Stephen FARNSWORTH
Birth:
1715
Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Death:
6 Sep 1771
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Burial:
Forest Hill Cemetery
Marriage:
22 Dec 1741
of Luenburg, Massachusetts
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
http://fortat4.com/
An Historical Sketch of Groton, MA l655 - l890 by Dr. Samuel A. Green Groton: l894 p. 66, 67 and 68 provided by Janice Farnsworth email farns10th@aol.com Jan 27, l998
The lst settlement of Charlestown, NH - then known as No. 4, was made in the year l740 by three brothers; Samuel, David and Stephen Farnsworth natives of Groton, MA; and they were soon followed by Isaac Parker and his sons, and Obadiah Sawtell, also of Groton. The Farns- worths were leading men at Charlestown and they dist- inguished themselves on several occasions in fights with the Indians. Samuel Farnsworth, the eldest broth- er, was killed in a skirmish on May 2, l746. David was taken prisoner by a party of French and Indians on April 20, l757 and carried to Canada. He managed to escape and reached home not a long time probably after his capture. Stephen, the youngest brother, had also his bitter experience with the enemy. He was captured April l9, l746 and taken to Montreal, where he re- mained seventeen long months before he was exchanged. His health was so broken down by the hardships of his captivity that he never fully regained it. He died Sep. 6, l77l leaving behind the reputation of a brave man and a good citizen.
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Researched by Eleanor Law Johnson, 530 S. 4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101 elliejohn@yahoo.com
Cemetery Record:
Personal visit to Charlestown,New Hampshire on September 26, 2000 1)Information Center 2)Reconstructed Old Fort #4 3)Forest Hills Cemetery on East Street and Briggs Hill.....Section #11 (Information Center gave us a handout that pinpointed the graves of our ancestors)...Go up Briggs Hill to end of cemetery...walk down row past Phineau Stevens and Moses Weeler is buried next to him on left. Left of Moses Wheeler is Stephen Farnsworth's grave:
"Here lies buried Mr. Stephen Farnsworth who died Sept. 6, 1771 aged 57"
All notes, xerox pages from information center about the cemetery and layout of the graves are in my Farnsworth Notebook....unpublished as yet but in the process of compilation.
see internet site on Old Fort No.4 Charlestown,N.H.
www.fortat4.com
(click on camera icons to view additional pictures)
In 1735, the General Court of Massachusetts chartered "plantations" along the Upper Connecticut River Valley in what are now the states of Vermont and New Hampshire. These "plantations" were areas laid out for
settlements and farming. No. 1 became Chesterfield; No. 2,Westmoreland; No.3, Walpole; and No. 4, Charlestown, all now in New Hampshire.
Massachusetts identified these "plantations" solely by number; they were not given
names until much later. Original owners of the land under these grants were called
proprietors. Many of the men who bought proprietorships for No. 4 in January 1735 sold
them because of the uncertainty over whether Massachusetts or New Hampshire actually
had the right to the land.
Later in the year 1740, Stephen Farnsworth,
one of the original proprietors, and his brothers,
Samuel, and David, came to No. 4. Other
settlers followed, and by 1743, ten families
appeared in the proprietors book.
At this time, No. 4 was the northernmost British settlement, thirty miles from its
nearest neighbor. An uneasy peace existed between England and France and the new
settlement, in its vulnerable position, would be in peril if the peace should end. The
proprietors prepared for this eventuality by raising 300 pounds old tenor to build a fort in
1743. The fort was actually a fortified village, created by pulling together five existing
province houses, building a sixth one, and connecting them with leantos, and a large
two-story building containing the only entry gate into the fort. Captain Phineas Stevens
was chosen captain of the fortþs garrison. etc....
Archive record for Samuel Farnsworth and Stephen Farnsworth.
Farnsworth Memorial p.45,295 FHL/Salt Lake City, Utah
My research:
N.H. C 5 HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN P. 335
Farnsworth Family History in my possession...Eleanor L. Johnson, 530 S. 4th Street, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101...
www.fortat4.com is on internet......
The Fort At No. 4 1740 - 1760 by Nona B. Bruce & Barbara Bullock Jones.
Fort At No. 4 Living History Museum, Charleston, NH 03603 Copyright, June 1990.
Stevens Account Book 1752 -1756 Univ. of Vermont/Bailey Howe Library, manuscripts, Burlington, Vt.
Stephen Farnsworth Will Charlestown 1771 Cheshire County Probate, 12 Court Street, Keene, NH 03431 researched by Barbara Jones, Historian.
Stephen Farnsworth Inventory of Estate Recorded Book 1st page 15th & 16th
Cheshire County, NH.
Division of Stephen Farnsworth Estate Recorded Book 1st pgs 20th, 21st & 22d.
PVMA The Acts & Resolves, Public & Private of the Province of the
NN Massachusetts Bay: to which are prefixed the charters of the
COC Province with historical & explanatory notes & an appendix.
11301 Vol XIV being Volume IX of the appendix containing resolves,
Vol etc. 1747 - 1753...
