A Maine Family's History - Davis / McDowell -Farnsworth

Farnsworth

Agnes FARNSWORTH had brother Joseph

Spouse: William LANE born 1580 died before 7/6/1654 Hingham MA, of Dorchester & Hingham

Children: George married Sarah Harris; Sarah born circa 1616 married Nathaniel Baker, Jr., a farmer & in Indian Wars; Annis/Avith died 2/13/1682 married Thomas Lincoln, a cooper & malster; Mary married Joseph Long and Joseph Farnsworth; Elizabeth married Thomas Rider, a caulker; Andrew married Trypheny __

Pioneers MA pg 277: LANE, William, Dorchester, propr 1637. Wife Agnes memb chh about 1637. Ch George ae 22 came as a servant to Angel Holland in 1634-5 with "kinswoman." [sister] Sarah ae 18, she m Nathaniel Baker, jr; Annis or Avith m Thomas Lincoln the cooper; Mary m Joseph Long; Elizabeth m Thomas Rider; Andrew. Will prob 7/6/1654; house to son-in-law Thomas Rider & my dau Elizabeth, his wife; dau Mary Long; sons George & Andrew Lane, & Thomas Linckhorne & Nathaniel Baker, all of Hingham; faithful servant, Freedome Kingley; loving bro Joseph Farnworth & John Wiswell exec. [Reg V, 304]

NE Historic & Genealogical Register: William Lane had two sons George and Andrew both of whom came it is supposed from England with their father. They were early settlers at Hingham Mass. William had also four daughters viz Elizabeth who married Thomas Rider lived in Boston, Mary married Mr Long lived in Hingham widow in 1690 married Joseph Famsworth, the other daughters married one to Thomas Lincoln the cooper, the other to Nathaniel Baker both of Hingham.

WILLIAM LANE of Dorchester. Vnto Thomas Rider my Sonne in Law & dau Elizabeth his wife my new dwelling house in Dorchester with all the outhousing garden &c only to & for the vse of my dau & hir children ffor euer except my great Lott within the great Lotts of Dorchester within Pale & without Estimated 24 Acres more or lesse wch I giue vnto dau Mary Long also euch psonall Estate as I dye possesed of shall by my Executors be thus distributed vnto sonne Thomas Lincihorne of Hingham £8 in silver vnto Sonne George Lane of Hingham £8, sonne Nath Jiaker of H £8, sonne Andrew Lane of H £8, the discharge of these Legacyes in Siluer aforesaid £60 due vnto me vpon Bill fro mr John Glover the Remainder of the Bill after £32 in Legacyes being Twenty Eight I giue vnto Mary Long my dau together with all my psonall estate except one standing bedsteed in the Parlor also one table & one chest in the house & also two fatt in the Leantoo to wett Barly in wch I giue vnto my sonne Rider & his wife to Romaine at the house vnto Mary Long all my Cattle haye Corne mault swine Pewter brase beding & all my Estate funnerall charges & Legacyes being discharged vnto ffredomt Kingley who hath beene my faithfvll Servant £20 Mary Long to haue liberty in my dwelling house after my decease for the Removall of hirselfe & goods fro thence such time as my executors thinke convenient not exceeding sise moneths after the day of my Buriall also such liberty in the Barne & vpon the Land Concerning hir haye Corne & Cattle wch is thus to be vnderstood that it shall not at all p j'udice or hinder Tho Rider from the vse of the Land at all in case I dye in such Season as the Land is to be planted or Sowne he haue liberty so to doe & she haue liberty to Reape & take what was by me planted or Sowne. Louing Brother Joseph farnworth & John Wiswatt executor. 28. 12mo 1650. The mark of H William Lane. Signed in prsence of Thomas Wiswall, ffreedome Kingsky, p'sent ye Gover, mr Novell, mr Hibbins, Capt Gookin & Record. Thomas Wiswall deposed before y magist this 6th of July 1654 yt this was yc Last will of W Lane

Lane Genealogies: WILLIAM LANE1 was a resident of Dorchester Mass as early as 1635. Dorchester's early grants of land were certified by a committee consisting of the clergymen and deacons Noah Clap. Several grants were assigned to William Lane in 1637 Jan 2 "It is ordered that Good Lane shall haue one acre the little neck towards the harbor" March 18 he had two additional grants of between six and seven acres