John Carr (1664 - 1714)

Born 22 Oct 1664 in Newport, Rhode Island

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Died 17 Feb 1714 at age 49 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

John Carr, son of Caleb Carr I (bef.1623-1695) and Mercy (Roby) Carr (bef.1628-1675) was born 22 Oct 1664 at Newport, Rhode Island. In 1686, John Carr married Waite EASTON (1668–1725) at Newport, (now Newport Co.,) Rhode Island

On 6 September 1687, John Carr is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1s, and a property tax of 5s 4d, which places him as an adult resident and property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[1] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. Therefore, this tax list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[2]

Death 1714 • Newport, Rhode Island (now Newport Co.) , Rhode Island

Burial 1714 • Jamestown, Rhode Island (now Newport) County, Rhode Island Governor Carr Lot.

Notes

Arthur Carr in "The Carr Book" [page 17] writes that it was John Carr through whom the ferry business established by his father Caleb was passed on to successive generations. It appears that the ferry business was established sometime around 1675 and was owned by members of the Carr family for almost two hundred years. ^[3] (page 2, 3)

• 7. John Carr, died 1714.
• 7. John Carr, fourth son of Caleb Carr, No. 1, was of Newport, R. I. His wife,. Waite, daughter of Peter Easton and his wife Ann Coggeshall, was born Nov. 5, 1668, and died in August. 1725. He was Deputy in 1705. His business from 1700 to 1707 was that of Ferryman, he and Thomas Winterton, of Jamestown, having secured the rights to same in 1700 by petition. In August, 1709, he was granted the privilege of the ferry for seven years but died before the term expired.

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
2. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.
3. ↑ Various authors; The American Carr Families; Martin & Allardyce; Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.; 1912. page 2, 3

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. (Page 15)
• The Carr family records : embracing the record of the first families who settled in America and their descendants, with many branches who came to this country at a later date

• page 22: Name: John Carr, Gender: Male, Birth Date: 1664. Birth Place: Newport, R I, Death Date: 1714, Father: Caleb Carr, Mother: Mercy Vaughan, Spouse: Waite Easton

• Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

• Name: John Carr, Gender: Male. Birth Year: About 1664, Marriage Date: About 1686/7. Marriage Place: Newport, Death 1714 • Newport, Rhode Island (now Newport) Co., Rhode IslandSpouse: Waite [Easton] (1667/8-1725)

• Gravestone Search. Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission. http://www.rihistoriccemeteries.org/webdatabase.aspx: accessed 12 November 2015.

• Name: John Carr, Birth Date: 1664, Death Date: 1714, Burial Place: Rhode Island, Cemetery: GOV. CALEB CARR GROUND, Cemetery Number: NT027, Number of Graves on Stone: 0, Notes: This data is from the genealogy Carr Family Records by Edson I Carr only., Transcribed by: EIC

• Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903)

• Page 122: "John Carr in 1700 was granted the privilege of running a ferry between Newport and Jamestown, and this franchise remained in the family for one hundred and seventy years."

• Find A Grave: Memorial #43350959