Isaac Carr
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Isaac Carr (1742 - 1824)

Captain Isaac Carr
Born in Newport, Rhode Islandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 20 Nov 1767 in Newport, Rhode Islandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 81 in Hartwick, Otsego County, New Yorkmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Captain Isaac Carr served with Rhode Island during the American Revolution.

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.

Sources

  1. Entered by Carole Carr.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Isaac by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree: It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Isaac:

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Thanks, Sharon. Looks like your ancestor relates in some fashion to my ancestor, Phebe (Carr) Carr, wife of Captain Isaac Carr. Both Phebe and Jesse descend from Governor Caleb Carr, who had numerous descendants.
posted by Carole (Carr) Magnuson

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