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Property

Jedediah apparentlyencountered financial difficulties. On 16 April 1821, Jedediah Farnum, esquireof Andover, mortgaged the homestead farm of his father to widow Hannah Frye ofSalem for six hundred dollars with a promise to repay within a year. Jedediahhad received the homestead farm at his father’s decease in 1819.[1]On 28 August 1829, Jedediah Farnham, gentleman of Andover with his wife Susanrelinquishing right of dower, entered into an indenture agreement for the sumof one dollar with William Johnson and Benjamin Jenkins. Jr. establishing atrust allowing Johnson and Jenkins to make sale of all his lands in Andover,his stock animals, farming utensils, the barn, wagons and chaise, and householdfurniture except as was exempt by law from attachment. This agreement was madeto settle demands against Jedediah. One of the demands against him was the $600mortgage of Hannah Frye. On 5 January 1830, Edwin Farnham purchased a portion ofthe real property from the trust for payment of $133.75.[2] [1] EssexCounty, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Onlinedatabase. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic GenealogicalSociety, 2014. Case 9241[2] MassachusettsLand Records, Essex County, 226:72, 252:249, 268:291252:248 and 249 – he is establishing a trustrelated to a Hannah Frye – the trust seems related to a number of debts that hehashttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z8-MHGY?i=261&wc=MCB5-HM7%3A361613201%2C362153901&cc=2106411268:291 – more stuff on the trusthttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z8-SY3?i=300&wc=MCB5-8WP%3A361613201%2C362170001&cc=2106411226:72 – in 1821 – Jedediah and Hannah Frye andthere is a deed just before seems to do with the same property – here he isgetting a mortgage from Hannah Fryehttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZZ-17M3?i=80&wc=MCB5-36D%3A361613201%2C362128801&cc=2106411426:273 – 1850 – Jedediah and Susan sell somethinghttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9Z8-35MC?i=607&wc=MCBR-S65%3A361613201%2C362320501&cc=2106411 

Biography

Volume 1, p 797 in the Farnum book and the followedchildren are in volume 2 starting with family # 880 – has some biographyhttps://archive.org/details/newenglanddescen01farn/page/796/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/newenglanddescen02farn/page/1138/mode/2upnewspaper article about him from the 1853 Andover Advertiser is in the Barker documentation folder