The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Harlow · ◉ direct ancestor

♂William Harlow

Died 1691, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America.

William Harlow was a settler of Plymouth in Plymouth ColonyW who married three times there, each marriage entered in the colony’s records. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his daughter Rebecca Harlow (1655–1727).

First marriage and children

William Harlow married Rebecca Bartlett at Plymouth on 20 December 1649, as the Plymouth Colony records register it. Their first child, William, was born on 5 October 1650 and died on 26 October 1650; a son Samuel followed on 27 January 1652/3, a daughter Rebecka in 1655 and a second William on 2 June 1657. The birth entries name only the father, but Rebecca was William’s only recorded wife until 1658, so she was most likely the mother of all four.

The printed register gives the daughter’s birth as 12 June 1655; a compiled Mayflower genealogy citing the same page gives 12 January. Two compiled Mayflower genealogies identify her, only as a possibility, with the Rebecca Harlow who married Isaac Cushman (1648–1732) at Plymouth about 1675, the woman through whom the line descends; a journal article discusses the question, but its conclusions are not known.

Later marriages and life

On 15 July 1658 William Harlow married Mary Faunce at Plymouth. She died on 4 October 1664, and on 25 January 1665 he married Mary Shelley. The Great Migration Begins, a compiled study of early New England settlers, makes Mary Faunce a daughter of John Faunce of Plymouth, and a compiled family history makes Mary Shelley a daughter of Robert Shelley of Scituate.

A 1681 deed, as abstracted in the same study, describes land at Mannomett Ponds in Plymouth as part of a tract the town had granted to George Watson, William Harlow Sr. and Nathaniel Morton Sr. A Harlow family genealogy published in 1997 names him “Sgt. William Harlow [1624/5-1691]”, and the compiled family history records that Mary, “widow of William Harlow”, married Ephraim Morton in 1692 under a marriage covenant dated 11 October that year. No colony record of his birth or death is known.

Family time line

◉ William Harlow –1691
◉ Rebecca Bartlett abt 1631–bef 1658
Married 20 Dec 1649, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
○ William Harlow 1650–1650 ✧
○ Samuel Harlow 1653–
◉ Rebecca Harlow 1655–1727
○ William Harlow 1657–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Death
in his 67th year
 25 Aug 1691 Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Estate settled
estate settled by the County Court: lands to four sons, goods to seven daughters (Plymouth Co. Probate 1:104)
 18 Sep 1691 Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America on record

Sources

  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 18 pt 1: Richard Warren (GSMD Silver Book), Gen. III no. 10 REBECCA BARTLETT — Death
  • Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Probate Records vol. 1 (1686-1702), p. 104 - settlement of the estate of William Harlow of Plymouth, 18 Sept 1691 — Estate settled
  • Records of Plymouth Colony, Miscellaneous Records 1633-1689 (Shurtleff) - Plymouth Register of Births, 1647: Ann Sturtivant, daughter of Samuell Sturtivant, 4 June — about this person, Marriage (Rebecca Bartlett)

Borders as they stood about 1650 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. William Harlow 1650–1650 ✧
  2. Samuel Harlow 1653–
    1. Rebecca Harlow 1678–1724
      1. Jonathan Taber 1703–1770
        1. Jonathan Taber 1742–1815
  3. Rebecca Harlow 1655–1727
    1. Isaac Cushman 1676–1727
      1. Sarah Cushman 1709–1771
        1. Isaac Gibbs 1752–1796
      2. Nathaniel Cushman 1712–1793
        1. Nathaniel Cushman 1738–1817
        2. Consider Cushman 1740–1819
        3. Simeon Cushman 1742–1835
      3. Fear Cushman 1718–1760
        1. Peleg Sturtevant 1735–1803
      4. Priscilla Cushman 1719–1763
        1. Priscilla Holmes 1744–1820
    2. Rebecca Cushman 1678–
    3. Mary Cushman 1682–1723
      1. Isaac Waterman 1703–
      2. Josiah Waterman 1705–
      3. Thomas Waterman 1707–
        1. Jonathan Waterman 1730–1764
      4. Rebecca Waterman 1710–
      5. Robert Waterman 1713–
      6. Mary Waterman 1716–1750
        1. Abigail Holmes 1734–
        2. Jonathan Holmes 1736–1806
        3. Charles Holmes 1741–1741 ✧
        4. Robert Holmes 1743–1817
        5. Mary Holmes 1745–
        6. Jedediah Holmes 1749–1829
      7. Samuel Waterman 1718–
      8. Anna Waterman 1721–
    4. Sarah Cushman 1684–bef 1727
    5. Ichabod Cushman 1686–
      1. Sarah Cushman 1717–1791
        1. Jabez Vaughan 1740–1817
      2. Experience Cushman 1719–1790
    6. Fear Cushman 1689–
      1. Hannah Sturtevant 1711–1796
        1. Sylvanus Ripley 1749–1787
    7. Mercy Cushman 1692–
  4. William Harlow 1657–