Timothy Farrar (June 28, 1747 – February 20, 1849)Charles Henry Bell,
The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire
' (1894), p. 47-48. was a justice of the

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from 1791 to 1803. Judge Farrar was born in

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, in what is now a part of

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. He graduated from

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in 1767. In 1774 he was chosen first selectman and town clerk of

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. In 1775, he was made a judge of common pleas. From 1778 to 1782, he was part of the committee to write the

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. After his time with the state Supreme Court, he was again a judge of the Court of Common Pleas until 1813. He died at his daughter's house in

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.Clark Bell, ed., ''The Medico-legal Journal'', Vol. 18 (1900), Supplement, p. 107-108.

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