Puffer Genealogy
FARNSWORTH, Joseph Sr.
1610 - 1660 (50 years)-
Name FARNSWORTH, Joseph Suffix Sr. Birth 1610 Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England Gender Male _COLOR 3 Death 12 Jan 1659/60 Dorchester, MA Person ID I2761 Puffers Last Modified 5 Apr 2021
Father FARNSWORTH, Richard, b. Abt 1584, Eccles, Lancashire, England d. Between 1616 and 1675, England (Age 32 years) Mother MARSHE, Elizabeth, b. 1 Nov 1584, Eccles, Lancashire, England d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 12 Jan 1607/8 Eccles, Lancashire, England Family ID F5514 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 LANE, Mary, b. 1614, Beaminster, Dorset, England d. 3 Apr 1671, Middletown, CT (Age 57 years) Children 1. FARNSWORTH, Esther, b. 30 Jun 1633, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F699 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 May 2024
Family 2 MASON, Elizabeth, b. CA 1600, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England d. 30 May 1647, Dorchester, MA (Age 47 years) Marriage 29 Dec 1625 Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England Children 1. FARNSWORTH, Joseph Jr., b. CA 1627, England d. Bef 1727 (Age < 99 years) 2. FARNSWORTH, Elizabeth, b. Dec 1630, Hingham, MA d. 22 Nov 1672, Hingham, MA (Age 41 years) 3. FARNSWORTH, Mary, b. Abt 1629 d. Yes, date unknown 4. FARNSWORTH, Mary, b. Abt 1629 d. Yes, date unknown 5. FARNSWORTH, Hannah, b. 14 Dec 1638, Dorchester, MA d. 1659, Hingham, MA (Age 20 years) 6. FARNSWORTH, Leonora, b. Bef 14 Nov 1639, Dorchester, MA d. Bef 1739, MA (Age < 99 years) 7. FARNSWORTH, Rebeccah, b. 2 Jan 1640, Dorchester, MA d. 28 Oct 1714, Braintree, MA (Age 74 years) 8. FARNSWORTH, Rachel, b. Mar 1642, Braintree, MA d. 14 Jul 1675, Mendon, MA (Age 33 years) 9. FARNSWORTH, Ruth, b. 3 Jun 1642, Dorchester, MA d. 1686, Braintree, MA (Age 43 years) 10. FARNSWORTH, Samuel Sr, b. 14 Jul 1656, Dorchester, MA d. Bef 1756, MA (Age < 99 years) Family ID F981 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 May 2024
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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.