Ancestors

Ensign Joseph Farwell

1640-1722 · Concord NH → Dunstable MA
Born 1640, Concord, Massachusetts
Died 1722
Father: Henry Farwell
Mother: Olive Welby
Children include Isaac

Joseph Farwell, born at Concord in Massachusetts on 26 February 1640/1, a son of Henry Farwell the immigrant and Olive Welby.

He married at Chelmsford on 25 December 1666, by Samuel Adams, Hannah Learned, daughter of Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns of that town. He held the rank of Ensign.

His father's will, made at Chelmsford on 12 July 1670, names him "my son Josiph farwall" and leaves him "all the Land that hee hath in presant posashion". In return he was to pay his mother ten shillings a year and his three sisters thirty pounds. The will also provides for his wife, "hannah farwall my Dauter my Son Josiphs wif". He and his mother were named executors.

He was a large landowner. Besides what he inherited from his father he bought other tracts, and held land in Chelmsford, Dunstable and Groton. He died on 31 December 1722 and is buried in the old Dunstable cemetery at South Nashua, under a stone reading HERE LYES YE BODY OF ENSIGN JOSEPH FARWELL, DEC'D DECEMBER YE 31, 1722, IN YE 82ND YEAR OF HIS AGE. His will was filed for probate on 16 January 1722 and his wife survived him.

Parents

Olive Welby (1604-1691)

Henry Farwell (1605-1670)

Children

Isaac Farwell (1678-1753)

Sources

The Farwell Family, a history of Henry Farwell and his wife Olive (Welby) Farwell (1929), the numbered entries for Henry1, Ensign Joseph2, Isaac3, William4 and Isaac5, read in full text at archive.org, farwellfamilyhis01farw
The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell (1929), p. 26, archive.org farwellfamilyhis01farw.
Will of Henry Farwell, 12 July 1670, Middlesex County probate no. 7348; photograph printed in The Farwell Family (1929), archive.org farwellfamilyhis01farw.
The Farwell Family (1929), p. 27, transcribing the will of Henry Farwell, Middlesex County probate no. 7348, lib. 3 p. 230; archive.org farwellfamilyhis01farw.
The Farwell Family, a history of Henry Farwell and his wife Olive (Welby) Farwell (1929), the numbered entries for Henry1, Ensign Joseph2, Isaac3, William4 and Isaac5, read in full text at archive.org, farwellfamilyhis01farw; pp. 26-27 for the will of Henry Farwell, with a photograph of the original; will of Henry Farwell, Middlesex County probate no. 7348, recorded lib. 3 p. 230

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Cite: Heirology, "Ensign Joseph Farwell (1640-1722)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/ensign-joseph-farwell-1640-1722-4dc2fa.