Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
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- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Life-stories from early New England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
FAIRFIELD, Daniel
Daniel Fairfield settled at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1639. In 1641 he was alleged to have abused John Humfrey's* daughters Dorcas and Sarah, ‘especially upon the Lord's days and lecture days’. Fairfield was convicted in 1642, along with two other men who had abused Humfrey's elder daughter, Dorcas. In March 1643/4 the authorities permitted Fairfield to work in Boston and Roxbury, provided he did not go more than five miles from the meeting house, and wore ‘an hempen roape about his necke’. His wife Elizabeth petitioned unsuccessfully, on 6 May 1646, for his release from wearing the rope round his neck. She was eventually successful in May 1652.
On 14 October 1652 Daniel Fairfield gained permission to return to England, ‘provided if he come agayne he shall forthwith returne to the same condition agayn as now he is in, and be committed forthwith to prison’.
GD; WJ, 370–4; Mass. Recs. 3: 67, 161, 273–4, 421; Darrett Rutman, Winthrop's Boston: portrait of a puritan town, 1630–1649
(New York: Norton, 1965), 242.FARNWORTH, Joseph (d. by 1677)
Joseph Farnworth [Farneworth, Farnsworth] was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Farnworth of Dorchester, Massachusetts. His parents were early members of the church there. His father was admitted a freeman on 14 March 1638/9. Joseph became a freeman of Massachusetts on 2 May 1649, and so must have been a church member, but there is no record of this at Dorchester. He entered the Harvard class of 1655.
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