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now known as cousins. "I give unto my cousine John Staniford one of my Gould rings and Three pounds in mony."
Children of John and Margaret Staniford : I. Thomas, born 1680, died 1740; married Hannah Rindge; mentioned below. 2. Deacon John, born October 21, -, died March 4, 1752. 3. William, born April 6, 1684; lived at Hampton, New Hampshire, left son Benja- min. 4. Ebenezer, born 1686, died young. 5. Samuel, born August 27, 1688; married August 13, 1715, Mary Chadwell. 6. Elizabeth, mar- ried September 26, 1713, William Martin. 7. Jeremiah, born September 6, 1693. 8. Mar- garet, born November 29, 1695; married No- vember 3, 1723, Robert Calef ; was mother of Dr. Joseph Calef, the Loyalist. 9. Tryphena, born March 21, 1698; married 1720, Philip Lord.
(II) Thomas Staniford, son of Deacon John Staniford (I), was born November 21, 1680. He was ensign of his military company in 1727. He married (intentions dated Decem- ber 27, 1707) Hannah Rindge, daughter of Captain Daniel and Hannah (Perkins) Rindge, granddaughter of Daniel and Mary (Kins- man) Rindge. Her father's town house was on Turkey Shore, and his farm was at Ipswich Hamlet (now Hamilton), Massachusetts, ad- joining what is now called Dane's Farm. He died August 23, 1740, in the sixtieth year of his age, and his gravestone is in the Ipswich burial ground. Children, born at Ipswich : I. John, born April, 1709; died June 29, 1727, aged, according to his gravestone, eighteen years and two months. 2. Thomas, born 1710; married November II, 1732, Sara Burn- ham. 3. Daniel, baptized March 17, 1717, graduated at Harvard College in 1738; mar- ried Mary Burnham; was master of grammar school, 1740-46; widow married (second) Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, then having seven beautiful daughters of her first marriage.4. Jeremiah.
(III) Jeremiah Staniford, son of Thomas Staniford (2), was born in Ipswich, Septem- ber, 1722, and married there November 17, 1750, Mary Potter. His father gave to his brother, Thomas Staniford, in his will the house and land formerly the property of Rich- ard Goss, and it is now in the Lewis Choate estate, but the house is gone. The brother, Thomas, born in 1710, was a captain in the French wars, receiving his commission in 1744. Jeremiah appears as a private in Captain Na- thaniel Wade's company, Colonel John Baker's (third Essex company) regiment in April, 1775. Child of Jeremiah and Mary (Pot-
ter) Staniford: Aaron, born March 10, 1754; mentioned below.
(IV) Aaron Staniford, son of Jeremiah Staniford (3), was born March 10, 1754; mar- ried at Ipswich, 1785, Lucy Lord, who was born November 4, 1765. Children : I. Aaron, born March 18, 1787; died July 22, 1821. 2. Lucy, born January 4, 1788. 3. Mary, born July 22, 1794. 4. Sarah, born October 15, 1797; wrought a sampler that has been pre- served, giving the dates herein recorded of her parents and their children. 5. Aaron, born July 22, 1801.
(V) Sarah Staniford, daughter of Aaron Staniford (4), born November 15, 1797 ; mar- ried July 31, 1826, General Thomas Todd. (See Todd sketch.)
TODD John Todd, the immigrant ancestor, was settled for a time at Charles- town, Massachusetts, but removed
to Rowley, Massachusetts, about 1648. He was in Charlestown as early as 1637. He brought with him to Rowley his wife Susan- nah, whose maiden name is thought to be Hunt, as she was called sister in the will of Mary, wife of John Grant, as was also Ann Wood, wife of Thomas Wood, both born about 1637. Todd had land on Bachelor's Plain, ad- joining Joseph Jewett's land. He shared in various divisions of the common lands. In 1651 he was a juryman, 1654 marshal, and was paid for service "when ye indians molested vs at Spring was * five shillings. He * was selectman in 1667, deputy to the general court in 1664 and 1686, and held many other positions on committees of the town, etc. John Todd kept the Ordinary (tavern), and was a leading citizen. He died February 14, 1689- 90; his will, dated February 13, 1689-90, proved March 25, 1690, mentions : wife un- named; sons John, Timothy, Samuel and James ; daughters Mehitable, Ruth and Mary, who had had their portion ; also brother Hunt (Essex probate 3: 227). His widow Susan- nah died November 18, 1710. Children: I. Mehitable, born January 10, 1649-50. 2. John, born February, 1655-6; buried same month. 3. Ruth, born April II, 1657; mar- ried in Ipswich, May 1, 1678, Samuel Hunt, of Ipswich. 4. Mary, born June 10, 1659. 5. John, born 1661 ; mentioned below. 6. Susan- nah, born September 5, 1664; buried Novem- ber 15 following. 7. Thomas, born December 3, 1665; not mentioned in father's will. 8. Timothy, born May 2, 1668; was in the Cana- dian expedition of 1690; died unmarried. 9.
