Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Henry Farwell

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1918 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1605 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Aug 1670 
  • Death Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Olive Welby
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Apr 1629 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Farwell

  Mary Farwell (Ahnentafel No:959 )

  Olive Farwell

• Sources for Henry Farwell

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chelmsford, Vol. 1, p. 319, Marriage record for Benjamin Spalding and daughterOlive Farwell.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 194.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1995, Vol. 70, p. 100.
  • ⁴ Abbott, Jane Harter and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, Volume 1: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1929), 25-30.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 112.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 118.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 338.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 925.
  • ¹⁰ Spalding, Charles Warren, The Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay . . ., Chicago: American Publishers' Association (1897), 63.
  • ¹¹ Spalding, Samuel J., Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding, of Massachusetts Bay, and His Descendants, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son, Printers (1872), 22.
  • ¹² Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 40, 200.

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