Re: Farwell of Charlestown, NH
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In reply to:
Re: Farwell of Charlestown, NH
7/22/00
William and Isaac:
Mahala Daniels 30 Dec 1801 Rutland Vt d < 1880= Isaac Farwell 14 May 1804charlestown Sullivan Co NH , son of Isaac Farwell 29 Oct 1763Walpole NH d 18 Feb 1846 Stephenson co IL= 6 Nov 1785 Prudence Allen (alien) 14 May 1769 , William Farwell = Bethiah Eldridge ) (Benjamin Alien = Prudence Spofford) (isaac Farwell 1678chelmsford Middlesex MA = Elizabeth Hyde 23 May 1660) (Joseph Farwell 20 Feb 1642concord MA= Elizabeth Hyd e)
Mahala and Isaac and Isaac's brother? Eldridge moved to Stephenson Co IL in 1837.
from history of Stephenson Co.
Simon Davis, Andrew Clarno and John M. Curtis settled in Oneco township in 1834. Some claim an earlier date but this is not certain. Clarno settled on Honey Creek and Davis near Oneco. In 1835, Lorin and Fred Remay opened farms in the same section as did also Ralph Hildebrand and Jonas Strohm. In the spring of 1835, John Goddard settled in Buckeye township, and Jones and Lucas came in the fall. Andrew St. John, Ira, Job and Daniel Holley in 1836. The next year besides those mentioned elsewhere, G. W. Clingman, J. Tharp, Jackson Richart, Lazarus Snyder, Jacob Brown and Joseph Green opened farms in Buckeye. In 1836, Andrew Jackson and Jefferson Niles built a shanty on the east bank of the Pecatonica in Ridott Township. Others who settled in Ridott that year were Sawyer Forbes, Daniel Wooten, Horace Colburn, Mr. Wickham, John Reed. The Ridott settlement was strengthened in 1837 by the arrival of Caleb Thompkins, G. A. Seth, Isaac and Eldridge Farwell, Garrett Floyd, Norman, Levi, Isaac and Orsemus Brace. In 1835, in the fall, Jesse Willet opened a farm near that of James Timms in Kent. Four miles north, Calvin and Jabez Giddings settled; Gilbert Osbern joined the Kent colony in the fall of 1836.