John Farren, Salem Witch - John Farren's Death

I found this reference to a John Farren KIlled in 1707 by indians in the Lancaster, MA:

Resided in Northboro, Worcester, MA.

iii.MARY GOODENOW1, b. December 15, 1673, Marlboro, Middlesex, MA1; d. August 18, 1707.

Notes for MARY GOODENOW:
"Slain by ye Indians"

Information from the Goodenow family book:

On 18 August 1707 Mary Goodnow and Mrs. Mary Fay, wife of Gershom Fay and 2nd daughter of John Brigham, were gathering herbs near the Goodnow Garrison located on the Great Road near Stirrip Brook when 20 or more Indians burst from the woods and chased them towards the garrison fort. Miss Goodnow was lame and was overtaken, dragged across the brook, mutilated, murdered, and scalped.
Mrs. Fay managed to reach the fort, closed the gates, and loaded muskets for the one man she found in the garrison. They held off the attacking Indians with musket fire until their shots were heard by other settlers and their arrival drove off the hostiles. Presumably on the same day the Indians surprised and captured Jonathan Wilder of Lancaster and a Mr. Howe of Marlboro.

The affair is described in the Boston News-Letter, 25 August 1707, "On Monday, the 16th current, thirteen Indians on the frontier surprised two men at their labors in the meadows at Marlboro, about four miles distant from the body of the town, and took them both alive; and as they passed out of the town, they took a woman also in their marching off, whom they killed. Howe, one of the prisoners, broke away in a scuffle, and brought home the Indian's gun and hatchet, and acquainted the garrison and the inhabitants, who speedily followed, and were joined by twenty men from Lancaster, being in all forty, came up with the enemy, who were increased to thirty-six, and on Tuesday, at ten o'clock, found them, and in two hours exchanged ten shots a man, in which skirmish we lost two men, and two slightly wounded; no doubt we killed several of the enemy, whose track being dragged away we saw, but recovered but one of them, though it is probably
conjectured that we killed ten or twelve at least. We took twenty-four of their packs and drove them off the ground, and they are yet pursued by two parties from Lancaster and Groton. At our forces overtaking and attacking them, they barbarously murdered the captives."

In the packs taken from the Indians, as mentioned above, were found the scalp of Miss Goodnow, which was the first anyone knew of her fate. John Farren and Richard Singletary were the ones slain in this skirmish and Jonathan Wilder died as a captive. The slain woman is not identified by name, but the presence of her scalp in the Indian packs, conclusively shows it was Mary Goodnow.

If this is the John Farren married to Susannah Coates of Lynn, MA who died in 1700, this may explain why Captain Jonathan Ferren of Amesbury, Ma and Newton, NH is referred to as" Our Son" by Thomas & Elizabeth Beadle. Perhaps if his Nother died in 1700 and his Father killed in 1707, this may explain why he was living with the Beadles, because he was an orphan by age 9 or 10.