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Simeon Farnsworth

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Simeon Farnsworth

Birth
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
21 Mar 1805 (aged 86)
Washington, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
Burial
Washington, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 269
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Simeon Farnsworth, son of Jonathan Farnsworth and Ruth Shattuck,; married 1st: Martha Hall on the 28th of May 1744 in Harvard, MA. She died 7 May 1754. He married 2nd: Lucy Atherton.
Age 88 years, 6 months, 4 days.

Source: History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, N.H., 1886, p. 393. "Probably the first of the name to settle in Camden was Simeon Farnsworth, Jr. who came from Harvard and settled near the foot of the Safford Hill, west of the village at the centre of the town. He died in 1791, at the early age of forty-six years leaving a large family of children. His grandsons, William and Cyrus K. Farnsworth, are at the present time prominent and respected citizens of the town. Most of the brothers and sisters of Simeon Farnsworth Jr.,sooner or later found their way to Washington and made it their home. Simeon Farnsworth, Sr., father of the numerous sons and daughters who early came to Washington, himself came here to reside about the year 1780. He died in 1805, aged eighty-eight."
Simeon Farnsworth, son of Jonathan Farnsworth and Ruth Shattuck,; married 1st: Martha Hall on the 28th of May 1744 in Harvard, MA. She died 7 May 1754. He married 2nd: Lucy Atherton.
Age 88 years, 6 months, 4 days.

Source: History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, N.H., 1886, p. 393. "Probably the first of the name to settle in Camden was Simeon Farnsworth, Jr. who came from Harvard and settled near the foot of the Safford Hill, west of the village at the centre of the town. He died in 1791, at the early age of forty-six years leaving a large family of children. His grandsons, William and Cyrus K. Farnsworth, are at the present time prominent and respected citizens of the town. Most of the brothers and sisters of Simeon Farnsworth Jr.,sooner or later found their way to Washington and made it their home. Simeon Farnsworth, Sr., father of the numerous sons and daughters who early came to Washington, himself came here to reside about the year 1780. He died in 1805, aged eighty-eight."


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