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- Baptized in Hingham on Sept. 17, 1654. Married 1st on Dec. 5,1683 Mar y, d au. of John and Mary Garnet, or Gardner. He married 2nd, Mrs. Joan na Whito n, widow of Thomas Whiton, and dau. of Samuel May . This was h er third ma rriage. Nathan's will was dated Oct. 7, 1715 and proved on O ct. 14,171 8. It names his wife and all of his children. He resided at " Liberty Plai n,' in south Hingham, MA. Ref. Lincoln's "Hist. of the To wn of Hingham ," p. 215 -216.; Savage, "Dict. First Settler of NE," p. 1 47. Oct. 15,1691, "Nathan Farrow of the town of Hingham ....., carpenter, a n d Mary his wife" sold to Isaac Johnson of Hingham, carpenter, "his hous e s & several parcels of land lying & being in the said township of Hingh am ," including his "dwelling house with the barn & all that peice of l a nd on which the houses doth stand which contains three quarters of an a c re of land,"...with pervisions for maintaining the fencing, "accordi n g as was engaged by John Farrow that purchased the said land of the sa i d Nathaniel Baker, also one small parcel or strip of land granted by t h e inhabitants of Hingham to the John Farrow lying between the fresh mea d ow of the heirs of siad Nathaniel Baker & the causeway that leads to t he b ridge..., also four acres of land lying & being in said Hingham ne ar to Tu rkey Hill..., all the abovesaid hereby granted & bargained hou ses & lan ds were given to the said Nathan Farrow by his father John Fa rrow decease d, also one share of the undivided common lands in said Hi ngham, also a ll his piece of swamp meadow land lying in Hingham at a p lace called Pope 's Hole ... which siad piece of swamp land the said Na than Farrow lately p urchased of the inhabitants of the said town of Hi ngham" (SLR 14:405-408). Baptism recorded in "The Hobart Journal", NEHGR Vol. 121, p. 104. Marri ag e, same source, p. 213.
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