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John Sargent Barstow

1823–81

American farmer. Son of Gideon Barstow III and Nancy Forrester of Salem, Massachusetts. Committed suicide by pistol, 25 December 1881.

Sources

Boston Globe, 26 December 1881, p. 4

Massachusetts, town and vital records, 1620–1988 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 July 2015)

United States Federal Census 1870 (Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island [1]/572B) (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 July 2015)

www.geni.com/people/John-Barstow/ (accessed 14 July 2015)

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