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


Samuel GIBSON was born 1 on 28 Oct 1644 in of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Samuel married 2, 3, 4 Sarah PEMBERTON on 30 Oct 1668 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
STEDMAN, Elizabeth

Son of John Gibson:

JOHN GIBSON
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1634.
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 17 May 1637 implied by freemanship. In the list of Cambridge church members compiled in January 1658/9 are "John Gibson & Rebecca his wife both members in full communion. Their children: Rebeccah, now joined in full communion with the church at Watertowne, Mary, Martha, John, Samuel," the last four listed as "baptized in this church" [CaChR 14].
FREEMAN: 17 May 1637 [MBCR 1:373].
OFFICES: Cambridge fenceviewer, 9 March 1662/3, 26 March 1666 [CaTR 143, 161]. Field driver, 15 March 1676/7, 11 March 1677/8 [CaTR 233, 239].
EDUCATION: Signed his deeds.
ESTATE: On 4 August 1634, "John Gibson" was granted six acres in the West End in Cambridge [CaTR 9]. Received a proportional share of one in the undivided meadow, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "those men who have houses in the town at this present, " "John Gibson" is credited with one house in the West End [CaTR 19].

In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635, "John Gibson" held one parcel: "in West End one house with planting ground about six acres" [CaBOP 35]. In the 1639 land inventory, "John Gibson" held one parcel: "in the new lots next Manotomie three acres of planting ground," and had bought of Edward Elmer "in the West End three acres of land" [CaBOP 55, 62]. In the 6 September 1642 land inventory, "John Gibson" held two parcels: "in West End one dwelling house with nine acres land"; and "in the Fresh Pond Meadow five acres" [CaBOP 95].

By 1642, John Gibson had sold to Nathaniel Sparrowhawk five acres in the Fresh Pond Meadow [CaBOP 124].

In 1648, "Jno. Gibson" was granted sixty acres "on the rocks on the north side the river," and, by 9 October 1648, had sold this land to Thomas Danforth [CaBOP 135, 138]. In the Shawsheen grant of 4 June 1652, "John Gibson" received Lot #52, eighty acres [CaTR 98].

On 30 November 1668, "John Gibson Senior of Cambridge" deeded to "John Gibson Junior his son the westerly end of or part of his now dwelling house with the chimney thereto appertaining ..., also three acres of land being part of the lot adjoining thereto," provided the father and son work in equal partnership all the land of the father, "and at the decease of the said John Gibson Senior all the said lands with all the houses & buildings thereon to be & remain to the said John Gibson Junior," with further provisions for maintenance if the grantor's wife outlives him [MLR 3:330].

On 26 May 1679, "John Gibson Senior of Cambridge ..., yeoman," sold to "Edm[ond] Angier of the same place, woollendraper, ... one parcel of land" in Cambridge "on the south side of Charles River, & containeth by estimation three acres"; acknowledged by "Joanna my wife" [MLR 7:352]. On 15 April 1687, "John Gibson of Cambridge" sold to "Deacon Walter Hastin of the aforesaid town ..., tanner, ... a small parcel of land containing one acre & a half ... in Cambridge West Field in the Great Swamp" [MLR 10:68].

BIRTH: about 1601 (deposed in 1688 "aged about 87" [Hutchinson 1:312]).
DEATH: In or after 1688 [Hutchinson 1:312]. (Secondary sources say he died in 1694, but the evidence for this has not been found.)
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1634 Rebecca _____. She died at Roxbury on 1 December 1661 [RChR 177].
(2) Cambridge 24 July 1662 Joanna (_____) Prentice, widow of Henry Prentice [Wyman 773].
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i  REBECCA GIBSON, b. say 1634; m. Cambridge 22 June 1654 Charles Stearns.
ii  MARY GIBSON, b. Cambridge [blank] March 1637 [NEHGR 4:56]; m. Roxbury 3 April 1655 John Ruggles.
iii  MARTHA GIBSON, b. Cambridge [blank] April 1639 [NEHGR 4:56]; m. Roxbury 3 November 1657 Jacob Newell.
iv  JOHN GIBSON, b. about 1641 (d. Cambridge 15 October 1679 aged 48 years) [sic]; m. Cambridge 9 December 1668 Rebecca Errington.
v  SAMUEL GIBSON, b. 28 October 1644; m. (1) Cambridge 30 October 1668 Sarah Pemberton; m. (2) Cambridge 14 June 1679 Elizabeth Stedman.

