Rev. Stephen Farrar

Stephen married Eunice Brown in 1764.

From this union came 13 children. Eunice, Stephen, Eunice, James, Isaac Brown, Samuel, Prentice, Polly, Moses, Lydia, Caleb, Nancy and Ephraim Hartwell.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1755, being a classmate of John Adams, second president of the United States, fitted for the ministry, and commenced preaching at New Ipswich before he had completed his twenty-first year, was called to settle in the following year, and is believed to have drawn up the covenant under which a year later he organized the church over which he was first ordained pastor; this position he retained until his death, almost half a century after his ordination, his entire ministry somewhat exceeding that period. The story of his pastorate is a part of the
church history and is presented on a preceding page, but its enduring influence is evidenced by the tablet placed with appropriate services, one hundred years after his death, beside the pulpit of the building which has succeeded the place of his ministry. He represented the town in the Third Provincial Congress, held in May 1775. His home during the greater part of his pastorate was in the house at the corner formed by the Turnpike and the road leading from the summit of the hill northward to the Mill or Starch Factory Brook, but his last few years were passed in the house built by his son Stephen a short distance to the southwest, about equally distant from his earlier home and the old "meeting-house upon the hill."

Source: The History of New Ipswich, N.H.1735-1914, Charles Henry Chandler, page 395,396.

Gravesite Details
Buried: June 23, 1809