Joseph Farwell

Notes:

20 Aug 1740 is the death date on his tombstone, but Chelmsford town records say 21 Aug 1740.

Joseph Farwell's will:

Dated 13 Nov 1711. Probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Copied from Diana Gale Mathiessen's site, where it is sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site".

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published
to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell
In presence of us
Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Joseph married Hannah Colburn on 23 Jan 1696 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Colburn and Hannah Rolfe) was born in 1673; died after 10 Mar 1741 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hannah Farwell was born on 6 May 1701.
2. Elizabeth Farwell was born on 30 Dec 1703.
3. Edward Farwell was born on 12 Jul 1706.
4. Mary Farwell was born on 5 Feb 1709 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Mar 1804 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in 1804 in Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
5. John Farwell was born on 23 Jun 1711.
6. Samuel Farwell was born on 14 Jan 1714.
7. Daniel Farwell was born on 20 May 1717.
8. Sarah Farwell was born on 26 Feb 1721; died on 4 Jul 1721.

Notes:

From The Farwell Family:

"He is buried in South Nashua, N. H. At the time of his death the town of Nashua, N. H., was a part of the old township of Dunstable, Mass. When the boundary dispute between Mass. and New Hampshire was settled this change in name was brought about. [...] Joseph Farwell is styled in the Old Dunstable records 'Ensign Farwell.' He was, immediately after his settlement in the town, employed in various offices in the town business. He was selectman in 1701, 2, 5, 7, 10, and also at earlier dates, highway surveyor in 1706, and on important committees in 1702, 7, 12, 16 and 17. In 1710 Ensign Farwell, Thomas Lund and Joseph Blanchard, selectmen, petitioned the Assembly for aid in supporting the ministry, and in 1711 it is recorded that they received £10 from the Assembly towards payment of salary of Mr. Paris. He was 'Ensign' of the Chelmsford Military Co., 1687-1695."

From Diana Gale Matthiesen's site, Joseph Farwell's will. [Dated 13 Nov 1711, probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site". It would seem to prove that Hannah Learned was alive on 13 Nov 1711, rather than dying in 1695 as I previously recorded.]

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farwell of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published

to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell

In presence of us

Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Ensign married Hannah Learned on 25 Dec 1666 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns) was born on 24 Aug 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph Farwell (1641-1722) = Hannah Learned (1649-1722)
Henry Farwell (1674-1738) = Susannah Richardson (1677-?)
Jonathan Farwell (1700-?) = Susannah Blanchard (1707-?)
Rachel Farwell (1728-?) = Nehemiah Lovewell (1727-1801)
Catherine Lovewell (1749-1794) = John Taplin (1748-1769)
Henry Taplin (1780-1843) = Melinda Huntley (1801-1874) (1)
Lucinda Taplin (1819-1905) = Charles Lane (1815-1852)
Adelaide Lane (1850-1906) = John S. Gray (1850-1906)
Helen Lane Campbell Gray (1895-1968) = Cecil Burford Berners Lee (1884-1931) (2)
Conway Berners-Lee (1921-?) = Mary Lee Woods (?-?)
Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955- )

(1) They were both born in the US and died in Canada.
(2) She was born in Canada and died in England. He was English.

(Source.)

Joseph Farwell (1641-1722) = Hannah Learned (1649-1722)
Hannah Farwell (1668-1739) = Samuel Woods (1660-1712)
Samuel Woods (d. 1773) = Patience Bigelow (1695-1771)
Abigail Woods (1726-1786) = Oliver Wheeler (1722-1804)
Oliver Wheeler (1748-1833) = Hepzibah Munroe (1751-1829)
Esther Wheeler (1778-1813) = Timothy Dane (1773-1856)
John H. Dane (b. 1803) = Elizabeth Covell (b. 1807)
Elizabeth Covel Dane (b. ~1838) = James Rogers Johnson (1826-1900)
Phoebe Johnson (1861-1936) = Charles Emmet Kracaw (b. 1857)
Theodora Kracaw (1897-1979) = Alfred L. Kroeber (1876-1960)
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1 Aug 1670, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

