Ephraim Carter (1742 - 1826)

Born 1742 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Province of Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Waterhouse) Carter — married 23 Apr 1763 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1826 at about age 84 in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States

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Biography

Private Ephraim Carter served with Lincoln County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Ephraim Carter is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A019917.

3. EPHRAIM CARTER b. 1742, Scarboro, d. Jan. 1, 1826 (age 84, on Muscongus Island, or d. Bristol April 20, 1826, age 80 yrs. - Lincoln Intelligencer, Wiscasset Mar. 10, 1826). m. MARY (WATERHOUSE) Apr. 23/25, 1763, d/o Joseph Waterhouse and Mary (Libby) of Scarboro, Ch. CARTER:

(a) John bapt. Newcastle, Me. July 27, 1766 (Phippsburg V.R.), d. Feb. 21, 1836, age 69/9/0. mp Sept. 15, 1792 Betsy Richards (Old Bristol V.R.) b. abt. 1770, d. Oct 20, 1858 age 88/2/4, d/o Erastus Richards and Betsey.

(b) Joseph b. Scarboro Feb. 8, 1766 (Phippsburg V.R.) bapt. NewCastle July 27, 1766 (Phippsburg V.R.), m. Bristol 1792 Olive (Pottle).

(c) Ephraim bapt. Scarboro July 3, 1768.

(d) William m. Elizabeth Fountain of Marshfield, Mass.

(e) Betsy m. Robert Loud

(f) Abigail m. Ward Reed of Searsmont

(g) Joanna also m. Robert Loud

(h) Olive m. Micajah Bailey

(i) James b. abt. 1787, d. Oct. 13, 1862 age 75/5/0 (cem.), m. 1st Nov. 23, 1810, Sally Leeman of Bremen. (Bristol V.R.), m. 2nd, mp Aug. 20, 1846 Mrs. Mary Tukey of Bristol.

(j) Mary m. William (?) Wall of Searsmont who d. Jan., 1826.

    Ephraim Carter was at Ft. Pownal on the Penobscot River from July 16, 1759 to July 28, 1760 for 54 weeks and one day as a "Quality Private". He entered by his mother's consent - "Hanr Carter".     He was a signer of a petition in 1760 by a number of inhabitants of Casco Bay for land on the Northern and Western side of the Island of Mt. Desert and next adjoining the same on the Main - for a township -. (Ellsworth American, Mar. 24, 1892, series of articles "Old Trenton, 1762 - 1800" by William Freeman)     Ephraim Carter also served in the Revolution as a private in Col. William Jones Regt. of militia under the command of Capt. Benj. Plumer in the expedition against MajaBagaduce - from the 6th of July to the 24 of Sept. 1779. He shows on the payroll in Col. Samuel McCobb's Regt. (Information from "Soldiers in the Revolution from Bristol, Maine, and vicinity", communicated by Frank Ernest Woodward, in The Genealogical Advertiser, Vol. 4, pp 155 -6, 1901 and reprinted 1974.) This muster roll appears on pp 98, 115 in Vol. 37 of Rev. Rolls in Mass. Archives.)

Sources

* SNOW, W. A., CARTER, S. C., & WESCOTT, E. C. (1992). The Carter families of Hancock County, Maine. [United States], [publisher not identified]. *Massachusetts. 1896-1908. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War : A Compilation from the Archives. Boston: Wright and Potter Print. Co. State Printers Volume 3, Page 153.

Acknowledgment

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