Margaret (Kempton) Carver (1732 - bef. 1800)

Born 7 Dec 1732 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of William Carver III — married 13 Feb 1755 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 1800 before age 67 in Livermore, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Margaret Kempton was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on 7 Dec 1732, the daughter of Thomas Kempton and Mary (Holmes) Kempton.^[1][2]

Marriage

Margaret Kempton of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and William Carver III of Marshfield, Massachusetts, published their intention to marry at Plymouth on 23 Nov 1754.^[3][4] They married at Plymoun on 13 Feb 1755.^[5]

Children

Margaret (Kempton) Carver was the mother of 10 known children, born between 1755 and 1775, and they are listed in the "Children" section of her husband's profile.

Biographical Details

See the "Biographical Details" section of William Carver's profile for what is known of Margaret's life from the marriage of William and Margaret Carver in 1754 through William's death in 1777.

In 1779, two years after William Carver died at sea, Margaret Carver and her seven youngest children, aged 4 though 17, moved to the settlement of Port Royal in Cumberland County, Massachusetts,^[6] becoming the second family to settle there, following Elijah Livermore,^[7] after whom the town was named when it was incorporated in 1795. According to the 1928 history of Livermore, Maine, the family lived briefly on the east side of the Androscoggin River, and then settled on the west side of the Androscoggin, where the foundation of their home could still be seen in 1928.^[8]

Death

No record has been found of the death of Margaret Carver. She probably died at Livermore sometime between 1779 and 1800. Her sons James and William are shown living at Livermore in the 1800 Census, but none of their households show a woman in the 45-and-over category.^[9] She may have died before 1789, when a list of the heads of families in the town that was to become Livermore included her son William, presumably considered the head of household of all the Carvers then living there.^[10]

The gravestone of Margaret (Kempton) Carver's son William at the Wyman Cemetery in Livermore says that also buried there are "his three wives and mother," without giving any of their names or dates.^[11][12]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth record of Margaret Kempton, in Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch > Margret Kempton, 07 Dec 1732; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
2. ↑ Transcription of the birth record of Margaret Kempton (AmericanAncestors.org subscription required), in '"Plymouth, Mass., Vital Records," in The Mayflower Descendant, volume 14 (1912), page 241(
3. ↑ "A Purpose of Marriage, Between William Carver, (y^e third) of Marshfield, & Margaret Kempton of Plymouth" in Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch > Plymouth > Plymouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1755-1842 > image 61 of 275; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
4. ↑ Transcription of "A Purpose of Marriage, Between William Carver, (y^e third) of Marshfield, & Margaret Kempton of Plymouth" (AmericanAncestors.org subscription required) in "Plymouth, Mass., Vital Records," in The Mayflower Descendant, volume 25 (1923), page 52(
5. ↑ Marriage record of "William Carver, (y^e third) of Marshfield, & Margaret Kempton of Plymouth", in Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch > Plymouth > Plymouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1755-1842 > image 130 of 275; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
6. ↑ Fred E. Carver and Margaret R. Carver, Genealogy of the Robert Carver Family, Part 1: The Carvers, unpaginated typescript (1971, additional data by Franz J. Carver, 1977), at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois
7. ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 17
8. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 80
9. ↑ United States Census, 1800, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Cumberland > Livermore > James Carver household (image 2 of 8);William Carver household (image 5 of 8); there was also an Eleazer Carver living at Livermore (Eleazer Carver household (image 6 of 8)) but he was a cousin of the William Carver family; see the "Children" section of William Carver's profile.; all citing NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
10. ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 9
11. ↑ Photo of gravestone of William Carver (Find A Grave: Memorial #162936719)
12. ↑ Cemetery record for William Carver, in Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990, database with images, FamilySearch > Carlisle - Chamberlain > image 1792 of 3094; Maine State Library, Augusta.

See also:

• The Carver Family of New England Robert Carver of Marshfield and his descendants], by Carver, Clifford N. (Clifford Nickels), 1890-1965; Published 1935; Published in Searsport Maine : privately printed; Call number CS71.C328 1935; Digitizing sponsor Boston Public Library; Book contributor Boston Public Library
• Morton W. Sanders, The Kempton/Kimpton families in North America : from Plymouth Colony through the tenth generation throughout the United States and Canada (Baltimore, Md., 2000), [page53

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Kempton-42 created through the import of culmer_family.ged on Oct 22, 2012 by Steve Culmer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Steve and others.