Moses Farnum

Moses Farnum was born, son of John C. Farnum, Jr of Chockalog (Nipmuc "for dry fox place or burned place") at Uxbridge (then Mendon), Massachusetts Colony, on Sept. 8, 1701, and died Sept. 8th of 1770.

See Wikipedia writeup on the Moses Farnum House.

(IV) Moses Farnum, son of John Farnum (3), was born at Mendon. September 8, 1705. died at

Uxbridge, Massachusetts, September 8, 1770. The- part of Mendon in which he was born was set off in 1727 as the town of Uxbridge. He was a farmer and lived in Uxbridge on the farm afterwards known as the Daniel Farnum place and later as the Martin Brown place, about east from what is now called Happy Hollow, and perhaps three-quarters of a mile from the Hollow. He and his wife were Presbyterians in religion until late in life when they became Friends, according to the biographer of his son. He had one acre of land granted by the proprietors, March 21. 1745-46, adjoining David Aldrich's. His father conveyed to him, April 25, 1743, two hundred acres in Uxbridge. He bought a farm of fifty-three acres in Douglas, November 27, 1738, but seemed to prefer Uxbridge as a home. He bought of Robert Clark, of Uxbridge, forty-eight acres at a place in Uxbridge called Hoop Pole Hill. October 20, 1742. He also bought land of Ephraim Hill in Douglas, May 20, 1737; of David Read, in Uxbridge land at Shockologue, March 5, 1742-43; of Jacob Aldrich in Uxbridge, March 2, 1742-43; of Benjamin Taft in Uxbridge, December 20, 1743; of Joseph Damon in Uxbridge, October 2, 1749. The aggregate of his land purchased was over six hundred acres. His will is dated May 25, 1768, and was allowed November 12, 1770. In it he mentions the cedar swamp at Shockologue and other property.

He was a farmer in Uxbridge and Douglas. Moses Farnum's descendent, EB Farnum, became Mayor of and was a pioneer at Deadwood, South Dakota. Moses Farnum was a prominent landowner in the pre-Revolutionary War era of Colonial Massachusetts. The site of the Moses Farnum farm and house became the site of a Quaker Meeting House, Friends Meetinghouse (Uxbridge, Massachusetts) circa 1770. Quakers from Smithfield, Rhode Island, abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown who founded Brown University, and who were among the first in America to free slaves, settled here. Moses Farnum's father, John C. Farnum, Jr., who died in 1749 is also buried in the Quaker Cemetery at this site.

PROBATE: Memorandum. The twenty sixth Day of September in the Year 1737. I, Seth Aldrich Senr. of Uxbridge in the County of Worcester and province of ye. Massachusetts Bay in new England. A Farmer being sick and weak but of a sound and perfect mind & Memory....

PROBATE: Lastly, I Constitute & ordain my Beloved Son Abel Aldrich and my Beloved friend Moses Farnum to be ye sole Exrs. of this my Last will & Testament.

Possible tree:

Ralph Farnum, b abt 1603 probably in Rochester, Kent Co England, and d. bef 1648 in Ipswich, Essex CO MA. He married 1 Oct 1627 prob in Rochester, Kent CO England to Alice --. She b. abt 1607 in England. This family emigrated from England, arriving in Boston MA on the ship, "James" in late September 1635. He was a barber-surgeon who lectured people on theology while he shaved them. He was a proprietor in Ipswich MA in 1639. That same year he was appointed "town crier" for "ringing the bell, keeping clean the meeting house and publishing such things as the town shall appoint..." He died in the snow in Roxbury MA while going on a visit to visit a patient. After his death, his wife Allice, m2) in Gloucester MA to Solomon Martin.

The immigrant, Ralph Farnum, arrived in Boston with his family on the James in late September 1635. His origin in Rochester, Kent, was first proven by Mr. Farnham in an article published in the January 1994 issue of The American Genealogist, thereby refuting the long-held belief that Ralph was a merchant tailor from London. Ralph settled in Ipswich and probably died there about 1647. All of his children moved to Andover, Massachusetts. In the next generations, as the Indian wars eventually abated and new communities opened up for settlement, his descendants scattered across northern New England, to places such as Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Concord, New Hampshire, and Rumford, York, Lebanon and Belgrade, Maine.