.p.216 Chapter 209 Order allowing L21. 10 and a gun to Step n
Farnsworth.
Legislative Records of the Council, xviii.,449. Mass. Archives,
lxxiii.,316
"A Petition of Stephen Farnsworth a Soldier in the Service of this Province, Praying for some Allowance from this Court, in Consideration of his Losses & Sufferings occasioned by his being taken Captive by the Indians.
Read and Ordered that the Treasurer be directed to pay to Mr Wm Hardy twenty one pounds ten Shillings out of the Treasury for the Use of the Pet r. And that the Commissary Gen (1 footnote) be directed to deliver said Hardy a good Gun out of the Province Store for the Use of S d Farnsworth. (Passed January 26.
Footnote 1...This date is according to Mass. Archives; according to Legislative Records of the Council the date is January 25.
Cheshire County Probate, Peter Page bond for Guardianship for 2 of the children. Cheshire County Probate, Eunice Farnsworths bond for Guardianship for 3 of the children.
Plan of the Fort at Charlestown, in 1746 drawn by John Maynard July 4, 1746.
Fort No 4 Families: Stephen Farnsworth & Eunice Hastings...
David Farnsworth & Hannah Hastings (sisters)
etc.
Application for Membership to The National Society of the Daughters of the Amerian Revolution....Several
Much of above information sent by Flo Moscon
All information in Stephen Farnsworth file or Farnsworth Notebook.....
Stephen was captured by Indians and taken to Canada. Released or escaped 18 months later and returned to his family.
History of Woodstock p. 147
:Archive record...Joseph Smith Memorial Building, 4th floor, Salt Lake City, Utah....copy in my possession. Her only source was family records.
Farnsworth Memorial.....Book/ Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah.
"Samuel Farnsworth, the eighth child was born 8 October 1669 in Groton, Massachusetts. He married 12 Dec 1706 to Mary WHITCOMB, Daughter of Josiah of Lancaster and widow of Simon Willard who died in 1706.
He lived in Groton early in life and his mother lived with him after his father's death. She left him by her will, her "Great Bible." He appears to have been the mainstay and reliance of his mother during the twenty-eight years that she lived after the death of her husband.
Samuel became an early settler of "Turkey Hills" now called Lunenburg. The date of his death is unknown, but as his will is dated 9 June 1727 and
proved 1 Aug 1730 and Josiah Williard was appointed guardian for his son, Stephen, then in his fifteenth year, 17 Feb 1730 so that probably he was then recently dead. He was admitted to the church in Groton 27 July 1718."
Children listed in record with other notes:..See Farnsworth research file.
Ancestry.com
Full Context of Groton, Massachusetts, Vital Records
1706, Dec. 12. Samuel Farnsworth, Mary Willard, of Lancas-
Ancestry.com Vital Records of Groton,Mass:
MATTHIAS FARNSWORTH and MARY.
1 Matthins, born --.
2 John, " --
3 Benjamin, "
4 Samuel, " Oct. 8, 1669.
5 Abigail, " Jan. 17, 1671.
6 Jonathan, " 1 d. 4 m. 1875.
7 Joseph, "died Feb.20,1686-7.
Surname: FARNSWORTH
Source: Farnsworth Memorial
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FOUNDERS OF FORT NO. 4, CHARLESTOWN, NH
From: Farns10th@aol.comp.358
Samuel Farnsworth b. Oct 8, l669 at Groton, MA son of Matthias Farnsworth and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth m.
Dec l2, l706 Mary Whitcomb dau of Josiah Whitcomb of Lancaster, MA. She was the widow of Simon Willard who died in l706 (see Willard file for their children) Samuel and Mary Farnsworth became early settlers of
"Turkey Hills" now Lunenburg, MA. His will is dated June 9, l727 and proved Aug l, l730 and Josiah Willard
was apptd guardian of his son, Stephen Farnsworth, then l5 years old. Their children:
Stephen Farnsworth the youngest brother (this is in error - see Farnsworth Memorial wherein another younger
brother was Joshua who died in the Louisburg Expedition) of Samuel and David Farnsworth married at Lunenburg, MA Dec 22, l74l, Eunice Hastings born at Watertown, MA Sep 3, l722. It is recorded that on the day of her
marriage she was admitted to the full communion of the Church at Lunenburg. Their children:
1. Oliver Farnsworth who was the first child born at Fort No. 4., b. Dec 8, l742 m. July6, l768 Elizabeth
Wheeler, dau of Moses Wheeler and wife, Elizabeth. She b. June 24, l750 - their children:
l. Havilah Farnsworth b. May 3l, l769.
