My Carr surname directly descends from Isaac Carr down to my brother who's yDNA was tested. DNA testing has revealed that a non-paternal event probably occurred along the Carr ancestral line. This could be the reason no Carr family historian has found Isaac's parents yet. We are not a match for Phebe Carr's ancestral line. Her ancestry falls under the R1b1 Haplogroup represented in Great Britain and other European countries. Our Carr line falls under the I1 Haplogroup which has its roots in Scandinavia. Several family historians have linked Isaac to Phebe's side of the family, but that cannot be the case.
There could be several reasons for this non-paternal event. (1) Isaac's mother may have been widowed after Isaac was born and she remarried a man with the Carr surname who "adopted" Isaac and gave him his name; (2) Isaac's mother had a child out of wedlock while married to a man named Carr; (3) Isaac was an orphan and was taken in by a Carr family, or (4) Isaac was a member of a Carr family with an extremely small presence in Rhode Island and not related in any way to the larger Carr family of Rhode Island.
Research is underway to try to find Isaac Carr's origins in the Rhode Island records.
Isaac grew up in Rhode Island, possibly Newport County where he married. Indications are that he made his livelihood on the sea. He worked on ships sailing to and from Africa and the Caribbean transporting slaves before the war for independence began. Isaac Carr was a sea captain during the Revolutionary War and served under Letters of Marque issued by the Governor of Rhode Island from 1779-1780.[1]
Isaac appears in some census and military records, and his marriage date and location were found, but details are lacking with respect to his family life in Rhode Island before moving his family to Otsego County, New York by 1799.
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my male line starts with Jesse Carr 1810-1880 RI m Emily Madison
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35083589/jesse-carr