The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
Y.. b. Dec. 10. 1772 ; 2, Jonathan of 3Iiltown, N. Y., b. Feb. 14, 1774; 3. Roger of X. J., b. Aug. 20, 1775; 4, Josiah of N. Y , b. .May 1..17S0; .'i. William ot N. Y , h. May 1, 17.'^0; C, Anne, b. Dec. 9, 1779, m::r. :\r.ir;li.v,- Fn-.-.l ; 7. Elizabcih. b. J'llv, 17S1, mar. William Tiaidwir ; S, Catiiarine, b. Ja;iuary t;, 17S2, mar. Juhn FisluT of White Plaiuis.
APPE^^DIX A.
Faerington of Eastchester.-- The family of Farrington are of Shinv I! . , Lancashire, Eugbmd. The Farringtons, of Farrington, Weardeu ancUSh:i-.v H .... all iu the Parish of Lcylatid and County Palatine of Lancaster, arose al Ih- ;.: . of the Conquest, and have since preserved an uniulerrupted male succ:^*. They resided at Farrington as recently as the time of Elizabeth, and comii... i at Wearden untd the close of the siitecnth century, when they rcniuvid ;, Shaw Hall.
The manor and hunilred of Leyland ■v\-as lield by them of King Edward if^ Confessor: and the men of the manor (which was of a superior order), as wi'.l ».. those of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their ov.ii harvest in>:i-...: of the King's.
According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, jiassachusetts, in a vessel wiiL, 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 tlic eastern part of Oyster Bay to Cow Bay; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, nn J..- 19th of May, 1640.