2. Abijah Farnsworth b. Mar l2, l770
3. Biel Farnsworth b. Dec 25, l772.
2. Sarah Farnsworth b. June 30, l748 m. Oct. l5, l765
Peter Page (see Page file)
3. Submit Farnsworth b. June 29, l750 m. l773 John Hart.
(see Hart)
4. Eunice Farnsworth b. Mar 26, l752.
5. Jonathan Farnsworth b. June 7, l754 married - Res:
South Woodstock, VT (see Farnsworth Memorial)
6. Azubah Farnsworth b. May 29, l756
7. Mary Farnsworth b. Feb 9, l759
8. Relief Farnsworth b. Nov l7, l762
9. Stephen Farnsworth Jr. b. June 20, l764.
In the proprietor's records the name Stephen Farnsworth is found on important committees. He was one of the
first three settlers (the others being his brothers, Samuel and David Farnsworth). He with other settlers
was a member of Capt. Stevens Company for the defense of No. 4 formed June 2l, l750 (see Muster Roll). He was
captured by Indians and French on Apr l9, l746 together with Capt. John Spafford and Lieut. Isaac Parker. On
arriving at Canada Stephen Farnsworth with fifteen others were conveyed to Montreal. He was held in confinement there for seventeen months. His wife and children returned to Lunenburg, MA during his absence, returning to Charlestown on his return thru to his death thence to S. Woodstock VT making her home with her children.
Stephen Farnsworth returned to Fort 4 in broken health never fully recovering but held the office of tything-
man to which he was elected March l770. He d. Sep 6, l77l age 57 leaving behind the example of a brave and
good man and useful citizen.
Ebenezer Farnsworth son of Josiah Farnsworth and Mary (Pierce) Farnsworth was b. at Groton, MA Mar 22, l725-26 He settled at Charlestown abt the year l750 and was taken prisoner by the Indians with the Johnson family
(Mrs. Johnson famous for her "Memoirs of Captivity" wife of Capt. James Johnson of Fort 4.) Also taken prisoners at that time were Miriam Willard and Peter Labaree. Captured on Aug 30, l754 and conveyed to Canada. He remained there until a short time before Montreal was surrendered to the English. On his return he m. Sarah
Walker. He d. Nov 6, l794 She d. l807 aged 82. Their children:
1. Levi Farnsworth b. Apr l, l763 (Farnsworth Memorial
p.50 states Levi m. l786 Sarah Jarvis b. l768 d. l753
at Westford, VT Res: Halifax Plain, VT.
2. Ebenezer Farnsworth Jr. July l2, l765 m. l792 Olive
Hayden. Their children:
l. Phila Farnsworth m. Jan l8l5 John Parker Res:
Stowe, VT.
2. Luman H. Farnsworth m. l82l Hannah Allen
3. Ira Farnsworth
4. Levi Farnsworth
5. Ebenezer Farnsworth
6. Charles Farnsworth a blacksmith settled near
Rochester, NY.
7. Seth Farnsworth grad Dartmouth College l822
studied theology and ordained Oct 3, l824 -
preached in the church at Raymond, NH He also
preached at Hillsborough, installed Nov 23,
l836. He d. Mar 26, l837 of lung fever.
Farnsworth Memorial has 3rd child born of Ebenezer
Farnsworth and his wife Sarah (Walker) Farnsworth of
Fort 4.
3. Joel Farnsworth b. l768 and d. Jan 27, l820 m. l789
At Charlestown, NH Sarah Wilson b. l768 d. l839 Both
are buried at Westford.
p.345
James Farnsworth son of Josiah Farnsworth b. Dec 2, l727
m. (l) Susanna ___ Their children:
l. Anna Farnsworth b. l753
2. Susanna Farnsworth b. l756 d. l756 age 26.
James Farnsworth m. (2) Sarah ___
3. Sarah Farnsworth b. l758
4. Joseph Farnsworth b. l760
5. Benjamin Farnsworth b. l763
6. James Farnsworth Jr. b. l767
7. Jeremiah Farnsworth b. May 7 l773.
James Farnsworth Sr. was a member of Capt. Phineas
Stevens Company for the defense of No. 4 in l750 and
also one of the grantees under New - Hampshire. He was
Lieutenant and Captain in the war of the Revolution.
Oliver Farnsworth son of Josiah Farnsworth b. Jan l6, l734/5 is reputed to be one of the early settlers of
Springfield, VT. His son Oliver Farnsworth, Jr. m. Sarah Lynd on Aug 27, l788.
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Surname: FARNSWORTH
Source: Farnsworth Memorial
p.358
Samuel Farnsworth b. Oct 8, l669 at Groton, MA son of Matthias Farnsworth and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth m.
Dec l2, l706 Mary Whitcomb dau of Josiah Whitcomb of Lancaster, MA. She was the widow of Simon Willard who died in l706 (see Willard file for their children) Samuel and Mary Farnsworth became early settlers of
"Turkey Hills" now Lunenburg, MA. His will is dated June 9, l727 and proved Aug l, l730 and Josiah Willard
was apptd guardian of his son, Stephen Farnsworth, then l5 years old. Their children:
1. Mary Crew Farnsworth b. Sep l3, l707 at Kingston. m. Nov 8, l727 Jonathan Page Jr. of Lunenburg, b.
June 5, l7l0 and d. Aug 30, l75l She d. May 22, l770. Res: Fort 4, Charlestown, NH. Their children
listed p. 36l:
l. Peter Page b. l745 m. l765 Sarah Farnsworth. b. June 30, l748 at Charlestown, NH (dau of
Stephen Farnsworth and Eunice (Hastings) Farnsworth of Fort 4. He may have m. (2) Mary ___. He was a Selectman l778 and l784 He was a captain in l780 in Col. Moses Nichols regiment, raised for the defense of West Pt.