COMMENTS: On 8 May 1637, it was "agreed with John Gibson to keep 100 cows at our direction all this summer" [CaTR 28]. On 11 December 1648, it was "granted by the townsmen to John Gibson the use and profit of the weir and weir land for two years ensuing, upon condition, that he serve the town with fish, at ninepence per thousand, and if he afford help for loading them to be allowed ten pence per 1000" [CaTR 78].

The year of birth of son John would be about 1631 based on the age at death on his tombstone as published, but this must be incorrect. The list of church members of January 1658/9, when describing a family, enters the children in birth order, and for this family John is placed between Martha and Samuel, strongly suggesting that the age at death has been misread, and should be 38 rather than 48. This is consistent with his date of marriage.

In 1659 various members of the family of John Gibson accused Winifred and Mary Holman, wife and daughter of WILLIAM HOLMAN , of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns, and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in Cambridge at the time [Parker-Ruggles 237-54; Witchhunting 134-46].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1900 Mehitable Calef Coppenhagen Wilson compiled a genealogy of John Gibson and his descendants [Gibson Gen 1-11, 19-23].

Sarah PEMBERTON [Parents] was born in BET 1638 AND 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She was christened 1 on 30 Dec 1638 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 10 Oct 1676. Sarah married 2, 3, 4 Samuel GIBSON on 30 Oct 1668 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.


John PEMBERTON [Parents] was born in 1642 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened 1 on 24 Apr 1642 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He died in 1691. John married 2 Deborah HILLS about 1668 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Deborah HILLS. Deborah married 1 John PEMBERTON about 1668 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Surname may be Blake


William FARWELL [scrapbook] 1 was born in 1582 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 5 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was buried 2 on 5 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. William married William FARWELL Mrs about 1604 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

William had a will 3 on 1 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

Other marriages:
COLE, Joane

William FARWELL Mrs was born in 1585 in of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She died 1 before Jul 1617. William married William FARWELL 2 about 1604 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

They had the following children.

  M i Deacon Henry FARWELL was born about 1605. He died on 1 Aug 1670.
  F ii Sarah FARWELL was born about 1607.
  F iii Rebecca FARWELL was born about 1609.
  F iv Mary FARWELL was born about 1612.

Richard WELBY [Parents] [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born on 1 Jan 1564 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was christened 5, 6, 7, 8 on 7 Feb 1564 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was buried 9 on 15 May 1620 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. Richard married 10, 11, 12 Frances BULKELEY 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

RICHARD WELBY, of Moulton, Lincolnshire, 2nd son, baptized at Moulton, Lincolnsbire 7 Feb. 1564. He married at Whaplode, Lincolnsbire 4 June 1595 FRANCES BULKELEY, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, Rector of Odell, Bedfordshire (descendant of King Henry II), by Olive, daughter of John Irby, Gent., of Leighthorpe (in Cawthorpe), Lincolnshire [see BULKELEY 16 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1568. They had three sons, Thomas, Anthony, and Edward, and two daughters, Ann and Olive. His wife, Frances, was buried at Moulton, Lincolnshire 7 June 1610.
AS. Larken & AR. Maddison Lincolnshire Pods. 2 (H.S.P. 51) (1903): 541-543 (Irby pedigree); 4 (H.S.P. 55) (1906): 1313-1315 (Welby pedigree). J.H. Abbott & L.M. Wilson Farwell Fam. (1929): 1-34. D.L.Jacobus Bulkeley Con. (1933): 14-17,22-23.

On FHL film #183548 Heir Indexes, Richard shows as a relative of Heber J. Grant. Parents show in the IGI as Thomas Welby and Elizabeth Thimbleby

Frances BULKELEY [Parents] [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 was born on 1 Jan 1568 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She was christened 8 in 1568 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She was buried 9, 10, 11 on 7 Jan 1610 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. Frances married 12, 13, 14 Richard WELBY 15, 16, 17, 18 on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

CHRISTENING: Listed as issue of Edward Bulkeley in the Shrewsbury Corporation Record, Burgess Roll, 1580 as age 12.

They had the following children.

  M i Thomas WELBY was christened on 1 Jan 1597.
  F ii
Ann WELBY was christened 1, 2, 3 on 6 Jan 1600 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
  M iii
Anthony WELBY was christened 1 on 3 Dec 1602 in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was buried 2, 3, 4 on 28 Jan 1603 in Whaplode, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
  F iv Olive WELBY was christened on 17 Jun 1604. She died on 1 Mar 1692.
  M v
Edward WELBY 1, 2 was christened 3 on 22 Dec 1608 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

Joseph WILBORE was christened 1 on 28 Feb 1629/1630 in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England, United Kingdom. He died 2 on 27 Aug 1691 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Joseph married 3 Elizabeth FARWELL about 1651.

