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(III) William Hunt, son of Nehemiah Hunt (2), born in 1678 in Concord : married Mary Carley (or Kerley); all his children were born at Concord: I. Simon, died Au- gust 9, 1777. 2. William, born March 20, 1715: died July 14. 1718. 3. Mercy, born May 22, 1718. 4. William, born April II, 1720 ; died May 15, 1775. 5. Nehemiah, men- tioned below.
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(IV) Nehemiah Hunt, son of William Hunt (3), born 1726, died November 14 or 15, 1785. There is no sure record of Revo- lutionary service, but a Nehemiah Hunt gave money for the cause in 1777. At fifty, with a dozen children, he did well to give money. He married, April II, 1762, Submit Bate- man; children, born at Concord: I. Mary, born August 22, 1762; died March 26, 1778. 2. Nehemiah, born April 27, 1764; died Feb- ruary 18, 1746. 3. David, born June 15, 1766; mentioned below. 4. Lydia, born Au- gust 24, 1768; married Hoar. 5. John, born November 17, 1770; died Janu- ary 10, 1849. 6. Hepzibah, born February 4, 1773; married Estabrook. 7. Submit, born May 18, 1775; married Fessen- den. 8. Sarah, baptized April 14, 1777; mar- ried - - Converse. 9. Mary, baptized May
16, 1779; married Perley. 10. Anna, married Wright. II. Miriam, bap- tized December 25, 1784: married Brown.
(V) David Hunt, son of Nehemiah and Submit (Bateman) Hunt, was born in Con- cord, June 15, 1766. He came to Ashburn- ham about 1790. He married February 21, 1793, Lydia Howe of Templeton (formerly of Sudbury, and reported to have belonged to the Way Side Inn Howes). The inten- tions of marriage are recorded of Ashburn- ham, and he is styled, of "Ashburnham." At the ensuing election of town officers, accord- ing to a custom of the times, he received the notice commonly paid to newly married men by being elected "hogreeve." Not many years later he moved to Mason, New Hampshire, where he died in 1848. Chil- dren : I. Abel, born December 24, 1794, died at Milton, New Hampshire, 1839. 2. Sarah, born May 2, 1797; married Josiah Winship, Sep- tember 25, 1827; died at Winnebago, Minne- sota, 1889. 3. Mary, born February 24, 1799, died, 1844, at Marion, Illinois. 4. David F., born March 4, 1801; died, in Keene, New Hampshire, 1866. 5. Lydia, born February 19, 1804. 6. Sabrina, born June 6, 1806 ; mar- ried John Fessenden, of Westminster, 1834. 7. Sophia H., born June 19, 1809; died 1868. 8. Nehemiah A., mentioned below.
(VI) Nehemiah Asa Hunt, son of Daniel Hunt (5), was born in Mason, New Hamp- shire, September 27, 1811. He worked on his father's farm, attended New Ipswich Academy, and taught school. When twenty- one he went west to attend Oberlin (Ohio) College, and was among the earliest stu- dents there. Later he entered Mission In-
stitute, now Jacksonville College, at Jack- sonville, Illinois, graduating in 1840, then en- tered Lane Theological Seminary, graduat- ing 1843. He also took a medical course, expecting to go as missionary to the Sand- wich Islands, but sickness prevented. He became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Marion, Illinois, 1844; in 1850 moved to Bethel (now Reno) Illinois, where he became pastor of the Presbyterian church, In 1863 he moved to Sterling, Minnesota, and opened up a large farm upon which the boys "worked their way" through college. He served the Congregational church of Sterling most of the time for twenty years. He was a strong Abolitionist, and was with John Brown in the Kansas raid. Hs large family alone kept him from entering the service when the civil war broke out. Indeed, his activity as an Abolitionist made it unsafe for him to live in Illinois during the war, and led him to move his family to Minnesota. He died in '1900. His wife, Clarissa Abernathy Conrad, born in North Carolina, 1818, moved to Missouri as a child, in 1836 went to Mis- sion Institute, graduated in 1843 and married in 1844. Both are buried in Riverside, Cal- ifornia, where they moved in. 1891. Chil- dren: I. David Winslow, born in Mason, New Hampshire, June, 1845; attended public school at Bethel, Illinois, and Sterling, Minn- esota; graduated from medical department Michigan University, 1871; practiced medi- cine in Minnesota fifteen years; for past twenty years has practiced in California; present address, Riverside. Responded to last call of President Lincoln, and served in civil war February to July, 1865. Married, 1871, Rissea Stanton, of Winnebago, Minne- sota, who lived only a few months. Mar- ried (second), 1875, Alice Skinner, of Du- rand, Wisconsin. Children: i. Lois Rissea, born December 25, 1875; ii. Mabel Therina, born September 6, 1877; iii. Leigh Theodore, born 1882; in 1899 married Mrs. Susie Cor- nelia Kaler, of Chicago, Illinois; one child, Dorothy, 1900. 