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.

Tlie following extract, from tlio EaM( hester town recurtis. a;^piy t^i !:;•::-■• Farrington, viz. : he v.'as nppuintod overseer of the roads Apiil l.jil;, 177-1 : --

732 APPEXDIX A.

FARRiyGTOX OF Eastchester. -- The family of Farrin2;ton arc of Shnw ILiU Lancashire, Enghuad. The Farringtoiis, of Farrington, Weaiden tmd Sh;uv J lull, all hi the Pari?)! of Le\laiiil aucl County Palatiue of Laucasler, arose a: the time of tiie Conquest, and have since preserved an uniiitorrupted male succession. They resided at Farriugloa as recently as the time of Elizabeth, and coatiDued at Weardcn until the close of the sii'tecuth century, when they removed to Shaw Hall.

The manor and hundred of Leyland was held by them of King Edward the Confessor; and the men of the manor (v.-hich was of a superior order), as well as thos^ of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their own harvest insteutl 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, ou or about the ]7th of M;iy, 1640, a!id arrived at Gov/ Bay, L. I., where they purchased of the Lndians from the eastern part of Oyster Eav to Cow Bay; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, on (iie 19th of May, 1610.