Genealogical Notices of the Earliest Inhabitants of Woburn and Their Families The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., from the grant of its territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the year 1860., Sewall, Samuel, 1785-1868. John Farrar was admitted an inhabitant of Woburn at the Town Meeting Feb 1655/6? to choose town officers for 1656. He is presumed to have been a brother of Jacob Farrar of Lancaster who appears from the following record in Woburn Town Book, to have died at Woburn: "John Ffarer, Sen. died August 14, 1677." His widow, Ann* was married to John Seirs of Woburn as his 2nd wife on Nov 2, 1680. To John Farrar were born: (1) Mary b. April 10, 1656. (2) Jacob b. Oct 22, 1657, died of the small-pox June 1679. (3) Isaac b. Dec 16, 1659, died in a fortnight after. (4) Joanna b. April 9, 1661, m. Robert Dayle, 1650 (5) Mercy b. April 1, 1663. (6) Hannah b. Jan 22, 1667/8; m. John Wyman, wheelwright Dec 14, 1685. (7) Isaac b. July 1, 1671. John Farrar died July 11, 1690. His wife's name* and the date of her death ar not known. Insert: Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - has several contradictions as follows: p.259 Jacob Farrar (1614 to ?) & 1st wife, Grace Dean m. Nov 21, 1640, Halifax, England. Jacob Farrar 2 (1614 to 1677) & 2nd wife *Ann ___? who m. (2) John Sears in 1680 in England. Lancaster/Woburn. John Farrar (b.?1611; d. 1690) & 2nd wife (Savage doesnt have 1st wife) Joanna ___? (d. 1687 or 1701+); Woburn. p.611 - Woburn - cont'd. FARRAR. Isaac Farrar's name not occuring on the Woburn Province Tax Lists for 1714, 1715, he is supposed to have previously removed from the town.

1 of 10 hits on Farrar in my data. Let me know if you want more. The Richardson Memorial 1580 Thomas Richardson Thomas Richardson, 3 (Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1), half-brother of the preceding, son of Samuel, 2 and Sarah (Hayward) Richardson; born in Woburn, Sept. 25, 1684; Married, in Watertown, Sept. 29, 1713, Rebecca Wyman, 3 born in Woburn, Nov. 11, 1693, eldest daughter of Samuel 2 and Rebecca (Johnson) Wyman, of Woburn, and Granddaughter of Francis 1 and Abigail (Reed) Wyman, also of Woburn. + He passed a long life in Woburn. He died there Jan. 12, 1774 aged 93. [Gravestone.] His Wife rebecca, who was a grand daughter of Matthew Johnson, whose father was Capt. Edward Johnson, Author of the "Wonder-Working Providence," "the father of Woburn," died April 11, 1771, aged 78. [79, Gravestone.] His will is dated Nov. 8, 1771. In it he makes bequests to the children of his son Thomas, late of Worcester, Deceased, viz.: Peter of Shrewsbury, who was over fourteen in 1760, etc. To the children of his son Eleazar, deceased. To his son Ralph, of Sutton. To his sons Ebenezer, David, Israel, and Lemuel, of Sutton. To Jonas, Thomas and Sarah Richardson, of Shrewsbury. To Palmer and Lucretia Golding. To Lucretia Richardson, of Worcester. To David Richardson, jr., of Woburn. To his Grandchildren, Eleazar Richardson and Rebecca Collins, of Lynn. Finally, to his son Zebadiah Richardson and children. The Children of Thomas and Rebecca (Wyman) Richardson were: 1706. Thomas, 4 b. Feb. 15, 1713-14; m. Mehitable --. 1707. Eleazar, 4 b. May 22, 1715; m. Susanna Carter. 1708. Rebecca, 4 b. Dec. 21, 1716; d. Feb. 13, 1717-18. 1709. Isaiah, 4 b. Oct. 13, 1718; d. Feb. 16, 1722-3 [Gravestone] 1710. Ralph, 4 b. Jan. 3, 1719-20; Married ---. 1711. Matthew, 4 b. April 9, 1721; Feb. 11, 1722-3 1712. Ebenezer, 4 b. Aug. 26, 1722; m. first, Mary Richardson; Second, Sarah Richardson 1713. Rebecca, 4 b. Nov. 12, 1724; d. Feb. 12, 1729-30 1714. David, 4 b. Sept. 15, 1726; m. Rebecca ---. 1715. Zebadiah, 4 b. July 2, 1728; m. First Sarah Barron; second Esther Swan. 1716. Israel, 4 b. July 2, 1730; m. first Elizabeth Hutchinson; second Miriam Wheeler. 1717. Lemuel, 4 b. July 31, 1734; m. Anna Preston. 