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Nathan Farlow

Birth	:	15 Feb 1740 Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	15 Dec 1831 Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Suffolk County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.2837791, -71.1025009
Description	:	The following information about Nathan and Ruth Carter Farlow is taken from a letter written by their grandson, Nathan F. Spencer (1817-1903), before 1860, and reproduced in E. Edgar Farlow's "A Brief History of the Farlow Family 1623-1953": "My Grandmother, Ruth Carter Farlow, came to Carolina in company with others from Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was then a very beautiful girl, highly respected by her friends and acquaintances, and I have heard my mother often tell that when her mother was ready to depart the people of the town would have it to be public by her ringing the... Read More	The following information about Nathan and Ruth Carter Farlow is taken from a letter written by their grandson, Nathan F. Spencer (1817-1903), before 1860, and reproduced in E. Edgar Farlow's "A Brief History of the Farlow Family 1623-1953": "My Grandmother, Ruth Carter Farlow, came to Carolina in company with others from Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was then a very beautiful girl, highly respected by her friends and acquaintances, and I have heard my mother often tell that when her mother was ready to depart the people of the town would have it to be public by her ringing the town bell, which she did. So great was the affection and esteem of her friends and acquaintances that it was a very solemn parting. Many tendered their good wishes and desired that they might have a safe and prosperous journey to her prospective home in North Carolina. Thus it was with the benediction of the people among whom she had lived and associated. With her little company and with horses and wagons they took their departure. Much of the way to be passed through then was a wilderness country. Large rivers were to be ferried over, deep creeks to be forded, and almost impassable bogs and hills and mountains to overcome. I have heard my mother tell about grandmother fording the Brandywine. The ford was deep and she rode on a horse behind 'Indian Bill', and he would say to her, 'Hold tight, Ruthy.' Now, I know nothing further about grandmother going to North Carolina, and to Orange County except that later a strip of land 39 by 60 was cut off from Orange County and later divided into Guilford and Randolph Counties. Now, whether grandmother before her marriage with grandfather lived on what was left of Orange or in the new county of Randolph, I do not know. I do know when I first became acquainted with them. They were quite old and lived about half a miles south of Marlboro Meeting House. I saw them often, my dear parents taking me with them to see them. When they departed this life their remains were laid side by side in the Marlboro grave yard. I was present when they were buried. Now I might remark before I proceed further, that my great grandfather, Michael Farlow, came with his family and perhaps others, from Pennsylvania to Carolina and located on a piece of land in what is now Randolph County, about six miles from where my grandfather afterwards settled. I have often passed along the public road to the county seat and have seen some parts of his house still standing. It is all gone now. The road ran within a few yards of the house. A railroad now runs near by. There is the spring near at hand where they got their water. I have many times quenched my thirst at the same fountain when I was passing. There too is a little plot of ground that shows where his barn stood, at which, while cutting briers and weeds with a hoe, he was bitten by a rattlesnake. It was at the time of gathering in of the wheat harvest. One of his sons, coming up with a load of wheat, he said, 'Bill, here is a snake and it has bit me.' He was soon in great misery. My grandparents were sent for and went immediately to him and found him in great pain and agony. Grandmother said to him, 'Is thy misery great?' 'Oh!' he said 'It is as if it were burning in the fire!' I don't know what time in the day he was bitten but he died during the night and was buried one hundred yards north of the house. I think from what I have heard of him he was about common level of man in real worth and ability, neat and clean in his appearance. I have heard my mother say he wore silk stockings and slipper shoes in warm weather, and such he was wearing when bitten by the snake. With this digression I will now return to the narrative account of my grandparents. By what ceremony they were married I cannot certainly say, but it might be reasonably supposed that such strict Friends as they were would use endeavors to accomplish it by Friends' ceremony. Be that as it may, it appears they lived together in harmony and unity for many years, and raised a large family, six sons and five daughters, all of whom married and settled on farms near by and in neighborhoods not far distant, except Ruth, who never married. All these had children, but Ruth preferred to stay at home and with her aged parents in their declining years, and take care of them as long as they lived. The names of their children and whom they married are as follows: Nancie married Jabe Davis, Isaac married Mary Holliday, Enoch married Lydia Montgomery, Joseph married Ruth Lindley, Michael married Hannah