RUGGLES, Mehitable

Mehitable married PENNIMAN, Samuel on 9 Feb 1733 in MA. Samuel was born in CA 1709 in MA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph married TWELLS, Susanna in 1698 in Braintree, MA. Susanna was born in 1670 in Braintree, MA; died on 31 Jul 1727 in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married FARNSWORTH, Rebeccah. Rebeccah (daughter of FARNSWORTH, Joseph Sr. and MASON, Elizabeth) was born on 2 Jan 1640 in Dorchester, MA; died on 28 Oct 1714 in Braintree, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Rebecca Farnsworth
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• Birth: 2 Jan 1640

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Notes:

He was the first person bearing the name of Farnsworth that we know of in this country. He is first heard of there about 1632, but 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. 1, folio 327, and has been printed in the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, Vol IX, page 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 L 206.18 S.  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, 1660, to William Pond (Suffolk Deeds b. VII folio 296). He was a cooper, according to his son, Samuel.

Joseph married MASON, Elizabeth on 29 Dec 1625 in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England. Elizabeth was born in CA 1600 in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England; died on 30 May 1647 in Dorchester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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