2. Phineas Page m. Sarah Labaree dau of Peter
Labaree of Charlestown, NH He b. June l2,
l754 Res: Fairfax, VT.
3. Benjamin Page m. Susanna ___ Res at Charles-
town NH as of l768 (four children) unlisted.
2. Samuel Farnsworth b. June 29, l709 at Groton, MA Died unm. In l740 he with his younger brothers, David
and Stephen and their half brother, Moses Willard with others having grants of land at the place since
called Charlestown, NH organized a settlement there. The place was co
Eunice HASTINGS
Birth:
3 Sep 1722
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Death:
9 Jun 1811
South Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
1790 Census she may be listed with Stepen Farnsworth as one of free white females 2.. of her sons are listed:
Farnsworth, Jonathan
067
01-01-03-00-00
Farnsworth, Stephen
067
02-01-04-00-00
IGI Duplication of ordinances...one sheet has different dates:
B:14 FEB 1959 E:12 FWB 1960 SP:22 SEP 1960 L
Eunice Hastings....
Woodstock Vermont History p146....1778 his mother (Stephen Farnsworth's) moved to Woodstock and lived with her son, Stephen, till her death.
P.342 after death of her husband, she sold her property in Charlestown, New Hampshire.
P.344 During his captivity (well known story at that time, Stephen Farnsworth,Sr. was captured by Indians and held prisioner in Canada for 18 months before he escaped or was released.) During that time she moved her children to Lunenburg, Massachusetts.
History of Woodstock p.135-136
Three brothers, Samuel,David,and Stephen Farnsworth, setted in No.4, afterwards Charlestown, N.H.,in 1740. Stephen married, Eunice Hastings, born in Watertown,Mass.,September 3, 1722. His captivity among the Indians, which occurred in 1746, is one of the well-known events of those days. He died in Charlestown, September 6, 1771, at the age of fifty-seven. In 1778, his widow moved to this town and lived with her son, Stephen, till her death, which took place Friday, the 21st of June, 1811. She left a numerous offspring, namely, six children, forty-six grandchildren, and seventy-five great-grandchildren, making in all one hundred and twenty-seven. She never experienced a fit of sickness in the course of her life, except a slight attack of fever She never made use of many of the luxuries of life; was much averse to spirituous liquor of any kind. Her principal diet was milk and vegetables. She was confined in her last sickness about nine weeks, during which distressing scene she manifested the greatest calmness, composure of mind, and Christian fortitude, and left the world in the full assurance of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.1
1 Vermont Republican, July 8, 1811.
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
8 Dec 1742
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Abt 1 Nov 1785
Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont
Notes:
Researched by Eleanor Law Johnson, elliejohn@yahoo.com
Archive records...Jos.Smith Memorial Building, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Oliver Farnsworth
Stephen Farnsworth.
IGI 1984
Time Line on Oliver Farnsworth:
1742........... ..8 December born in Charlestown,Sullivan,New Hampshire (was Old Fort #4 till Cheshire County County formed in 1769; Sullivan County formed in 1827).
1746.............19 April.....His father is captured by the French and Indians and taken to Montreal prison 17 mo.
1769..............31 May Birth of Havilah in Charlestown,Sullivan,NH (Cheshire County at time,.formed 1769)
1770/72........ 2 March...Birth of Abijah in Charlestown,Sullivan,New Hampshire (Cheshire Co. at the time)
1771..............Father, Stephen Farnsworth, died .6 September.....He is buried in Charlestown,NH
1772..............25 December....Birth of Abial in Charlestown,Sullivan,New Hampshire
1773...............4 June.....buys land (420 acres in District No. 9 in Woodstock,Vermont)
1774...............Town officer in Woodstock,Windsor,Vermont
1775...............10 December....Birth of Oliver Farnsworth in Woodstock,Windsor,Vermont
1777...............Approximate year....Birth of Elizabeth Farnsworth in Woodstock,Windsor,Vermont
1778...............Elected Town Clerk...........
A printer by trade
1779...............Approximate year....Birth of Phebe Farnsworth in Woodstock,Windsor,Vermont
1780-82..........Many meetings held at his home regarding town business
1785...............Died in Woodstock,Windsor,Vermont
Estate divided between six surviving children
DAR listed him for CS (civil service) and PS (Patriotic Service)
Farnsworth Family History by Nathan Farnsworth (unpublished)...copy in my records, Eleanor Law Johnson (husb: Charles Johnson),c/o 530 S. 4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101 e-mail: elliejohn@yahoo.com.
