Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 35

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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(III) Jeduthan, son of Isaac and Mary Farrar, was born April 28, 1709. His name is written Jon- athan in the record of births. He removed early to Epping, New Hampshire, and late in life to Gil- manton, where he died in June. 1784.

(IV) Jeduthan (2), son of Jeduthan (I), was born in Epping, and removed to Gilmanton, where he died August 10, 1812. He married, in Hampton, November 12, 1778, Comfort Bean, of Epping, who died February 27, 1843.

(V) Jeduthan (3) Farrar, Esq., son of Jedu- than (2) and Comfort (Bean) Farrar, was a militia officer, magistrate, selectman, representative, and a director of the Gilmanton Fire Insurance Company. He married, March 24, 1816, Sally Cate. (VI) Jeduthan (4) Warren, son of Jeduthan (3) and Sally (Cate) Farrar, was born in Gilmanton, November 27, 1818, and died July 11. 1881. He learned stone cutting in Quincy, Massachusetts, and afterward farmed in Belmont. He married Mary

Randlett, born January 10, 1820, daughter of Josiah and Polly ( Osgood) Randlett, of that part of Gil- manton now Belmont. They had five children: Al- mon J., Marilla, Frank W., Sarah, and John W. Marilla married Madison Lamprey, of Gilmanton. Jolın married Georgia Dalton. of Sanbornton. Mary Randlett died June 10, 1883.

(VI) Almon J. Farrar, eldest child of Jedu- than (4) W. and Mary (Randlett) Farrar, was born in Gilmanton, April 14, 1845. At the age of seven- teen he enlisted in Company H, Seventeenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and joined the Army of the Potomac. At the battle of Cold Harbor, one of the most desperate battles of the war, he was shot through the left lung, and after lingering many months in the hospital returned to New Hampshire, but never fully recovered from the injury. In 1868 he formed a partnership with J. W. Sanborn and engaged in the grocery trade. Two years later he bought his partner's interest and carried on the business alone for ten years or more. He then sold out, and in company with H. D. Cilley built a business block on Main street. Laconia. Later Mr. Farrar built another block, on the same street. For many years Mr. Farrar was a caterer, and did a good business, supplying many banquets and other notable gastronomical functions, among which were the New Hampshire Veterans' encampments, and the Holt Guards, at Concord. He was a prominent citizen and much in public life. He was road com- missioner for three years, and was selectman be- fore the incorporation of Laconia. He was the Dem- ocratic candidate for the mayoralty in the race with Charles A. Busiel, and was defeated by a small ma- jority. He was a member of T. L. Perley, Jr., Post, No. 37, Grand Army of the Republic, of Laconia, of which he was a past commander. He was also ad- jutant general of the New Hampshire Grand Army of the Republic, a member of the Union Veteran Union, and of the Knights of Pythias. He died February 5, 1905. He married, May 31, 1870, Lydia B. Elkins, of Webster, born December 27, 1847, daughter of John J. and Orzilla (Bean) Elkins, of Salisbury. New Hampshire, and Southampton, Mas- sachusetts. Mrs. Farrar has one sister, Emma F., born January 11, 1850, who married, January II, 1876, George W. Riley, a prominent lumber dealer of Laconia.

(Second Family) .

The name Farrar, as a family name,

FARRAR was first known in England from Gualkeline or Walkeline de Ferrariis, a Norman of distinction, attached to William, Duke of Normandy, before the invasion of 1066. From him all of the name in England and America have descended. Henry de Ferrars, his son, is on the Roll of Battle Abbey, a list of the principal com- inanders and companions in arms of William the Conqueror, and was the first of the family who set- tled in England. In the fourteenth year of his reign William I ordered a general survey of the lands of his realm, which was recorded in Domesday Book, and this Henry de Ferrars was one of the commissioners appointed to perform the service. "That he was a person of much eminency, both for knowledge and integrity, there is no doubt, other- wise it is not likely he would have been entrusted in so high and weighty an employment." He bore for his arms, Argent, six horseshoes pierced, Sable. The arms were probably suggested by the name. Like Marshal which designated "any attendant on

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horses," and finally became a distinguished French military title, so Farrar, from Old French ferreor, ferrier, "a horse-shoer," finally became a title and a family name. The name has been spelled in many different ways, both in this country and in England, by different branches of the family, and often by different individuals of the same branch, and not infrequently at different times, by the same individ- ual. But in all these and other varieties of spelling, the Horse Shoe, as the predominating emblem in the coat-of-arms, evinces the identity of the race. In this country, at the present time, the name is most commonly spelt as at the head of this article. The several emigrants to this country during the early part of the seventeenth century do not appear to have recognized any relationship, and it is not known that any two of them came from the same county in England, except those next mentioned.

