I represent Mary Anderson Farmar. I was the wife of Major Robert Farmar. I was born in Yorkshire, England, and Robert and I married sometime around his commissioning as a Major in His Majesty’s 34th Regiment of Foot – the early 1760s. He served in the Seven Years’ War in the Caribbean, then was sent to Mobile to accept the Spanish surrender of Fort Condé and take possession of the town. He served as military governor until the civilian governor – George Johnstone – arrived. He and my husband got into a jurisdictional turf war that ended in Robert’s court martial in Pensacola. After that lengthy trial, he was acquitted, but his military career was over and we moved out to our plantation near what is now Stockton in Baldwin County. There, we thrived. Our daughter, Ann Billop Farmar, was baptized in Pensacola on March 28, 1769. Other children were Elizabeth, Mary, Catharine Louisa and John Theodore. Robert died in 1778. Ann married a lieutenant in the 60th Regiment in Mobile in 1780. The other children were still minors when I probated Robert’s will in 1784 and I was named their guardian. We went back to England.
Sources: 1, 12, 14, 40, 46, 6, 67, 92, 101, 106, Find-a-Grave