DAR Lineage Book, Vol.52,p411.....from DAR Application for membership
#645549 submitted by Genavieve Pierce Smoots (Mrs.Donald Arnold Smoots),
6617 McKinley Ave, Tacoma,Washington 98404...1979. Copy sent to me by Tommie Geer in Denver,Colorado.
DAR Lineage Book,Vol. 40, pgs 111,112
Book: FLH/SLC New Hampshire C5 Book: History of Charlestown
Book: FHL/SLC Farnsworth Memorial P.301 Family History Library/Salt Lake City, Utah.
Book: FHL/SLC Farnsworth Memorial II (1974)
Book: FHL/SLC Genealogy and History of Watertown, Massachusetts, p 790
Original research done by Eleanor L. Johnson (Mrs. Charles) c/o 530 S. 4th St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89101.
Letter from Judge Paul A. Borrdon, State Administration Record, State of Vermont, Probate Court, Hartford District, Woodstock, Vermont.
Book: FHL/SLC F VT W 21 (7068) Vital Records...Woodstock, Vermont. Records Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont.. Book B, P57 Births and Deaths. Children of Oliver & Elizabeth Farnsworth; Elizabeth, Phebe, Abial,Oliver, Havilah, Abijah. No dates of birth for any of the children.
3)FHL/SLC F VT W21A PT 6 (7069) Woodstock, Vermont PG 361
Division of estate of Oliver Farnsworth..3 Dec 1834 Named children:Abijah, son of said deceased. Oliver Farnsworth, son of said deceased. Havilah Farnsworth, daughter of said deceased (my note: descrepancy in sex of this child) Two children of Abial are mentioned.
Oliver Farnsworth left no will. His widow, Elizabeth, and Alisha Sampson were appointed administrators of his estate on November 8, 1785. The record shows that he left six children.
June 1993 Trip into Woodstock, Vermont....Find a Farnsworth's buried in So. Woodstock (Adams Farm Cemetery) on the back of property owned by Michael J. Fox (TV & Movie Star) in So. Woodstock. Update 11/2000 Fox no longer owns the property. Right of way thru this property to the cemetery. Many graves no longer have markers, have been broken off. Jonathan Farnsworth (son of Stephen & Eunice Farnsworth) and others are buried there. Possible that Oliver and wife, also other family members are in that cemetery. There was a flag on Jonathan's grave honoring him for Revolutionary War service.
September 26,27,2000 trip into Woodstock. In Town Clerk's office we were helped by a man, Stephen Johnson, an attorney and title searcher.... that was also searching the records. He spent over an hour doing a title search for us and located the property that is now in the hands of: Tina & Don Gilbert..... Mrs. Gilbert took us clear through
he house and into the basement to see the half-hewn logs that made up part of the house. She wants to know everything I can find out about the house and the people who lived there.
Book at Historical Society Library, next to Dana House..Woodstock,Vermont.
History of Woodstock by Dana p. 136
"Several of the children of Stephen and Eunice Farnsworth settled in Woodstock. Two of these, Jonathan and Stephen, have been mentioned already. Still another was Oliver, born at No 4, December 8, 1742, being the first child born in the "Old Fort." (in Charlestown,New Hampshire). He purchased four hundred and twenty acres of land situated in District No. 9, of which he received a deed the 4th of June, 1773, and he must have occupied this land soon after, as his name appeares among the list of town officers chosen at the annual meeting held the following spring. From that time onward he was elected to various offices in the town, and as his house occupied a central and convenient position, town meetings were called there frequently, as many as seven in succession being held at this place from August 14, 1780, to April 8, 1782. At one of these meetings, held March 14, 1781, it was voted that no sled should be suffered to run in the highway less than four feet wide, "swithout it is a going on a journey."2 About the 1st of November, 1785, Mr. Farnsworth was taken sick and died, and his death was felt to be a great loss to the infant settlement. His estate was divided among his six surviving children. The homestead was occupied in later times by Benjamin F. Mack."
p581 Town Clerks
"1773 Joab Hoisington elected Town Clerk, and held the office till 1778, when Oliver Farnsworth was elected.1"
1 Joab Hoisington died about February, 1777. No records of Town meetings for that year. At March meeting, 1778, Oliver Farnsworth was chosen town clerk.
Doneva Shepard's family
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All questions, comments or suggestions regarding information on this page should be addressed to: Doneva Shepard
ID: I10913
Name: Oliver FARNSWORTH
Sex: M
Birth: 8 DEC 1742 in Charlestown, NH
Death: ABT. 1785 in Woodstock, VT
Occupation: printer
Note:
Oliver and Elizabeth Farnsworth lived first in Charlestown (NH) about five years before moving to Woodstock, VT where they purchased a 420 acre farm in Dictrict Nine. He held several public offices and the DAR listed him for CS (civil service) and PS (Patriotic Service). He was a printer and probably the first of the family to learn the art. He was taken sick about 1 Nov 1785 and died. then or shortly thereafter in Woodstock, VT. [Doneva.FBK.FTW]
Doneva family.FTW]
Father: Stephen FARNSWORTH b: 1715 in Groton, MA
Mother: Eunice HASTINGS b: 3 SEP 1722 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA
Marriage 1 Elizabeth WHEELER b: 24 JUN 1750
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Re: Abijah Farnsworth, who are his parents?
