Ancestors of Tim Farr and Descendants of Stephen Farr Sr. of Concord, Massachusetts and Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England


Richard ALDOUS [Parents] was born about 1485 in of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He died before 4 Oct 1560. Richard married Agnes OWLES.

DEATH: Will Probate

Agnes OWLES was buried on 23 Aug 1559 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Agnes married Richard ALDOUS.


Thomas ALDOUS [Parents] was born about 1495 in of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He was buried on 5 Sep 1569 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Thomas married Agnes BARBOR.

Agnes BARBOR [Parents] was born about 1512 in of Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. She was buried on 10 May 1582 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Agnes married Thomas ALDOUS.

They had the following children.

  M i James ALDOUS was born in 1538. He died on 8 Jan 1614/1615.

John KING [Parents] was born on 1 Apr 1677 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 18 Sep 1723 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. John married Rebecca.

Other marriages:
, Hannah
KING, Rebekah
, Elizabeth
PERCY, Elizabeth

Hannah and Rebeckah could not possibly both be John's wives because their are vital records of both Hannah and Rebeckah having children during the same period of years.

Rebecca. Rebecca married John KING.

Other marriages:
KING, John


Joseph WHEELER Lt. 1, 2 was christened 3 on 18 Feb 1609 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. He died 4 about 1681 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Joseph married 5 Elizabeth on 19 May 1642 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
GOLDSTONE, Sarah

Was a Lieutenant

Elizabeth was buried 1 on 19 Jul 1642 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Elizabeth married 2 Joseph WHEELER Lt. on 19 May 1642 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.


Thomas GROSVENOR [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 1 about 1410. Thomas married Isabella PESHALL 2.

Isabella PESHALL [Parents] [scrapbook] 1. Isabella married Thomas GROSVENOR.

PESHALL, OF HORSLEY.
CREATED         DORMANT
25th Nov. 1612.  since Feb. 1712.

Lineage.
RICHARD DE PERSHALL, son of Sir Richard Peshall by Alice Swinnerton, his wife, was a knight and a person of great power in Staffordshire, having been high sheriff, an office in those days of great authority, 7 EDWARD III. and from the 11th to the 15th of the same king. He rn Margaret, daughter and heir of Hugh, lord of Knighton, and thus added that manor to his possessions. He was a. by his son, SIR ADAM DE PESHALL, who was sheriff 15 EDWARD III. and made a similar accession to his estate by marriage with two heiresses, the daughters of John Weston, lord of Weston Lizard, in the county of Salop, and John de Caverswall, of Bishop's Offiey.
By the former he had a son and heir,
SIR ADAM DE PESHALL, of Weston Lizard, whose grandson and heir, another
SIR ADAM PESHALL, left two daughters, his co.heirs, viz.
MARGARRT PESHALL, who rn. Sir Richard Mytton, and conveyed to him the estate of Weston Lizard. (Refer to BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 518.)
JOHANNA PESHALL, rn. to W. de Birming­ham.
By the latter he had a son, SIR RICHARD DE PESHALL, who acquired a consider­able fortune with his wife, Johanna, daughter and heir of Reginald Chetwynde, of Chetwynde, and left a son and heir, Sir THOMAS PESHALL, knt. living 4 RICHARD II.
who, by his first wife, Philippa, had two sons,
RICHARD}, who m. temp. HENRY IV. two sisters, the daughters of Hugh Malpas of -
Nicholas} -Checkley, and thus brought great estates into the family. RICHARD, the elder son, left two daughters, rn. in the time of HENRY VII.; the eIder, Isabella, to Sir THOMAS GROSVENOR; and the younger, Jocosa, to W. PIGOTT, of Cheshire. Of NICHOLAS, more presently.

They had the following children.

  M i Randell GROSVENOR was born about 1450. He died on 1 Mar 1521/1522.

Richard PESHALL [Parents] [scrapbook] 1.

He had the following children.

  F i Isabella PESHALL.

John ARNOLD [Parents] [scrapbook] 1 was born 2 on 1 Nov 1670 in Watertown, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He died 3 on 27 Oct 1756 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He was buried 4 on 30 Oct 1756 in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. John married 5, 6 Mary MOWRY in 1692/1693 in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Other marriages:
BALCOM, Hannah

History of Woonsocket
by E. Richardson
Woonsocket: S. S. Foss, Printer, Patriot Building, Main Street, 1876.


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HISTORY. CHAPTER III.

Of John Arnold I have been able to learn but little.  If we judge of him from documents of his time, which allude to his father as 'Captain' Richard Arnold, to his son as William Arnold, 'of Smithfield, Esq.', and to himself as simply John Arnold, 'yeoman', we may regard him as simply a connecting link between his ancestors and his descendants.  It will, therefore, be pleasant to remain in his company, because we know so little of him.  And yet, from positions which he held among his fellow-countrymen, and from works which he has left behind him, he seems to have been a man of more than ordinary parts.

He was one of the organizers of the Society of Friends in Northern Rhode Island, and built their first meeting-house at this place.  He was one of the committee who run our northern boundary line in 1718, and when Smithfield became a town, in 1731, he was the first President of the Council.  He was born in 1671.  Tradition fixes the time of his coming to take up his permanent abode upon his father's lands at this place in 1695, and the records show that this was about the time of his marriage.

