Deacon Henry Farwell

Abt 1605 - 1670  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Deacon Henry Farwell  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1605	Boston, Lincolnshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1 Aug 1670	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Death	1 Aug 1670	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 5, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I11253	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2016

  
  

  Father	William Farwell,   b. of Boston, Lincolnshire, England d. 1637
  Mother	Joan   d. Bef 17 Jul 1617
  Marriage	17 Jul 1604	St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England   [9]
  Family ID	F901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Olive Welby,   b. Bef 17 Jun 1604, Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d. 1 Mar 1692, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 87 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1629	St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England   [2, 3, 7, 10]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Farwell,   b. Bef 27 May 1630   d. 9 Nov 1670, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age > 40 years)   2. Samuel Farwell,   b. Bef 9 Jun 1633, Boston, Lincolnshire, England d. 20 Jun 1634 (Age > 1 years)   3. John Farwell,   b. Bef 25 Oct 1635   d. Bef 15 Sep 1686, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age < 50 years) + 4. Ensign Joseph Farwell,   b. 26 Feb 1641, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 31 Dec 1722, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 81 years) + 5. Mary Farwell,   b. Abt 1643, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 7 Mar 1714, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 71 years)   6. Olive Farwell,   b. Abt 1645, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut
  Family ID	F3631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2015

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

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