Farnsworth
Family
The roots of the Farnsworth family are in Washington, New Hampshire. They belonged to the Washington Christian Church, which became known as the first church where a group of Adventists observed the seventh-day Sabbath beginning about 1844. Thus the family is famous for being the first of the Sabbatarian Adventist believers that kept the seventh-day Sabbath.
There were at least two sets of Farnsworth families in Washington, N.H., William and Cyrus. The writers of these diaries may be children (or grandchildren) of Cyrus Farnsworth. Internal evidence in the diaries may help to answer this question, but it was not determined in the course of processing this collection. One of the accompanying books was owned at one time by Cyrus. Alternatively, these could be diaries written by children or grandchildren of William Farnsworth. However, from a list of his children, none of the names represented in these diaries were his children.
There were at least two sets of Farnsworth families in Washington, N.H., William and Cyrus. The writers of these diaries may be children (or grandchildren) of Cyrus Farnsworth. Internal evidence in the diaries may help to answer this question, but it was not determined in the course of processing this collection. One of the accompanying books was owned at one time by Cyrus. Alternatively, these could be diaries written by children or grandchildren of William Farnsworth. However, from a list of his children, none of the names represented in these diaries were his children.