Elizabeth FARWELL [Parents] was born 1 on 27 May 1630 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She was christened 2 on 27 May 1630 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 9 Nov 1670 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Elizabeth married 3 Joseph WILBORE about 1651.


John FARWELL [Parents] was born 1 on 25 Oct 1635 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened 2 on 25 Oct 1635 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died 3 in 1686 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. John married 4 Sarah WHEELER on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages:
FISKE, Sarah

Sarah WHEELER died 1 on 23 May 1662 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah married 2 John FARWELL on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.


John FARWELL [Parents] was born 1 on 25 Oct 1635 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened 2 on 25 Oct 1635 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died 3 in 1686 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. John married Sarah FISKE on 23 May 1662.

Other marriages:
WHEELER, Sarah

Sarah FISKE [Parents] was born 1 on 26 Jul 1640 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah married John FARWELL on 23 May 1662.


John BATES was born 1 on 9 Jan 1641 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He died in Apr 1722. John married 2 Mary FARWELL on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Mary FARWELL [Parents] was born 1 on 26 Dec 1640 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 7 Mar 1713/1714 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Mary married 2 John BATES on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of JOHN BATES and MARY FARWELL are:
i. MARY4 BATES, b. May 08, 1667, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.
ii. JOHN BATES, b. Dec 22, 1668.
iii. ELIZABETH BATES, b. Dec 22, 1671, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.
iv. LYDIA BATES, b. Feb 25, 1671/72, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.
v. REBECKAH BATES, b. Abt. 1675, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.
vi. SARAH BATES, b. Abt. 1677, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA; d. Apr 25, 1735; m. (1)
BENJAMIN BUTTERFIELD, Feb 16, 1696/97; m. (2) DAVID CARVER, Jan 14, 1720/21; m. (3)
RICHARD HILDRETH, Apr 1728.

Source:
1. Colonial Families of the United States of America, Date of Import: Aug 28, 1998.
2. Colonial Families of the United States of America.


Benjamin SPAULDING was born 1 on 7 Apr 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Benjamin married 2 Olive FARWELL on 30 Oct 1668 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Olive FARWELL [Parents] was born 1 in 1645 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Olive married 2 Benjamin SPAULDING on 30 Oct 1668 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.


William LEARNED [scrapbook] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born about 1581 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He died 5, 6 on 1 Mar 1645/1646 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. William married 7, 8 Goodeth GILLMAN 9 on 22 Apr 1606 in St Olave, Southwork, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

Other marriages:
, Jane\Sarah

Father may be John b. 1565, Surrey, John's father was Robert, b. 1540, Bermondsey, Surrey?

William Learned, the emigrant, was admitted freeman in the colony, May 14, 1634. On Apr. 26, 1638, he was chosen one of a committee of six who were desired to consider of some things tending toward a body of Lawes. Dec. 18, 1640, he signed at Charlestown the Town Orders for Woburn and was one of the first seven members of the church in Woburn, gathered Aug. 14, 1642. He was one of the first board of selectmen chosen Apr. 13, 1643, and again Feb. 9, 1644-5. At the same time he was elected constable (that official being, at that time, also tax-collector), and remained in office until his death, Mar. 1, 1646-7.


The following is from "The Great Migration Begins" by Robert Charles Anderson
WILLIAM LEARNED

ORIGIN:  Bermondsey, Surrey
MIGRATION:  1630
FIRST RESIDENCE:  Charlestown
REMOVES:  Woburn 1640

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP:  "William Learned and Goodith his wife" were admitted to Charlestown church on 6 December 1632 [ChChR 8].
FREEMAN:  14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION:  Charlestown committee "to consider of some things tending towards a body of laws &c.," 26 April 1638 [ChTR 38].
OFFICES:  Charlestown selectman, 1636 [ChTR 16].
ESTATE:  Surrendered five acres Mystic Side, 1635 [ChTR 14].  Allotted two shares of hayground, which was increased to three, 1635 [ChTR 19, 20].  Had five acres of land Mystic Side, 1637 [ChTR 27].  "W[illia]m Lernett" had three and three-quarter cow commons, 1637 [ChTR 32].  In the Mystic Side allotments of 23 April 1638 he had portions of fifteen, forty and five acres [ChTR 37].  Had three and three-quarter cow commons, 30 December 1638 [ChTR 42].

On 13 January 1636/7 Charlestown selectmen "agreed to allow Goodman Learned a portion of marsh by his house agreed upon by Goodmaan Richeson & Goodman W[illia]m Baker for his haylot by Mr. Gibbons's which he yieldeth up to the town" [ChTR 24].

