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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. 297 words

Farrhijton returned to Lynn, ^Mass., and iu 1665 built a mill there, and di:.g a pond and opened a brooic for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farringto-. died in 16S0, aged S3 years. Two of his sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, afterwards removed to Flushing. Thomas Farrington in 1645 was one of tLv patentees of Flushing, and his brother Edward was a magistrate there in KZ~. The latter had a son named John Mastin Farrington.

Thomas Farrington, the first of tliat nan\e mentioned in the Eastchcstor n'wn records, was one of their descendants. He emigrated from Flushing to L.i-'-- chester about the year 1750, and became one of the purchasers of a porti.'n ■ : •Loncc Reach, a district of the town ; and the farm that he owned in thatp-u. r.'. > yet hi the possession of one of his descendants, 3Ir. Jonas Farrington of I'ae ciy of New York.

ThoniLis settled iu Yonkers-nftcrwards removed near Hunt's Bridge', a;. 1 then to Long Koach.

Thomas Farrington died about the year 1793, about 90 years of a-e : 1. ^ crave and that of his second wife lies at the junction of a lane called F-'- rinirton's Lane, running through h'.s farm wUh the White Plains Boad. Tli ■:•.. -^ Farrina;ton mar., first wife, a 'Sliss Xorris: and his si.stcr Jane Farring'.on n". >■■ John Xorris, the broth-.T of his first wife. Tlicir children-- 1, Kobcrt i:.;;"- Charity. sister of Xeheir.iah Hunt; 2. Sarah mar. Anthony Valentine; 3. Th'Vr-i.' mar. Miss Tavlor: 4, Benjamin mar. Susaimah Tompkins; second wife. M:'.rcaret Mastin. Their cliildrcn-- 1, Jonas mar. to Euphemiah Lawrence : 2. .Ma.< m died unmarried; 3, Hannah mar. Josenli Oakley; 4, Penelope died Oct. 10, 1::^. unmarried: 5. George mar. Frances Guion, d. April IG, 1S;W.