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Samuel, born July 9, 1670; married Priscilla Bradstreet, widow. 10. James, born Febru- ary 8, 1671-2; married Mary Hopkinson.
(II) John Todd, son of John Todd (I), was born in 1661, at Rowley, Massachusetts. He married March 14, 1684-5, Elizabeth Brocklebank, who died April 5, 1725, in her sixty-fourth year, according to her gravestone, daughter of Captain Samuel Brocklebank Rowley. He married second, July 12, 1725, Jemima Bennett, widow of William Bennett, and daughter of Captain Philip Nelson, of Rowley. Todd died February 21, 1740-I. His widow Jemima married, December 21, 1742, Ebenezer Parsons, of Gloucester, and died in that town April 25, 1752, in her six- ty-sixth year, as per town record of Glouces- ter. Children born in Rowley, of John and Elizabeth Todd: I. Hannah, born January 12, 1685-6; married March 16, 1708-9, John Dole. 2. John, born April 16, 1688, died September 18, 1770, by a fall downstairs, aged eighty- three; married Ruth Lunt; married second, Abigail (Perley) Jewett, widow of Aaron Jew- ett, who died September 1, 1768. Children by wife Ruth : 1. John, born February 27, 1716- 17; married January II, 1741-2, Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Lee) Parsons, of Gloucester ; she was born in Gloucester, July 26, 1721. 2. Ruth, born February 8, 1719-20; married, October 28, 1736, Purchase Jewett. 3. Daniel, born January 12, 1721-2 ; died March 21, 1735-6. 4. Mary, born September 5, 1723; married, December 4, 1744, Stephen Palmer. 5. Elizabeth, born July II, 1725 ; died June 21, 1736. 6. Thomas, born December 6, 1728; married, March 22, 1753, Susannah Hibbert ; she died August 9, 1752. He married second in Bradford, October 22, 1754, Elizabeth Carl- ton, of Bradford. 7. Ebenezer, twin, born August 27, 1731 ; died September 9, 1731. 8. Infant, twin, born August 27, 1731 ; died Aug- ust 27, 1731. Children by wife Abigail: 9. Sarah, baptized January II, 1735-6; died April 30, 1736. 3. Elizabeth, born September 15, 1690; married May, 1711, Nathaniel Donnell, of Boston. 4. Samuel, born May 9, 1693; mentioned below. 5. Mary, born September 21, 1696; married April 4, 1715, Joshua Jew- ett. 6. Thomas, born April 29, 1699; died January II, 1700-1. 7. Thomas, born Aug- ust 18, 1701. 8. Dr. Joseph, born October 26, 1704 ; married Ann Toppan, of Newbury, No- vember 2, 1727; married (second) Elizabeth Nelson, daughter of Ephraim; died in Bristol, England, 1744. Children of John and wife Jemima Todd : 9. Joshua, born 1726, baptized
September 18, 1726. 10. Jane, baptized Feb- ruary 2, 1728-9 ; died April 7, 1734.