Posted by: Janice Farnsworth Date: December 08, 2000 at 13:10:34
In Reply to: Re: Abijah Farnsworth by Eleanor L. Johnson of 579
Parents of Abijah Farnsworth p.362 Farnsworth Memorial, Samuel Farnsworth Line; Oliver Farnsworth b. Dec 8, 1741 was son of Stephen Farnsworth a founder of Fort No. 4 Charlestown, NH. Oliver m. 1768 Elizabeth Wheeler b. June 24, 1750 dau of Moses & Elizabeth (Holden) Wheeler of Groton, MA. They lived in Charlestown, NH five yrs before moving to Woodstock, VT & purchased 420 acres in District No. 9. D.A.R. Lists him for Civil
Service and Patriotic Service. He was a printer. He was taken sick abt Nov 1, 1785 & died shortly after, at Woodstock, VT. He had 6 children, 2nd of which was Abijah Farnsworth b. Mar 12, 1770; m. Betsey Peck
They had at Windsor, VT six children. p. 372. Children on request to farns10th@ aol.com. Mention p. no. 372, please.
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In answer to my question about his serving in the Rev.War.......cousin Tommie wrote following:
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:04:54 EDT
Subject: Re: Ellie
To: elliejohn@yahoo.com
HI Ellie,
Oliver did NOT serve in the revolutionary war that we know of. His name is on a DAR momument and Smith's Gazateer says that he received land in Solon, NY for Revolutionary War services, however this is not correct. He was a LT. in the French Indian War in 1757. He purchased the land in Solon. I have recently submitted papers for a DAR supplemental line. There is a record of his making tents in CT in 1781.
Love,
Tommie
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Tsbrett@aol.com, "Shirley Rogers"
CC: elliejohn@yahoo.com
Hi Tommie,
I think that it is extremely interesting that our Oliver b1796 (g.son of Oliver b1742) was evidently living in Cortland County when his son, Milo, was born. (from my time line on Oliver b1796...In 1822 21 Aug 1822 Birth of son, Milo R. Farnsworth, born in Homer,Cortland,N.Y. source: Milo R.Farnsworth's death record: Death Records in Cresco,Howard,Iowa for Milo R. Farnsworth.) Solon is in Cortland County...
Do you suppose we'd find any family information on Abijah and Betsey in Cortland County, NY????This property that you mention below may have stayed in the family.....I always wondered why Oliver was clear
over there, his grandfather had land over there. Now, isn't that an angle to look at
Love, Ellie
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2
Birth:
30 Jun 1748
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
FARNSWORTH MEMORIAL FAM. HIST LIBRARY SLCITY, UTAH
3
Birth:
29 Jun 1750
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
FARNSWORTH MEMORIAL
4
Birth:
26 Mar 1752
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
5
Birth:
7 Jun 1754
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
12 Nov 1822
Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD OF STEPHEN AND EUNICE FARNSWORTH.
CENSUS: from Internet usgenweb.com into Vermont Windsor County Sounces
1790 Census for Windsor County, Vermont
Farnsworth, Jonathan
067
01-01-03-00-00
Farnsworth, Stephen
067
02-01-04-00-00
Cemetery Records Woodstock, Vermont Town Clerk p.229
"Jonathan Farnsworth, age 68, date of death....Nov. 12, 1822, Cemetery: Adam's Farm (So.Woodstock). Note: Cemetery may have other names as I found it to be the same place but with different names in some of the records that I researched..
Cemetery surveys for Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, compiled by the Ottauquechee Chapter D.A.R. and copied by permission. This set of sheets copied from the set on file at the Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, Vt.,November 1978...
Dana House Library, Woodstock, Vermont..
Vol 26 Vt. N.S. DAR Old Burying Ground, Woodstock, Vermont (M
Morgan Cemetery, South Woodstock, Vermont, pg 3
Mr. Jonathan Farnsworth died Nov. 12, 1822 aged 68 yrs..
"The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when they sleep in dust"
There are several graves with field stone markers on either side of Jonathan. Personal research of Charles & Eleanor Johnson in June 1993 in Woodstock and So. Woodstock,Vt.
This cemetery is very difficult to find...Go up Fletcher Hill Rd., So. Woodstock, near property that was at the time of our visit belonging to Michael J. Fox, the T.V. and movie star. (update: Sept.2000...he no longer is owner of that property) Right of way is through that property.
Dennis Barr, neighbor is the cemetery ground keeper R.R.#1, Box 76, So.Woodstock,Vt.
05071 (802) 457-3074.
ADAMS FARM CEM. AND MORGAN CEM. MAY BE SAME CEMETERY...WITH DIFFERENT NAMES
CENSUS: from Internet usgenweb.com into Vermont Windsor County Sounces
1790 Census for Windsor County, Vermont Farnsworth, Jonathan
067
01-01-03-00-00 Farnsworth, Stephen
067
02-01-04-00-00 Cemetery Records Woodstock, Vermont Town Clerk p.229 "Jonathan Farnsworth, age 68, date of death....Nov. 12, 1822, Cemetery: Adam's Farm (So.Woodstock). Note: Cemetery may have other names as I found it to be the same place but with different names in some of the records that I researched..
