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The following information comes from "The Carr Family Records", by Edson I. Carr; Herald Printing House, Rockton, Illinois, 1894 (https://archive.org/details/carrfamilyrecord00carr/page/26/mode/1up)
Esek Carr born in Newport, Rhode Island, settled in Little Compton, Rhode Island, and was a cooper by trade. His wife’s name was Susanna, whom he married in 1684[1]. He died in Little Compton in 1744.
The Will was dated May 16, 1739, and proved November 12, 1744.[2]
Notice that his wife’s maiden name is not mentioned. The text continues with excerpts from his will:
“After setting aside a quarter of an acre of land for a family burying ground, he willed his entire estate to his son Robert except the following sums to his daughters: To daughter Mary, wife of John Brownwell, £5; daughter Sarah Thurston, £5; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Wilbur, £5; daughter Anna, wife of Jonathan Wood, £5; daughter Susanna, wife of Thomas Wilbur, £5; children of daughter Margaret Closson, £60; daughter Thankful, wife of William Lake, £5; granddaughter Mary, wife of Nathaniel Potter, 40s; granddaughter Deborah Carr, daughter of son Esek Carr, deceased, £50 at eighteen.”
Their children were given as follows: (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/descendancy/LVQX-5QN)
In 1644, Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport united for their common independence as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, governed by an elected council and "president".
Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham.
The first European settlers in Little Compton were Englishmen from Duxbury, Massachusetts in the Plymouth Colony who sought to expand their land holdings.
By 1747, Little Compton secured its own royal decree and was annexed to Newport County as a part of Rhode Island along with Tiverton and Bristol. Because Little Compton was once part of the Plymouth Colony, all probate and land records prior to 1746 can be found in Taunton and New Bedford.
In 1746-47, two towns, Little Compton and Tiverton, were acquired from Province of Massachusetts, Colony of Great Britain. In 1856, the town of Fall River was split off from Tiverton but was ceded to Massachusetts.
On August 1, 1687, Esek Carr and Susanah (sic), his wife, of Little Compton, sold half an acre of land in Newport to Robert Carr of Newport, bounded on the east by land of Major Peleg Sanford, south on land now in possession of Francis Brinley and Caleb Carr, Sr., north on land of Robert Carr, and west by land now or late in the possession of Samuel Gardner, west on the highway or Common Road leading through Newport Town into the neck (https://archive.org/details/rhodeislandlande00wort/page/222/mode/1up?q=Carr)
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"We are looking for a lost cemetery on Willow Avenue. Perhaps you can help. This is what we know so far: It was Eseck Carr's Family burial ground and it contained several graves before his death in 1744. Eseck ordered his son Robert to surround the graves and 1/4 of an acre with a handsome stone wall. The Carr farm was probably on the west side of Willow maybe on the site of what became Dr. James Peckham's farm in the 1800s. Maps show that Dr. Peckham's house was about 2/3 of the way north if you were going from the Commons to Peckham Road. Eseck reserved the burying ground and a right for his family to pass and repass to it which means it might have been set back a bit from the road.