Farrington of Eastchester. The family of Farrington are of Shaw Hall, Lancashire, England. The Farringtons of Farrington, Wearden and Shaw Hall, all in the Parish of Leyland and County Palatine of Lancaster, arose at the time of the Conquest ; and have since preserved an uninterrupted male succession. They resided at Farrington as recently as the time of Elizabeth, and continued at Wearden until the close of the sixteenth century, when they removed to Shaw Hall.

The manor and hundred of Leyland was held by them of King Edward tlie Confessor ; and the men of the manor, (which was of a superior order) as well as those of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their own harvest instead of the King's.

According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington, with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, Massachusetts, in a vessel with a Capt. Howe, on or about the 17th of May, 1640, and arrived at Cow Bay, L. I., where they purchased of the Indians from the eastern part of Oyster to Cow Bay ; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, on the 19th of May, 1040.

This Farrington originally came from Southampton, England. He, with the others, afterwards bought Agawan of the Indians, a tract about twenty miles long and six miles wide, and made a settlement, which he called Southampton. They made their settlement on the 13th December, 1640.

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The consideration paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for ihe land. Edmund Farrington returned to Lynn, Mass., and in ]G55 built a raill there, and dug a pond and opened a brook for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farrington died in 1680, aged 88 years. Two of his sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, afterwards removed to Flushing.