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About Ann Farley

Thomas Farley emigrated to Virginia, with his wife and one servant, Nicholas Shotter. Thev landed at Archer's Hook, a projection of land opposite Jamestown, Va., 4 Feb. ,1624, on the ship Anne, the third ship after the May Flower. They had a child, Anne.

From From Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality, p. 230 https://archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft/page/244

Archer's Hope, James City

Thomas Farley came in the Ann 1623

  • Jane his wife in the same Shipp
  • Ann a Child

born either aboard ship or within a year after landing (Thomas Farley, "ux Farley", and "a Child" are also in the Lists of Living, same address, the year before).


From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lee/19946/

Husband Col. Richard LEE Birth:1620 Richmond [County], Virginia

Father:James LEE Mother:

Wife Ann FARLEY Birth:1623 Archers Hope, Richmond [County], Virginia [or] Birth:1625 Archers Hope, James City, Virginia


From https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.farley/1032.2.1.1.3/mb.ashx

DAVID HALLE, GENEALOGIST FOR THE SOCIETY OF THE LEES OF VIRGINIA, HAS PROVEN BEYOND A DOUBT THAT RICHARD LEE MARRIED ANNE CONSTABLE. REFERENCE: THE LEES OF VIRGINIA - SEVEN GENERATIONS OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY, PAUL C. NAGLE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, FIRST ISSUED 1992.

IT REMAINS UNKNOWN WHO ANN FARLEY MARRIED.

THE MYTH THAT ANN FARLEY MARRIED RICHARD LEE IS ONE THAT HAS BEEN PERPETUATED FOR YEARS WITH NO EVIDENCE. GENEALOGY WITHOUT EVIDENCE IS MYTHOLOGY.

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Ann Farley's Timeline

1624
1624
On board ship “Ann”
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