Sarah (Mayer) Carr (1661 - 1727)

Born 5 Feb 1661 in Saco, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Thomas Haley — married 1683 in Saco, ME

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1727 at age 65 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Sarah was born to Walter Mayer and (unknown) Maddiver in Saco on 5 Feb 1661.^[1] She passed away on January 8, 1727, In Salisbury.^[1][2]

Sarah Mayer married Sgt Thomas Haley in 1683 is Saco, ME, and bore him 4 children. When Thomas was killed in action in 1695, she and three children fled the area to Boston (son Thomas fled to Exeter) where she married Capt Richard Carr on 26 Feb 1702^[2] as Sarah Healey. Capt Carr had at least one child by his first marriage (Samuel Carr), and had two more children with Sarah.^[1]

In 1705, her brother Benjamin was killed by Indians, and the administration of his estate was to be granted to his eldest sister, wife of Richard Carr.^[3]

Sources

• Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts And Maine Families In The Ancestry Of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) (The Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1996)

• Carr Family Records; Edison Carr, 1894 (with caution).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Davis: Vol. 2, Page 92-93
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Carr
3. ↑ York County, Maine Probate Records, No. 1, 1687-1707, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89JS-L9ZC-P : 7 April 2021), FHL microfilm 007600380, image 117.