1718. Sarah, 4 b. Sept. 11, 1737; m. ---Wyman. + Rebecca Wyman, in the text, had three sisters, who all married Richardsons. Her sister Abigail married Jonathan, brother of Thomas in the text. Esther married Reuben Richardson , and Lydia married Oliver Richardson brother of Reuben. Thomas, in the text was in "Lovewells fight" at Pigwacket, May 8, 1725, O. S., and was one of the nine who escaped unhurt. Some account of his remarkable encounter will not here be out of place. During the war with the Abenaquis or Eastern Indians, from 1722 to 1726, the government of Massachusetts, for the protection of the frontiers, offered a bounty of 100 pounds for Indian scalps and captives. In pursuance of this encouragement, Capt. John Lovewell, of Dunstable, with a company of volunteers, undertook three expeditions; one in December, 1724, one in January and February, 1725 and a third in April and May 1725. They were under a commission from the Government of Massachusetts to which Province Dunstable then belonged. About the 16th of April, 1725, Capt. Lovewell, with forty-six men, left Dunstable on a third expedition. They went up the Merrimack River, and its main branch, the Pemigewasset; and, when well up the latter stream, appear to have struck off eastward through the present town of Moultonborough to Ossipee Lake. At the Locality Just named, a man, Benjamin Kidder, of Nutfield [Londonderry], being taken sick, they halted, constructed a rude Fort, for a place of refuge, if needed, and left the sick man, with the surgeon, and eight others, with a considerable amount of provision, in the fort. This reduced their number to 34, Including the captain; two others from disability, having been left at Contoocook, now Boscawen The names of the men who now went forward, and took part in the fight, are these, Capt. John Lovewell, Lieutenants Joseph Farwell, and Johnathan Robins, Ensign John Harwood, Sergeant Noah Johnson, Robert Usher, and Samuel Whiting, All of Dunstable; Ensign Seth Wyman, Corporal Thomas Richardson, Timothy Richardson, Ichabod Johnson, and Josiah Johnson, of Woburn; Eleazar Davis, Josiah Davis, Josiah Jones, David Melvin, Eleazar Melvin, Jacob Farrar, and Joseph Farrar, of Concord; Jonathan Fry, of Andover, Chaplain; Sergeant Jacob Fullam, of Weston; Corporal Edward Lingfield, of Nutfield, now Londonderry; Jonathan Kittredge and Solomon Keys [pronounced Kies], of Billerica; John Jefts, Daniel Woods, Thomas Woods, John Chamberlain [who killed Paugus, the Indian chief], Elias Barron, Isaac Lakin, and Joseph Gilson, of Groton; Ebenezer Ayre, and Abiel Asten, of Haverhill. Four grandsons of Major Johnson are here included. They soon came to the headwaters of the Saco River, thirty miles or more from their fort at Ossipee, and reached a pond or lake in the present town of Fryburg, by the side of which they encamped. The Pigwacket or Pequaket [Indian] villages were now near at hand. Early in the morning of Saturday, May 8, while at prayers, they heard the discharge of a gun; and soon saw an Indian, they supposed, was placed there for a decoy. Marching toward the Indian, some of the men fired upon him. He returned fire, and the first shot mortally wounded Capt. Lovewell. Ensign Seth Wyman then fired, and killed the Indian. Some delay now took place while the company were looking for their packs, which had been left in the rear, and covertly removed by the Indians. About ten o'clock in the forenoon, a large body of Indians rose, in two parties, in front and rear, and with a hideous yell, ran toward the English with arms presented. The English also presented arms, and ran to meet them. The Captain now dead, and the two Lieutenants soon after disabled by wounds, the command now devolved on Ensign Wyman for the remainder of the day. The fight was maintained with great obstinacy and resolution on both sides; Indians had every advantage, being supposed to be seventy, some say eighty in number, and enclosing the English on both front and rear. The latter, at the outset were, but thirty-four, all told, and of this number nine were slain, soon after the fight began. But the Indians suffered the most; forty of them were killed on the