(I) Jacob Farrar, with his elder brother, John, according to family tradition, came to America from Lancashire, England. The only known facts ren- dering the truth of this tradition probable are, that others, with whom they are found associated in Lancaster, Massachusetts, originated in that county, and that members of this family were early in Lancashire, and still continue there. Among

the original proprietors of Lancaster, which

was incorporated May 18. 1653, where the two brothers John and Jacob Farrar. Their names ap- pear again on the covenant which they signed Sep- tember 24, 1653, and which was signed by all who became inhabitants of the town. Jacob Farrar was probably about thirty years old when he came to this country. His wife Ann, whom he married about the year 1640, with four children born there, and about half the property, were left in England till their new residence was prepared in Lancaster, when they were sent for, and arrived there in 1658. The town records state that "Young Jacob Farrar was appointed to assist in marking the bounds of the town" in 1659. A valuation of the estates was made in 1654, for the purpose of regulating the pro- portion of the inhabitants in subsequent divisions of the common land. To this the following note succeeds. "The estate of several entered since 1655," among these is "Jacob Farrar added when his wife came £168 7 0." During King Philip's war, in the year 1675, he had two sons killed. The town was taken February 10, 1676, and most of the property destroyed by the Indians, and he with his wife, his remaining son Joseph, and his daughter with her husband, John Houghton, went to Woburn, where he died August 14, 1677. From the several public offices and agencies in which he was employed in Lancaster and in the county, it may be inferred that Jacob Farrar was a respectable and useful man. The "Humble Petition of the distressed people of Lancaster" to the government for assistance, after the destruction of the property, as above mentioned, dated March 11, 1676, is now on record in the secre- tary's office. It is signed by Jacob Farrar, John Houghton, Sen., John Moor, John Whitcomb, John Prescott, John Houghton, Jun., Thomas Sawyer, Thomas Wilder, and others, nineteen in all. The children of Jacob and Ann Farrar were: Jacob, mentioned below. John. Henry, killed by Indians, February 10, 1676. Mary, who married John Hough- ton, Jr .; all born in England, and Joseph, born at Lancaster. Widow Ann Farrar married, November 2, 1680, Jolin Sears, of Woburn, whose third wife she was.

(II) Jacob (2), eldest child of Jacob (1) and Ann Farrar, was born in England, probably about 1642 or 1643, and came with his mother and younger brothers and sister, about 1658, to Lancaster, where he resided until he was killed by Indians in King Philip's war, August 22, 1675. He is credited on the "Colony Book" under date of September 23, 1676, for military service under Captain Hunting, £2. 18, o, and charged fo, 13, 0, leaving balance due him of £2, 5, 0. He married, in 1668, Hannah, daughter of George Ilayward, of Concord. Their children were: Jacob, George, John and Henry. His widow administered on his estate. Soon after his death, certainly as early as the abandonment of the town in February following, the widow with her children went to Concord, where her relations lived, and where her children were brought up and settled. March 5, 1681, she married Adam Holaway, of Marlborough, and January 2, 1706, Jonathan Furbush.

(III) George. the second son of Jacob (2) and Hannah Farrar, was born in Lancaster, August 10, 1670, and died in Concord, May 15, 1760, aged ninety years. He was carried by his mother to Concord when he was five years old, and brought up a farmer in the south part of the town, now Lincoln, by a Mr. Goble. When he arrived at twenty-one years of age he had but eighteen pence in his pocket. He called together his associates and told them he would treat them with all he had, and begin the world square. He early purchased a tract of land in the neighborhood where he was brought up, and where his posterity of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth generations are now living. He was urged to settle farther in the interior of the country, and was offered one-half the township of Southborough for a penny an acre and went to see it but, on his return, said "It is so far off, that it will never be worth anything." He was a man of great energy and thrift, and was several years select- man of Concord. His will, dated March 17, 1749, and proved June 9, 1760, mentioned his wife and all his children, except Joseph. It also mentions the five children of Joseph, and gives land in Townsend to Benjamin. He had previously settled his three surviving sons on different portions of the homestead farm. He married. September 9, 1692, Mary Howe, who had been brought up with him in the same family, and with whom he lived, includ- ing their apprenticeship. more than eighty years. She died April 12, 1761. Their children were: Joseph, Daniel, George, Mary and Samuel.