Newlin, Mary married Isaac Spencer, Ruth never married, Elizabeth married John Spencer, Nathan married Peggie Spencer, Hannah married William Andrews. Grandmother was a woman of good understanding and commanding appearance, and withal a pious christian. In the time of the Revolutionary War the British soldiers were encamped within about a mile of her house, and would go there to get what they could. On one occasion there came a squad of them into the yard, and some of them broke into the smoke house and cursed their eyes if there was not plenty of bacon there. Grandmother went out among them and said to the one in command, 'Does thee allow thy boys to do that way?' He said, 'Shut up that door.' Some of them came into the house to see what was there. One snatched a quilt off the bed and another said, 'You have lost your quilt, Madam.' She replied, 'No, he will bring it back in the morning.' Sure enough, he came in and said, 'Here is your rug, Madam. It was very cold, very cold last night. Will you give me a washing of soap?' 'Yes I will,' was the reply. On another occasion she sent their little boy Isaac, who was about ten years old, after their cattle which grazed in the range. He rode a very fine mare and it so happened that soldiers met up with the lad and took the mare from him. He went home crying. The next day grandmother went to the British encampment and to the chief commander and related to him how her little boy had been served the evening before by his soldiers, how they had taken her mare from him, and that she had come to tell him and to demand her mare. He said, 'Madam, you shall have your mare.' He ordered a search to be made for her, and she was found and returned to her. I have often heard my Grandmother tell this story." The following are statements made by Nathan Spencer about Nathan and Ruth Farlow, his grandparents. "I will first say a few words about grandfather and grandmother. Grandfather was quite a young man when he came to Carolina. What his occupation was before marriage with Ruth Carter I do not know, but after his marriage he followed farming, taught school, built wagons, and made hollow ware to sell. He was called a good liver. He was a religious man, of a grave countenance, and his presence always commanded respect. He was a true Friend. He was an Elder in the church and sat at the head of the Meeting as long as he was able to go. He died in his ninety-first year and was laid in the Marlboro grave yard about sixty-nine or seventy years ago. No record of his death or birth appear. On his headstone is inscribed simply Nathan Farlow. George and Nathan Farlow must have been brothers, and Isaac the son of Nathan, for Isaac says his Uncle George Farlow, who was then living in a cabin on the roadside with a small lot enclosed around it,---the house stood on the east bank of Weebs Creek about three or four miles east of Asheboro. Isaac Farlow was more than 87 years old when he died. Rev. E.W. Carothers, D.D. says that in 1854 Isaac was then 87 years old. So Isaac was born in 1767, and was 15 years old when his father Nathan and mother, Ruth, dressed Capt. John Bryant, who was killed by Fanning. Bryant lived a half mile west of New Market, on the place owned by Joseph Newling (sic). Nathan Spencer says, "My informant had to pay a fat steer and some gold for his land, but in process of time Nathan Farlow owned all the land of these men who were Tories, and he himself, Isaac Farlow, now lives on the low land. When Richard Isaacs went over and told Nathan Farlow what had happened, he and his wife, Ruth, went over to the Bryants before daylight, but Nathan stopped at some distance from the house until he ascertained whether he could go with safety. By daylight Nathan Farlow and his wife had the corpse laid out. At sunrise Isaac Farlow went over and saw the body and the two bullet holes. It seems what Isaac Farlow says was taken for the truth, as they went to him for facts. Isaac, a respectable member of the Quaker Society, who is now an old man, but seems to retain all his faculties unimpaired. He lived in Deep River, the neighborhood where many of the atrocities were committed, and well recollects all that he saw or heard. From his statement I have been able to trace sequence of events better than any previous account I have received, and he gives some additional facts of considerable interest. To converse with such a man is like being carried back to those days, and sit down midst the very scenes of desolation and wretchedness as they actually existed." Nathan F. Spencer's wife, Mary Newlin, daughter of Joseph and Ruth Farlow Newlin, was his first cousin once removed. Bio courtesy of Contributor: Bryan S. Godfrey (46982727)

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Nathan Farlow's memorial is located at: Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Suffolk County, USA.
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Nathan Farlow death on 15 Dec 1831 in Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 42.2837791
Longitude: -71.1025009

Family Members:

Parent

Michael Farlow

(unknow - 1775)

Mary White Farlow

(unknow - unknow)

Spouse

Ruth Carter Farlow

(1742 - 1837)

Siblings

Enoch Farlow

(1738 - unknow)

George Farlow

(1752 - 1844)

William “Will” Farlow

(1754 - 1814)

Children

(1767 - 1860)

(1776 - 1842)

(1778 - 1855)

(1780 - 1847)

Elizabeth “Betsey” Farlow Spencer

(1782 - 1854)

Nathan Farlow

(1784 - 1845)

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