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About Joseph Farnsworth
Biography
From “Matthias Farnsworth and his descendants in America,”. Page 13:
JOSEPH FARNSWORTH AND HIS FAMILY.
Joseph Farnsworth of Dorchester, Mass., is the first person bearing the name of Farnsworth that we know of in this country. He is first heard of there about 1632, but he probably came over with the Dorchester Company, though perhaps not in the first vessel. He was admitted freeman March 14, 1638-9. Another Joseph Farnsworth, probably his son, was admitted freeman May 2, 1649. The name is spelled in the record in both cases "ffarnworth." He died Jan. 12, 1660, and his will was proved and is recorded in Suffolk Registry of Wills, vol. i., fol. 327, and has been printed in the Historic-Genealogical Register, vol. IX., p. 140. He provides in it for his wife, whom he calls " Mary, formerly wife of John Long and Thomas Long." He also gives legacies to his daughters, Elizabeth, wife of John Mansfield; Esther, Mary, wife of Abraham Ripley ; his grandson, ** Joseph Peck, son of Simon Peck, who married with Hannah, my daughter, now deceased," and Rebecca, and also to his eldest son Joseph, although he had, as he says, " already assisted him greatly," and the rest to his son Samuel, who appears to have been a minor. The inventory returned amounted to ;;^2o6 i8s. 2d.
Joseph's first wife's name was Elizabeth, surname unknown. After Joseph's death his widow very soon married John Wilcock, then resident at Dorchester. She was executor of her husband "ffarnworth's " will, and joining her husband Wilcock she made a deed of part of his land, April 20, i66o, to William Pond : Suffolk Deeds, B. VII., fol. 296.
Family
His first wife was Elizabeth (Mason?)
Children:
- Mary (Farnsworth) Ripley
- Hannah (Farnsworth) Peck
- Rebecca (Farnsworth) Ruggles
- Rebecca ‘Ruth’ (Farnsworth) Puffer
He married second Mary (Lane) Long, widow of John Long. They had one child, Samuel Farnsworth. Mary Farnsworth married 3) John Wilcox.
Children of Joseph
Since Joseph Farnsworth married his 2nd wife Mary (Lane) Long after May 1651 (when she was called Mary Long by her father's will), Elizabeth was probably the mother of all Joseph's children except Samuel.[2]
- Joseph - poss. bp. 24 Dec 1626
- Elizabeth - m. John Mansfield
- Esther/Hester - poss. bp. 30 Jun 1633
- Rachel ‘Ruth’ Farnsworth - married Matthias Puffer
- Mary - b. March 4, 1637 married Abraham Ripley
- Hannah - b. Dec. 14, 1638, married Simon Peck, she died before her father.
- Rebecca - b. Jan. 2, 1639/40, married March 18, 1662 John Ruggles.
- Ruth - b. June 3, 1642 married William Puffer. (Probably didn’t exist)
- Samuel - married Sarah daughter of Thomas Stoughton, Jr. in 1667 in Windsor, Connecticut.
Notes about Rebecca / Ruth Puffer
Zubrinsky in his article "To Say It Doesn't Make It So: Clues to the Probably Identity of the Wife of Jonathan Bliss of Rehoboth, Massachusetts" (footnotes on p. 36) calls it a fact that Ruth Farnsworth is undoubtedly identical with Matthias Puffer's first wife Rachel Farnsworth. Zubrinsky says:
(Quote): "The facts are these: Joseph Farnsworth's daughter Ruth was born at Dorchester on '3d. (4th.) [June] 1642' and baptized there on '4 mo: decimo [16]42' ... Immediately after her baptismal record is the parenthesized update, 'to mr puffer.' There being no further record of Ruth (and none at all of putative husband William), she is undoubtedly identical with Matthias Puffer's first wife Rachel, of whom there is no record until her marriage to Puffer at Braintree, '1 mo [March] 18, 1662,' the same date and place as the marriage of Joseph Farnsworth's daughter Rebecca (29 months older than 'Ruth') ... Joseph Farnsworth inexplicably mentions neither a Ruth nor a Rachel in his will, dated at Dorchester, 2 Jan 1659 ... While the evidence of Rachel Farnsworth's origin is thus not quite definitive, there is none whatsoever of a second-generation William Puffer."[10]
10. Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, "To Say It Doesn't Make It So: Clues to the Probable Identity of the Wife of Jonathan Bliss of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (Jan 1997), 151:36-7 footnote.[https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-... subscription
References
- Farnsworth, Claudius Buchanan, 1815-1897. Matthias Farnsworth and his descendants in America, (Pawtucket RI, the author: 1891), Internet Archive E-Book: [1], p. 13-14; giving m1. Elizabeth, info for ch Joseph, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary, Hannah, Leonora, Rebecca, Ruth, Samuel. < Archive.Org >
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 27 2023, 18:50:08 UTC
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Joseph Farnsworth's Timeline
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1610
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Prestwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
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1635
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Windsor, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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1636
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Hingham, Massachusetts
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March 30, 1637
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Dorchester, Massachusetts
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January 2, 1638
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Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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December 14, 1638
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Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1640
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Dorchester, Massachusetts
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June 3, 1642
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, United States
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July 14, 1656
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Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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