Jabez Barlow, one of the forty-eight who came with Putnam, and one of the associates that began the settlement at Waterford, in 1789, was a brother of Joel Barlow, the poet and diplomatist, who owned several shares in the Ohio Company.  "The Barlows were what is known in Connecticut as 'good stock;' that is, they were respectable land-holders, paid their tithes promptly, and gave no one occasion to speak ill of them."  Jabez Barlow was unmarried, and lived alone in a cabin on his clearing, a mile below Fort Frye, where he declined to take refuge after the Big Bottom massacre, because, he said, "as he had never harmed the Indians, they would not injure him."  A narrow escape, on the 11th of March, 1791, when an assault was made upon the Fort, led him to change his mind and resort to it for safety during the war, after which he returned to New England. *