APPENDIX A. 733 



"Thorp at is jo house of Thomas Farrington's a road rooned horse aboute 

 fourteen hands high, shored before with a middle long tale, without either marke 

 or brand as can be perceived. Entered ye 2btii day of December, 1700, by inc. 

 £0. 0. 9. Sam'l Bneden, Town Clerk." 



The fob wing extracts from the town records apply to other members of his 

 family.— 



"George Farrington (his son) was appointed Overseer of the Roads on 1st 

 April. 1784. Appointed Fence Viewer and Overseer of the Road on 5th April, 

 1796; re-elected 4th April, 1797. Appointed Overseer of the Poor 3d April, 1798; 

 also 2d April, 1799; also Overseer of Roads 1st April, 1800. 



"Jonas Farrington, another son, was selected Overseer of Roads 3d April, 

 1798; Overseer of Highways. 11th Dist., on 7th April. 1S12; re-appointed Gth 

 April, 1813; also 7th April, 1818; also 6th April, 1819." 



Jonas Farrington, the son of Thomas Farrington, was born May 26, 17.14 ; 

 mar. Euphemia Lawrence, b. Jan. 20, 1704. Their children — 1, Mastin b. Feb. 

 2, 1782; 2, Jane b. April 10, 17S5; 3, George b. Aug. 10, 1787; 4, Jonas b. 

 May 3, 1790 ; 5, Hannah b. May 3, 1793, died in infancy; 6, Charles b. April 2, 

 1796 ; 7, John Rich b. Dec. 23, 1798 ; 8, Rebecca b. Nov. 10, 1801. Jonas d. 

 A. D. 1822, Sept. 22 ; Euphemia d. A. D. 1830, March 21. Their tombstones are 

 in Eastchester churchyard. Of these children — The First, Mastin Farrington, d. 

 March 29, 1S23 : mar. Keziah Oakley, b. July 23, 1782. Their children -- 1, Oakley 

 b. Nov. 2, 1S01, mar., 1825, May 8, to Mary Ann Boscawen, and had issue; 



2, Mary b. Oct. 27, 1803, mar. a Mr. Munu, and had issue. The Second, Jane 

 Farrington, mar. Anthony Valentine, and ha 1 issue ; she d. in 1838. The Third, 

 George Farrington, mar. a Miss Morgan, and had issue. The Fourth, Jonas 

 Farrington, jr., mar. Sarah Wolff, and had — 1, John, who mar. Margaret 

 Jourdan, and had issue; 2, Rebecca mar. Abel Wheaton, jr., and had issue; 



3, John Smith ; 4, Sarah mar. Wm. L. Barker ; 5, Hannah. The Fifth, Charles 

 Farrington, mar. Catharine Boyce, b. A. D. 1799, and had — 1, Emeline 

 Euphemia b. April 19. 1819, mar. Wm. S. Wood; 2, Chas. W. b. April 4, 1S35, 

 mar.*; 3, John Rich b. Feb. 4, 1S20, mar. ; 4, Eliza Rebecca d. The Sixth, 

 John Rich Farrington mar. Hannah Barker, and had issue. The Seventh, 

 Rebecca Farrington, mar. John P. Angevine A. D. 1837, and had Charles 

 Berrian b. March 15, 1840. 



There are great numbers of the descendants of the other children of Thomas 

 Farrington settled in Westchester County, city of New York and Virginia. 



F'hxtaix of Bedford. — Fountain, Esq., descended from the Fountains 



of Stockingham, Devonshire, England, was a merchant of opulence, and emigrated 

 to America about 1650. He d. at. 100, leaving Moses, and a younger son who 

 d. s. p. set. 104. Moses, the eldest, had also two sons, viz. : Moses and Matthew. 

 The latter was a military officer of some distinction. Previous to the Revolutionary 

 war he removed from Bedford to Eastchester, where he d. from the bite of a fox, 

 set. 56. He left four sons, (I.), Stephen. (II.), Aaron. (III.), Rev. Ezra of 

 Bedford, b. 20th May, 1743, d. Oct. 15. 1840. (IV.), James of Bedford. Rev. 

 Ezra had, 1, James, M. D., of the New York University, who has Hosea, M. D., 

 of Somers, Elias, Jabez, Ilusted, C. Horton, and Ezra James. 2, Hosea. 

 3, Tyler of Peekskill. Arms, arg. three bars, gamelles, gu, on a canton az. a lion 

 passi-.nt guardant, or. Crest, an eagle's head erased, holding in his beak a snake. 