The maiden name of his first wife was Mary Mowry, a daughter of Nathaniel Mowry, to whom I have introduced you in a previous chapter. She presented him with ten children, namely - William, John, Israel, Daniel, Anthony, Seth, Anne, Marcy, Susanna and Abagail.  Mary died January 27, 1742.  He remained a widower but a short time, and although arrived at the mature age of three score years and eleven, he again put on the yoke of matrimony.  The name of his second wife was Hannah Hayward.  There were no fruits to this union.  He died October 27, 1756, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.  His remains now repose in the burial-ground on the Vose farm at the Globe Village.  His will was written May 5, 1753.  The following is the

Abstract of Will of John Arnold.
'To his wife, Hannah, one-half of the incomes and profits of the homestead farm.  Also, one-half of the meadow and upland at the Little Cedar Swamp.
'To his son, William, thirty pounds of current money.
'To his three sons, Daniel, Anthony and Israel, five pounds each.
'To his three daughters, Mary Lapham, Abagail Bartlett and Susanna Melvory, one hundred pounds each.
'To his grandson, Moses Arnold, five pounds.
'To his grandson, Noah Arnold, forty pounds.
'To his grandson, David Arnold, ten pounds.
'To his grandson, Arnold Paine, the remaining half of the homestead, and of the meadow and upland at Little Cedar Swamp. Also, the reversion of the other half of same at the death of his wife.  Also, one-half of farm stock.  Also, two hundred pounds current money.
'To his grandson, Nicholas Lapham, his French gun.
'To his son, Seth, his part of the saw-mill and appurtances.
'The remainder of his estate to be equally divided among his eight remaining children.'

Before his death John Arnold presented or sold the larger part of his real estate to his sons - William, John, Israel, Daniel, Anthony and Seth. The reader must pardon me if, in giving the sub-divisions of his estate, I get ahead of my story at times.  The excuse which I have to offer is that it would have been much easier for me to tell my story chronologically, and I have chosen another course for the reader's convenience, instead of mine.

BURIAL: Was buried in the ARNOLD-VOSE CEMETERY, WOONSOCKET, EAST ORCHARD ST.

Mary MOWRY [Parents] was born 1 in 1675 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She died 2, 3 on 27 Jan 1742 in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She was buried on 30 Jan 1742. Mary married 4, 5 John ARNOLD in 1692/1693 in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

They had the following children.

  M i William ARNOLD was born on 9 Dec 1695. He died on 2 Aug 1766.
  M ii John ARNOLD was born on 29 May 1697. He died on 12 Mar 1727.
  M iii Daniel ARNOLD was born on 1 May 1699. He died on 30 Jul 1773.
  F iv Mercy ARNOLD was born on 22 Dec 1701. She died in Aug 1756.
  M v Richard Daniel ARNOLD was born on 10 Apr 1702. He died on 30 Jul 1773.
  M vi Anthony ARNOLD was born on 12 Mar 1704. He died in 1801.
  M vii Seth ARNOLD was born on 26 Jul 1706. He died in 1801.
  M viii Israel ARNOLD was born in 1708.
  F ix Anna ARNOLD was born in 1710.
  F x Abigail ARNOLD was born in 1712.
  F xi
Susanna ARNOLD was born in 1714 in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Francis PARKS was born 1 in 1778. He died 2 on 8 Dec 1812 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. He was buried 3 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. Francis married 4 Sabrina FARR "Sabra" on 8 Mar 1802 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Sabrina "Sabra" FARR [Parents] was born 1, 2 on 1 Feb 1782 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. She died 3 on 18 Jan 1868 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. She was buried 4 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. Sabra married 5 Francis PARKS on 8 Mar 1802 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Sabra resided 6 in 1850 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Other marriages:
BROWN, Wilder
FARR, Russell

Given name may be Sabrina.


Wilder BROWN died in 1835 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. Wilder married 1, 2, 3 Sabrina FARR "Sabra" on 23 Feb 1818 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Wilder's will was probated 4 on 5 Oct 1835 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Sabrina "Sabra" FARR [Parents] was born 1, 2 on 1 Feb 1782 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. She died 3 on 18 Jan 1868 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. She was buried 4 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. Sabra married 5, 6, 7 Wilder BROWN on 23 Feb 1818 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Sabra resided 8 in 1850 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.

Other marriages:
PARKS, Francis
FARR, Russell

Given name may be Sabrina.


Edmund THOMPSON.

Martha FISKE [Parents]. Martha married Edmund THOMPSON in England, United Kingdom.

MARTHA FFISKE - Married in England to Captain Edmund Thompson, son of John Thompson of Holkham in Norfolk. They moved to New England, arriving in 1637, where they had four children: Martha, Edmund, Thomas and Hannah. Capt. Thompson was admitted to the church in Salem, Mass. in Dec 1639. They later returned to England and resided at Yarmouth, where they had a further three children, all of whom died in infancy. According to the Candler manuscript Capt. Thompson was a sea-captain who served the States after the death of King Charles I.

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