About the year 1662, two brothers, William Janse Van Borcelo and William
Janse VanBorcelo, together with their wives and children emigrated from the
little hamlet of Borculo located in the Duchy of Zutphen, a province of
Gelderland in the United Netherlands.The families relocated near the Dutch settlement
of New Amsterdam which is today New YorkCity.
The purpose of this web page is to gather information about the BARKLOW family
in America. Pictured here is Mr & Mrs Samuel S Barklow. In the early 1870's
Samuel, his brothers and their families traveled from Illinois to Oregon to
establish the family's western heritage.
James Barklow ( 1862-1933
) and his family taken about the