Cemetery surveys for Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, compiled by the Ottauquechee Chapter D.A.R. and copied by permission. This set of sheets copied from the set on file at the Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, Vt.,November 1978...
Dana House Library, Woodstock, Vermont..
Vol 26 Vt. N.S. DAR Old Burying Ground, Woodstock, Vermont (M Morgan Cemetery, South Woodstock, Vermont, pg 3 Mr. Jonathan Farnsworth died Nov. 12, 1822 aged 68 yrs..
"The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when they sleep in dust"
There are several graves with field stone markers on either side of Jonathan. Personal research of Charles & Eleanor Johnson in June 1993 in Woodstock and So. Woodstock,Vt.
This cemetery is very difficult to find...Go up Fletcher Hill Rd., So. Woodstock, near property that was at the time of our visit belonging to Michael J. Fox, the T.V. and movie star. (update: Sept.2000...he no longer is owner of that property) Right of way is through that property.
Dennis Barr, neighbor is the cemetery ground keeper R.R.#1, Box 76, So.Woodstock,Vt.
05071 (802) 457-3074.
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Birth:
29 May 1756
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
7
Birth:
9 Feb 1759
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
8
Birth:
17 Nov 1762
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
Notes:
ARCHIVE RECORD
9
Birth:
20 Jun 1764
Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Death:
14 Apr 1829
Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont or Hartford Co., Vermont
Notes:
CENSUS: from Internet usgenweb.com into Vermont Windsor County Sounces
1790 Census for Windsor County, Vermont
Farnsworth, Jonathan
067
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Farnsworth, Stephen
067
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Death records...Woodstock,Vermont P.230,228,229
His mother lived with him till her death.....see her notes...
Cemetery survey for Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont...compiled by the Ottauquechee Chapter of DAR....Copy at Dana House and Norman Williams Public Library.
VOL 26 VT N. S. DAR...Old Burying Ground..Woodstock, Vermont (9 Morgan Cemetery, So.Woodstock....also called Adams Farm Cemetery.
Stones Standing: Stephen Farnsworth died April 14, 1829, aged 65 years.
Other family members also buried there. In pasture near Michael J. Fox property....right away thru his property.
Personally visited there June 1993.
Ordinance Index...Batch + Sheet Dates Source Call No. Type
8303301 96 0884965 Film
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Found this information by going to google and putting in Farnsworth Deed............3/1/05
http://home.earthlink.net/~ellsfam/maine/sgt_wm_01/Records/INDIs/II379.html
Individual Record for: Stephen [II] FARNSWORTH (male)
Stephen [I] FARNSWORTH
Stephen [II] FARNSWORTH Family Record <../FAMs/FF138.html>
Eunice HASTINGS
Spouse Children
Deborah BENNETT (Family Record <../FAMs/FF136.html>) Enos Charles FARNSWORTH Fanny (Frances) FARNSWORTH Charlotte FARNSWORTH Terah BENNET FARNSWORTH Ora FARNSWORTH William FARNSWORTH Laura-Lorry Elon FARNSWORTH Stephen [III] FARNSWORTH Aurelia FARNSWORTH Deborah FARNSWORTH John [R?] FARNSWORTH Harriet FARNSWORTH
Event Date Details
Birth 20 JUN 1764 Place: At Fort No. 4, Charlestown NH
Death 14 APR 1829 Place: prob. Hartford VT, ae 64 Notes: (gravestone photo 64 yo}
Burial Place: Morgan-Farnsworth Cemetery, S. Woodstock VT
Notes:
This was the second generation named Stephen Farnsworth. His father is Stephen[I]3G, from Samuel2G, from Mathias1G of Groton. The father Stephen [I] of Groton MA married Eunice Hastings of Lunenburg MA and with his brothers Samual and David built Fort Number Four, Charlestown NH. - Stephens birth is recorded in Saundersons History of Charlestown NH p342; Farnsworth & Nye Farnsworth Memorial 2d ed. p 362, 363 & 365; H.S. Dana's Hist of Woodstock VT p133, 135-136; Geo. A. Cunninghams Genealogy of Lunenburg MA; attest, Lunenburg MA town clerk, 31 Aug 1933; and family records. Stephen [II], born at Fort Number Four, was the youngest son of that marriage, and he first came to Woodstock VT in the 1770s on a exploratory trip with his brothers Oliver and Jonathan. All settled there (Stephen [II] in 1782) in the village area now known as SouthWoodstock. - His marriage to Deborah is recorded in Woodstock VRs "Bk B, 1760-1851", p83; in Saundersons History of Charlestown NH p342; in Farnsworth & Nyes Farnsworth Memorial 2d ed." p363; in Frank L. Hoisington's Friends Who Have Crossed the River - Family Record; & in Hamilton C. Fords Ford Family Genealogy, v. 1 p515, 616 (Great Neck, NY, 1950) (9 volumes typescript) (copies at NEHGS, NY Public Library, Detroit Public Library,etc.). - In 1809, SF [II] built the big brick house that later became the town farm. The house still stands on the splendid hillside overlooking the Green Mountain Horse Association farm. He served as constable & twice as state representative. - On 20 Jan 1823, Stephen Farnsworth [II] of Woodstock, sold all the land owned by me in s[ai]d Woodstock" (including the farm on which he then lived, a portion of which was his 1782 homestead), and he purchased no more land in Woodstock during his lifetime. Fourteen months later, on 17 March 1824 in the deed referred to at the top, the father, Stephen Farnsworth [II], now identifying himself as being of Hartland, purchased a Hartland farm from his son Stephen Farnsworth Jr. [i.e., III] and his son-in-law Samuel Myrick Jr. - (Another deed further demonstrates that Stephen Farnsworth [II] now of Hartland is the same person as Stephen Farnsworth [II] formerly of Woodstock: in a deed dated 7 Feb 1827, a Stephen Farnsworth of Hartland sold his pews in the South Parish Meeting House in Woodstock. (He, in 1800, as a resident of South Woodstock, had petitioned to have this meeting house constructed [petition in early town records, LDS film].) - Stephen [II], kept the Hartland farm until 1827. It is not clear to me where he spent the last two years of his life, though I did find some evidence that that his 1829 death was at the home of his daughter Aurelia Farnsworth Demmon in Queche Village, HartFORD, Vermont, only a mile or two from his former HartLAND farm. (She probably married Roswell Demmon in the early 1820s. - Death notice. In a death notice for Stephen Farnsworth [II], the newspaper Woodstock [VT] Observer of 21 April 1829 reported as follows: "DIED...At the seat of R. Demmon of Pomfret, on the 16th inst. STEPHEN FARNSWORTH, Esq. aged 64. Mr. S. was one of the first settlers of this town--and served it many years as a faithful & impartial magistrate--and representative in the Legislature." This was the first source I have found specifiying a place of death, and I think it is wrong, for Pomfret VT town records show d/r and no Demmon owning property in Pomfret at this time. But there was a Demmon who owned property just across the Pomfret town line in HARTFORD VT (near Queeche Village), and I think he was married to Stephen [II]s daughter Aurelia. So I think this death notice was actually reporting Stephen Farnsworth [II]'s death in HARTFORD VT. (See under Aurelia for discussion of link to her.) - His death is also recorded in a state abstract of Woodstock VR (prob. a cem. record); Farnsworth & Nye Farnsworth Memorial 2d ed (date only); the 21 Apr 1829 obit in Woodstock Observer; the gravestone in the Morgan-Farnsworth Cem., S. Woodstock VT; his grave stone (date only) at Morgan-Farnsworth Cem., S. Woodstock VT; and family r
ecords. - Stephen [II] was buried with his mother, brother(s), and some of his children in the Morgan-Farnsworth Cemetery, 200 yds north of Fletcher Hill Road outside South Woodstock village. - To avoid confusion I should note that the Farnsworth Memorial II [doc 6.4] erroneously added two children to the list of Stephen and Deborah's children: FM II p366 now shows a new Sarah Bennet Farnsworth, who was allegedly born with a birth date identical to Terah's. Probably the editors were misled by an erroneous state abstract of the town record that misreads the Te of Terah as Sa. But FM II's editors, thank goodness, did not also delete the original Terah from their book. The Woodstock original record is clear: Terah Bennet Farnsworth was the only child born on 12 Apr 1792, and Sarah Bennet Farnsworth does not appear here or in any other original record [Woodstock VT town record book Births Marriages, Book B 1760-1851 p83; doc 6.3 herein)]. ----(The FM II editors compounded their error by misreading an ambiguous state abstract to create a second erroneous child Asa, in addition to the original record's Ora, b. 28 Mar1794.)
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Stephen Farnsworth - Eunice Hastings
Stephen Farnsworth
was born at Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 1715.
His parents were Samuel Farnsworth and Mary Whitcomb.
He married Eunice Hastings 22 Dec 1741 at of Luenburg, Massachusetts . Eunice Hastings was born at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 3 Sep 1722 daughter of John Hastings and Sarah Fiske .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Oliver Farnsworth
born 8 Dec 1742.
Sarah Farnsworth
born 30 Jun 1748.
Submit Farnsworth
born 29 Jun 1750.
Eunice Farnsworth
born 26 Mar 1752.
Jonathan Farnsworth
born 7 Jun 1754.
Azubah Farnsworth
born 29 May 1756.
Mary Farnsworth
born 9 Feb 1759.
Relief Farnsworth
born 17 Nov 1762.
Stephen Farnsworth, Jr.
born 20 Jun 1764.
Stephen Farnsworth died 6 Sep 1771 at Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire .
Eunice Hastings died 9 Jun 1811 at South Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont .