Johns Cousins

***THIS IS NOT WILLIAM FARRAR, SON OF NICHOLAS, THEY ARE 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE.***
William FARRAR established Farrar's Island, an estate the FARRAR family held for a hundred years. It
was located on a bend in the James river in what today would be Henrico county. The original site was in
the city of Henricus, the second oldest settlement in the Virginia colony. Farrar's island was a 2000 acre
estate, granted to William FARRAR for the transportation of 40 settlers. On the 11th of June 1637, King
Charles I granted the patent posthumously to Cecily Farrar and her eldest son William FARRAR II.

William Farrar "Ferrar", the Commissioner, appraiser, executor of estates and member of the King's
Council and Justice of two counties. Called "Councillor William" and "Capt. William Farrar, Sr." Father of
John Farrer "the Elder" of London; stepdaughter was Temperance Cocke.

--- GENI Article below
"Councillor" William Farrar of Jamestown, Virginia, "Ancient Planter."
from From Virginia Through the Southwest: Information about William Farrar

WILLIAM FARRAR was the third son of John Farrer the elder of Croxton, Ewood, and London, Esquire
and Cecily Kelke. He was born into the wealthy landed gentry of Elizabethan England.

WILLIAM FARRAR who emigrated to Virginia in 1618 was a subscriber to the Third Charter of the
Virginia Company (He paid £37 10 shillings, although many who subscribed never paid.). His name
appears among the citizens and merchants of London listed in Article V of the Charter, "So that posterity
may hereafter know who have adventured and not been sparing of their purses in such a noble and
generous action for the general good of their country..." Alexander Brown wrote: "Unlike the Second
Charter made up mostly of tradespeople, three fourths of the Third Charter were of the gentry," and many
of those named in Browne's Biographies, among them William Farrar, "are originators of families who
are today largely represented in the United States, and as patriotic citizens should take much pride in
being of the Founders' Kin as is taken by Englishmen in tracing from the Roll of Battle Abbey."

At the age of 35 William Farrar cast his lot with the venturers and sailed from London March 16, 1618, in
the "Neptune" with Lord Delaware, who had been urged by the settlers to return to Virginia as a governor
and who had persuaded many of the gentry to emigrate to Virginia.

William Farrar quickly made a place for himself in the colony acting as appraiser, executor of estates, a
member of the the King's Council and justice of two counties. During the famed Indian massacre of
Virginia settlers, which began on Good Friday, March 22, 1622, ten persons were killed at William
Farrar's house upon the Appomattox River. William Farrar fled with other survivors and managed to
escape and find refuge at the fortified home of his neighbors Samuel and Cecily Jordan on the James
River arriving the next day, where he stayed for years thereafter.

https://www.geni.com/projects/Ancient-Planters-Farrar-Family/1275

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Daughter of John Williams and Mary Womack.

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A.W. (managed by anna_richter)

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G.T. (managed by Tipton4816)