2. Theodore Conrad, born October 14, 1848; graduated from Dart- mouth College, 1876; from Chicago Theolog- ical Seminary, 1880. Pastorates, all in Con- gregational churches: Prescott, Arizona, 1880-85; Riverside, California, 1885-96; Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1896-98; post course in Chicago and preached in Greeley, Colorado, 1898-1901; Hastings, Nebraska, I901-04; Riceville, Iowa, at present (1908). Married Virginia Agnes Merrill, of Prescott, Arizona, July 20, 1882. Children: i. Theodore Carl,
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born June 12, 1883, graduated from Colorado College, 1904; ii. Hale Merrill, born Novem- ber 10, 1884; iii. Harold Conrad, born De- cember 27, 1886; iv. Gerald Winslow, born June 19, 1891; v. Clarissa Agnes, born. Au- gust 14, 1900, died 1906. Hale M. and Ger- ald W. are preparing for college. 3. Sarah Sophia, born 1851, at Marion, Illinois, died August 7, 1868. 4. Therina Lucretia, born October, 1853, at Bethel, Illinois; graduated from Carleton College, 1878; married the Rev. Stephen A. Norton, 1881; died in Cali- fornia, 1897. Children: i. Paul W., born July, 1883, graduated at Amherst College, 1905, at Boston Polytechnic Institute, 1908; ii. Ruth, born 1890, died 1891. 5. Eugene Freeman, born April 30, 1854, at Bethel, Illinois; graduated at Carleton College, 1881; at Union Theological Seminary, 1884; pastor of Congregational churches at Hamilton and Hutchinson, Minnesota, 1884-91; of Union Church, South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, 1891-95; Congregational church at Conway, Massachusetts, 1895-1904; Maynard, Massa- chusetts, at present, pastor of Union Congre- gational Church. In 1900 took extended Oriental trip, visiting en route Madeira, Gib- raltar, Malta, Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Sy- ria, Constantinople, Athens, principal cities of Italy, Switzerland, France and the British Isles. Married Mary A. Cobb, of New York City, daughter of the Rev. L. H. Cobb, D. D., September 8, 1884. Adopted Myrtle Helen Felch, December 25, 1887; she was born in Fargo, Dakota, September 12, 1884; she graduated at Kimball Union Academy, June, 1884; took course in Household Science at Simmons College, Boston; is teaching in that department in Straight Uni- versity, New Orleans, Louisiana. 6. Ferdi- nand Nehemiah, born September 20, 1857, at Bethel, Illinois; studied at Carleton College; graduated from the medical department of Washington University, St. Louis, 1885: practicing in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Mar- ried Ida Cadwell, 1882, in Fairmount, Minn- esota. Children: i. Roscoe Cadwell, born July 15, 1883, graduated at Carleton College, 1905; has had three years medical study at Harvard Medical, graduating in 1909: ii. Rol- lo Ferdinand, born December 30, 1884, grad- uated from Carleton College, 1905; graduates from Harvard Law School, 1908; iii. Child died at birth. 7. Frances Marietta, born May 4. 1858, graduated from Carleton College, 1885; teacher of English in Classical High School. Worcester, Massachusetts; took ex- tended European trip 1905. 8. William Sher-
man, born March 16, 1860, graduated from Carleton College, 1886, as valedictorian; from Chicago Theological Seminary, 1890; took post courses at Yale Andover semina- ries ; for two years president of Salt Lake College; pastorates, all of Congregational churches : Columbus, Nebraska; Park City, Utah ; Telluride, Colorado ; Harvard, Nebras- ka; present pastorate, Pocatello, Idaho. Married Mary Elizabeth Hall, of Salt Lake City, March 7, 1901. Children: i. Theodore Hall, born December 26, 1901; ii. William Sherman, Jr., born August 5, 1903; iii. Flor- ence Elizabeth, born May 21, 1905; iv. Winslow Harrison, born March 16, 1907. 9. Jessie Almeda, born 1862, at Bethel, Illinois; graduated at Carleton College, 1887; mar- ried Professor William P. Milliken, of Lake City, Minnesota, January, 1890. Children: i. William Hunt, born October 12, 1891; ii. Ro- land Conrad, born March 19, 1895; iii. Fran- ces Clarissa, born January 3, 1896; iv. Mary Cobb, born December 5, 1897; v. Joseph Asa, born November 14, 1902; vi. Jessie Mar- ion, born November 16, 1904. William H. was born in Minnesota, and the remainder of the children were born in California, where the family still resides.