(III) Samuel Todd, son of John Todd (2), was born May 9, 1693, at Rowley ; married at. Newbury, March 28, 1717, Lydia Coffin, who. died February 7, 1719-20, in her twenty-sev- enth year, as per gravestone at Rowley, the: daughter of James Coffin, of Newbury. He married second, in Newbury, Massachusetts,. March 21, 1722-3, Elizabeth Toppan, of New- bury. His home was in Newbury, and he died. there. His will, dated March 3, 1740-I, proved May 25, 1741, mentions son Nathaniel Todd, "whom I had by my first wife, to have all that land in the town of Wells in the county of York, called Cogshall which land I lately purchased of my brother Richard Toppan ;. wife Elizabeth to be executrix, and have all the estate in Rowley and Newbury, etc .; chil- dren : Samuel, Moses, Thomas, Elizabeth and. Sarah. (Essex probate 25: 4 and 5.) He had a large estate for his day, valued in the inventory at 2,621 pounds. His widow mar- ried in Newbury, October 21, 1741, Samuel Bailey, of that town. Children by wife Lydia, all born in Newbury : I. Nathaniel, born April 15, 1718. 2. Brocklebank, born September 24, 1719. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth : 3. Samuel, born January 19, 1723 ; mentioned. below. 4. Moses, born March 14, 1726; mar- ried in Newbury, September 20, 1744, Eliza -- beth Sweasey, of Newbury; he died in Sea- brook, September 5, 1796. 5. Thomas, born October 31, 1727. 6. Elizabeth, born Febru- ary 16, 1727. 7. Sarah. (There is uncertain- ty about the birth dates of Thomas and Eliz- abeth.)
(IV) Samuel Todd, son of Samuel Todd (3), was born January 19, 1723, at Newbury ; married there November 27, 1747, Elizabeth Perkins, of Newbury. He removed to Phipps- burg, Maine (now Georgetown), before 1758. He married second about 1767, Anne
Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Todd, born at Georgetown, Maine : I. George, born June 8, 1758; mentioned below. 2. Enoch, born February 13, 1760. 3. Mary, born December 8, 1762. Children of Samuel and Anne Todd : 4. Hannah, born February 20, 1768. 5. John, born February 6, 1771. 6. Alexander, born December 23, 1774.
(V) George Todd, son of Samuel Todd (4), was born in Georgetown (Phippsburg), Maine, June 8, 1758. He followed the sea and became a captain. During the hostilities with the French at the close of the century, a vessel that he commanded and partly owned was cap-
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tured by the French and taken to Brest, France, as a prize and confiscated. Todd's Point, which extends from Great Pond, was named for him. His descendants are living at present, or were lately, in the house that he built at Georgetown. He married Abigail Springer, of Bath, Maine. Her father or grandfather came from Germany. A branch of the Springer family, the genealogy of which has been traced back some centuries in Ger- many, settled in Delaware. Children of George and Abigail (Springer) Todd: I. Nathaniel S., born in 1784. He was engaged in shipbuild- ing at Phippsburg and for many years kept a general store there. He was a captain of a military company in the service in the war of 1812. He was a leading citizen, successful in business, and prominent in public life. He was afterward lighthouse keeper on Sequin Island. His son, Warren S., had eleven chil- dren at Georgetown, born in the old home: i. Samuel, born March 28, 1831, died April 20, 1831; ii. Miranda J., born September, 1837, died October 19, 1837; iii. Winifred S., born March 14, 1839, died January 20, 1843; iv. Henry M., died November, 1896; v. Elwell P., resided at Georgetown; vi. Nathaniel T., lives at Everett, Massachusetts; vii. Ardelia, married Stephen P. Trafton; viii. Mary J., married Palmer Springer, of Brunswick, Maine; ix. Harriet A., married E. Deering; x. Warren Clement, born January 3, 1847; selectman, proprietor of the general store, postmaster and leading citizen of Georgetown ; married Maggie A. Oliver; has five children: xi. Augusta A., married H. M. Brooks, of Ev- erett, Massachusetts. 2. William, born August 5, 1790. 3. John, born January 8, 1792. 4. Sarah, born October II, 1795. 5. Thomas, born November 6, 1797, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, born March 1, 1799. 7. Alexan- der, born March II, 1801. 8. James Riggs, born February 2, 1804.