Ralph and Alice were 9th great grandparents of President Gerald R. Ford.

Children of Ralph & Alice Farnum:

1. Mary Farnum, b. bef 13 July 1628 in Rochester, Kent, England (Ancestor of Gerald Ford as follows:

Daniel Poor m. Mary Farnum

Mary Poor m. John Noyes

John Noyes Jr. m. Mary Thurlo

Elizabeth Noyes m. William Adams

Sarah Adams m. Daniel Ayer

Samuel Ayer m. Polly Chase

John Varnum Ayer m. Elida Vanderburgh Manney

George Manney Ayer m. Amy Gridley Butler

Adela Augusta Ayer m. Levi Addison Gardner

Dorothy Ayer Gardner m. Leslie Lynch King

Leslie Lynch King Jr. (name changed to Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.) (38th President USA) [AAP 276]

2. Thomas Farnum, b. 10 Apr 1631 in St. Nicholas Parish, Rochester, Kent, England

3. Ralph II Farnum, b. 4 Aug 1633 in St. Nicholas Parish, Rochester, Kent, England

4. Sarah Farnum, b. abt 1638 prob Ipswich Essex CO MA (Sarah is the 4th grandmother of US President Rutherford B. Hayes as follows:

Sarah Farnum m. George Abbott Jr.

Lydia Abbott m. Henry Chandler

Isaac Chandler m. Abigail Hale

Abigail Chandler m. Israel Smith

Chloe Smith m. Rutherford Hayes

Rutherford Hayes Jr. m. Sophia Birchard

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (19th President USA) [AAP 276]

5. +John Farnum, b. abt 1640, prob Ipswich Essex CO MA

6. Alice Farnum, b. abt 1638 in Ipswich, Essex CO MA

John Farnum, son of Ralph & Alice Farnum, was b. abt 1640 prob in Ipswich MA, and d. 17 June 1723 in Andover MA. He married 12 Nov 1667 in Andover MA to Rebecca Kent, prob dau of Stephen & Margery (Norris) Kent. She b. 3 Aug 1650 in Newbury MA, and d. 8 Feb 1728/29 in Andover MA.

Children of John & Rebecca (Kent) Farnum:

1. John Farnum, b. 20 Jan 1669/1670 in Andover MA, died young

2. +John Farnum, b. 13 APR 1672 in Andover MA

3. Stephen Farnum, b. 19 Oct 1674 in Andover MA

4. Anne Farnum, b. 11 Dec 1677 in Andover MA

5. David Farnum, b. 7 Oct 1781 in Andover MA

6. Jonathan Farnum, b. 27 APR 1684 in Andover MA

7. Thomas Farnum, b. 11 Aug 1687 in Andover MA

8. David Farnum, b. 4 APR 1690 in Andover MA

John Farnum, son of John & Rebecca (Kent) Farnum, b. 13 APR 1672 in Andover MA, and d. 9 Sep 1749 in Uxbridge MA; he built a house overlooking the Mumford River abt 1719 in Uxbridge MA. He and wife Abigail joined the First Evangelical Church in 1744/45. His son John was executor of his estate. He married 30 June 1693 in Andover MA to Mary Tyler, dau of Hopestill & Mary (Lovett) Tyler. She b. 31 Jan 1668/69 in Mendon MA. After her death, he married 2d) 2 Nov 1733 in Uxbridge MA to Abigail Eastman, dau of Phillip & Mary (Barnard) Eastman. She b. 29 May 1689 in Haverhill MA, and d. 21 Feb 1759 in Uxbridge MA.

Children of John & Mary (Tyler) Farnum:

1. Mary Farnum, b. 16 March 1693/94 Andover MA

2. Anne Farnum, b. 18 Jan 1695/96 Andover MA

3. +John Farnum, b. 26 DEC 1697 Andover MA

4. Ann Farnum, b. 3 June 1701 Mendon MA

5. Moses Farnum, b. 8 Sep 1703 in Mendon MA.