COBB Henry Cobb was born in 1596, in the southeast part of the county of Kent, England. He was brought up in the Church of England, and when a young man joined the Pilgrims. He is said to have united with a Congregational church in London, of which the Rev. Mr. Lathrop was then pastor. He probably came to Amer- ica in the ship "Anne," in 1629. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, 1633, and removed to Barnstable in 1639. He was deacon or ruling elder in the two towns for thirty-four years. He also held several civil offices, among them that of deputy to the general court for several years. He died in Barn- stable in 1679, aged eighty-three years. 'He married first, April, 1631, Patience, daughter of James and Catherine Hurst, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. She died May 4, 1648. He was married second, December 12, 1649, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hinck- ley, and sister of Governor Thomas Hinck- ley. Of their sixteen children, three were born in Plymouth, two in Scituate, and eleven in Barnstable. Children of first wife: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Edward, born 1633 ; married November 28, 1660, Mary Hos- kins : died 1675. 3. James, born January 13,
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1634; married December 26, 1663, Sarah Lewis; died 1695. 4. Mary, born March 24, 1637; married October 15, 1657, Jonathan Dunham, of Barnstable. 5. Hannah, born October 5, 1639; married May 9, 1681, Ed- ward Lewis; died January 17, 1730. 6. Pa- tience, born March 19, 1641 ; married first, Au- gust, 1667, Robert Parker; married second, 1686, Deacon William Crocker. 7. Gershom, born January 10, 1645; married Hannah Davis; died June 4, 1675. 8. Eleazer, born March 30, 1648. Children of second wife : 9. Mehitable, born September 1, 1652; died March 8, 1653. 10. Samuel, born October 12, 1654; married December 20, 1680, Eliza- beth Taylor; died December 27, 1727. II. Sarah, born January 15, 1658; died January 25, 1658. 12. Jonathan, born April 10, 1660; married March I, 1683, Widow Hope (Chip- man) Huckins ; died August 15, 1728. 13. Sarah, born March IO, 1663; married De- cember 27, 1686, Deacon Samuel Chipman, of Barnstable ; died January 8, 1743. 14. Henry, born September 5, 1665; married, April IO, 1690, Lois Hallet. 15. Mehitable, born Feb- ruary 15, 1667; died young. 16. Experience, born September II, 1671; died young.
(II) John Cobb, son of Henry Cobb (I), was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, June 7, 1632. He married first, April 28, 1658, Martha, daughter of William Nelson, of Plymouth ; second, June 13, 1676, Jane Wood- ward of Taunton. Children of first wife: I. John, born August 24, 1662; married Rachel Soule, of Middleborough, 1688; died October 8, 1727. 2. Samuel, born 1663. 3. Eliza- beth, born 1664. 4. Israel, born 1666. 5. Patience, born August 10, 1668; married John Burnett, of Middleborough. 6. Ebenezer, mentioned below. Children of second wife : 7. Elisha, born April 3, 1679: married Feb- ruary 4, 1703, Lydia Rider. 8. James, born July 20, 1682; married July 20, 1705, Pa- tience Holmes.
(III) Ebenezer Cobb, son of John Cobb (2), born August 9, 1671, died at Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts, July 29, 1752. He married first, March 22, 1694, Mercy Holmes, of Middleborough, born. 1673, died March 2, 1726; second, Mary Thomas, of Middleborough. Children, all by first wife: I. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 2. Mercy, born January 6, 1696; died March 23, 1697. 3. Nathaniel, born February 20, 1698; mar- ried July 20, 1720, Mary Waterman. 4. Han- nah, born February 27, 1699; married No- vember 23, 1721, Jacob Tinkham. 5. Sarah, born April 15, 1702; married April 4, 1723,
John Bartlett. 6. Mercy, born January I, 1705 ; married first, April 10, 1727, Samuel Dotem ; married second, June, 1743, Cornelius Holmes. 7. Nathan, born January 14, 1707; married March 9, 1733, Joanna Burnett, of Middleborough. 8. John, born May 30, 1709; married August 27, 1731, Sarah Bartlett ; died August 22, 1751. 9. Mary, born October 30, 17II. Married William Hoskins. 10. Eliza- beth, born March 30, 1714; married April 13, 1736, Thomas Holmes, Jr. II. Job, born February 28, 1717; married April 23, 1743, Patience Holmes; died June 8, 1767. 12. Ro- land, born October 30, 1719.
