Moses Farnum House

Moses Farnum House
Moses Farnum House
Moses Farnum House is located in Massachusetts
Location: Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates: 42°2′27″N 71°37′20″W / 42.04083°N 71.62222°W / 42.04083; -71.62222Coordinates: 42°2′27″N 71°37′20″W / 42.04083°N 71.62222°W / 42.04083; -71.62222
Built: 1769
Architectural style: Georgian
Governing body: Private
MPS: Uxbridge MRA
NRHP Reference#:

83004118

[1]
Added to NRHP: October 7, 1983
Moses Farnum house, Early Quaker settlers, first to resettle in Massachusetts, 1769

The Moses Farnum House is an historic house located on Route 146A. in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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National Register listing

  • Farnum, Moses, House ** (added 1983 - Building - #83004118)
  • MA 146, (now 146A) Uxbridge
  • Historic Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering
  • Architectural Style: Georgian
  • Historic Person: Farnum, Moses, Jr.
  • Significant Year: 1769
  • Area of Significance: Architecture, Exploration/Settlement, Politics/Government
  • Period of Significance: 1750-1799
  • Owner: Private
  • Historic Function: Domestic
  • Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
  • Current Function: Domestic
  • Current Sub-function: Single Dwelling

History

Moses Farnum was born, son of John C. Farnum, Jr of Chockalog(Nipmuc "for dry fox place or burned place") at Uxbridge (then Mendon), Massachusetts Colony, on September 8, 1701, and died September 8, 1770.[2] He was a farmer in Uxbridge and Douglas.[2] Moses Farnum's descendent, EB Farnum, became Mayor of and was a pioneer at Deadwood, South Dakota. Moses Farnum was a prominent landowner in the pre-Revolutionary War era of Colonial Massachusetts.[2] The site of the Moses Farnum farm and house became the site of a Quaker Meeting House, Friends Meetinghouse (Uxbridge, Massachusetts) circa 1770. Quakers from Smithfield, Rhode Island, abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown who founded Brown University, and who were among the first in America to free slaves, settled here. Moses Farnum's father, John C. Farnum, Jr., who died in 1749 is also buried in the Quaker Cemetery at this site.

References

External links

List of Registered Historic Places in Uxbridge, Massachusetts