Farr Family Wills and Records
Union District, SC and Mecklenburg County, NC
Submitted by Audrey Pool


Source:  Union County Miscellaneous Record Book 1 & 2
 
“Pp.  152-253:  March the 6th 1794, Union County:  Betsy BROWN 
sold to JAMES FARR, eight Negroes (named).  Betsy BROWN (Seal).  
Wit:  John SALE, Lewis DUTTINS.  Proved by John SALE who signed 
with Lewis REDLIN (?) 11 March 1794, before Charles SIMS, J. P.  
Recorded 11 March 1794.”
 
JAMES FARR is a witness to the will of Thomas C. TAYLOR of Union 
District, 1832.
 
Source:  Union County Will Book B (Transcript):
 
“Pp.  369-371:  Will of William B. R. FARR of Union District…
all property to remain with my wife and children and for the 
education of my children; Negroes should remain on the land until 
the youngest child arrives to the age of 21; the names of my wife 
and children are my wife Priscilla FARR, my children Richard FARR, 
Ellendor FARR, Nancy FARR, Joseph FARR, Sarah FARR, Harriet FARR, 
James R. FARR, Cordelia FARR, Poulaski FARR and Daniel FARR; my wife 
Priscilla FARR and my brother JAMES FARR, and my son Richard FARR, 
Exrs.  28 July 1845.  W. B. R. FARR (LS).  Wit:  Joseph SAUNDERS, 
Sam’l A. GOODMAN, Josiah FOSTER.  Proved by Josiah FOSTER.  1 Dec 1845.”
 
Source:  Mecklenburg Co, NC Will Book C:
 
“247, p 82.  Samuel FARR, Sr.  23 Oct 1806, prb in Apr 1807 Ct by the 
undersigned witnesses.  I will $1 to each of the following :  my son 
Samuel FARR, my dau Elizabeth FARR, and son JAMES B. FARR.  I will to 
my daus Margaret REID and Hanna A. FARR all the remainder of my estate 
including goods, chattels, bonds, and notes of every description.  
Exrs:  Trusty friends, William Bean ALEXANDER and Joseph McKnitt ALEXANDER.  
Wit:  Wm. B. and J. McK. ALEXANDER, Isaac ALEXANDER. CMC.”
 
Source:  Mecklenburg Co, NC Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790)
 
“Will of Ephraim FARR of Mecklenburg County, State of NC, being weak 
in body…22d September 1784…to wife Margaret, her bed & furniture, her 
dresser, with four cows & four calves, Negro girl Tina, her chest & table, 
etc, L 70 in money; to my son, David, L25; to my daughter Margaret, L 25; 
to my sons Ephraim, half of the plantation I purchased of Martin PHIFER; 
to my son JAMES FARR, half of said plantation purchased from PHIFER and 
tools, etc; to my son Samuel the plantation I purchased from David 
WILSON & one half of a piece of land adj. Obtained by a state grant & 
the benefit of a warrant adj. Samuel MORTON; to my son David , the 
plantation where I now live, the remaining half of land obtained by a 
state grant, provided the said David pay to my daughter Margret, L 50; 
to my daughter Margret, one Negro girl Suse; to my daughter Hannah, 
Negro Phillis; Negroes Dick & Charlotte, to my son David and daughter 
to be kept on the plantation to raise grain; to my grandson Ephraim FARR, 
L 10, and to my grandson William FARR, L 10; to my grandson John FARR, 
L 20; six children Hannah, Ephraim, JAMES, Samuel, David & Margaret; 
friends Archibald HOUSTON, my son in law James WILSON, 
Exrs.  Ephraim FARR (Seal).  
Wit:  Archibald HOUSTON, Agness MC LEAN (X), David WILSON, Jurat.  
Will Book C, pp. 66-68; C. R. 965.801.15.”