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Captain William Carr was the son of Thomas Carr and an unknown mother.[1] He was probably born in King William County, Colony of Virginia, in about 1680.
He is said to have married first (___) Chiles, and second Susannah Brooks.[1]
William made his will on 2 August 1760, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and died before 4 November 1760 when his will was proved in Spotsylvania County.[2]
In the will, he names his wife Susannah (___), who was one of the Executors and received the land William purchased from Thomas Ship and John Quarles. In addition, he names the following children:[1][2]
The birth date is a very rough estimate, based on the assumption that he was the younger brother and born only a few years after brother Thomas.
Many online genealogies give a birth date of 1707 for him, but this appears to be based solely on a baptismal record for the "William, ye Son of Thomas Carr of Bay gate" who was was baptized at Bolton-by-Bolland in Yorkshire on 16 October 1707.[3] This cannot be the same person, as the records cited in his profile establish that William's father Thomas was living in King William County, Virginia, between at least 1701-1709, not in Bay gate, Yorkshire, England.
A prior version of this profile, without source, identified Mary Garland as his mother.
Some have identified various additional spouses with a LNAB of Winston. These include Elizabeth Sarah (Winston) Carr, Elizabeth (Winston) Carr, and Catherine (Winston) Carr. No sources are cited in any of these profiles and they have been detached as spouses of this William Carr.
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Children: 1. Mary Marcy Carr 1706-unk 2. William Winston Carr 1707-1760 (1c) m 1728 Elizabeth Winston 1710-1737 m abt 1741 Susannah Brooks 1720-1794/1803 (this is the William shown in your notes as having died in 1760 and the children attached to he and his wife) 3. Thomas Carr 1709-1742 (4c) 4. Samuel Carr 1711-1782 5. Gideon Winston Carr 1712-1783 6. Sarah Elizabeth Carr 1714 m 1732 John Minor (4 c)
some chldren shown in your list are actually the children of son William and one or more of his wives
I have placed Patrick Carr (abt.1709-abt.1743) as a son of William and Catherine (Winston) Carr on FamilySearch. Hopefully, some primary or secondary sources will emerge. As of this writing, Patrick is in another related Carr line (for which no sources are indicated, either).
That pedigree does place Gideon as a child and Patrick, but no others. Perhaps this William Carr married twice or else the children of a Susannah and William Carr are another line, altogether?