The following is quoted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Notes and Corrections, Vol 118, July 1964, p 216.
FARRINGTON: -- In the Register, vol. 55, p. 301-302, July 1901, the statement is made that Edmund Farrington "was one of the early settlers of Long Island in 1640 and located at Flushing" and his widow Dorothy was confirmed as his executrix, 1 July 1675, as he died intestate; it is suggested that he had two sons named John, one by his wife Elizabeth, who died in Lynn, Mass., in 1666, and the other by his wife Dorothy, who was granted letters of administration with his mother. The truth is that Edmund Farrington, if he was in Flushing in 1640, returned to Massachusetts and settled in Lynn where he built a grist mill in 1655. See A. Lewis and J.R. Newhall, History of Lynn, p. 235. He died there 20 Jan. 1671, having made a will in 1666 in which he named his wife Elizabeth, who presented the inventory of his estate 25 Jan. 1671. See The Probate Records of Essex County, 1665-1674, vol.2, p. 216-217. He, his wife Elizabeth, and his children: Sarah, Matthew, John and Elizaebth, came to America in the Hopewell in 1635. Another son, Edward, was named in his will. It may have been this Edward who settled in Flushing in 1640, since he was undoubtedly older than the children who came in the Hopewell; Edward Farrington signed the Flushing Remonstrance in 1657 and appears in later records. According to Mrs. Farrington Daniel's Farrington Chart this Edward married Dorothy Bowne. Thomas appears to have been another son. See Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 1918 ed., vol. 2, p. 150.
Minnetonka, Minn.Ward M Gray.
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To descendants of Edmund Farrington