spot; eighteen more died of their wounds, and only twelve escaped injury. Of the thirty-four whites who engaged in the conflict only nine escaped unhurt. viz.: Ensign Seth Wyman, and Thomas Richardson, of Woburn, Daniel Melvin, Eleazar Melvin, and Joseph Farrar, of Concord, Joseph Gilson of Groton, Ebenezer Ayre and Abiel Asten, of Haverhill, and Edward Lingfield, of Londonderry. Nine were badly wounded, Viz.: Timothy Richardson and Josiah Johnson, of Woburn, Noah Johnson, and Samuel Whiting of Dunstable, John Chamberlain, Isaac Lakin, * Eleazar Davis, Josiah Jones of Concord, Solomon Keys, of Billerica. Some of these were made invalids or cripples for life. Ichabod Johnson, of Woburn, son of Capt. Edward Johnson, of that part of Woburn which is now Burlington, was killed; and the blow gave the fond father a shock which brought him to his grave three months after, viz.: Aug. 7, 1725. Some of those who escaped the carnage suffered extremely from hunger, having scarcely tasted food from Saturday morning till Wednesday night on there arrival at Dunstable. The ten men who had been left at the fort quitted on it Sunday morning, being frightened by the report which was brought to them by Benjamin Hassell, who seeing that the English were greatly outnumbered, deserted his companions at the very beginning of the battle, and went to their homes, leaving the exhausted, wounded, suffering men who came out of the fight, to take care of themselves. Those who left the fatal battle ground were twenty in number, of whom eleven were badly wounded, and two died of their wounds before reaching anyplace where their wounds could be dressed. Woburn and the whole country, was in mourning for the precious lives lost in this encounter. But the power of the Indians of New England never recovered from the disaster they sustained. [From Sewell's History of Woburn, pp. 195 et seq., with additions by the compiler] All the towns and rivers mentioned are in what is now New Hampshire except Fryburg which is just over the boarder in Maine. dcr. * John Chamberlain, Isaac Lakin, were listed as being from Groton in an earlier paragraph. It has not been determined if this discrepancy is an error by Vinton or the Sewall history.dcr. Farns10th@aol.com wrote: > Genealogical Notices of the Earliest Inhabitants of Woburn and Their Families > The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., from the grant of its > territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the year 1860., Sewall, Samuel, 1785-1868. > > John Farrar was admitted an inhabitant of Woburn at the Town Meeting Feb > 1655/6? to choose town officers for 1656. He is presumed to have been a brother > of Jacob Farrar of Lancaster who appears from the following record in Woburn > Town Book, to have died at Woburn: > "John Ffarer, Sen. died August 14, 1677." His widow, Ann* was married to > John Seirs of Woburn as his 2nd wife on Nov 2, 1680. To John Farrar were born: > (1) Mary b. April 10, 1656. (2) Jacob b. Oct 22, 1657, died of the small-pox > June 1679. (3) Isaac b. Dec 16, 1659, died in a fortnight after. (4) Joanna b. > April 9, 1661, m. Robert Dayle, 1650 (5) Mercy b. April 1, 1663. (6) Hannah > b. Jan 22, 1667/8; m. John Wyman, wheelwright Dec 14, > 1685. (7) Isaac b. July 1, 1671. > > John Farrar died July 11, 1690. His wife's name* and the date of her death > ar not known. > > Insert: Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - has several > contradictions as follows: p.259 > Jacob Farrar (1614 to ?) & 1st wife, Grace Dean m. Nov 21, 1640, Halifax, > England. > Jacob Farrar 2 (1614 to 1677) & 2nd wife *Ann ___? who m. (2) John Sears in > 1680 in > England. Lancaster/Woburn. > John Farrar (b.?1611; d. 1690) & 2nd wife (Savage doesnt have 1st wife) > Joanna ___? > (d. 1687 or 1701+); Woburn. > > p.611 - Woburn - cont'd. > > FARRAR. > Isaac Farrar's name not occuring on the Woburn Province Tax Lists for 1714, > 1715, he is supposed to have previously removed from the town. > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > > >