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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Isaac Farwell |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Abt 1678 |
Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1707 |
Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Elizabeth).
to Elizabeth Hyde |
| Will[1] |
26 Jan 1747/48 |
Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[1][2][3] |
28 Jun 1753 |
Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[2] |
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Old Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Tolland, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
10 Jul 1753 |
£104:19:11. |
| Probate[1] |
10 Jul 1753 |
Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United StatesWill proved. |
He resided first in Groton, MA, and later in Medford, MA, Willington and Mansfield, CT.
Will of Isaac Farwell3
In the name of God Amen. The Twenty sixth Day of January A. D. 1747-8. I Isaac Farewell of Mansfield in the County of Windham in the Colony of Connecticut, in New England, yeoman, being advanced in years and infirm of Body, but of perfect mind and memory, Thanks be given unto God Therefor, Do make and ordain this my last will and Testament …
I give to Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife the whole and sole use and Improvement of all my estate, both real and personal, for her sole use during her natural life, excepting only my lot in the Cedar Swamp in Willington.
To my beloved son John Farewell, whom I constitute my sole executor, all my lands, messuages and tenements not otherwise disposed of, with all my personal Estate and outdoor movables not otherwise disposed of by me, to be possessed and enjoyed after my wife's decease.
To my son William Farewell, beside what I have given him by deed of gift already, the one-half part of my Cedar Swamp in Willington, to be equally divided between him and my son John Farewell upon my decease.
To my grandsons Edmund Hovey, Isaac Hovey, Aaron Hovey, James Hovey, William Hovey, and Elijah Hovey, £50 in Bills of Credit, old tenor, to be equally divided among them after my wife's decease, as they shall arrive to the age of Twenty-one years, the survivors of them to have the portions equally of any of them that shall have been deceased.
To my granddaughters Mary Hovey, Elizabeth Hovey, and Elizabeth Hide all my household goods or indoor movables, excepting wearing apparel, books, writings, money and bills of credit, at my wife's decease.
To granddaughter Elizabeth Hide £10 in Bills of Credit.
All my Books of Divinity, and all my wearing apparel to sons John and William equally, after my wife's decease.
My executor to procure and erect decent and suitable monuments at or upon mine and my wife's graves.
ISAAC FARWELL (Seal)
Witnesses
- Edmund Freeman Jr.
- William Johnson
- Martha Freeman
In the body of the will the name is written Farewell, but the signature is distinctly Farwell.
The will proved at Mansfield July 10, 1753, by oaths of witnesses exhibited and allowed at Court at Lebanon July 16, 1753. Inventory taken July 10, 1753, was £104:19:11."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 14 Isaac3 Farwell, in Farwell, John Dennis; Jane H. (Jane Harter) Abbott; and Lillian May Wilson. The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605-1927: With Twelve Generations of Their Descendants: also Lineages of Many Allied Families. (Orange, Texas: F.H. Farwell and Fanny B. Farwell, 1929)
56.
"14 Isaac Farwell3 (Ensign Joseph2, Henry1), b. about 1678, in Chelmsford, Mass.; m. probably about 1704, Elizabeth Hyde, of Newton, Mass. She was a dau. of Jonathan and Dorothy (Kidder) Hyde, …
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Isaac Farwell, in Find A Grave.
- ↑ Dimock, Susan W. (Susan Whitney). Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850. (New York: The Baker and Taylor Co., 1898)
p. 318.
Mr. Isaac Farwell, d. June 28, 1753.
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