Samuel Barlow, Revolutionary War hero

Sergeant Samuel Barlow, Revolutionary War hero

DAR Ancestor #: A006206
Service: CONNECTICUT
Rank(s): SERGEANT
Birth: 2-18-1748 IN STRATFORD FAIRFIELD CO CONNECTICUT
Death: 3-31-1835 IN VIRGIL CORTLAND CO NEW YORK
Pension Number *S6585
Service Source: *S6585
Service Description: 1) ALSO, ARTIFICER, 2ND AND 3RD SERGEANT UNDER CAPTS LEAVENWORTH, DANIEL PENDLETON; 2) COLS CHARLES WEBB, JEDUTHAN BALDWIN; CONTINENTAL LINE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11670602/samuel-barlow

MEMORIAL; ACTUAL BURIAL IN RHINEBECK, New York.

Born in colonial Connecticut, 23-year-old Samuel Barlow was a Continental soldier and casualty of the Revolutionary War. The son and namesake of Samuel Barlow, Sr., and his second wife, the former Esther Hull, his siblings included the celebrated American poet and statesman Joel Barlow.

Young Samuel served with the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Line, formed in November 1775, and died of wounds received in the Northern Campaign early in the war. Predeceased by his father in December 1773, he is memorialized in this burial ground on the elder Barlow's gravestone:

"Mr. Samuel Barlow resigned his breath in the service of his ________* country. He died and was buried at Rynbeck on return from the victory at St. Johns and Montreal, January 26, A.D. 1776." Father and son also share an epitaph which reads: "Thus age and youth without distinction fall, Death is the common lot prepared for all."

• Part of this inscription was apparently removed at some point, as a carefully excised rectangle separates the words "his" and "country". Given the bitter divisions even among neighbors during the era, the alteration may have been politically motivated. (Click on the parental link below, "Samuel Barlow, 1709-1773", to see PHOTO of gravestone and epitaph.) (bio by: Nikita Barlow)