(VI) General Thomas Todd, son of George Todd (5), was born in Georgetown, Maine, November 6, 1797. He had a common school education, and learned the printer's trade in Portland, and afterwards became proprietor of the Eastern Argus, and was state printer for a number of years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting in Portland. He en- tered the militia at an early age, and rose through the various grades by successive pro- motions from a private to the rank of briga- dier-general. He was commissioned lieutenant April 24, 1819; captain April 6, 1821 ; and dis- charged April 27, 1824. He received a cap- tain's commission in the Portland Light In-
fantry, December 4, 1824, and was discharged May 3, 1825; was commissioned colonel of his regiment February 5, 1829, and May 20, 1829, became a brigadier-general, serving with con- spicuous ability and credit until he resigned and was honorably discharged, May 7, 1833. He was postmaster for Portland for four years under President Andrew Jackson, and a leader of the Democratic party in Cumberland county. He was treasurer of Cumberland county for several years. Thomas Todd married, in Portland, Maine, Susan Webster, April 18, 1821, who died May 9, 1826. They had one child, Francis Douglass Todd, born March 2, 1822, and died in Ohio, October 20, 1891, set- tled in California, and during the civil war be- came captain of a company in the Second Cali- fornia Cavalry Regiment. He married Mary Eveline Cox, in Boston, May 4, 1843. One child was born to them, Charles William Todd, born April 30, 1844. He died May 15, 1899. He had one son, Charles Edmund Todd, born February 28, 1873.
The widow of Francis Douglass Todd died in Lynn, Massachusetts, December 24, 1903, aged eighty-one years. Her funeral occurred December 26, 1903. The writer (Thomas Todd, VII) attended the funeral on that day. He then saw for the first time his grand- nephew, Charles Edmund Todd, and learned of the death of his nephew, Charles William Todd, who died four years before. Thomas Todd (VI) married (second) Sarah Green- leaf, born Staniford, daughter of Aaron and Lucy (Lord) Staniford, July 31, 1826. (See sketch of Staniford family.) Children: I.
Susan, died in infancy. 2. Margaret Wyer, died in infancy. 3. Neils Brock Gram, born May II, 1831, time of death unknown, named for the first homeopathic doctor in America; married Sarah Beeton, daughter of John and Sarah Beeton; children: i. Charles Henry, married Katharine Murphy; ii. Staniford, died aged twenty years; iii. George, died aged twenty; iv. Harris, has one son, Harris Hem- enway Todd. 4. Henry Hill Boody, born Jan- uary 31, 1834; married Lydia Clifford, de- scendant of Lord Clifford, of Boothbay, Maine. 5. Thomas, born September 7, 1835 ; mentioned below. 6. Sarah (Emma) Stani- ford, born August 27, 1837. She married first, Albert M. Cutler, January 6, 1854. Her sons .: Thomas' T. Cutler, born June 7, 1855; Frederick A. Cutler, born July 24, 1860. She married second, Henry H. Safford, July 21, 1867; her sons, Percy H. Safford and Roby H. Safford (twins), born June 9, 1869; War- ren T. Safford, born September 23, 1878.
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(VII) Thomas Todd, son of General Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, as a private ; was transferred to brigade headquarters as orderly of Captain Berry, under General Garretson. He went to Porto Rico with his regiment and, before he was mustered out, suffered an attack of appendicitis, for which he afterward under- went an operation successfully. He resides with his father in Concord, Massachusetts. Thomas Todd (6), was born September 7, 1835, at Portland, Maine. He married Re- becca Wheeler, of Concord, Massachusetts, daughter of Henry Adams and Dolly Kendall Wheeler, May 6, 1858. He went to work as a compositor on the Congregationalist, in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, in May, 1849, when in his fourteenth year. He was proprietor of a print- ing office in 1864, and has been prosperous in his business. He has filled various public and private positions, partly as follows : Life mem- BUMP Edward Bumpas was born in England, came to Plymouth in 1621 on the ship "Fortune," and settled at Marshfield. He was taxed in 1632, and his name is on the list of those able to bear arms in 1645. He took the oath of fidelity in 1657. Children: I. Sarah, born March 9, 1631. 2. Elizabeth, March 29, 1633. 3. John, June 2, 1636. 3. Edward, April 15, 1638. 4. Joseph, February 15, 1639-40. 5. Isaac, last of March, 1642. 6. Jacob, March 25, 1644. 