Daniel Forbush, Jr.

From http://scottishprisonersofwar.com/daniel-forbush/

Surname variations: Forbes, Farrabus, Farrabas, Forbush, Forbysh, Fforbes, Ffarrabas, Fferebas, Furbush, Farrowbush, Farrabush Name may have changed in this order in New England: Farrabus>Forbush>Forbes

First Generation in the New World

1. DANIEL¹ FORBES/FARRABAS, was born in Scotland and died in Marlborough, Massachusetts in Oct 1687. He married, first, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 27 Mar 1660, REBECCA/H PERRIMAN. He married, second, in Cambridge on 22 May 1679, DEBORAH REDIAT.

Biographical Notes:

Daniel’s widow, “Mrs. Deborah Farrowbush” married on 22 May 1688, ALEXANDER STUART. They moved to North Brookfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts and you can read about them at: History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts by Josiah Howard Temple, page 588-591.

Children of Daniel and Rebeccah (Perriman) Forbes:

• 2. i. DANIEL² FORBUSH, born at Cambridge on 20 Nov 1664 [VR below], married Unknown (_____).
• 2. ii. THOMAS² FORBUSH, b. at Cambridge on 7 Mar 1667, married DORCAS RICE.
• 2. iii. ELIZABETH² FORBUSH, b. at Cambridge, 16 Mar 1669; d. at Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts on 27 Apr 1746; m. ROGER BRUCE.
• 2. iv. REBECCA² FORBUSH, b. at Concord on 15 Feb 1671/2; d. at Westboro on 28 Jan 1768 age 93, m. JOSEPH BYLES.
• 2. v. SAMUEL² FORBUSH, born about 1674; married ABIGAIL RICE.

Children of Daniel and Deborah (Rediat) Forbes:

• 2 . vi. JOHN² FORBUSH, born in 1681; married MARTHA BOWKER.
• 2. vii. ISAAC² FORBUSH, b. on 30 Oct 1682, Nothing further known.
• 2. viii. JONATHAN² FORBUSH, b. on 12 Mar 1684, m. HANNAH HOLLOWAY.

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Daniel Forbes, is the first known Forbush in America. Drawn from documentary evidence, Daniel was a Scottish soldier in the battle of Dunbar on 3 September, 1650. He was captured with others and deported by Cromwell's order to the New England Colony. Note that he escaped to Maine with his brother William (undocumented email). So when did he return to MA?

The first record of Daniel Fforbes or Forbes or Ffarrabas that I can find in this country is in Cambridge, Mass., when he married, March 26, 1660 Rebecca Perriman. It was customary in the early colonial times for the males over twenty to be admitted as freemen* The privilege was earnestly desired by every man, and all freemen at that early period were required to be "orthodox" members of the Church,twenty years old, and worth 200 pounds.The name, Daniel Forbes, pronounced as two syllables in Scotland was heard Ffarrabas and written down as Forbush. That is when the name Forbush started. He is the father of many with the last name Forbush.

"The New England Historical & Genealogical Register And Antiquarian Journal". 2017. Google Books. Accessed March 24 2017. https://books.google.com/books?id=YQcQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&d... page 135]

ON CHANGES IN SURNAMES.

[Communicated (or the Register.]

The mutations, which some family names have undergone from the varying orthography adopted from time to time, (for the most part, no doubt, by town clerks and other public recorders during the early period of our country's settlement,) have been such, that, in the course of three or four generations, the knowledge among descendants that they had one common ancestor in this country has been lost, and, with it, their family identity. This change is still going on—to trace the descendants of some of the early settlers to the present time, from public records, has therefore become extremely difficult.

In Middlesex Co. records of marriages, births and deaths is found the name of Ffarrabas—what it has become may be seen by the following, as appears of record:

"Daniel Ffarrabas and Rebecca Perriman (Penniman ?) were married, March 26, 1660." They were married at Cambridge, and resided there. "Daniel Fferebas, servant to Edmund Wigley, warned out of town."—Middlesex Court Files, June 8, 1668.

"Rebecca, wife of Daniel Ffarrabas, died [at Cambridge] May 3, 1677." He removed to Concord, where "daniel Ffarrabas married Deborah Redeat (Rediat) May 22, 1679." They removed to Marlboro', where " Daniel Ffarrabas died, Oct., 1687."

"Alexander Stewart and Deborah Farrowbush, both of Marlboro', were married May 22, 1688;" she was the widow and second wife of Daniel fTarrabas, and died at Marlboro', April 22, 1720, aged 68—another record says she died April 22, 1721. She was the third wife of Alexander Stewart, who died there, April 6, 1731.—Marl. Rec.

The children of Daniel Ffarrabas, by wives Rebecca and Deborah, were Daniel, born at Cambridge, March 20, 1664; Thomas, do., March 7, 1667; Elizabeth, do., March 16, 1669; Rebecca, born at Concord, Feb. 15, 1671-2; John, born at Marlboro', , 1681; Isaac, do., Oct. 30, 1682; Jonathan, do., March 23, 1684, and, by wife Hannah, was father of eight children at Marlboro', where the parents are called JonaThan and Hannah Forbt/sh. This Jonathan Forbush, son of Daniel ffarrabas, was afterwards of Westboro', and a Deacon there by the name of Jonathan Forbes. This last name was spoken as having two syllables, For-bes, but is now reduced to one, as if it were Forbs.

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700". 2017. Google Books. Accessed March 24 2017. page 274