Farnsworth from Savage Dictionary of New England Settlers

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 Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
>
>Volume 2
> page 144
> Farnsworth, Joseph, Dorchester, freem. 14 Mar. 1639, by w. Eliz. had Mary,
>b. 30 Mar.
> 1637; Hannah, 14 Dec. 1638; Rebecca, 2 Jan. 1640; and Ruth, 3 June 1642;
>beside Joseph,  Samuel, and perhaps others, by sec. w. wid. Mary Long; was
>selectman 164, and d. 12 Jan. 1660. In his will of 2 Jan. preced. Geneal.
>Reg. IX. 140, provis. is mad for his w. Mary and her two ch. by former h.
>Joseph, and Thomas Long, for his d. Eliz. w. of John Mansfield, d. Esther,
>d. Mary, w. of Abraham Ripley, gr.ch. Joseph, . of Simon Peck, by Hannah,
d.of testat. dec. his eldest s. Joseph, s. Samuel, and d. Rebecca. JOSEPH,
>Dorchester, perhaps eldest s. of the preced. b. in Eng. freem. 1649.


>MATTHIAS, Lynn, Groton, an early propr. freem. 1670, selectman, by w. Mary,
>had Joseph, b. 17 Nov. 1657, d. at 17 yrs.; Mary, 11 Oct. 1660; at L. and
at
>G. had Samuel, 8 Oct. 1669, and prob. others, after, or more likely bef. as
>Benjamin, John, Matthew, and Samuel, had fams. there in 1691; d. 1689, aged
>77. His will is of Jan. in that yr See Butler's Hist. 395, 6. Mary m. 11
>Apr. 1676, Samuel Thatcher of [p.144] Watertown. SAMUEL, Windsor, s. of
>Joseph, m. 3 June 1677, Mary, d. of Thomas
> Stoughton, had Mary, b. 17 May 1678, d. in few days; and his w. d. 1684.
>Next yr. he m. Mary, d. of John Moses, had Joseph, b. 1694. Early this name
>was writ. without s. Two of this fam. had been gr. at Harv. 1828, and five
>at other N. E. coll. Calamy, Eject. Min. II. 840, ment. Mr. F. wh. came
from N. E.