The Carr Lineage

"Mr. George¹, the emigrant, is supposed to have been in Ipswich in 1633 (The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, by David W. Hoyt, Providence, 1897, pp. 84, 85, 87. The Carr Family Records, embracing the record of the first families who settled in America and their descendants, etc., by Edson I. Carr. Pp. 540. Rockton, Ill., Herald Printing House, 1894.), and to have owned a house lot there in 1635.

The Carr Records print what purport to be extracts from a family bible and from a diary of Mrs. William Carr. These are so clearly fabrications that one is surprised to find them printed in the work. They make George Carr and wife, Lucinda Davenport, "Mayflower" pilgrims and William Carr and wife, "Fortune" pilgrims. It is needless to say, there is ample evidence that they were not emigrants, as stated, and the attempt to manufacture, by supposed family records, "Mayflower" ancestors cannot be too strongly condemned.

He was a shipwright and received grants of land in Salisbury in 1640, '41, and '44. He married Elizabeth, supposedly to have been the daughter of Elder Thomas Oliver of Boston. His son, James Oliver, was a captain in King Philip's War and died in 1682. Elizabeth was a member of the Salisbury Church in 1687.

George was granted the largest island in the Merrimac for a home and a shipyard. This island received the name Carr's Island and was, for a number of generations, the Carr home. Its possession gave the family the monopoly of the ferrying business, which, at George's death, was considered to be worth £400. The large house on Carr's Island was destroyed by fire in 1797. George died in Salisbury April 4, 1682 (when his "brother-in-law" James Oliver was 64 years old), and his widow Elizabeth followed on May 6, 1691. They had ten children, all born in Salisbury.

Capt. Richard², ninth child of George¹ and Elizabeth, was born April 2, 1659. He followed his father's vocation of shipwright. He was married four times: (1) to Elizabeth ______; (2) to Dorothy ______, who died Aug. 3, 1694; (3) to Mrs. Sarah Healey; and (4), to Sarah Greely. He died in Salisbury Sept. 11, 1727, a month after the death of his fourth wife.

Elizabeth³, oldest child of Capt. Richard² and Dorothy, was born in Salisbury June 9, 1691. She married Ebenezer Kimball on June 9, 1712. She was living in 1731.

See Kimball Family News, vol. iv, pp. 193-5, Jan., 1901.

Continuation. - The Kimball Lineage

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