Ensign John Farrar1

b. 6 August 1672, d. 19 August 1707
Ensign John Farrar|b. 6 Aug 1672\nd. 19 Aug 1707|p1338.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
     John Farrar was born on 6 August 1672 in Lancaster, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Jacob Farrer and Hannah Hayward.1 He married Elizabeth Merriam on 6 December 1699.2,3 He was killed by Indians at Sterling, Middlesex County (now Worcester), Massachusetts, on 19 August 1707 at age 35.2
     
     After his father was killed in 1675, he went with his mother to Concord.4 He and his brothers Jacob, George, 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.5 He was killed in battle. His widow was appointed to administer his estate on 23 September 1707.6 On 16 June 1708, the government allowed her £1 10, for the loss of her husband's gun.6

Children of Ensign John Farrar and Elizabeth Merriam

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): 13.
  3. [S161] Town of Concord, Concord Registers, Concord, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1635 - 1850 (Concord: Printed by the Town, 1891), p. 48.
  4. [S204] Member of NEHGS, "Memoir of the Farrar Family", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (October 1852): 321, 322.
  5. [S203] Lilian K.P. Farrar, "The English Ancestry of Jacob Farrer of Lancaster, Mass.", 10.
  6. [S204] Member of NEHGS, "Memoir of the Farrar Family", 323.
  7. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 49.
  8. [S161] Concord VR (published), p. 53.