In the Charlestown land inventory of 1638 "William Lernett" held seven parcels of land: "three acres of arable land and meadow ... with a dwelling house"; "four acres of arable land ... in the East Field"; three and three-quarters cow commons; "two acres of meadow ... in Mystic Marshes"; "five acres of woodland ... in Mystic Field"; "fifteen acres of woodland ... in Mystic Field"; and "forty acres of land ... in Rock Field" [ChBOP 25].

When Gardy James sold land to Rowland Layhorn on 28 March 1649 James recited that the five acre lot had been bought by him from John Power, hosier, "who had it of William Mirable, and he had it of Georg. Michel, who had it of William Learned, which was the first proprietor" [ChBOP 101].

BIRTH:  By about 1581 based date of marriage.
DEATH:  Woburn 1 March 1645[/6].
MARRIAGE:  (1)  St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, 22 April 1606 Goodith Gilman; she died after 1632.  ("Goodith" was a distinct given name, not to be confused with "Judith," and not to be interpreted as "Goodwife," as has been done.)

(2) Jane _____ ("Sarah [sic] Learned, widow," died at Woburn on 24 January 1660[/1]; in March following the "inventory of the estate of the widow Jane Learned deceased in Malden" was taken, and administration was granted on 2 April 1661 to Ralph Shepard [MPR Case #13856; William Law Learned, The Learned Family ... Being Descendants of William Learned ... (Albany 1882), pp. 8-10]).
CHILDREN:
i SARAH, b. about 1607 (aged 28 in 1635 [Hotten 88]); m. (1) Bermondsey, Surrey, 13 January 1623/4 Thomas Ewer; m. (2) 11 December 1639 Thomas Lathrop, son of Rev. John Lathrop ("My son Tho[mas] and Brother Larnett's daughter, widow Ewer, in the Bay" [NEHGR 9:286]).
ii BETHIA, bp. Bermondsey, Surrey, 29 October 1612; no further record.
iii MARY, bp. Bermondsey 15 September 1615; bur. there 26 July 1625.
iv ABIGAIL, bp. Bermondsey 30 September 1618; no further record.
v ELIZABETH, bp. Bermondsey 25 March 1621; m. by 1645 John Hall (b. of child at Charlestown 21 September 1645 [ChVR 1:9]).
vi ISAAC, bp. Bermondsey 25 February 1623/4; m. Woburn 9 July 1646 Mary Stearns, daughter of ISAAC STEARNS.

COMMENTS:  Admitted an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1630 [ChTR 6].  In lists of Charlestown inhabitants of 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 [ChTR 10, 15].  Signed petition of 10 February 1634/5 establishing office of selectman in Charlestown [ChTR 13].

On 16 November 1637 "Will[iam] Larnet acknowledged his fault in subscribing the seditious writing [in favor of Rev. John Wheelwright], & desiring his name to [be] crossed out, it was yielded him, & crossed" [MBCR 1:208].

Some sources state that a Sarah "Leonarde" baptized on 30 September 1604 at Ware, Hertfordshire, was the first daughter of the immigrant, but the date of this baptism precedes the only known marriage of William Learned by two years, and the surname in the Ware baptism is not one of the usual variants of Learned.

Because there was a JOHN HALL in Charlestown with wife Bethia some years earlier than the marriage of Elizabeth Learned to a John Hall of Charlestown, the suggestion has been made that one John Hall married successively the sisters Bethia and Elizabeth Hall.  This hypothesis has two fatal flaws.  First, marriages between a widowed man and his first wife's sister were considered incestuous in seventeenth-century New England, and only one or two instances are known.  Second, the JOHN HALL with wife Bethia had moved to Cape Cod before the marriage between John Hall and Elizabeth Learned; these were two different John Halls.

Goodeth GILLMAN 1 was born 2 about 1586 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. She died on 24 Jan 1660/1661 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Goodeth married 3, 4 William LEARNED on 22 Apr 1606 in St Olave, Southwork, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

They had the following children.

  F i Sarah LEARNED was christened on 30 Sep 1607. She died in 1652.
  F ii Bethia LEARNED was christened on 29 Oct 1612. She died on 1 Feb 1683/1684.
  F iii
Mary LEARNED was christened 1, 2 on 15 Sep 1615 in St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. She died 3 on 26 Jul 1625 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. She was buried on 26 Jul 1625.
  F iv
Abaigail LEARNED was christened 1, 2 on 30 Sep 1618 in St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
  F v Elizabeth LEARNED was christened on 25 Mar 1621. She died on 11 Feb 1683.
  M vi Isaac LEARNED was born on 5 Feb 1623/1624. He died on 29 Nov 1657.

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