Person:Thomas Carter (53)
Thomas Carter, Jr., of Charlestown, MA
b.Cal 1607
d.30 Dec 1694 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1607
  1. Thomas Carter, Jr., of Charlestown, MACal 1607 - 1694
  2. Samuel CarterEst 1612 - 1681
  3. Joseph CarterEst 1614 - 1676
  4. Mary CarterEst 1618 - Aft 1678
  5. Captain John CarterEst 1620 - 1692
  6. Hannah CarterEst 1625 - 1657
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas Carter, Jr., of Charlestown, MACal 1607 - 1694
  • W.  Anne _____ - 1679
m. Bef 1640
  1. Anne Carter1639/40 - 1709
  2. Elizabeth Carter1642 - 1644
  3. Thomas Carter1644 -
  4. Elizabeth CarterAbt 1647 - 1694
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas Carter, Jr., of Charlestown, MACal 1607 - 1694
  • W.  Elizabeth BunkerCal 1607 - 1684
m. 24 Oct 1679
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Thomas Carter, Jr., of Charlestown, MA
Gender Male
Birth[1][4][5] Cal 1607
Marriage Bef 1640 Prob. Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesbased on birth of daughter Anne
to Anne _____
Marriage 24 Oct 1679 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Bunker
Death[1][2][3] 30 Dec 1694 Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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Origins

While named son in his father's 1652 will, he was not the reverend of Woburn. From Carter: A genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Carter...", p 9:

"...it is an unfortunate fact for the investigator that there were among the early settlers no fewer than four Thomas Carters-- three of them in New England,-- all arriving about the same time and all of about the same age. These are: (1) Rev. Thomas Carter, first minister of Woburn, Mass.; (2) Thomas Carter of the Planter, who settled in Salisbury, Mass.; (3) Thomas Carter, eldest son of Thomas Carter, blacksmith of Charlestown, who deposed, 1662, that he was about fifty-two years old, and hence born about 1610; and (4) Thomas Carter, aged twenty-five, who embarked from London in the "Safety," Aug 10, 1635, for Virginia, on which ship also came John Carter, aged twenty-two, by many supposed to be the ancestor of the so-called "Virginia Carters."

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Life in New England

Be sure to review Carter in Massachusetts for an overview and distinction of four Thomas Carters of Massachusetts during this time period.

Settled (with his father) in Charlestown, MA:

15 day, 11mo, 1646: Thomas Carter Junior admitted First Church of Charlestown (NEHGR 23:281)

Tho. Carter Jr made freeman 26 May 1647 (C.R. Vol II, p. 163) (brother Samuel Carter is on same list)

Early Records of Boston include this:

  • Anne, the daughtr of Thomas Carter & Anne his wife was born 10 (1) 1640 (NEHGR 4:184) 
  :(she was baptized 22d 1m 1640 at First Church of Charlestown; NEHGR 25:339)
  • Elisabeth, the dau. of of Thomas Carter & Anne his wife was born 22 (2) 1642 (NEHGR 4:184)
  • Thomas, son of Thomas & Anne borne 6 (5) 1644 (NEHGR 8:346)
  • Elisabeth, dau of Thomas & Anne buried 12 (5) 1644 (NEHGR 8:346)
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948, 1952)
    114.

    Thomas2 (Carter), b. about 1607, deposed aged about 75 in 1682, d. 30 Dec. 1694, aged 87, test. Woburn [almost certainly Charlestown].

  2. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
    1:187.

    Thomas 2. (Carter), Son of Thomas 1; blacksmith; adm. church 15 (11) 1646-7; was constable 1656; … d. Dec. 30, 1694, in 88th yr., g. s. (æ. a. 88, rec.)

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thomas Carter, in Find A Grave.
  4. ↑ Because of the wide range of ages indicated in depositions and death records for members of this family, Mrs. Holman's estimated dates are used as a matter of convenience.
  5. ↑ "Notes," NEHGR, 85:454 ages taken from depositions in Middlesex Court records: Carter, Thomas Sr., (perhaps of Charlestown), [age] 75 in 1682.
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