Richard Carder (abt. 1615 - aft. 1675)

Born about 1615 in England

Descendants

Died after 29 Nov 1675 after about age 60 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island [uncertain]

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Richard Carder migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 2, p. 6) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Based on the date of his freemanship, Richard Carder is believed to have been born by 1615. His parents and the precise location of his birth are unknown.

Richard Carder migrated in 1635 and was a resident of Roxbury. He was admitted as member #126 of Eliot's list of Roxbury church members in 1635 and became an official freeman on May 25, 1636.

He moved to Boston in 1637 and was at Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1638 where he was a founder of that town on March 7, 1637/8. By the 16th he was on a list of freemen there, which was later erased because of his involvement with Samuel Gorton.^[1]He was on a list of 4 men "disfranchised of the privileges and prerogatives belonging to the body of this state, and that their names be cancelled out of the record." These four were to be disarmed if they return to the Island.

His first marriage took place about 1641. Her name is unknown. They had one child:

1. Susannah was born about 1641. She married Nathaniel Waterman (son of Richard Waterman) soon after May 9, 1662.

He married (2nd) about 1646 to Mary (_____) surname unknown. They had five children:

1. John was born about 1646. He married at Warwick on December 1, 1671 to Mary Holden the daughter of Randall Holden. He married (2nd) to Hannah (_____) surname unknown. The date of his marriage to Hannah is unknown.
2. Sarah was born about 1651. She married Benjamin Gorton at Warwick on December 5, 1672. Benjamin was the son of Samuel Gorton.
3. Mary was born about 1653. She married Malachi Rhoades at Warwick on May 27, 1675.
4. James was born on May 2, 1655. He married Mary Whipple, daughter of John Whipple at Warwick on January 6, 1686/7.
5. Joseph was born about 1658 and died at Warwick on March 14, 1693/4, at the age of 35. He married by 1693 to Bethia (_____).

He returned to Boston and Roxbury where he and additional men who were Gorton followers were tried for heresy and on November 3, 1643 he was ordered to wear irons and to cease speaking to others regarding his heresies. The following year he was released but banished from Massachusetts.

By January 12, 1642/3 he was one of the men who bought the twenty-mile stretch of land from the Narragansett that would later be named Warwick. By 1644 he was living in Warwick and found to be on a list of freemen by 1655. Warwick was founded by people who followed Samuel Gorton so it is assumed that Richard Carder was known as a Gordonite. The followers of Samuel Gorton, as the Puritans understood it, didn't believe in their world of saints and sinners but instead, as the Quakers did, that all people were imbued with the spirit of God.^[1]

A list dated September 12, 1667, establishes that Richard Carder held six parcels of land in Warwick.

Richard was a dutiful member of the Warwick community, service as Deputy for Warwick to the Rhode Island General Court 1659 through 1673; he was a member of the Grand jury and Petit jury; Warwick selectman from 1656 through 1660; Assessor, Surveyor, Auditor, Magistrate. As "Goodman Carder he was appointed to the town council to "draw up conclusions" on June 7, 1652.

The will of Richard Carder did not survive, it was however casually mentioned in the will of his widow, Mary. He is believed to have died at Newport shortly after November 29, 1675 where he took refuge during King Philip's War. His wife Mary died at Warwick on March 5, 1691/2, assuming the probate date of her husband's will is correct.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/samuel-gorton-and-his-gortonites-create-a-church-among-the-jack-an-apes/

This biography is based on "Great Migration" unless otherwise cited.

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) Volume II, C-F, Page 6 - 10
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)

Richard CARDER (-1676±) & 1/wf _____ _____; by 1637; Boston/Portsmouth, RI/Warwick, RI

{Austin: GDRI 270; Sv. 1:335; Dunham-Boyd 301; Waterman (1939) 3:7}

Richard CARDER (-1676±) & 2/wf Mary _____ (-1691); by 1651?; Warwick, RI/Newport

{Clark (,16) 112; Shotwell 47; Gorton 165; Guild Anc. 31; Waterman (1885) 192; Dunham-Boyd 301; Austin's Dict. 100}

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)

Name: Richard Carder

Birth: 1615

Spouse: Mary

Marriage: of Rhode Island, USA

• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891) Vol. 1 Kent County, Warwick. Page 153. citing 1-31:

• "Carder, Richard, died at Newport, time of the Indian war."
• "Carder, Mary, wife of Richard, died at Warwick, March 5, 1691-2"