(IV) George (2), third son of George (1), and Mary (Howe) Farrar, was born February 16. 1705. in Concord, and settled on the northerly part of his father's farm, where he died of smallpox, May 28, 1777, aged seventy-three years. He married Mary Barrett, of Concord, who was born April 6. 1706, and died September 25, 1778, aged seventy-two years. Their children were: Rebecca, George. Mary, Sarah (died young), Sarah, Elizabeth, Hum- phrey, Joseph and Love. George and Joseph grad- uated from llarvard College. George and Love died of smallpox.

(V) Humphrey, second son and seventh child of George (2) and Mary (Barrett) Farrar, was born in Concord, February 23, 1741. He lived at Lincoln, removed to Hanover, New Hampshire, and after- ward to Colebrook, where he died. He married, April 26, 1770, his cousin Lucy, born April 27, 1745, daughter of Samuel Farrar. She survived her hus- band and died at the home of her son, Dr. Farrar,

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of Derry, in January, 1832, aged cighty-seven. Their children were: Lucy, Mary, Humphrey, Joseph, Timothy, George, William and Lydia. Of these Humphrey, Joseph, George and William, were grad- uates of Dartmouth College.

(V1) Joseph, fourth child and second son of Humphrey and Lucy ( Farrar) Farrar, was born February 24, 1775. and died at the home of his son, George B. Farrar, of New York City, February 20, 1851. aged seventy-six. He graduated from Dart- mouth in 1794, at the age of nineteen. He married Mehitable Dana, who died at Wolfborough in 1850. (VII) Sarah C., child of Joseph and Mehitable ( Dana) Farrar, was born in Chelsea. Vermont, March 3, 18ot, married June 26, 1822, Daniel Pick- ering. (See Pickering, V).

(V) John, eldest child of Judge Ichabod and Abigail (Wentworth) Rollins, was born in Rol- lingsford, March 22, 1745, and resided in Somers- worth, where he died January 23, 1820, aged seventy- five. He inherited many of the good qualities of his father, but he was not an ambitious man, and paid more attention to his private business than to public affairs, although he represented Somers- worth in the legislature one term. He married Mary, daughter of Dr. Moses Carr, of Newbury, Massa- chusetts. She died, April 16, 1823, aged seventy- eight. Eleven children were born to them, namely : Hiram, Mary, John, Elizabeth, George, James, Eliz- abeth, Abigail, Sarah, Paul (died young), and Paul, the second of the name.

(V1) James, sixth child and fourth son of John and Mary (Carr) Rollings, was born in Somers- worth. July 4, 1776, and thus began his life on the very day our national independence was declared. He lived in Somersworth, where he spent an in- dustrious and quiet life, doing his duty as a citizen without taking upon himself any of the responsibil- ities of leadership. He married (first ), August 7, 1804, Dorothy Folsom, who died September 13, 1818; ( second). October 24. 1819. Sarah Wingate, who died April 19, 1827; (third), September 7, 1828, Abigail Wingate. Abigail and Sarah were daugh- ters of Captain Moses and Joanna Gilman ( Went- worth) Wingate, of Dover. Captain Moses was a great-grandson of John Winget, an early English emigrant who settled at Dover, The children by Dorothy Folsom were: Harriet, Lydia A., Mary B., Theodore F., Charles, Elizabeth, Olive P. and Dorothy A. By Sarah Wingate he had one child, James Wingate.

(VII) Charles, fifth child and second son of James and Dorothy ( Folsom) Rollins, was born in Somersworth, May 30, 1812, and died very suddenly at his home on Commonwealth avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 1897, aged eighty-five. When a young man he went to Boston and engaged in the business of contractor and builder, which he carried on with great success until 1870. He erected many fine buildings, among them being the Central Con- gregational Church on Berkley street, and the Adams House on Washington A street in Boston was named in his honor. In 1849. with

Daniel Pickering, his father-in-law, whose daughter he had married the year before. he erected the Pavilion Hotel, a noted summer resort, and con- tinned as its owner until his death. He was always interested in Wolfborough from the time of his marriage, and had an elegant country residence there, near the Pavilion Hotel, and there he passed the summer of each year with his family. He was a staunch Republican, and while a young man much

interested in politics, but he declined to hold any public office, although positions in the city govern- ment were at different times offered him. He was one of those men who have a stable mind and sturdy character, and having once decided on a course of action, pursue it to a final and successful conclusion, allowing no hinderance to stay them. no avocation to divert them from the attainment of the desired end. His tastes were plain, his habits regular ; he possessed a good capacity for work : always made his plans with sufficient allowance for unavoidable detentions, and the errors of others (for he made very few himself), and made a reputation for promptness and reliability, which with his skill in execution made his fortune.

