Wm. P. Barkalow
The ancestors of the Buckalows—now written Barkalow—were among the first emigrants from Holland to New York—then New Amsterdam. They were worthy descendants of the hardy, industrious, and honest Dutch nation. The indomitable perseverance and success of the Dutch is everywhere proverbial. After aiding in the settlement of New York and New Jersey, some of the descendants of the Barkalows emigrated to Kentucky, from thence to Ohio. William P. Barkalow, the worthy ancestor of the Shelby County Barkalows, was born in New Jersey in the year 1768. Just when he removed from New Jersey we have been unable to ascertain, but we next find him in Maysville, Ky. In 1790 he married Mary Tapscott. It was in Maysville that their first child, John Barkalow, was born. In 1804 they removed to Warren County, Ohio, where he died in the year 1852, his wife having died in 1843, at the age of seventy years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883