Born about in Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Farrar Sr
and Judith (Jefferson) Farrar
Sister of
Abel Farrar, George Farrar Jr, Mary (Farrar) Moore, William Farrar Sr, Thomas Jefferson Farrar, John Farrar, Peter Farrar [half] and Field Farrar
Wife of
Henry Howard
— married
4 May 1762 in Lunenburg County, Colony of Virginia
Wife of
Adam Sanders
— married
after 22 Nov 1798 in Person, North Carolina, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Hiram Howard, William Henry Howard, Robert Howard, Groves Howard and Margaret (Howard) Carter
Died before
before about age 69
in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States
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Biography
Priscilla (Farrar) Howard was a Virginia colonist.
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Priscilla Farrar was born about 1739 in Virginia and passed away sometime before 8 November 1808 in Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Marriages
Priscilla married Henry Howard on 4 May 1762 in Lunenburg, Virginia.[1]
After Henry's death, Priscilla married Adam Sanders from Caswell, NC. On 2 November 1798, before their marriage, Adam signed a marriage contract, renouncing all right, title, or claim that himself or his heirs might have in personal estate of said Priscilla after her death.[2]
Tax Records
Person, North Carolina
- 1797: St. Lawrence District; 722 acres (Name on record: Priscilla Howard)[3]
- 1798: St. Lawrence District; 720 acres[4]
- 1802: Captain Duty's District; 357 acres (Name on record: Priscilla Sanders)[5]
- 1803: Captain Duty's District; 357 acres[6]
- 1804: Captain Atkinson's District; 357 acres[7]
- 1805: Captain Atkinson's District; 226 acres[8]
- 1806: Captain Atkinson's District; 357 acres[9]
Note: Priscilla does not appear on the 1807 Tax List for Person, NC.
Last Will and Testament
Priscilla signed her Last Will and Testament on 20 August 1807 in Oglethorpe, Georgia. It was proven in Court on 8 November 1808:
- State of Georgia, Oglethorpe County … In the name of God, Amen — I Priscilla Sanders of the County and State aforesaid, Being well stricken in years, and knowing its appointed for all flesh, to die, being of perfect mind and memory, tho in infirm age, and first I recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to the Earth, to be burried in a decent and Christian like manner at the discretion of my Exortors. I do make constitute and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following — Vizs., First I give and bequeath unto my loving son, Robert Howard, thirty dollars, to be paid out of my Estate, after my death. I do also Will and Ordain that the ballance of my estate, be equally divided between the following persons — To wit, Hiram Howard, John Howard, James Patterson, Thomas Key, son of Wm H. Howard Dec.d, Abel Howard, Groves Howard, Thomas Chambers, William Carter and Henry Wm. Howard. It is my wish, and desire, that whatever I may be possessed of at my death by my Exortors, equally distributed among the aforementioned Legatees, after deducting the following debts due to my estate, from the Legatees therein alluded to here That is, Hiram Howard, for a Horse purchased from my estate, for Eighty dollars. Also Abel Howard the sum of one hundred dollars for sundry articles. I do also constitue nominate and appoint, my son Groves Howard & Clement Glenn my lawful Exortors to carry this my last will and testament into full effect, after my Death thereby revoking all other and former wills, by me made, rattifying and confirming this my last Will and Testament, In witness whereof I here unto set my hand and affix my seal this 20th day of August in the year of our lord A.D. 1807
- Priscilla Sanders
- Signed, sealed, and acknowledged in presences of us
- Nichs L. Meriwether
- George Gilmer[10]
Probate Records
Priscilla's estate records are directly following her Last Will and Testament in her Estate folder. Annual returns and receipts are included.[11]
Burial
Priscilla's burial location is unknown. A Find-a-Grave Memorial was created for her.[12]
Research Notes
- Priscilla's date of birth is unknown. Find-a-Grave and Ancestry.com users have her birth date as 9 Jun 1729. This appears to be her husband Henry's birth date.[13] Since Priscilla was a spinster when she married Henry, this suggests she was born 1739 or earlier. (It is suggested that the word spinster was used to refer to single women between the ages of 23-26.)
