William Carr (1597 - 1672)

Born 17 Jun 1597 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Susan (Rothchild) Carr — married 16 May 1619 in London, England

Descendants

Died 4 Jun 1672 at age 74 in Bristol, Rhode Island

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Biography

William Carr was born in London, Eng., June 17, 1597. He married Susan Rothchild, in London, May 16, 1619. She was born in Devonshire, Eng., April 30, 1598.

NB: The passenger list for the 1621 voyage of the ship Fortune^[1] does not include William and Susan Carr, so the following story of their arrival is likely apocryphal. They came to America in the fall of 1621, in the ship Fortune, Capt. Roger Williams, with thirty-five passengers on board. They landed at Plymouth, Nov. 7, 1621. They stayed the following winter in Plymouth, and on June 1, 1622, they started in a southwesterly direction through the trackless wilderness with an Indian for a guide, and after a journey on foot of forty-eight days, they located a home, July 18, 1622, where the town of Bristol, R. I., was afterward built.

The town was laid out and named in 1636, by Roger Williams. William Carr died in Bristol, June 4, 1672, and his wife Susan died in the same place, May 3, 1671. They only had one child: George Carr, b. March 12, 1620.

THE CARR FAMILY RECORDS. EMBACING 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. BY EDSON I. CARR, ROCKTON, ILLINOIS. Herald Printing House. 1894.

Sources

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)

The following sources are not to be considered reliable.

• Ancestral File(R) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File(R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998) Ancestral File Number: 9J6D-CK
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_of_1621_Fortune_voyage