(IV) Ebenezer Cobb, son of Ebenezer Cobb (3), was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, April 2, 1694. He married first, October 18, 1722, Ruth Tinkham, born 1700, died October 7, 1726; second, December 14, 1727, Lydia Stevens, born 1698, died September 18, 1745; third, December 14, 1747, Joanna Williamson, born 1704, died January 15, 1791. He died December 8, 1801, aged one hundred and seven years eight months six days, having lived in three centuries. Children of first wife : I. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 2. Ruth, born September 23, 1726; died young. Children of second wife: 3. Ruth, born November 6, 1728; died July 25, 1744. 4. Lydia, born May 26, 1730; married November 28, 1759, Daniel Pratt of Plympton. 5. John, born October 30, 1731 ; married first, Hannah Cushman, died November 30, 1765; second, September 16, 1766, Persis Lucas; died August 23, 1824. 6. Mercy, born August 19, 1733. 7. Sarah, born July 2, 1734; married Barnabas Lucas. 8. William, born March I, 1737. 9. Malatiah, born November II, 1738; died June I, 1739. 10. Seth, born August 14, 1740; married Oc- tober 31, 1765, Margaret Cook; died July 10, 1821. II. Hannah, born May' 14, 1742; died October 4, 1745.
(V) Ebenezer Cobb, son of Ebenezer Cobb (4), born March 4, 1724, died November IO, 1782. He married first, October 30, 1746, Jerusha, daughter of Robert Cushman; sec- ond, 1771, Martha, widow of Isaac Cole and daughter of John Harlow. Children : I. Ruth, born August 30, 1747; married Job Cobb, of Plymouth; died July 22, 1817. 2. Sylvanus, born' October 30, 1748; married Chandler. 3. Eleanor, born September 5, 1750; married, 1770, John Howard, of Plymouth. 4. Mary, born November 25, 175I ; married Gershom Drew. 5. Francis, born in Plympton, November 2, 1753; died February 5, 1845. 6. Melatiah, born 1755, married Rebecca Brewster. 7. Elisha, born
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October 15, 1756; died young. 8. Jerusha, born October 31, 1757; married Barnabas Cobb, of Carver, Massachusetts. 9. Joseph, born August 2, 1759; married Jerusha Loring. IO. Ebenezer, mentioned below. II. Mercy, born August 24, 1762; married Paul Tink- ham. 12. William, born October 20, 1764; married Charlotte Coffin, of Nantucket. 13. Fear, born August 19, 1766; married Ariel Brewster, of Kingston. 14. Zenas, born Feb- ruary 5, 1772; married first, April 24, 1794, Dorcas Rowe; second, Widow Sarah Wood, of Cumberland, Maine; third, Widow Talbot, of Freeport, Maine.
(VI) Ebenezer Cobb, son of Ebenezer Cobb (5), was born in Plympton, Massachu- setts, September 2, 1760. He removed to Cornish, New Hampshire, with his brother Francis. He married, November 17, 1790, Widow Mercy (Harlow) Porter, born Sep- tember 7, 1765, and died September 28, 1839. He died where he first settled, October 15, 184 -. Children: I. Ebenezer, born in Cor- nish, New Hampshire, August 12, 1791 ; died in Morristown, Vermont, December 31, 1855. 2. Mercy, born October 18, 1792; married John Claflin. 3. Josiah, born April 9, 1794; died April 25, 1794. 4. Levi, mentioned be- low. 5. Clarissa, born September 18, 1796; : died April 13, 1836. 6. Abigail, born Septem- ber 3, 1798; died March 28, 1825. 7. Eleanor, born May 13, 1800; died October 16, 1822. 8. Sarah Trask, born December 12, 1801 ; died March 31, 1874. 9. Sylvia, born February 20, 1804; married Henry Blanchard, of Plainfield, New Hampshire.