J. R. Hutchinson, 1922, quoted in The Farwell Family: "'Serjeant of the Mace' of Boston, Lincolnshire, 24 Dec 1635. Resigned the office 29 Dec 1635. [...] The office of Serjeant at Mace was one that could only be held by freemen of the Borough, yet, so far as the Minute Books go, we find no record of his admission to his freedom. This is probably due to some inaccuracy or defect in the indexes which can only be remedied by a thorough search of the Minute Books themselves—a search I was unable to obtain facilities for on the occasion of my visit to Boston."

Also from The Farwell Family: "Henry Farwell came to New England, with his wife and two children about the year 1636. He settled first in Concord, where he lived until about 1655, when he became a resident of Chelmsford. He was Deacon of the church in Chelmsford. He died Aug. 1, 1670, in Chelmsford and the record states that he died 'suddenly.'"

Posted by me (Patrick Nielsen Hayden) to soc.medieval.genealogy, 29 Aug 2014, in response to Leo Van de Pas:

"Possibly because his wife Olive Welby is such a well-documented gateway ancestor, there seem to be a lot of spurious ancestries for Deacon Henry Farwell out there. In fact, as far as I can tell, we know only his father: William Farwell, of (but probably not born in) Boston, Lincolnshire, who died in 1637.

"The substantially fruitless results of a lot of searching for further Farwell ancestry are documented in The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., based on the records of John Dennis Farwell and "completed and compiled" by Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian May Wilson (Orange, TX: F. H. Farwell and F. B. Farwell, 1929), which can be read online.

"It contains transcriptions of William Farwell's will and of the pertinent parish records of Boston, Lincolnshire. It appears that William married, as his second wife, a Joan Cole who died in 1642, but she wasn't the mother of Deacon Henry Farwell."

Deacon married Olive Welby on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Olive (daughter of Richard Welby and Frances Bulkeley) was born before 17 Jun 1604 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was christened on 17 Jun 1604 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Mar 1692 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 4 Dec 1657, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Selectman in Chelmsford 22 Dec 1654. Deacon of the Chelmsford church.

Isaac Learned (1624-1657) = Mary Stearns (1627-1664)
Benoni Learned (1656-1738) = Sarah Wright (1664-1736)
Edward Learned (1705-1775) = Sarah Fuller (1720-1783)
Edward Learned (1749-1792) = Sarah Pratt (1733->1791)
Mary Learned (~1780-1834) = Seth Harding (1782-1825)
Edward Learned Harding (1822-1885) = Lucy Booker Ramsay (1839-1906)
Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding (1871-~1962) = John Henry Steuart (1831-1892)
Gladys Virginia Steuart (1891-1947) = Count Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi (1873-1924)
Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi (1915-2002) = Zog I, King of the Albanians (1895-1961)
Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (1939-2011) = Susan Cullen-Ward (1941-2004)
Prince Leka of Albania (1982- )

Source: Wm. Addams Reitwiesner, "A Hitherto Unnoted Descedant of Henry Adams of Braintree: Leka I, King (Claimant) of Albania." The American Genealogist 53:18, 1977.

Deacon married Mary Stearns on 9 Jul 1646 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker) was born before 6 Jan 1626; was christened on 6 Jan 1626 in Nayland, Suffolk, England; died on 8 Jan 1664 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 6 Jan 1627, Nayland, Suffolk, England
• Baptised: 6 Jan 1627, Nayland, Suffolk, England
• Alternate death: Bef 21 Dec 1663
• Alternate death: 9 Jan 1664, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Freeman of Boston, Lincolnshire, 19 May 1620.

"Serjeant of the Mace" of Boston, Lincolnshire, 28 Jun 1631. Declined the office "by reason of his owne bodely infermetyes" 30 June 1631.