7. Hannah, April 3, 1646. ber of the Bostonian Society, and of the Mas- sachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, of which he was a corporate member; also life member and director for many years of the American Congregational Association, of the Congregational Home Mis- sionary Society, of the Congregational Sun- day School and Publishing Society, of the Congregational Education Society (of which he was a director for several years) ; in Ma- From this progenitor the families of Bump, as well as Bumpus and Bumpas, in Massachu- setts, Connecticut and New York are appar- ently all descended. The name is spelled Bump in the earliest records. The origin of the surname is given as "bon pas"-a name like the English Goodspeed. In Massachu- setts the family settled in the vicinity of Ply- mouth, at Plympton, Middleborough, Dux- bury. In Connecticut there were two Revo- lutionary soldiers of the name, John Bump, of Canterbury, and Stephen Bump, of Sharon. sonry, he took his degrees in Bethesda Lodge, Brighton, Massachusetts, has held several of- fices in Corinthian Lodge and Walden Royal Arch Chapter of Concord, Massachusetts, and is a member of Lafayette Lodge of Perfec- tion, Boston, Massachusetts ; in printing, pres- ident of the Master Printers' Club, Boston, Massachusetts, and member of the executive committee of the United Typothetae of Ameri- ca ; in the church, nearly forty years a deacon, church treasurer for many years, for several terms a delegate to the National Congregation- Shortly before or during the Revolution al Council, of which he was a member of the , many families of the name located in north- publishing committee for several years ; and an honorary member of the International Congre- gational Council; in civic affairs, member of the Board of Health in Concord, Massachu- setts, for many years, treasurer of the Concord Antiquarian Society, and chairman of the board of managers of Concord's House for the Aged. Children: I. Agnes Staniford, born June 16, 1859, educated in the public and high schools, died October 20, 1881. 2. Ger- trude, born December 22, 1867, educated in the public and high schools. 3. Thomas, Jr., born May 25, 1878; mentioned below.
(VIII) Thomas Todd, Jr., son of Thomas Todd (7), was born in Concord, Massachu- setts, May 25, 1878. He attended the public and high schools of Concord, and was a stu- dent for two years in the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. He is now with his father at the Beacon Press, a book and job printing house, Boston. He enlisted in the Spanish war, May 6, 1898, in Company I,
ern New York. Moses and Ichabod Bump were in Captain Bigelow Lawrence's com- pany, Colonel Herrick's regiment in 1780. Moses and James were in Captain John Stark's company in 1781. In 1778 Moses alone was in Captain William Hutchin's com- pany. These were Vermont companies. Moses, James and Ichabod were also in vari- ous New York companies. In some cases the name is spelled Bumpus, but usually Bump in the Revolutionary records. Other men of this family in the service from New York in the Revolution were: Aaron, Corne- .lius, Jacob, Jedediah, Jezebud, Joseph, Itha- mar, Reuben, and Frederick.
(II) Salathiel Bump had service in the Revolution in Massachusetts in 1775, from the town of Plympton, and among the "Levies" in Colonel Lewis Dubois's regi- ment in New York state. The history of Salisbury, Vermont, states that Salathiel settled there about 1790, coming from Ob-
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long, New York. There is no town named Oblong, but a postoffice in the town of North- east in Dutchess county, and the name seems to have been used in Revolutionary times and earlier to designate a strip of land be- tween the Hudson river and the Connecticut line. It is presumed that Salathiel located there during the Revolution and removed with his family afterward to Vermont. The Bumps of Northern New York seem to have been his relatives. The Salisbury history says of him: "He was one of the most active members in town and did it great service by his energy of character and sound judgment." He was on an important committee to fix the boundary between Leicester and Salisbury. He was town treasurer in 1798, 1803-12-16; representative in the Vermont legislature in 1797-99-1802-05-06-07-08-11-18-20-21-22. He was on the tax list as early as 1788; was se- lectman 1794 to 1798, 1801 to 1808, 1811-19- 21-22. He was justice of the peace many years. He seems to have had sons: Harry, Cyrus, Lothrop, George.
(III) George Bump, son of Salathiel Bump (2), was born about 1790 in Salisbury. He was in the glass blowing business at Bran- don, Vermont, removing thence to Forest- dale, Vermont. After selling out his business he returned to his native place and died there. He married Rhoda Applebee, who was born in Vermont. She was descended from Thomas Abbleby, who was at Rye, New York, from 1662 to 1672 and died at Wood- bury, Connecticut, in 1690. His grandson, James Abbleby, married Hannah and had a son Thomas who settled at Smithfield, Rhode Island. To James and Dorcas Ap- pleby a son Zebedee was born December 19, 1756. Zebedee and Joanna Appleby had a son Israel, born at Smithfield, September 19, 1775, and a daughter Rhoda, born Decem- ber 21, 1777. The grandfather of Rhoda (Appleby) Bump was sheriff of his county. Children of George and Rhoda (Applebee) Bump: I. George Clinton, born 1830. 2. Charles Jackson, born 1834. 3. Lewis Nye, mentioned below.
