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Individual:
John Farrar [27478.1.5] (c.1632-1685) was prominent in the affairs of Henrico County, serving as lieutenant colonel of the militia and justice at least from the time the county records begin in 1677. John Farrar was a sheriff in 1683, a justice in 1684 [Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia vol. 1, p. 57] , and member of the House of Burgesses (1680-82, 1684). Henrico County charged John on four tithables in 1679. ['An account of ye several fortye tythables,' may be found in Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine (GPC), vol. 5, pages 731-733. For background on the act, see Hening's Statutes at Large, vol. 2, pages 433-440.]
John did not marry and was ill toward the end of his life. Thomas Batte and his children, Thomas, Mary, Amy, and Sarah cared for him. Since Farrar appreciated “the great trouble and pain they have taken with me in my last sickness,” he left them a considerable part of his estate.
Farrar left a will in Henrico County naming also Mary (—) Worsham, wife of George Worsham, his niece Martha Shipley, and nephews, William, Thomas, and John Farrar (will dated 4 Mar. 1684/5, [Henrico Co. Deeds & Wills 1677-92, p. 298] recorded 4 April 1685).
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