"In the me of God Amen. I Stephen ffarr being in perfect memory commit my soule to Almighty god and my body to bee buried in the Parish yard of Aspley Guyse I mack this my last will and testament.

"Item I give to my Sonne (4640) William ffarr to pay my house and ground that my tennent Thomas Smith holdeth. I give him the hadland under lines? I give him one halfe acre of land and two ___ of meadow of the kings hold to pay the kings rent. I give to him one black row one black bullock. I give to him my wardrobe and one ____.

"Item I give to my Sonne William ffarr after my decease and my wife the house I now dwell in and all my ground and tenants and apurtanances belonging to it within the parish of Aspley Guyse to him and his heirs forever.

"Item I make my brother (18563ii) Ralph Wheeler and my brother (18560[2]) Lee ffarr Executors of this my will. I give to my Excutors iis.

Following is an abridged table of the DNA of descendants of (9280) Stephen Farre:

Hg	DYS 393 b	DYS 390	DYS 19/ 390	DYS 391 b	DYS 385a	DYS 385b	DYS 426 II	DYS 388	DYS 439	DYS 389-1	DYS 392	DYS 389-2	DYS 458	DYS 459a	DYS 459b	DYS 455	DYS 454	DYS 447	DYS 437	DYS 448	DYS 449	DYS 464a	DYS 464b	DYS 464c	DYS 464d	DYS 460	YG ATA H4	YCA IIa	YCA IIb	DYS 456	DYS 607 a	DYS 576	DYS 570	CDY a	CDY b	DYS 442	DYS 638 a
Aspley Guise Farr Modal Haplotype
R1b1b2	13	23	14	10	11	12	12	12	12	14	13	30	18	9	10	11	11	24	15	19	29	15	16	17	17	11	10	19	23	17	15	17	17	36	38	12	12
Kit #15659 (4641iii) Thomas Farr (~1637-1687) Lidlington, Bedford, England
R1b1b2	13	23	14	11	11	12	12	12	12	14	13	30	18	9	10	11	11	24	15	19	29	15	16	17	17	11	10	19	23	17	15	17	17	36	38	13	12
Kit #120325 descendant of (4641iii) Lowell Farr (1806-1862) of Chesterfield, Cheshire, NH
R1b1b2	13	23	14	10	11	12	12	12	12	14	13	30	18	9	10	11	11	24	15	19	29	15	16	17	17	11	10	19	23	17	16	17	17	36	38	12	12
Kit #120325 descendant of (581vi) Elias Farr (1749-1807) of Acton, Middlesex, MA
R1b1b2	13	23	14	10	11	12	12	12	12	14	13	30	18	9	9	11	11	24	15	19	29	15	16	17	17	11	10	19	23	17	15	17	17	36	38	12	12

The close family connection between all samples is obvious, with little or no mutation from the modal haplotype over the 400 years since the MRCA (most recent common ancestor). The haplogroup is R1b1b2 (formerly called R1b1c), and I do not know if the samples were further tested for "ddep clades" such as R1b1b2-*, -g and -h. British or W. European origin is indicated:

"The human Y chromosome haplogroup R1b1b2 (R-M269) displays an extremely wide geographic distribution within Europe, with a decreasing frequency cline from Iberia (frequencies up to 90%) towards the Balkans (usually less than 10%)... The overall frequency pattern of R1b1b2 haplogroup is suggestive of multiple events of migration and expansion within Europe rather than a single and uniform spread of people from an Iberian Ice-age refugium."

(4642) William Taylor's line has been DNA-tested (Mito-Search, Family Tree DNA), and found to NOT be that of the Taylor lines, sometimes cited, from Hereford, Cumbria, Northumbria, Lancashire, Scotland and Ireland. Neither is it connected to Taylor families in Yarmouth and Marlborough, MA in the mid-1600s, nor later settlers in Concord. I see no direct evidence that William was from Bedfordshire; but the following suggests this:

"William was of Concord Mass , Where he was owner of a large farm on the east Bedford Road. William's father may be Richard of Toddington/Harlington, Bedfordshire."
-- Tim Farr c/o http://www.geocities.com/dustyhills/aqwn05.htm#520

"Will of (18560) William Farre Senior
Aspley Guise, Bedford - 1617
Archdeaconry of Bedford
Film 88020 p. 175

