Mary Farwell1

b. 26 December 1640, d. 7 March 1713/14
Mary Farwell|b. 26 Dec 1640\nd. 7 Mar 1713/14|p907.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-grandmother of Louise Underwood.
8th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     Mary Farwell was born on 26 December 1640 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2 She was the daughter of Deacon Henry Farwell and Olive Welby. She married John Bates, son of Edward Bates and Lydia (—?—) (Bates-Fletcher), on 22 December 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.3,4,5 She died on 7 March 1713/14 in Chelmsford at age 73.5,6
     
     In his will dated 12 July 1670, her father Deacon Henry Farwell bequeathed to her "one acre of land lying in the river meadow joining to the meadow of William Fletcher"; also to her and her two sisters, thirty pounds, the "legacies to be paid at the residence of my son Joseph in Chelmsford, at price current or corn or cattle.".7,2,8 Click to view image

Children of Mary Farwell and John Bates

Citations

  1. [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), 48.
  2. [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.
  3. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 226.
  4. [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-16?? (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-200?). The Great Migration Study Project is ongoing. Several volumes have been published in hardcopy, and new sketches appear frequently in the "Great Migration Newsletter" (online subscription or hardcopy). The database is online and may be viewed at New England Ancestors.org or Ancestry.com, both of which are subscription sites. It is also available in hardcover and CD-ROM from NEHGS, citing Farwell Genealogy, 1: 45.
  5. [S184] Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, compilers, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927, 2 volumes (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1929), 1: 45.
  6. [S111] Chelmsford VR (published), 364.
  7. [S190] Nora Emma Snow and Myrtle Mae Jillson, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 volumes (Hillburn, New York: Snow, 1939), 1: 303-305.
  8. [S682] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2005), 874.
  9. [S184] Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, Farwell Family, 45.