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	21 Apr 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	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• 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.