Johanna (Slocum) Carr (abt. 1680 - 1708)

Born about 30 Dec 1680 in Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, New England

Ancestors

Wife of Caleb Carr Jr. — married 30 Apr 1701 in Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, New England

Descendants

Died 30 Dec 1708 at about age 28 in Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, New England

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Biography

Birth

Johannah Slocum, daughter of Ebenezer Slocum, was born 2 Jan 1680/1681 in Jamestown, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.^[1][2][3] (There were no counties in Rhode Island until 1703.) Ebenezer's wife, Johannah's mother was Mary (Thurston) Slocum. Jamestown Vital Records. The Slocum Genealogy says she was born 30 Dec 1680/1 [sic]^[4] and Austin's Genealogical Dictionary reports her birth 30 Dec 1680.^[5]

Marriage

Johannah Sloackum of Jamestown and Caleb Carr of Jamestown were married. The Rhode Island monthly Friends meeting announced their marriage twice: 1. 1d 2m 1701 (1 Apr 1701) [pp 77/115] and 2. 29d 2m 1701 (29 April 1701) [pp 78/116]^[6] Their marriage took place, the next day 30 April 1701. Ebenezer Slocum, warden, officiated.^[3][1]

Caleb, born 20 March 1679, was the son of Caleb Carr & Phillis Green. He married after Joanna's death Mary ____. They also had children.^[7]

Death

Joanna Carr, wife of Caleb died 30 Dec 1708 in Jamestown, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.^[1][3] This was four days after the birth of her fifth child, perhaps on her 28th birthday."

Children^[7]

1. Caleb Carr b. 6 Nov 1702, Jamestown
2. Joseph Carr b. about 1704, Jamestown
3. Patience Carr b. c. 1705, Jamestown
4. Mary Carr b. about 1707, Jamestown
5. William Carr b. 26 Dec 1708, Jamestown.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Paine
2. ↑ Vital Records of Jamestown
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Arnold, James N. Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 : a family register for the people. Volume 4. Newport County - Jametown. (Providence, [Rhode Island: Narragansett Historical, 1891-1912.) birth p. 26; marriage pp p. 13 & 6; death p. 18
4. ↑ Slocum, Charles E., M.D., Ph.D, of Syracuse, N.Y. The Slocum Genealogy, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., October 1880) Vol. 34, Page 393
5. ↑ Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 : With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. (Albany: J. Munsell Sons, 1887) [https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldict00aust p 182
6. ↑ Rhode Island Quaker marriages 1690-1743. extracted from RI Monthly Meeting Men’s Minutes. The American Genealogist 67:21 (1992)
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Carr, Edson I. The Carr family records. Embacing [sic] 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. (Rockton, Ill.: Herald printing house, 1894.) p. 4

• Vital Records of Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1671-1800 (Donated to NEHGS by G. Andrews Moriarty, of Newport, RI, in 1914)
• Paine, Lyman May. My Ancestors: In Memory of John Paine & Mary Ann May of East Woodstock, Conn. (Private Publisher, 1914)

• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001)
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)

• Slocum, Charles E., M.D., Ph.D. The Slocum Genealogy, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., October 1880) Vol. 34, Page 393