Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1995.
Essex County Massachusetts - Archives, George Farr of Salem
One of Earliest Salem, MA Settlers: 1629
George Farr of Salem, Essex Co., MA who arrived 1629 on the Ship Talbot to Salem, MA - sent by the Massachusetts Bay Company, London, England to build a shipbuilding enterprise at Salem.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex/Archives/farr.html
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GEORGE FARR, ORIGIN: Unknown, MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (seventh in a sequence of nine Lynn men) [ MBCR 1:371]. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854)

EDUCATION: His inventory included "one parcel of old books and two pots & old peck and a pair of spinning cards" valued at 6s.
ESTATE: Granted thirty acres and ten acres in the 1638 Lynn land division [ EQC 2:270]. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
In his will, dated 1 July 1662 and proved 26 November 1662, George Farr bequeathed to "MY SON JOHN" a lot of ground in Lynn and two acres at Rumney marsh; to "MY SONS LAZEROUS AND BENJAMIN ... my house and all the land about it" along with another lot of land; to "MY WIFE" her thirds during her widowhood; to "MY SON JOSEPH" fifty shillings when he comes of age; to "my FOUR DAUGHTERS namely MARY, MARTHA, ELIZEBETH AND SARAH" fifty shillings apiece, MARY AND MARTHA two years after testator's decease and ELIZABETH AND SARAH four years after [EQC 3:18-19; Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975) EPR 1:402-03]. The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).
The inventory of the estate of George Farr, deceased, taken 24 November 1662, totalled £109 8s., including £57 in real estate: "one dwelling house and some outhousing with the lot it stands upon," £20; "eight acres of upland," £16; "eight acres more of upland," £16; and "two acres of salt marsh in Rumley Marsh," £5 [EQC 2:19; Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
BIRTH: About 1594 (deposed "aged about sixty-three" on 15 April 1657 [EQC 7:127-28]). Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
DEATH: Lynn 24 October 1662.
MARRIAGE: By about 1633 Elizabeth Stowers, daughter of NICHOLAS STOWERS; she died after 27 November 1672.

COMMENTS: On 15 April 1657 "George Far, aged about sixty-three years, testified that Black Will or Duke William, so called, was the owner of Nahant and he helped to fence it in for Thomas Dexter" [EQC 7:127-28]. On 27 April 1657 "George Farr testified that all those who fenced at Nahant had proprietorship there, and when Capt. Turner with the rest made the fence, he said to make haste lest the country take it from them" [EQC 7:129]. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
On 2 June 1684 Elizabeth Farr delivered to court a petition declaring that she had "lived here in Lyn for the space of fifty & four years on a small tract of land granted by the townsmen of Lyn that then were ... unto my deceased husband Georg[e] Farr who possessed it peacably all his days and so left it with your poor petitioner his widow" [EQC 9:244-45].
On 1 July 1657 "George Farr of Lyn, witness in case of Tho[mas] Dexter and the town, presented for taking a false oath" [EQC 2:50, 51]. On 24 November 1657 "George Farr [is] discharged of his bond," presumably in this same matter [EQC 2:59].

Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Daughter of Nicholas Stowers
ELIZABETH, b. say 1610; m. by 1630 GEORGE FARR [ EQC 9:244-45]. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)

Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.

JOHN, b. say 1633; d. Lynn 29 October 1672. Administration on the estate of John Farr was granted on 26 November 1672 to Richard Stower and Joseph Farr; an agreement was reached at Salem Court on 27 November 1672 among "his mother Elizebeth Farr and two brothers, Joseph and Benjamin, and three sisters Mary, Elizebeth and Sarah, the sisters all married and one of them living at `Grawton,'" and his estate was distributed to "Nicholas Hutchin, his brother-in-law," to "John Holmes, his brother-in-law," to "Mary Clarke, a `motherless child & cousin' to the said John Farr," to Joseph and Benjamin, and to "Mathias Farnworth, brother-in-law" [EPR 2:303-05]. The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).