| Biography | | Per NEHGR v 95 Jacob was baptized at Heptonstall, York, England August 21 1614. John and Jacob Farrar were among the original proprietors of Lancaster, Ma, incorporated May 18 1653. All who became inhabitants signed what they called a Covenant, for the better preserving 'of the purity of religion, and ourselves from the infection of error, not to distribute allotments or receive into the plantation as inhabitants, any excommunicant or otherwise profane and scandalous (known so to be) or any one notoriously erring against the doctrine and discipline of the churches, and the state and government of this Commonwealth.' This was signed by John and Jacob Farrar Sept. 24 1653, and subsequently by those who were afterwards permitted to settle there.
During King Phillip's War, in 1675, Jacob had two sons killed. The town was taken Feb 10, 1675, and most of the property destroyed by the Indians. Jacob and his wife, his remaining son Joseph, and his daughter Mary with her husband, John Houghton, went to Woburn, where he died Aug. 14 1677.
*Two men named John Haughton and Samuel Deane subscribed the Lancaster covenant on the same day (24 Sept. 1653) with John and Jacob Farrer. both Haughton and Deane were doubtless relatives of the Farrer brothers. the Deanes of Deane House in Midgley were near neighbors of the Farrers of Eawood, and had close associations with them before Jacob Farrer married Grace Deane, who was almost certainly one of the Midgley Deanes.
*THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF JACOB FARRER OF LANCASTER, MASS. By Liliam K.P. Farrar, A.B., M.D., of NYC
Recently the contributor of this article registered in His Majesty's College of Arms in London, England, a pedigree of seven generations, showing the descent of George Farrer of that part of Concord now Lincoln, Mass., from Henry Farrer of Ewood Hall, in the township of Midgley and parish of Halifax, Co. York, England, whose will was proved at York 26 nov. 1549. The documentary evidence which had of necessity to accompany the pedigree submitted to the Examiners of Pedigrees at the Herald's College formed an article entitled 'A Recorded Pedigree of the Farrers of Ewood' and published by Mr. Rowland Bretton, of Lightcliffe, Yorks, England, and published in the Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society for 1940. It is upon this article that the following contribution is based. (Wills, proof of pedigree of Jacob Farrar back to Henry Farrer)
*The English Ancestry of Jacob Farrer,by Lilian K. P. Farrar, A.B., M.D. NYC
Deposition of Mary (Platt) Prescott, dated 1678. The Testimoney of Mary Prescott (wife of John Prescott, the founder of Lancaster, Mass., was a native of Sowerby, Co. York, England, where four of her children were born and baptized.) aged 66 years or thereabout Sayth that the first wife of Jacob Farror Senr. late of Lancaster deceased lived with her uncle and she marrying contrary to his mind and so he would not giver her a portion but said he would give to her first child (which was Jacob Farror late deceased) the sume of forty pounds in mony: and the said deponent hath often heard that sd Jacob Farror Senr received the same for the use of his Sone Jacob: when he came to New England; that I can testifie upon oath Mary Prescot M p her marke Witness John Tott Mary Lacey
Name: JACOB FARRAR Sex: M Birth: 1614 in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England Death: 14 AUG 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Christening: 21 AUG 1614 Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England Change Date: 7 FEB 2002 Note:
Lancaster records and Annals of Lancaster MA by Henry Nourse
The children of Jacob Farrar Jr (who was Killed in Monaco's Indian Raid in Lancaster MA August 14, 1677) and Hannah Hayward who were, Jacob III and John (John was killed by Indians Aug 1707). Jacob Farrar and Hannah Hayward were married November 11, 1668 by Major Simon Willard.
NOTES for Jacob Farrar Sr... Jacob Farrar purchased land in Lancaster MA from his brother John Farrar.
"The Farrar brothers were from Lancashire. John after a brief stay here, went to Woburn, where he was admitted an inhabitant in 1656 and there died 'very old' in 1690.
John Houghton and wife Mary Farrar transferred the above house lot to George Glazier in March 1706." Annals of Lancaster page 257.
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"After the massacre, Jacob Farrar, with his wife and daughter Mary, who had married John Houghton, Junior, in 1672, fled to his relatives in Wobur[n, where he died Aug 14, 1677." Annals of Lancaster Page 282.
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Jacob Sr and Ann Farrar's son, Henry Farrar was also killed in an Indian Raid in Lancaster MA February 10, 1676.
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JOHN FARRAR's 6 children born in Woburn, MA. [Records never mentioned his wife's name or her death.]
Mary Farrar b: April 10, 1656 in Woburn MA
Jacob Farrar b: October 22, 1657 in Woburn MA d: Bet. 1678 - 1679 in Woburn MA
Isaac Farrar b: December 16, 1659 in Woburn MA d: December 30, 1659 in Woburn MA
Joanna Farrar b: April 9, 1661 in Woburn MA
Mercy Farrar b: April 1, 1663 in Woburn MA
Isaac Farrar b: August 1, 1671 in Woburn MA, married Mary Walcott April 29, 1696 in Salem MA
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Woburn marriages:
FARRAR: page 92
Ann Farrar and John Sears Nov 2, 1680… (She may be the widow of Jacob Sr)
Joanna Farrar and Robert Dale Nov 30, 1680
Hannah Farrar and John Wyman Dec 14, 1685
Deborah Farrar and Robert Fenton both of Woburn Feb 27, 1688
Isaac Farrar of Woburn and Mary Walcott of Salem at Salem April 29, 1696
Elizabeth Farrar and Job Curtis, both of Woburn July 2, 1868.
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Woburn Deaths
FARRAR p 65
Isaac s of John Dec 30, 1659
Jacob, Sen s of ____, Aug 14, 1677
Jacob s of ___ of small-pox, 1678 or 1678-9.
John s. of ___July 11, 1690
___d. of Isaac, March __, 1713.
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ID: I08977
Name: Jacob Farrar
Sex: M
Birth: BEF. 21 AUG 1614 in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
Death: 14 AUG 1677 in Woburn, Middlesex, MA or Aug. 14 1687
Note:
John and Jacob Farrar were among the original proprietors of Lancaster, Ma, incorporated May 18 1653. All who
became inhabitants signed what they called a Covenant, for the better preserving "of the purity of religion, and
ourselves from the infection of error, not to distribute allotments or receive into the plantation as inhabitants, any
excommunicant or otherwise profane and scandalous (known so to be) or any one notoriously erring against the
doctrine and discipline of the churches, and the state and government of this Commonwealth." This was signed by
John and Jacob Farrar Sept. 24 1653, and subsequently by those who were afterwards permitted to settle there.
During King Phillip's War, in 1675, Jacob had two sons killed. The town was taken Feb 10, 1675, and most of the
property destroyed by the Indians. Jacob and his wife, his remaining son Joseph, and his daughter Mary with her
husband, John Houghton, wnt to Woburn, where he died Aug. 14 1677.
Father: Jacob Farrar b: 1576 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England
Mother: Mary Houghton b: 1588 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1 Grace Dean b: ABT. 1611 in Deane House, Midgley, Yorkshire, England
Married: 28 NOV 1640 in Halifax Parish, Yorks., England
Children
Jacob Farrar b: 3 SEP 1641 in Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England
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The Military Annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1740-1865: Including Lists of Soldiers Serving... -
by Henry Stedman Nourse - 1889 - 402 pages (fr. www.books.google.com)
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ANNALS OF WARFARE.
Jacob Farrar, the head of a family noted for its many martyrs in Indian warfare, possessed a "Culliver Gun." In the property schedules of seven other Lancaster planters figure these ...3,17 |
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