John Farmer, an American genealogist, born in Chelmsford, Mass., June 12, 1789, died in Concord, N.

II., Aug. 13,1838. After teaching school for ten years, he studied the early settlement of New England, and his Genealogical Register," published in 1829, is thought to contain the names of nearly all the first European settlers in that region. A new and enlarged edition of this work, by James Savage of Boston, was published in 1860-'62. Mr. Farmer superintended an edition of Belknap's History of New Hampshire," to which he added many valuable notes; and he contributed various papers to historical and antiquarian societies, and to periodicals.