah, s. Robert, Benajah, Joshua, and Ebenezer, beside two ds. when he d. 12 Jan. 1692.
   
   [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:502] [Vol. 1] Page 127, l. 18. at the end, add. Perhaps he had s. John to be a soldier of Gallop's comp 1690."

2. ↑ Hollick, Martin E. John Barrows of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   166(2012):119-31.

   Hollick points out that the only reasonable way to resolve the difference in age between John's son Robert and the ages of John's younger children, is that John was married twice. He also addresses (pp. 121-22) the identity of John's second wife, Deborah, suggesting that she was Deborah Pratt, a daughter of Joshua and Bathsheba (___) Pratt. Genealogical summary starts on page 122.