Ens. Joseph Farwell

Married by Samuel Adams dec 25th,1666 Chelmsford Mass

Will:

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published

to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell

In presence of us

Ames Chever

Samuel Moody

John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

The will proves that Hannah was alive on 13 Nov 1711. I don't see that it proves she was living when the will is said to have been probated, on 16 Jan 1722/3. Or does someone have that documentation? In any case, there's no reason to doubt that Hannah was the mother of all Joseph's children.

Henry FARWELL 

Birth: 1601/5, Boston, LIN

Death: 1 Aug 1670, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA

Event: 14 Mar 1639, admitted Freeman, Concord, Middlesex Co., MA

Occupation: tailor

Father: William FARWELL

Mother: Ms. __?__

Marriage: 16 Apr 1629, St. Botolph's Church, Boston, LIN

Transhumance: ca. 1636, to America

Wife: Olive WELBY

Baptism: 17 Jun 1604, Moulton, LIN

Death: 1 Mar 1691/2, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA

Father: Richard WELBY

Mother: Frances BULKELEY

Children:

— born in Boston, LIN:

1. Elizabeth FARWELL, bap. 27 May 1630; d. 9 Nov 1670, Taunton, Bristol Co., MA; m. Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA, Joseph WILDBOR / WILBUR / WILBORE

2. Samuel FARWELL, bap. 9 Jun 1633; d. 20 Jun 1634, Boston, LIN

— born in Concord, Middlesex Co., MA:

3. John FARWELL, b. 25 Oct 1635; d. 1686, Concord, Middlesex Co., MA; m1. 4 Nov 1658, Concord, Middlesex Co., MA, Sarah WHEELER; m2. 23 May 1662, Sarah FISKE

4. Mary FARWELL, b. 26 Dec 1640; d. 7 Mar 1713, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA; m. 22 Dec 1665, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA, John BATES

5. Joseph FARWELL, b. 20 Feb 1642

6. Olive FARWELL, b. 1647; m. 30 Oct 1668, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., MA, Benjamin SPALDING / SPAULDING

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