Harlow (Y-DNA)

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Status summary

Completed as of October 31, 2020:

  • Recruiting patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of William Harlow for further SNP testing. Those individuals should Read me First

IMPORTANT: Read me First

Biography

For additional information see: Harlow Family Association, edited by Alicia Crane Williams, Harlow Family[:] Descendants of Sgt. William Harlow [1624/5-1691], Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1997

First Generation

[1] (Sgt.) William Harlow was born prob. England about 1624[1] and died Plymouth 25 Aug 1691 in 67th yr. It is unknown when he emigrated, but his first known record is in Plymouth in 1646. He married three times, first Plymouth 20 Dec 1649 Rebecca Bartlett[2]; second Plymouth 15 Jul 1658 Mary Faunce[2] and third Plymouth 25 Jan 1665 Mary Shelley[3]. He had four children by his first wife (born Plymouth): William (1650-1650), Samuel (1652/3), Rebecca (1655) and William (1657). By his second wife, William had four more children: Mary (1659), Repentance (1660), John (c1662) and Nathaniel (1664).

Second Generation

Samuel Harlow was born Plymouth 27 Jan 1652/3[4] and died there bet. 17 Feb 1724/5 and 17 Nov 1727. He married twice, first abt 1677 Priscilla ____ and second prob. Plymouth abt 1682 Hannah ____. By his first wife he had one daughter (born Plymouth): Rebecca (1678). By his second wife he had eight more children (born Plymouth): Samuel (bp 1683-1689), John (1685), Priscilla (bp 1686-1689), Hannah (1688), Samuel (1690), William (1692), Eleazer (1694) and Priscilla (1695).

William Harlow (II) was born Plymouth 2 Jun 1657 and died there 28 Jan 1711/2. He married prob. Plymouth about Jan 1682/3 Lydia Cushman (daughter of Thomas Cushman and granddaughter of Isaac Allerton) and they had nine children (born Plymouth): Elizabeth (1683/4), Thomas (1686), infant daughter (1687/8-1687/8), William (bp 1689), Mary (bp 1691), Lydia (bp 1693), Robert, Isaac (-1724 unm.) and Rebecca (bp 1703).

Third Generation

John Harlow was born Plymouth 19 Dec 1685 and died there 30 Jan 1771. He married twice, first Plymouth 26 Feb 1706 Martha Delano and second Plymouth 26 Oct 1749 Lydia Holmes (no children). By his first wife John had seven children (Plymouth): John (1706/7 m Mary Ryder), Elizabeth (1709-1710), Rebecca (1711), Martha (1715), Mary (1717-1717), Amaziah (1721 m Lois Doty) and Thankful (1723/4-1723/4).

Samuel Harlow was born Plymouth 14 Aug 1690 and died there bef 17 Feb 1725. He married Scituate bef 3 Jan 1716 Mary Barstow and they had one child: Mary (1717).

William Harlow was born Plymouth 26 Jul 1692 and died there 11 Apr 1751. He married Plymouth abt 24 Feb 1714 Mercy Rider and they had ten children (Plymouth): Sarah (1715), Benjamin (1716), William (1718), Hannah (1719/20), Mercy (1721/2), Keziah (1723-1725/6), Samuel (1726), Phebe (1728), Rebecca (1732) and Seth (1736).

Eleazer Harlow was born Plymouth 18 Apr 1694 and died there bef 17 Feb 1725. He married twice, first Duxbury 5 Oct 1715 Hannah Delano and second Plymouth aft 21 May 1720 Hannah Pratt. By his first wife Eleazer had three children: Eliphaz (1715/6 m Hopestill Babbitt, Hannah Crane & Phebe Williams), Lemuel (1717 m Joanna Paddock) and Eleazer (1719 m Elizabeth Gardner, Abigail Thomas & Abigail Clarke). By his second wife Eleazer had two additional children: Elizabeth (1721) and Patience (1722).


(Deacon) Thomas Harlow was born Plymouth 17 Mar 1686 and died there 12 Nov 1746. He married Plymouth 1 Dec 1709 Joanna Churchill and they had seven children (Plymouth): Thomas (1712 m Patience Tilson, Ann Fuller & Penelope White), Elizabeth (1715-1718), Jonathan (1718 m Sarah Holmes), Lydia (1721), Eleazer (1723-1746 unm.), Jedidah (1726) and Nathaniel (1729 no further record).

William Harlow (III) was born Plymouth abt 1689 and died Bridgewater 18 Feb 1750. He married Plymouth 18 Jun 1713 Joanna Jackson and they had eleven children: Joanna (1713/4), William (1715 m Hannah Bartlett), Mary (1717), Lydia (1719), Hannah (1721), Lydia (1723/4), Isaac (1726 m Mary BYRAM Thompson), Sarah (1728), Abigail (1730), Experience (c1733) and John (c1737 m Joanna Thomas).

(Deacon) Robert Harlow was born Plymouth aft 1695 and died there 15 Nov 1753. He married twice, first Plympton 10 Nov 1717 Susanna Cole and second Plymouth 15 Sep 1749 Remembrance BATES Witherhead. By his first wife Robert had fourteen children: Ebenezer (1719 m Meriah Morey), infant son (1721), infant son (1722), Benjamin (1723 m Abigail Hobbs), Isaac (1725 m Jerusha Finney), Robert (1727/8 m Jane West), Reuben (1730), infant son (1731), James (1732 m Jerusha Holmes & Hannah Delano), Susanna (1736), Mary (1739), Elizabeth (1743) and Submit (1745). By his second wife Robert had two additional children: Susanna (1750) and Lydia (1752).


  1. ↑ FamilySearch.org has born (bp?) 5 Oct 1624 England, son of William and Lucy Harlow. This information had no source associated with it, and is questionable.
  2. ↑ Four children by this marriage, but no Mayflower line.
  3. ↑ Six children by this marriage, but no Mayflower line.
  4. ↑ 1652 only in record. Much more likely 1652/3 rather than 1651/2, based on births of other children.

DNA results R1b-FTA4444

Previous Y-DNA testing

The Harlow surname project Lists eleven male Harlow's in Group: Lineage I - Plymouth (Haplogroup R). FTDNA predicts this group to fall under R1b-M269.

NGS/WGS testing

Four individuals have Big Y-700 tested to R-P312>ZZ11>U152>L2>DF103>FGC4166>BY1020>FTA4444 with two of these four falling under a subclade FTA15062.

Further needed testing

We need additional direct male-line descendants of William Harlow to WGS/NGS test to refine it further and delineate descendant clades.

Lineage of DNA testers

One individual who has taken a Big Y-700 test has revealed his lineage. 

 (Sgt.) William Harlow (1624-1691)
   William Harlow (1657-1711)
     William Harlow (1688-1784)
       Isaac Harlow (1726-1804)
         Isaac Harlow (1757-1829)
           (Dea.) Ransom Harlow (1780-1855)
             Byron Lothrop Harlow (1810-1888)
               Francis Ransom Harlow (1840-1913)
                 Henry W. Harlow (1864-1952)
                   Buell Lothrop Harlow (1896-1973)
                     father of tester
                       tester

References & External Links

  • Harlow Family Association, edited by Alicia Crane Williams, Harlow Family[:] Descendants of Sgt. William Harlow [1624/5-1691], Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1997
  • Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations vol. 17 Allerton, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 1998, reprinted 2015
  • Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 18 Warren part II (daughters Mary, Annna & Elizabeth), General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 2011
  • Sgt. William Harlow Family Association webpage
  • Bartlett Genealogy Database
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