Matthias Farnsworth

- 1689

• Name	Matthias Farnsworth  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 12 Jan 1689 and 4 Feb 1689	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I40764	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	25 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family	Mary Farr,   b. Abt 1637   d. Bef 5 Dec 1716 and 7 Mar 1717 (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1657  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Farnsworth,   b. Abt 1647   d. 22 Dec 1729 (Age 82 years) + 2. Sarah Farnsworth,   b. Abt 1663, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 16 Sep 1731, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 68 years) + 3. Benjamin Farnsworth,   b. Abt 1667   d. 15 Aug 1733 (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F23872	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He is first recorded at Lynn in 1657.

  
  

• Sources

  [S127] Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926 by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston: Stone Family Association, 1926. [S7564] Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycall) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 75:149, 2000. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S7565] Matthias Farnsworth and His Descendants In America: A Monograph by Claudius Buchanan Farnsworth. Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1891., dates only. [S9157] The American Ancestry of Joseph Robison and His Wife Lucretia Hancock, with Some of Their Descendants by Lucretia Lyman Ranney. 1958., year and place only.