The following is quoted from History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant. by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, John L. Shorey, Publisher, Boston, 1865.
EDMUND FARRINGTON - embarked in the Hopewell, of London, 1 April, 1635, with his wife and four children. (Recorded in Westminister Hall, London.) He was a native of Oney, in Buckinghamshire and born in 1588. He was a farmer, and had 200 acres of land, part of which was on the western side of Federal street, where he lived, and part on the western side of Myrtle street. In 1655 he built a corn mill on Water Hill, where a pond was dug, and a water course opened for half a mile. [See, however, page 235.] He died in 1670, aged 82. The name of his wife was Elizabeth, and she was born in 1586. His children were, Sarah, born in 1621; Martha, b 1623; John, b 1624; Elizabeth, b. 1627, and married John Fuller, in 1646. He also had a son Matthew, to who he gave half his corn mill, "except the tole of my son ffuller's grists, which is well and duly to be ground tole free, during the life of my daughter Elizabeth."Notes: Oney should be spelled Olney. Martha and Matthew may be the same child, as there are no other records of a Martha, and Savage lists Edmund's children at the time of passage as Sarah as 14, Matthew as 12, John as 11, and Elizabeth as 8.
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