(IV) Lewis Nye Bump, son of George Bump (3), was born at Forestdale, Vermont, July 4, 1845. He was educated in the public schools and began his career in the railroad business. He rose to the position of assist- ant paymaster and general ticket receiver of the Saratoga railroad, now the Delaware & Hudson railroad. He died at the premature age of twenty-six, cutting short a career of unusual promise. He married Elizabeth
Skinner, who was born at Columbus, January 2, 1848, educated at Monticello, West Win- field Academy and at Mrs. Willard's Semin- ary at Troy, New York. His widow married (second) Dr. O. C. Orendorff, of Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, who was edu- cated at Oxford, New York, graduating in 1856 from the Medical School of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and has practiced over fifty years. The only child of Lewis Nye and Elizabeth Bump was: Lewis Nye, Jr., mentioned below.
(V) Lewis Nye Bump, son of Lewis Nye Bump (4), was born at Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, June 29, 1868. He was educated in the public and high schools of West Winfield, where he graduated in 1889, and at the Albany Medical School where he received his degree of M. D. in 1893. He practiced six months in Omaha, another half year in New York state, and then located in December, 1894, in Somerville, Massachu- setts. He has been fortunate in his profes- sion. He is a member of Soley Lodge of Free Masons; the Massachusetts State Medi- cal Society; the Somerville Medical Society; the Gynecological Society of Boston. He is a Universalist in religion, and a Republican in politics. He resides at 124 Sycamore street, Somerville. He married November 24, 1898, Fannie R. Edgecomb, born March II, 1878, daughter of Charles H. and Sarah R. (Ripley) Edgecomb, of Portland, Maine. Sarah R. Ripley was the daughter of Daniel S. and Christina H. (Pottle) Ripley, whose children were: Henry, Fannie, Mary and Sarah R. Daniel S. Ripley was born at Litch- field, Vermont, September, 1829, the son of Asa P. and Mary (Clark) Ripley, whose chil- dren were: George, Daniel, Ann and Ada- line (triplets); Etta; Allen F. Ripley. The mother of Christina H. Pottle was Mary Langdon, daughter of John Langdon, husband of Lady Mary Howard. Christina H. Pottle was related to Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire. Children of Dr. Lewis Nye Bump: I. Mildred E., born in Somerville, February 12, 1899. 2. Meriam Thelma, born in Somerville, September 13, 1901.
James Farley, George Farley FARLEY and Michael Farley, immi- grants from England, were colonial settlers in America about the middle of the seventeenth century. The Farleys of England trace the family history back to A. D. 600. Old records of the twelfth and thir-
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teenth centuries record that the Farleys were scattered throughout England, and that the family long remained eminent. A complete history of Farleigh Castle is in existence, which carries the record back to A. D. 50, when it was a Roman camp. No other castle in England can show an equally unbroken narrative of owners, those who were in pos- session of Farleigh Castle numbering fifty- two, beginning with the days of King Aethel- rid I., who gave the site to his chief hunts- man, and naming it Faernleaga, and the orthography changed five times before it be- came Farleigh or Farley, and the records show that the ancestors of the American im- migrants were connected with the history of this castle several times.
James Farley landed at Jamestown, Vir- ginia, in 1624, bringing from England his wife and one servant. In return for his ser- vices to King James I. he was granted nine square miles of land on the James river. The name of at least one of his direct descendants has gone into American history: James Thompson Farley (1829-1886). He was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, removed to Missouri, and thence to California at the time of the "gold fever," reaching that El Dorado in 1850, and the estate of a licensed lawyer in 1854. He took part in the formation of a state government, and served in both houses of the state legislature, being speaker of the lower house, and president pro tempore of the senate. From the state legislature he went to the national capital as United States senator from California, 1879-85.
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