Jacob Farrar1

b. 29 March 1669, d. 29 April 1722
Jacob Farrar|b. 29 Mar 1669\nd. 29 Apr 1722|p1337.htm|Jacob Farrer|b. 3 Sep 1641\nd. 22 Aug 1675|p1296.htm|Hannah Hayward|b. 20 Apr 1647|p1297.htm|Jacob Farrer|b. 21 Aug 1614\nd. 14 Aug 1677|p1298.htm|Grace Deane||p1299.htm|George Hayward|d. 29 Mar 1671|p1534.htm|Mary (—?—) (Hayward)|d. 1693|p1535.htm|

5th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
7th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Jacob Farrar was born on 29 March 1669 in Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Jacob Farrer and Hannah Hayward.1 He married Susanna Rediate on 26 December 1692.3 Cornett Jacob Farrar died on 29 April 1722 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 53.4
     
     After his father was killed in 1675, he went with his mother to Concord.5 He and his brothers George, John, and Henry, were mentioned in the distribution of their grandfather Jacob Farrer's estate in 1677. After all were of age, they united in a deed of all the real estate in Lancaster inherited from their grandfather, to their uncle John Houghton.6 He chose Edward Wigley of Concord for his guardian in 1684.7 Jacob and Susanna had eleven children, all of whom (with the exception of Ephraim who died at age 11 years) are mentioned in the distribution of their father's estate.8

Children of Jacob Farrar and Susanna Rediate

Citations

  1. [S202] Andrew H. Ward Esq., "Lancaster Records", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16 (October 1862): 358.
  2. [S203] Lilian K.P. Farrar, "The English Ancestry of Jacob Farrer of Lancaster, Mass.", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 95 (January 1941): 12, gives birth date of 29 Apr 1669 contrary to the Lancaster town records that give the date as 29. 1. 1669.
  3. [S161] Town of Concord, Concord Registers, Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1635 - 1850 (Concord: Printed by the Town, 1891), 37.
  4. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 104, about 55 years.
  5. [S204] Member of NEHGS, "Memoir of the Farrar Family", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (October 1852): 321, 322.
  6. [S203] Lilian K.P. Farrar, "The English Ancestry of Jacob Farrer of Lancaster, Mass.", 10.
  7. [S204] Member of NEHGS, "Memoir of the Farrar Family", 322.
  8. [S203] Lilian K.P. Farrar, "The English Ancestry of Jacob Farrer of Lancaster, Mass.", 12.
  9. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 38.
  10. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 41.
  11. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 46.
  12. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 49.
  13. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 51.
  14. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 60.
  15. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 63.
  16. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 67.
  17. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 73.
  18. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 104.
  19. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 83.