"Will transcribed by Dean Hunter
Will dated 8 January 1612; Will proved 6 May 1617

In the Name of God Amen: I Willyam ffarre Sen. of Aspley Guise in the countie of Bedds being in good healthe and perfecte memero doe constitue and make this my laste will & testament the eighte daie of January in the yeare if our lorde god according to the compulation of the Church of England 1612, in manner and forme following and first I hereby revoke all former willes & doe humbly commende my Soule into the hands of all mightie god well hoping and believing by his merecies in the and throughe the suffering of Jesus Christ my alone [page 2] saviour to be saved and my bodie to be buried in the church yard of Aspelie aforesaid

"Item I will give and appoint that (9332) William ffarre the younger my eldest sonne shall have paide and delivered unto him by my executors hearafter named in this my will within one month the next after my decease six quarters of good sweete barley to some his hands withe and if it happen to departe this life weere or att the seede time of the yeare then the same barley to be to him delivered pre after my decease for the purpose aforesaid and in like manner I will bequeath & appointe that my said sonne Willyam ffarre shalle have ti him delivered by my executors six quarters of good & sweete pease or beanes sweete for that lande for that season in suche parte and manner as I before have appointed the barley:

"Item two quarters and twoe bushels of rye to be to hime the saide Willyam ffarre delivered by my executors for seede, att suche time & in suche sete as formerlie I have appointed the other graine nevertheless my expresse intent, meaning, and will is and I go order and appointe that att the said graine so by this my will assigned, to be delivered the saide Willyam my sonne shalle by by him repaired and restored to my saide executors in manner followinge viz: twoe quarters of barley, & twoe quarters of pease or beanes and six bushells of rye yearely and every yeare att the feaste of the purification of our ladie the virgine St Mary, during the terme of three yeares next after my decease to me insle of halfe of all suche graine I give and bequeathe to my sone (18560[2]b) James ffarre and the other halfe thereof, I will and appoint to be equallie devided betweene (18560[2]c) Roger ffarre & (18560[2]a) Lee ffarre two other of my sonnes...

"Item I will and bequeath to my saide sonne Willyam a longe carte bodie with an Axeltree with Thomas Kinge of Aspelies borrowed of me...

"Item I will give & bequeathe to my sone Lee ffarre, the newe cupboard in the hall the wynded beddsteed in the chamber withe thes featherball and boulster thereon lyinge and all others the cosese in my house excepte one wch my sonne James ffarre nowe useth wch I will and beqeath to my daughter (18561ii) Anne:

"Item I bequeath to the saide Anne the ould table nowe standing in the boutinge house oneoly to use during her life, and the same after her decease I give and to Willyam Ambridge her sonne...

"Item I will and bequeathe to (18561ii) Alice my daughter fortie shillinges and Xd: to & amongest all suche children of the said Alice att my decease living to be equallie divided amongest them...

"I give & bequeathe to my sonne Roger ffarre: The resudue of all my corne, grayne cattell & other goodes moveable and unmoveable I will give & bequeath, wholy my debtes & legacies paide to my Sonnes Roger ffarre, Lee ffarre & James ffarre, to be equallie divided betweene them, whome allsoe I make executors of this my laste will and testament uppon this condition as unto the saide Lee ffarre, that if he att any time after my decease doe inter marrie withe Joane Smithe daugther of Edwarde Strottons nowe wise then all the legacies before to him by this my will bequeathed to be imeerely voide and the benefitt there of to be to my saide sones Roger ffarre and James ffarre and further the saide Lee from and ymmediatley after suche inter marriage to be wholy excluded and debarred from further intermedlinge as my executores of this my laste will & testament and Roger and James ffarre to be my executors: In witnesses whereof I have to this my will subscribed my name the daie above written inthe presence of Richarde Harbie Clarke and Robert Slinges -------

"Item I give unto George ffarr the sonne of my saide sonne Roger ffarre one good weather sheepe.

"Probatu suit humisd testam cora viro med Johne Smithe in ll barr: Commssad et affre arhimal Bedd: 6 � die mensis Maii An Dno 1617 acpen approbat & Commisse benorn die defund adm executores in dec testament wiatt in forma Jural."

-- Russell (Dukes of Bedford) Archive, Bedfordshire Deeds, Aspley Guise, Aspley Wood, R6/2/1/1. Full text at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2806/aqwn256.htm#6014

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