Averilla (Carr) Wilmot (abt. 1714 - aft. 1758)

Born about 1714 in Anne Arundel, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of John Wilmot II — married 1735 in Gunpowder, Baltimore, Maryland

Died after 1758 after about age 44 in Baltimore County, Province of Maryland

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Biography

Averilla (Carr) Wilmot was a Maryland colonist.

No birth record for Averilla Carr has been found. She was most likely born in Anne Arundel County around 1714 and was the daughter of Thomas Carr and Elizabeth Price. She is mentioned in the 1758 will of her father as Averilla Wilmot and was left a legacy of one third of his estate to share with her brother, Aquilla and her sister Mary Bowen.^[1]

• Spouse: John Wilmot III born: 2/7/1713 died: 12/6/1783. His parents are John Wilmot Jr. (1682/3 - 1748) and Rachel (Ownings) Wilmot (abt. 1683/84 - ). John Jr. & Rachel Info: http://www.fmoran.com/owens.html

• Averilla & John were married about 1735 in Gunpowder, Baltimore, Maryland.

• Children:

1. Mary Wilmot 1737 -

2. Rachel Wilmot 1751 - 1825

3. John Wilmot 1753 - 1807

4. Elizabeth Wilmot 1755 - 1819

5. Hannah Wilmot 1857 -

6. Ruth Wilmot 1758 - 1782

7. Sarah Wilmot 1762 - 1839

Sources

1. ↑ Prerogative Court Wills Liber 30, folio 501

• Lists her husband John and his parents/siblings and their marriage. Under Generation 4. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~digging/owings.html Note: I used Ctrl F to search for her name and it took me to the place on the document where they are listed. There are no page numbers. Note: This is a great source for the Willmott Family.

• Documents marriage of Averilla and John: https://genealogytraces.blogspot.com/p/homsley.html

• The Passing Shadows of the Carr Clan, Pioneers of Jefferson, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne Counties, Ohio, Their Ancestors and Descendants 1658-1976. By Lois Jeannette (Baltzly) Carr and Charles Edgar Carr. (privately printed, 1976)

• The Passing Shadows of the Carr Clan, Vol. I &II. Page 10

• She and her husband (and mother/siblings) are listed in her Father Thomas Carr of Baltimore Co. Will: Liber 30, folio 501. 5/1/1758 CARR, THOMAS, Baltimore Co. The Regulation 505a, the land I live on, is to be sold by Joseph Taylor or William Lux. The money is to be divided into 4 parts:

One to my wife, Elizabeth Carr One to be paid to Benjamin Bowen, husband of my daughter Mary Bowen One to be paid to William Lux in trust for son Aquilla Carr One to my daughter Averilla Willlmott To daughter Mary Bowen, negro woman Dinah & negro men Simon & Dick. To Samuel Cole for granddaughter Mary Cotterall, the bed she lay on, 2 cows & calves, 6 ewes, & 1 colt. The residue is to be equally divided among my sd. wife & 3 children: 1. Aquilla Carr 2. Mary Bowen 3. Averilla Willmot Whereas I became bound as special bail for John Wilmott, husband of my daughter Averilla, in several actions for which he was in Baltimore Co. goal . . . Extr: Joseph Taylor. Witness: Joseph Richardson, John Bays, William Lux. 6/5/ 1758. Sworn to by Bays & Lux; see probate in Liber [35], folio 399. https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s500/s538/html/s538-30.html Note: He spells Averilla's last name: Willmott. I updated her wikitree record to that spelling. It is documented other places with that spelling. Note: I used Ctrl F to search for her name and it took me to the place on the document where she is listed 3 times. There are not any page numbers to cite.

• Carr Family Information: https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-904-61264-730-40/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic

• Carr Family Information: Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore: 1989) at page 96

• Averilla (Carr) Willmott Information: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHBG-PQ8