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Fahrington of E.vSTcriESTER. — The family of Farrington arc of Shaw Hall, 

 Lancashire, England. The Farringtons, of Farrington, Wearden and Shaw Hall, 

 nil in the Parish of Leyland and County Palatine of Lancaster, arose at the time 

 of the Conquest, and have since preserved an uninterrupted male succession. 

 They resided at Farrington as recently as the time of Elizabeth, and continued 

 at Wearden until the close of the sixteenth century, when they removed to 

 Shaw Hall. 



The manor and hundred of Leyland was held by them of King Edward the 

 Confessor ; and the men of the manor (which was of a superior order), as well as 

 those of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their own harvest instead 

 of the King's. 



According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington 

 with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, Massachusetts, in a vessel with 

 a Capt. Howe, on or about the 17th of May. 1640, and arrived at Cow Bay, L. I., 

 where they purchased of the Indians from the eastern part of Oyster Bay to Cow 

 Bay: and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, on the 

 19th of May, 1640. 



This Farrington originally came from Southampton, England. He, with the 

 others, afterwards bought Agawan of the Indians — a tract about twenty miles 

 long and six miles wide — and made a settlement, which he called Southampton. 

 They made their settlement on the 13th December, 1640. The consideration 

 paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for the laud. Edmund 

 Farrington returned to Lynn, Mass., and in 1665 built a mill there, and dug a 

 pond and opened a brook for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farrington 

 died in 1680, aged 88 years. Two of his sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, 

 afterwards removed to Flushing. Thomas Farrington in 1645 was one of the 

 patentees of Flushing, and his brother Edward was a magistrate there in 1657. 

 The latter had a son named John Mastin Farrington. 



Thomas Farrington, the first of that name mentioned in the Eastchester town 

 records, was one of their descendants. He emigrated from Flushing to East- 

 Chester about the year 1750, and became one of the purchasers of a portion of 

 Long Reach, a district of the town ; and the farm that he owned in that patent i 3 

 yet in the possession of one of his descendants, Mr. Jonas Farrington of the city 

 of New York. 



Thomas settled in Yonkers — afterwards removed near Hunt's Bridge, and 

 then to Long Reach. 



Thomas Farrington died about the year 1793, about 90 years of age ; his 

 grave and that of his second wife lies at the junction of a lane called Far- 

 rington's Lane, running through his farm with the White Plains Road. Thomas 

 Farrington mar., first wife, a Miss Norris; and his sister Jane Farrington mar. 

 John Norris, the brother of his first wife. Their children — 1, Robert mar. 

 Charity, sister of Nehemiah Hunt; 2, Sarah mar. Anthony Valentine; 3, Thomas 

 mar. Miss Taylor; 4, Benjamin mar. Susannah Tompkins j second wife, Mar- 

 garet Mastin. Their children — 1, Jonas mar. to Euphemiah Lawrence ; 2, Mastin 

 died unmarried; 3, Hannah mar. Joseph Oakley; 4, Penelope died Oct. 10, 1838, 

 unmarried; 5, George mar. Frances Guion, d. April 10, 1830. 



The following extract, from the Eastchester town records, apply to Thomas 

 Farrington, viz. : he was appointed overseer of the roads April 15th, 1774: — 