He married, January It, 1848, Caroline D. Pick- ering, of Wolfborough, who was born August 10, 1824. daughter of Daniel and Sarah C. (Farrar ) Pickering. (See Pickering. V). They were the parents of five children: Helen M., Caroline, Sarah P., Elizabeth and Charles H.

In nearly every part of England this CHENEY name is found, and it has been iden- tified with the history of the United States from their earliest settlement. It has been identified, especially in New Hampshire, with the development of great business enterprises, is widely and favorably known in religious circles, in law. in medicine and many worthy lines of endeavor. Many of its representatives are today filling useful places in the life of this state.

(I) The founder of the family in America was John Cheney, who came with his wife, Martha, and four children. to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. He was a member of Rev. John Eliot's Church, but removed in the latter part of 1636 to Newbury, where he was at once received in the Church. He became a large landholder, and was a very busy man, as indicated by the record of re- mission of a fine of two shillings for non-attendance at town meeting. This remission was voted April 21, 1638. His home was in the old town ,and he was granted lot 50 in the "New Towne," on the "ffield" street. October 10, 1644. He took an active interest in affairs of the colony. and was one of ten who walked forty miles to Cambridge to take the freeman's oath, which was administered May 17. 1637. He was an active supporter of Governor Winthrop, and was chosen as selectman in 1652. 166t and 1664. He was elected grand juror April 27. 1648, and was chosen on committees for executing various town business, such as laying out ways. He died July 28, 1666. and the inventory of his estate shows him to have been a wealthy man for that day. His children were: Mary, Martha, John, Daniel. Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Hannah, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. ( Peter and descendants receive men- tion in this article.)

(II) Daniel, second son and fourth child of John and Martha Cheney, born in England about 1633, died in Newbury, September 10. 1694. He was a farmer, was made a "freeman of the colonyM May 7. 1763, and constable in 1688. The rate list shows that he had, in 1688, two houses, ten acres of plow land, twenty acres of meadow, and fourteen acres of pasture. He was a man of in- dustry and sagacity, and lived the life of a diligent farmer and useful citizen. He and his wife were members of the church before 1675. The inventory- of his estate amounted to five hundred and sixty- seven pounds and eleven shillings. He married, in

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Newbury. October 8, 1665, Sarah, daughter of John, Jr., and Eleanor (Emery) Bayley, born August 17, 1644. died October 26, 1714. Their children were : Sarah, Judith, Daniel, Hannah, John, Eleanor, Jo- seph and James.

(III) Daniel (2), eldest son and third child of Daniel (1) and Sarah (Bayley) Cheney. born in Newbury, December 3, 1670. died in the autumn of 1755. He was a farmer, and resided in Newbury. On John Brown's map of the town, made in 1729. the locality of his homestead is marked near the bank of the river, in what is now West Newbury. He was one of the defenders of the town against Indian attacks, rendering service in a blockhouse in 1704, for which he received "nine shillings and ten pence." He was also enrolled as a meinber of "The second Foot Company of Newbury," January 15. 17II, under the command of Hugh March. He and his wife were "admitted to full communion" in the west Newbury church. October 29. 1727. At his death he left considerable property. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Emer- son) Duston, born August 22. 1678. Her mother was the remarkable woman whose experiences and exploits are a striking episode in colonial history. Their children were: Daniel, John, Thomas, Han- nah. Sarah, Nathaniel. Mary and Abigail.

(IV) Thomas, third son and child of Daniel (2) and Hannah (Duston) Cheney, was born in New- bury. February 25. 1703. He bought a house, farm and twenty acres of land in Haverhill, March 24. 1741, for one hundred and fifty pounds. This sec- tion became part of Plaistow, New Hampshire, when the new boundary line was run, and he became a' citizen of New Hampshire without removing his residence. His will, dated March 4, proved June 24. 1767, bequeathed either land or money to his children and grandchildren, among which property were his half rights in "Perrie's Town socalled." which was incorporated some years later as Sutton, New Hampshire, and where many of his descend- ants lived in after years. He married, May 17, 1726, Hannah Stevens, supposed to have been a daughter of John, Jr., and Mary ( Bartlett) Stev- ens, born in Haverhill, March 16, 1705. Their children were: Hannah. Daniel. Duston. Thomas. Mary, Nathaniel, John, James, Abigail, Sarah, Ruth and Susanna.

