Ensign Joseph FARWELL

1642 - 1722  (80 years)

• Name	Joseph FARWELL  [1, 2]
  	His gravestone in the old Dunstable burying-ground bears this inscription: "Ensign Joseph Farwell died Dec. 31, 1722, in the 82d year of his age." 'The NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER gives a Joseph Farwell, s. of Henry, b. in Concorc, 26 Dec. 1640. We know not how to reconcile this date with the inscription above. The date is precisely that of his sister Mary's birth. we can see but two possible solutions of the difficulty, one, an inaccurate statement in the inscription, and the other, the possibility that Joseph b. 26 Dec. 1640, was twin of Mary and died in infancy; and the net child born, our Ensign Joseph, was named after the deceased brother. According to Mr. J-B. Hill, he accompanied his parents on their removal from Concord to Chelmsford about 1654 at the incorporation of that town. He inherited by will of his father "The land that he hath in present possession wt 20 acres of upland lying at little tadmuck, 6 acres of upland lying in the new field," and "The remainder of my accommodations at Chelmsford after my wife's decease" only two small parcels of meadow, namely, one acre lying in the river meadow joining the meadow of Wm. Fletcher, "I give and bequeath to Mary Bates my dauter and one acre and half of meadow lying at little tadmuck joining to the meadow of James Hildrike, to Olife Spaulding my daughter. He seems to have remained with his mother in Chelmsford till her death in 1691, when according to that will he would come into full possession of his father's bequest. We have no positive information concerning his disposal of the Chelmsford estate; he does not mention it in his will, but it will be observed that he states before signing that instrument; "it is to be understood that all my other children, both sons and daughters, have received their full portions of me already." Possibly his son Joseph whose first two children were born, or recorded, in Chelmsford, may have received his portion in Chelmsford property, as might also his two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah who married gentlemen of Chelmsford, However, that may be, about 1699 he removed from Chelmsford and became an inhabitant of Dunstable, where he was a large land holder and prominent in town affairs. He as selectman 1701, '2, '5, '7, '10; was Surveyor of Highways 1706, and served on important committees during the years 1712, '14, '15, '17....... [1]
  Prefix	Ensign
  Birth	20 Feb 1642	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	31 Dec 1722  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I73407	Main Tree
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	Dea. Henry FARWELL,   b. 1605, England d. 1 Aug 1670, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Olive WELBY,   b. 1604, England d. 1 Mar 1691/2, Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	16 Apr 1629	St. Botolph's church, Boston, co. Lincoln   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F29735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah LEARNED,   b. 24 Aug 1649, Woburn, Massachussetts d. 2 Apr 1677 (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1666	Chelmsford, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. William FARWELL,   b. 21 Jan 1688, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts d. 14 Feb 1754 (Age 66 years) + 2. Oliver FARWELL,   b. 25 Nov 1692, Chelmsford, Massachusetts d. 5 Sep 1724 (Age 31 years)   3. Isaac FARWELL,   b. Chelmsford, Massachusetts d. 28 Jun 1753, probably at Mansfield, Connecticut  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29738	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Feb 1642 - Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5714] David-Parsons Holton, M.C., A.M. and Frances-K (Forward) Holton, "Farwell Ancestral Memorial - HENRY FARWELL, of Concord and Chelmsford Mass., and all his Descendants to the Fifth Generation", (D-P Holton, M.D., Publisher, 1879). [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.