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Husband: Matthias 'Farnworth' FARNSWORTH [I03782]
Born: 20 JUL 1615 in (Chr.) Eccles, Lancashire, England 1 2
Married: before 1647
Died: after 15 JAN 1689 in Groton, or Charlestown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts 3
Father: Richard FARNSWORTH
Mother: Elizabethe MARSHE
Spouses: Mary FARR
Wife: UNKNOWN [I11217]
Born:
Died: UNKNOWN
Father:
Mother:
Spouses:
Children
01 (F): Elizabeth FARNSWORTH [I03798] 4
Born: 1647 in England or poss. Lynn, Massachusetts
Died: 22 DEC 1729 in ae 82, Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts 5
Spouses: James 'Robinson' ROBERTSON
02 (M): Matthias FARNSWORTH, , Jr. [I03776] 6
Born: JAN 1649 in Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts 7 8
Died: about 1693 in Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
Spouses: Sarah UNKNOWN
03 (M): John FARNSWORTH [I03794] 9
Born: about 1651 in Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
Died: 17 OCT 1729
Spouses: Hannah 'Aldis' ALDOUS
Additional Information

Matthias 'Farnworth' FARNSWORTH:

Notes:

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch
NameMatthias Farnworth
GenderMale
Christening Date20 Aug 1615
Christening Date (Original)20 AUG 1615
Christening PlaceECCLES,LANCASHIRE,ENGLAND
Father's NameRichard Farnworth
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Matthias, in his will written January 12, 1688-9, gives his age as 'about 77 yers'. From calculation he would have been born about 1611 and christened in 1615.
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Groton, Massachusetts Vital Records
MATTHIAS FARNSWORTH and MARY.
1 Matthins, born --.
2 John, " --
3 Benjamin, "
4 Samuel, " Oct. 8, 1669.
5 Abigail, " Jan. 17, 1671.
6 Jonathan, " 1 d. 4 m. 1875. (error in abstracting data. Should be 1675)
7 Joseph, "died Feb.20,1686-7.
II. (I.1)
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Farnsworth Memorial II Second Edition of the Farnsworth Memorial
Author: Moses F. Farnsworth
Call Number: CS71.F237

So far as we can learn from the records, we have the name of only one wife, Mary Farr, who was the daughter of George Farr of Lynn. Matthias died 21 Jan 1689, leaving a will dated 15 Jan 1688-9, wherein he calls himself "about 77 years of age." His wife survived him many years, dying in 1717, and was probably much younger than he was. For as his daughter Elizabeth, who married James Robinson of Groton, was born in 1647, and his last child, Joseph, was born in 1678, if Mary Farr was the mother of all his children, she must have borne them during A PERIOD EXTENDING OVER THIRTY-ONE YEARS; THIS IS POSSIBLE BUT HARDLY PROBABLE. The probabilities are that he had married and lost one wife before he married Mary Farr.
Possibly the reference in his will to some chance of difficulty which his eldest son, Matthias, Jr., might have with some of the rest of the family, may have had its origin in the jealousy of children by different mothers. George Farr, the father of his wife, Mary Farr, is named in the letter of instructions sent from the company in London to the officials at Salem, as a shipwright sent out by them in that business in 1629. He appears, however, to have given up shipbuilding very early, and to have engaged as a land owner in farming in Lynn, near the place where Matthias Farnsworth had land. He had several children who survived him, one of whom married Nicholas Hutchins, then of Lynn, but who, soon after the settlement of Groton, moved there, and purchased land adjoining to that owned by Matthias Farnsworth, and lived upon it.

Footnotes
  1. Moses Franklin Farnsworth, Farnsworth Memorial II [1805] (1897).
  2. England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database FamilySearch [1400].
  3. Will made [2359].
  4. Named in Father's Will [1819].
  5. (Original Data) Caleb Butler, Groton, Massachusetts Vital Records [5] (Boston, MA; T. R. Marvin, 1848).
  6. Named in Father's Will [1819].
  7. Moses Franklin Farnsworth, Farnsworth Memorial II [1805] (1897).
  8. (Original Data) Caleb Butler, Groton, Massachusetts Vital Records [5] (Boston, MA; T. R. Marvin, 1848).
  9. Named in Father's Will [1819].
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