Marcy (Paine) Farrow (1712 - aft. 1754)

Born 22 Sep 1712 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Seth Farrow Sr. — married about 1734 in Freetown, Bristol, MA

Descendants

Died after 1754 after age 41 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Marcy Paine Birth Sep 22, 1712, Mary was the child of Thomas Paine and Susanna Haskell.^[1] Marcy passed away in 1768.

Biography by Robert M. Gerrity: ^[2]
MARCY PAINE, (Thomas, Ralph), was born in Freetown on 22 September 1712, and died after 1754. She married in Freetown between April and 8 October 1734 SETH FARROW, son of John and Persis (Holbrook) Farrow of Hingham, born there 26 February 1713/14 and died probably Freetown before March 1768. They resided in Freetown and Dighton. [VR FREETOWN^[3]; MFGIP: Soule 130^[4].]

Mercy Pain was charged with fornication at the April 1734 county court session. The case was continued to the October session. There Mercy Farrow, “age about 22," formally charged Nathan Simmons, son of Abraham Simmons, with being the child's father. Simmons was not present at this session to answer, nor was the case brought back up at any subsequent sessions. The court gave Mercy the standard ten stripes and 3£ fine. The child probably died young. It is most likely his gravestone in the Paine family cemetery that was marked "NP", near the stone marked "MF." Nathan Simmons, born 18 October 1709, married on 6 May 1735 Lydia Davis, and died on 26 June 1774. [Bristol Co. General Sessions of the Peace April 1734, October 1734; Thomas, "Freetown Cemetery Records"; Carnoe MSS^[5].]

Seth Farrow formally changed his first son's name from Seth to Ezekiel in the Freetown vital records. However, upon Seth senior's death, the Bristol County Court appointed John Dillingham in March 1768 as guardian to Seth Farrow, minor over 14, strongly suggesting that this was another son named after the father. No will was filed with the court. [BCP 28:4^[6]; MFG III: 128^[7].]

Child (PAINE)

1. Nathan, b. 19 June 1733; d.y.

Children (FARROW) born in Freetown:

1. Hannah Farrow (1737-abt.1738), b. 15 May 1737.
2. Seth/Ezekiel, b. 1 October 1739 (or 1740): n.f.r., died young
3. Susannah (Farrow) Sherman (1742-), b. 24 April 1742.
4. John Farrow (1746-abt.1844), b. 21 March 1746.
5. Seth Farrow Jr. (abt.1750-abt.1829), b. about 1747-54.

Sources

1. ↑ George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. Originally compiled by John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry. Revised by Louise Walsh Throop. Mayflower Families in Progress. Seventh Edition. (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.) p. 58
2. ↑ Gerrity, Robert M., Ralph Pain and Descendants: Four Generations (A Work in Progress) 1992. [Under revision by author, 2020-2022.] Personal copy in the files of DLG; and at the Old Colony Historical Society Library, Taunton MA.
3. ↑ Thomas, Helen Gurney. 1988. Vital records of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, 1686 through 1890. Bowie, Md: Heritage Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=G4UlAQAAMAAJ.
4. ↑ Wakefield, Robert S. and Louise Walsh Throop. 2002. Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants. LIBRARY SEARCH
5. ↑ Carnoe, William Mervin, and George Warren Evans. 1961. A genealogical record of Almy, Carnoe, Cudworth, Evans, Hathaway, Winslow: and many other families of eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Guilford Hathaway Library, Assonet MA.
6. ↑ Bristol County, MA, Probate Court. Bristol County Courthouse, Taunton MA.
7. ↑ Soule, John E., Milton E. Terry, and Anne Borden Harding. 1980. Mayflower families through five generations. descendants of the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 Volume 3. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Library Search here

• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI'), Vol. 129, Page 342. A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.3:333 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 21 Dec 1908, 347; 11 Jan 1909, 347; 18 May 1921, 8663.
• Vital records of Freetown, Massachusetts, 1686-1795, by Freetown, Massachusetts, page 78. [1]
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