(\') Daniel (3), eldest son and second child of Thomas and Hannah (Stevens) Cheney, was born in Ilaverhill. January 10, 1729. IJe was a resident of Salem. New Hampshire. in 1763. when he was elected to a subordinate office in the town, and in 1765, when the notary gave that as his residence, in a deed of land in Londonderry which he bought. But he was connected with the church at Hempstead. New Hampshire, and there his daughter was bap- tized in 1762, and five other children, July 23, 1777. He bought land in Goffstown in 1780, and removed thither. In 1784 he mortgaged land "in the fifth range of Oppiscataquog river." He bought a tract of the town of Goffstown in 1795. and bought and sold and cultivated large amounts of land. He married Elizabeth (Betty) Hadley, and they were the parents of twelve children: Nathaniel. Joseph, Enoch. Jonathan Dustin, Mary, Elizabeth, Mary, Hannah. Sarah, Daniel, Thomas and Nanne West. Both Marys grew up and married.

(VI) Joseph, second son and child of Daniel (3) and Elizabeth (Hadley) Cheney. was born !755. died in Bradford. January 22. 1827. He was enrolled "of Hempstead, New Hampshire," in April

1776. in Captain Thomas Cogswell's company, of Colonel Baldwin's regiment ; also in the same troop, January 28. July 30, and at Trenton. December 31, 1776, and January 1, 1777, and is credited with having "furnished his own arms." His brother Jonathan was in the same company, and they served together in important campaigns. Joseph signed an order, dated llaverhill, February 14, 1778. for "travel allowance from Trenton to Londonderry," payable to Samuel Middleton. He followed his father to Goffstown, New Hampshire, and there received a grant of land from him March 3, 1792. December 26. 1792, he purchased of Peter How a tract of land in "New Bradford." December 29, 1795. he sold land in Goffstown to his brother Daniel, his wife Elizabeth joining in the deed, and so on. He married Eliza- beth ( Betsy) -, born in October, 1755, died in Henniker, September 12. 1854. Their children were: a child. name not given, died young; Joseph, died young ; Jonathan, Sally. Joseph, Lydia, Betsey and Susan.

(VII) Jonathan, third son and child of Joseph and Elizabeth Cheney, born August 24, 1782, a farmer residing in Bradford, married, April 13, 1802, Betscy Sargent, born April 9, 1782. Their children were: Rachel, Thomas, Betsey. Sarah. Joseph, Dorcas, Lydia and Harriet.

(VIII) Betsey. second daughter and third child of Jonathan and Betsy (Sargent) Cheney, born Oc- tober 26, 1807, married. December 29, 1825. Samuel Muzzey, of Newbury. New Hampshire (See Muzzey VID.

(II) Peter. third son and sixth child of John and Martha Cheney, was born about 1638, in New- bury, where he passed his life. On June 18, 1663, lie bought of John Bishop for two hundred and fifty pounds a mill and house, with all appurtenances and riparian rights. On March 7, 1660, he proposed to the town meeting to erect a windmill if granted an acre of land for the purpose, and this proposition was accepted. November 1. 1693, he deeded to his son John one-half of his mill, dam. and belong- ings, including fifty acres of land, and January 10. 1695, he deeded the other half to his son Peter. He died in January. 1695. He was married May 14, 1663, to Hannah, daughter of Nicholas and Mary ( Cutting) Noyes. She was born October 30, 1643, in Newbury, and survived her husband. She was married June 3. 1700, to John Atkinson, and died January 5. 1705. Her father was a son of Rev. William and Anne (Parker) Noyes, of Cholderton, England, the latter a daughter of Rev. Robert Parker, a celebrated preacher and author. The children of Peter and Hannah (Noyes) Cheney were: Peter. John, Nicholas, Huldah, Mary, Mar- tha. Nathaniel (died young), Jemima. Nathaniel, Eldad. Hannah, Ichabod and Lydia.

(III) John, second son and child of Peter and Ilannah (Noyes) Cheney, was born May 10, 1666, in Newbury, and became master of many mechani- cal operations. He was a house carpenter and mill- wright, a cloth finisher and miller, and operated the mill purchased by his father shortly before his birth. He inherited from his uncle, Nathaniel Cheney, a considerable tract of land in Suffield. Connecticut, which he sold, a part in 1698 and the balance in 1723. On August 23, 1724. he was re- ceived with his wife in the church at Weston ( Sud- bury), and on the tenth of October, same year. he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in that town, and one half of this he deeded to his son John. The time of his residence in Weston

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is indicated by his dismissal from the church there, July 26. 1730, and his admission to the west parish of Newbury in 1731. He was subsequently dismissed from this society to the second Church of Rowley, now Georgetown. He was married March 7, 1693, to Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Wood) Chute. She was born September 16. 1674. Her father was a son of James, who was a son of Lionel Chute. John Cheney died September 2, 1750, and was survived by his wife only eight days. Their children were: Edmund, Martha. Mary, Sarah, John and Judith. ( Mention of John and descend- ants forms part of this article.)

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 35

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874