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From: (Marcia Payne)
Subject: [MAWORCES] FARRAR Misc.
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:36:40 -0500 (CDT)

On Sept. 24, 1653, Jn ffarrer and Jacob ffarrer signed the "covenant
of laws and orders" and by doing this, they were accepted as citizens of
the town of Lancaster.
Lancaster has often been called a Watertown colony because John
WINTHORP so styled it in 1643. But of the 55 who signed the covenent, 12
were from Dorchester, 6 were from Sudbury, 6 of Hingham and 5 each from
Roxbury and Watertown. The others came from 8 or 10 different
localities.

August 1675, George BENNETT and Jacob FARRAR became mangled victims
of a barbarous act of the Nashaway Indians. They were heads of their
families, the others were:
William FLAGG and Joseph WHEELER who were probably soldiers detailed for
service.

The assault ofthe savages was made at sunrise and simultaneously in 5
places. The people were nearly all in shelter of the feebly fortified
garrison houses. John BALL, who had for some reason remained in his own
dwelling, was butchered together with his wife and a infant and two
older children were carried away captive. Though the position of BALL's
house is not exactly known, it was probably on the George Hill range. At
John PRESCOTT's, his grandson, Ephraim SAWYER was killed. Of the
garrison of Richard WHEELER, which was in the South Lancaster, 5 were
slain; Richard WHEELER, Jonas FAIRBANKS, Joshua FAIRBANKS, Henry FARRAR
and another unknown. The first three were shot by Indians. The other 2
were waylaid while out of the garrison upon some errand.

In 1707, Jonathan WHITE, a youth of 15 years, was killed by Indians,
and August 16th a band killed a woman and captured 2 men near
Marlborough, one of whom escaped. The other, Jonathan WILDER, whose
father, Lt. Nathaniel WILDER, had fallen 3 years before--was murdered
when his captors were overtaken by a force which hastily pursued them.
In the fight that ensued, Ephraim WILDER, brother of the captive, was
severely wounded, Ensign John FARRAR, a native of Lancaster but resident
of Marlborough, was killed Two others of Marlborough suffeed, Richard
SINGLETARY losing his life and Samuel STEVENS being badly wounded. The
fight took place in the northwest corner of the "additional Grant" of
Lancaster.

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