Sources
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Marriages of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1853 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Original data:Matheny, Emma R. Marriages of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1853. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979. Ancestry.com
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 156, FamilySearch Abstract available at Ancestry.com
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Probate records, 1792-1966, Wills, inventories, etc. 1792-1807, Page 31, FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 127, FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 126, FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 213, FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 312, FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1805, Page 71 FamilySearch
- ↑ Person, North Carolina, Will, inventories and taxables, 1792-1876, Page 158 FamilySearch
- ↑ Priscilla Sanders, Last Will and Testament, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Estate records 1790-1962 Sams, John - Sims, Mark, FamilySearch
- ↑ Priscilla Howard, Estate Records, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Estate records 1790-1962 Sams, John - Sims, Mark, FamilySearch
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1Z-TC8S : 15 December 2020), Priscilla Farrar Sanders, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 142775949, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- ↑ Priscilla Farrar, Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Ancestry.com
- WikiTree profile Farrar-308 created through the import of Gorham Family Tree.ged on Jan 27, 2012 by Dale Gorham.
- Priscilla Farrar, FamilySearch Profile
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Priscilla by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Priscilla:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Priscilla by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Priscilla:
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~6.25%
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~0.78%
Dennis Brown :
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~0.78%
Richard Clay :
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~0.78%
Edgar Richardson :
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~0.39%
Edgar Chambers :
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Categories: Virginia Colonists
Recently two parties tried to drag me into their squabble about the spouse of Martha Farrar-888 dtr of Thomas Farrar. First a duplicate profile was created, then one party used info as to neighboring families to claim that she married into that family (Whitlow), another claimant used the same justification (Francis), then tried to use a Findagrave page, which he had created and a document that he had created and posted on FAG as proof, then I pointed out that there were two more contenders a Shipley and a Worsham as husband for the same Martha. This is a long running problem with the Farrar line, as it goes back to William Farrar -393 and is a Gateway ancestor, for those that need such. There are many descendants of Farrar-393 that had daughters, whose marriages are unknown or not documented and that leaves the opportunity for others to insert their own lineage.
An example, in Alvan Holmes excursis, she mentions that the family of a Leonard Farrar believes that a Rene Farrar, whose birth is documented, is also Renard Farrar, whose birth is not documented, and somehow Renard is morphed into Leonard who is a RW veteran with a pension application on file. She did caveat that belief. She also expressed the possibility that Seth Farrar, brother of Rene Farrar, whose birth is also documented in the "Douglas Register" .I mention this because it was SUGGESTED that Seth and Stephen were the same person, as with Renard being morphed into Leonard, Seth was being Morphed into Stephen, and so it stood for almost 40 years until the descendants of Stephen Farrar became involved in genealogy, and discovered that Stephen Farrar (illiterate) also migrated to NW SC settling in Greenville Co, and recorded by the enumerator as Stephen Farrow.
The question was answered definitively by science with testing for Big Y showed that the descendant of Stephen shared the same SNP (R-FT374005) with four other descendants of Stephen.
Unfortunately the disposition or fate of Seth, Rene and Renard are unknown, What is known is that the Descendants of Leonard Farrar have proven by YDNA to be descended from Farrar-393, who is the origin of SNP R-YP5905 As is the case of the descendants of Stephen Farrar-563 (SNP R-FT374005)
Unfortunately females don't have Y DNA SNPs or STRs
edited by William Farrar
Page 279 Some Farrar's Island Descendants menti oonsns only that after the death of Henry Howard in 1781, Priscilla Married a Sanders,no first name, and her Howard , n children are listed in her will no mention of any children with a Sanders, at any rate she would have been 42, at least, by the time she would have born a Sanders child. Not likely then, rare even today
edited by William Farrar
Adam served as a Lt. Colonel in the Revolutionary War under Col. James Saunders and Col. William Moore in the Caswell County Regiment of Militia. Person County was established in 1791 from Caswell County.
Adam lived with Priscilla in Person, NC until his death sometime before 1802. Priscilla appears on tax records thereafter with the last name Sanders. She kept his last name until her death.
Priscilla did not have any children with Adam.
I am reattaching Adam Sanders as her second husband.
edited by Julie (Goggins) Klar