(VII) Levi Cobb, son of Ebenezer Cobb (6), born in Cornish, New Hampshire, March 13, 1795, died April 14, 1840. He married, January 2, 1823, Calista S. Bugbee, of Wood- stock, Vermont, born March 12, 1801, died January 3, 1861. Children, all born in Corn- ish, New Hampshire; I. Livonia Calista, born December 10, 1823; married April 20, 1847, Sylvester Marsh Bugbee, of Hartland, Vermont; died March 17, 1849. 2. Levi Henry, mentioned below. 3. Charles Vinal, born May 18, 1829; died January 9, 1884. 4. Abigail Bugbee, born June 9, 1831; married October 17, 1854, Thomas Bradford of Fran- cestown, New Hampshire; died November 3, 1855.
(VIII) Rev. Levi Henry Cobb, son of Levi Cobb (7), was born at Cornish, New Hamp- shire, June 30, 1827. His early years were spent on his father's farm, with the usual schooling. He was nearly twenty years old when he entered Kimball Union Academy at
Meriden, New Hampshire, where his father had been a student also. Graduating in 1850, he entered Dartmouth College, varying the four years of studying with winter teaching, as was the custom with, the majority of the students. He graduated with the class of 1854. Before the age of twelve he had joined the church at Cornish, March 3, 1839, and his ambition was to become a minister. With this in view he entered Andover Theological Seminary, and studied from 1854 to 1857. He was called, as soon as he had finished his studies, to the church at North Andover, Massachusetts, and was ordained there the following autumn, October 28, 1857. After seven years. impaired health obliged him to give up his pastorate, and in 1864-5 he was .superintendent of schools for white refugees and colored people in Memphis, Tennessee. He soon returned to New England as teacher in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and was very successful in this work. He was afterwards a trustee of the academy, and gave the dedication address in 1892, when the new building which replaced one that had been burned, was dedicated. After two years at Meriden he was called to become pastor at Springfield, Vermont, where he stayed from May 2, 1867, to May 2, 1874, and was beloved by all. On account of the health of some members of the family he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was appointed home missionary superintendent in 1874. His work here was so successful that in 1881 he was asked to become general home missionary secretary for the Rocky Mountain district, with head- quarters at Denver, and he accepted the new post. In February, 1882, he was elected secretary of the American Congregational Union, which was at that time the name of the Congregational Church Building Society. He served in this office for twenty-one years, and did the greatest work of his life in this society. Through his untiring efforts the contributions of the churches towards this work were doubled the first year, and have steadily increased. He multiplied the num- ber of giving churches by three, and nearly three and a half million dollars was raised for this work during his active service. He also inaugurated the parsonage building fund, and since then more than nine hundred and fifty parsonages have been built. He was delegate to the two international councils- in London. 1891, and Boston, 1899. He was trustee of Carleton College in Minnesota and of Rollins College in Florida. He was for
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thirty-three years a corporate member of the American Board, and a member of the An- thropological Society of the Manhattan As- sociation, and of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy. He edited twenty-one volumes of the Church Building Quarterly.
He married, January 12, 1858, Harriet J. Herrick, of Essex, Vermont, at Malone, New York, whom he had known at the Academy at Meriden. She was born at Milton, Ver- mont, January 10, 1827. Children: I. Mary Abbie, born March 7, 1859, in North Andov- er, Massachusetts; studied at Carleton and Oberlin Colleges; married September 8, 1884. Eugene F. Hunt, of Sterling, Minne- sota. (See Hunt family). 2. Harriet Eliza- beth, born in North Andover, Massachusetts, March 16, 1860; died in Oberlin, Ohio, Octo- ber 2, 1881. 3. George Henry, born in North Andover, Massachusetts, January 20, 1863; graduated at Amherst, 1885; at Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1889; married Laura Sprague, of New York; spent a year in medical study in Vienna; practiced a few years in New York; practic- ing now in South Orange, New Jersey; two children-Samuel Sprague and Edward Wil- liams. 4. Nellie Maria, born in Springfield, Vermont, January 18, 1868; died in Spring- field, June 23, 1872.
FARROW The surname Farrar or Far- row is said to be derived from the Latin word for iron, and was doubtless originally the name of a locality. As a family name it was first known in England from Gualkeline (or Walkeline) de Ferrariis, a Norman of distinction at- tached to William, Duke of Normandy, be- fore the invasion of England in 1066. From him all of this name in America and Eng- land are descended. Henry de Ferrars, his son, is on the Roll of Battle Abbey, a list of the principal commanders and companions in arms of William the Conqueror, and was the first of the family who settled in England af- ter the Conquest. When the general survey of the realm, recorded in Domesday Book, was made in the fourteenth year of the Con- queror's reign, Henry was one of the com- missioners appointed for that great work. "That he was a person of much eminency, both for knowledge and integrity, there is no doubt; otherwise it is not likely he would have been intrusted in so high and weighty an employment. He bore for his arms: Ar- gent, six horse shoes pierced sable."
