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Subject: Ebenezer Farnsworth & wife, Elizabeth Whitney of Groton & Pepperell
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:54:35 EDT

Subject: Farnsworth, Ebenezer
Source: Farnsworth Memorial

Matthias Farnsworth Jr./Sarah Nutting Line, Groton, MA

pp.41-43
Ebenezer Farnsworth b. abt 1684 at Groton, MA 2nd child
of Matthias Farnsworth Jr. and his wife, Sarah Nutting
dau of John & Sarah Nutting of Groton. John Nutting was
an original proprietor of Groton, MA holding a seventeen
acre right.

Ebenezer Farnsworth m. Apr 17, 1707, Elizabeth Whitney
dau. of Joshua and Abigail (Tarbell) Whitney of Watertown
She was b. abt 1686. They owned the covenant Sep 19,
1708. She united with the church Apr 6, 1718 and he did
so on Mar 3, 1724.

p.43
Ebenezer Farnsworth and his wife, Elizabeth Whitney had
issue at Groton, MA:

1. Elizabeth Farnsworth b. Jan 27, 1708 m. Dec 30, 1729
Ebenezer Jefts of Groton, MA, resided there and had
Surname Jefts:
1. John b. Jan 10, 1730
2. Elizabeth b. June 14, 1732
3. Sarah b. Jul 12, 1734
4. Lydia b. Sep 14, 1739
5. Martha b. Oct 11, 1744.

2. Matthias Farnsworth b. Sep 20, 1709; m. Feb 24, 1730
Abigail Shedd, dau of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bowers)
Shedd b. Nov 7, 1708; she d. May 11, 1762; he m. (2)
Azubah (Burt) Farnsworth widow of Phineas. (also,
NEHGS Nexus Sept/Oct 1996 Vol. XIII No 5 issue 163)
He d. 1796.

3. Ebenezer b. Dec 16, 1711 d. Oct 11, 1723.

4. William Farnsworth b. Aug 4, 1714 m. Mar 21, 1737
Ruth Hobart dau. of Gershom and Lydia (Nutting)
Hobart, Jr. and grandaughter of Rev. Gershom Hobart
longtime minister of the church of Groton, MA. This
Lydia Nutting was dau of James and Lydia (Longley)
Nutting; and Lydia was dau of William and Joanna
(Goffe) Longley; Joanna Goffe was sister to Thomas
Goffe, a London merchant, and for some time Deputy
Governor of the MBC in London, before it was brought
over to America and who declined the office in order
that a governor should be named who could go with the
Company.
William Farnsworth was a volunteer in the expedition
sent by the colonial authorities against the French
in Louisburg in 1745 and lost his life there. He
had resided at Pepperell, MA. His wife, Ruth was b.
Nov 8, 1714 and d. Dec 1814 aged 100 years, one month
and four days.

5. Abigail Farnsworth b. Sep 2, 1718 m. May 1, 1740
Deacon David Blood son of John and Joanna (Nutting)
Blood; he was b. Sep 28, 1718 at Groton, MA and
removed early to Pepperell, MA. She d. 1783. Their
children born at Pepperell were:

1. David Blood b. Mar 15, 1741 m. Nov 2, 1762
Olive Taylor. He d. Apr 12, 1818
2. Jonathan Blood b. Nov 8, 1742 d. July 19, 1763
3. Joshua Blood b. June 26, 1744; m. 1767 Keziah
Jewett b. Oct 6, 1748
4. Lydia Blood b. 1745
5. Abigail Blood b. 1748
6. Isaac Blood b. 1750 d. 1750
7. Mary Blood b. 1753 m. Eleazer Shattuck b. 1751
d. 1844; she d. 1825
8. Ruth Blood b. 1755
9. John Blood b. 1758
l0. Isaac 2nd Blood b. 1760 m. Lydia Shattuck b. 1760
he d. 1842.
ll. Nathan Blood b. 1763 m. 1743 Sybil Wright the
widow of Levi Shattuck and he m. (2) Mary
Brooks

6. Keziah Farnsworth b. 1723 m. 1743 Jonathan Shattuck
Jr. b. 1720 and at an early day removed to Pepperell
he d. 1804; she d. 1809

7. Sarah Farnsworth b. 1725 m. 1749 Joshua Bowers son of
Samuel and Esther Bowers. She b. 1721. He d. 1756
and she m. (2) William Hale of Harvard. She had by
Joshua Bowers:
1. Molly Bowers b. 1751
2. Sarah Bowers b. 1752
3. Joshua Bowers Jr. b. 1755.

8. Lydia Farnsworth b. 1729 m. 1754 Jonathan Tarball
son of Thomas and Abigail (Parker) Tarball b. 1728
He d. 1763 and she m. (2) Jonathan Lawrence b. 1725
d. 1806. She d. 1805. She had 4 Tarbell children
and two Lawrence children.
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Transcribed by Janice Farnswort

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