William married Joan on 17 Jul 1604 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Joan died before 17 Jul 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The transcribed marriage record reads "Joan COLE" and calls her "widdow."

Richard married Frances Bulkeley on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born about 1568; died before 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 Jan 1568, Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Notes:

Emigrated 1631. "William Learned and wife Goodith his wife" were admitted to the Charlestown church 6 Dec 1632.

Charlestown selectman, 1636. "Even though he was among the first members of the Charlestown church, William Learned was probably a rather liberal Puritan. Although he had been an early supporter of John Wheelwright, William Learned was quick to 'acknowledge his fault' and ask that his name be removed from the 1638 petition supporting the Antinomians. William found it more practical to look to the west than to follow Wheelwright or Ann Hutchinson into the wilderness. Bythe winter of 1640, he was a subscriber to the new town charter for Woburn and on 14 August 1642/3 he became one of the first seven members of the church there." [The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part IV, citation details below.] Among the first Woburn selectmen, 13 Apr 1644; elected constable for 1644 and 1645.

William Learned (1581-1646) = Godethe Gilman (~1586-1632)
Sarah Learned (~1607->1649) = Thomas Lathrop (1613-1707)
Mary Lathrop (1640->1735) = William French (~1604-1681)
Hannah French (b. 1676) = John Child (1669-~1745)
Hannah Child (b. ~1701) = John Fay (1700-1732)
Jonathan Fay (1724-1800) = Joanna Phillips (1729-1788)
Jonathan Fay (1754-1811) = Lucy Prescott (1757-1792)
Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay (1778-1856) = Harriet Howard (1782-1847)
Samuel Howard Fay (1804-1847) = Susan Montfort Shellman (1808-1887)
Harriet Eleanor Fay (1829-1924) = James Smith Bush (1825-1889)
Samuel Prescott Bush (1883-1894) = Flora Sheldon (1872-1920)
Sen. Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) = Dorothy Wear Walker (1901-1992)
George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) = Barbara Pierce (1925-2018)
George Walker Bush (1946- )

William married Godethe Gillman on 22 Apr 1606 in St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England. Godethe was born about 1586; died after 1632 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled Goodith. Not a mistake for "Judith" or "Goodwife."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1590, of Higham, Suffolk, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1597

Notes:

He was a tailor. "Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630, in the ship Arabella with Gov. Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall. He settled in Watertown, where he was admitted freeman, May 18th, 1631. He was a selectman for several years and in 1647, he and a Mr. William Biscoe or Briscoe, were appointed to arrange for the building of a bridge over the river at Watertown." [The Farwell Family]

Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker were ancestors of, among others, Clara Barton, Brigham Young, Robert Goddard, Richard Nixon, Orson Scott Card, Tim Berners-Lee, Forrest J Ackerman, T. S. Eliot, Ursula K. Le Guin, former Macmillan CEO John Sargent, and Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, Queen Consort to King Zog I of Albania.

He was a tailor. "Isaac Stearns came to America in 1630, in the ship Arabella with Gov. Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall. He settled in Watertown, where he was admitted freeman, May 18th, 1631. He was a selectman for several years and in 1647, he and a Mr. William Biscoe or Briscoe, were appointed to arrange for the building of a bridge over the river at Watertown." [The Farwell Family]

Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker were ancestors of, among others, Clara Barton, Brigham Young, Robert Goddard, Richard Nixon, Orson Scott Card, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Forrest J Ackerman, and Countess Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, Queen Consort to King Zog I of Albania.

Isaac married Mary Barker on 20 May 1622 in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England. Mary (daughter of John Barker and Margaret Walter) was born about 1600 in Nayland, Suffolk, England; died on 23 Apr 1677 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"'Goodwife Stearns Senior' was one of several Watertown residents warned to town meeting to answer for not 'attending their seats in the meetinghouse appointed them by the town.'" [The Great Migration Begins]