(I) John Farrow, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, probably at Hingham, where he lived and whence he came to Hing- ham, Massachusetts, in 1635 with his wife Frances and one child. He had a grant of five acres of land in the new town on Town (now South) street, near the present location of Dr. H. E. Spalding's house. At the time the new meeting house was erected he and his two sons lived on East street, below Cushing's bridge. He was a carpenter by trade, coming with the first settlers. He died July 7, 1687, leaving a will dated March 28, 1687, proved August 17, following. His wife died January 28, 1688-9. In his will he mentions all the children except Hannah; also grandchildren John Garret, Frances and Nathaniel Ward. Children: I. Mary, born in England; married first, October 25, 1649; second, October 10, 1689, Joshua Beal. 2. John, baptized June 6, 1639; mentioned be- low. 3. Remember, baptized in Hingham, August 1642; married, February 3, 1659-60, Henry Ward. 4. Hannah, born 1648, bap- tized April 9; married June 9, 1674, Nathan- iel Foulsham. 5. Nathan, born 1654, bap- tized September 13, married Mary Gardner and Joanna Whiton.
(II) John Farrow, son of John Farrow (I), was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1639; baptized there June 6, 1639; married first, August 14, 1664, Mary Hilliard, daugh- ter of William Hilliard. She died . September 14, 1689. He married second, November 16, 1691, Frances He was a carpenter and farmer in Hingham. He was constable in 1672. His house was in the second precinct. He died there January 27, 1715-6, aged sev- enty-six years. His will dated February 10, 1708-9, was proved April 9, 1716, mentioning wife Frances and seven children. Children, all born in Hingham: I. Mary, born October 25, 1665 ; married Lanix Buerly, or Beverly. 2. Hannah, born December 9, 1667; married March 17, 1686-7, Joseph Josselyn, and died before 1702. 3. Abigail, born January 27, 1669-70; married Richard Tower, Francis Horswell and John Orcutt. 4. John, born December 8, 1672 ; mentioned below. 5. Hes- ter, born June 28, 1675; married January 2, 1700-I, Jeremiah Beale. 6. William, born No- vember 17, 1677; married Patience Tower, January 31, 1700-I. 7. Priscilla, born April 4, 1680 ; married February 21, 1710-II, Hezekiah Lincoln. 8. Remember, born February 3, 1682-3. 9. Sarah, born August 29, 1685, mar- ried James Studley.
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(2), was born December 8, 1672, in Hing- ham; married April 30, 1696, Persis Hol- brook, daughter of Captain William Holbrook, of Scituate. He was a farmer and innholder. In 1715 he was constable. He removed to Freetown, Massachusetts, where he bought land of Thomas Gage, April 29, 1729. After an interval of several years he appears ·in Windham, Maine, October, 1737, when he and his son John were petitioners to the general court. In an account of settlers' lots there, April 26, 1759, in the "Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder," vol. iv, it is said : "No. 29, twelve acres, the house rotted down, by John Farrow, deceased, 1740; No. 30. twelve acres, a garrison settled by John Far- row Jr. 1752; No. 31, twelve acres, a house rotted down belonging to said Farrow, 1743. " The dates 1740, 1743, 1752 are the dates when the lots were settled or the houses built. He died in 1758 or 1759, very aged. His wife died May 12, 1758. Children, all but young- est, born in Hingham: I. Mary, born Decem- ber 8, 1697. 2. Priscilla, born February 16, 1699-1700; married, November 9, 1724, Ger- shom Finney of Boston. 3. Mercy, born June 20, 1702; married December 17, 1724, John Jacob. 4. Bethia, born November 29, 1704; married, January 27, 1724-5, David Spear, of Braintree ; second, August 11, 1726, Samuel Webb. 5. Deborah, born January 10, 1707-8; married Nathan Belcher. 6. John, born Octo- ber 9, 1709; died February 3, 1719-20. 7. Hannah, born March 15, 1711-12. 8. Seth, born February 26, 1713-4. 9. Abigail, born April 12, 1717. 10. John, born September 28, 1719; mentioned below. II. Ezekiel, born April 9, 17.22. 12. Benjamin, resided in Scit- uate, and from him descended Thomas and David Farrar, of Woodstock and Buckfield, Maine.
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