Ensign Joseph Farwell1

b. 26 February 1641/42, d. 31 December 1722
Ensign Joseph Farwell|b. 26 Feb 1641/42\nd. 31 Dec 1722|p721.htm|Deacon Henry Farwell|b. c 1605\nd. 1 Aug 1670|p979.htm|Olive Welby|b. 17 Jun 1604\nd. 1 Mar 1691/92|p980.htm|William Farwell||p982.htm||||Richard Welby|b. 7 Feb 1564|p983.htm|Frances Bulkeley|b. c 1568|p984.htm|

6th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Ensign Joseph Farwell was born on 26 February 1641/42 in Concord, Massachusetts.2 He was the son of Deacon Henry Farwell and Olive Welby.2 He married Hannah Learned, daughter of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns, on 25 December 1666 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.3 He died on 31 December 1722 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 80.4,5
     
     Joseph Farwell and Olive Farwell were named co-executors in Deacon Henry Farwell's will dated 12 July 1670.6,7,8 Click to view image About 1699 he moved from Chelmsford and became an inhabitant of Dunstable where he was a large land holder and prominent in town affairs. He was selectman 1701, '02, '05, '07, '10; was Surveyor of Highways 1706, and served on important committees during the years 1712, '14, '15, '17.9

Children of Ensign Joseph Farwell and Hannah Learned

Citations

  1. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 60.
  2. [S188] David Pulsifer, "Early Records of Boston", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 4 (July 1850): 272.
  3. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 226.
  4. [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 volumes (Hillburn, New York: Snow, 1939), 1: 305.
  5. [S113] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1913), 215, citing gravestone record, Little Cemetery, South Nashua, New Hampshire.
  6. [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 1: 303-305.
  7. [S206] David Parsons Holton and Frances K. Holton, Farwell ancestral memorial : Henry Farwell of Concord and Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and all his descendants to the fifth generation: to which are added three branches, the families of Daniel, of Groton and Fitchburg, Mass., 1740-1815, Bethiah, of Mansfield, Conn., and Westminster, Vt., 1747-1813, Elizabeth, of North Charlestown, N.H., 1751-1840, and their descendants to 1879 (New York: D.P. Holton, 1879), 7.
  8. [S682] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), 874.
  9. [S206] David Parsons Holton and Frances K. Holton, Farwell Memorial, 9.
  10. [S206] David Parsons Holton and Frances K. Holton, Farwell Memorial, 12.
  11. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, Who Came from England, and United with Others in the Foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the Year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson, of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson, of Newbury, 1643, with Notices of Richardsons in England and Elsewhere (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876), 50.