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Thomas Swan/Swanne m. ? b. d. 1649? |
Thomas b. 1642? Roxbury, Suffolk Co. MA d. Dec 8, 1687 |
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George Halsall/Halsey m. 1650/52? div. 1656/59 b. England |
Elizabeth b. 1652? Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA d. 1687 |
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| Henry Farnam m. 1656/59 MA b. 1623? England d. Jan 13, 1700 Killingworth CT |
Peter b. Jan 9, 1665 Killingworth CT d. Feb 14, 1703 Litchfield CT |
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Joanna came to America with her parents Thomas and Elizabeth Ruck on the ship
Castle from London about 1638. Her parents were most likely wealthly,
and her father emigrated "in a venture" with his cousin Joseph Merriam of Concord. |
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Joanna married Henry Farnam after being widowed with a son, remarrying and
divorcing about the time her daughter Elizabeth was born. Her father died at
about the same time. Divorces were rare in Puritan New England and they disappear
from records until 1665, when he and his family (Joanna and his stepdaughter
Elizabeth) are in Hammonassett Plantation, to become known as Killingworth.
Henry is one of the town's original landowners of 1663. |
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Killingworth is in Middlesex County CT, on the south shore of
Connecticut. It was sometimes called Kenilworth.
The land in this area is hilly and rolling, with forests. |
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Son Thomas was about aged 7 or 8 when his father Thomas Swanne died. He was
afterwards raised by Joanna's parents in Roxbury MA. |
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Son Peter Farnum was known as Sgt. Peter Farnum. |
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The only child of Henry and Joanna married
Hannah Wilcoxson on Dec 8, 1686, only the fourth marriage recorded in the
early history of Killingworth. |
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Sources: Clapp, Ebenezer Jr.,History of the town of Dorcester, Massachusetts, publ. by author, Boston MA, 1859. Killingworth Vital Records, v. 2, p. 192. Stepanek, Antoinette Farnum, Farnham/Farnum Families in America, Vol. I, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD, 1993, pp. 27-58. |
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