[10] x. Joshua Wingate, b. Dec. 2, 1796; died Aug. 18, 1879.
[11-12] Joshua Wingate Carr, born in Haverhill, Dec. 2, 1796, died in Bangor, Aug. 18, 1879. Mr. Carr obtained his education at the public schools in Newburyport and Orrington, and at the Hampden Academy. He was in Charleston, S.C., 1815-1816, about one year, when he returned to Bangor and commenced business with his brother Joseph and Benjamin Garland, under the name of Carrs & Garland. This firm continued until 1819, when he and Mr. George Barker commenced as the firm of Barker & Carr, which continued for several years. From 1828 to 1837 he was a deputy sheriff, when, upon the election of Edward Kent as governor, he was appointed sheriff of the County, from which office he was removed by Gov. John Fairfield, not altogether on the grounds of civil service reform. In 1839 and 1840 he was mayor of Bangor; in 1849 he was appointed postmaster by President Fillmore. In business, politics and religion, he was honest and sincere. He joined the First Church in Bangor, Jan. 3, 1830, and April 17, 1843, he was dismissed and joined the Episcopal church, to which he was ever after a devoted adherent. When the whig party died he became a democrat, in which political faith he continued. He married Hannah Rollins, daughter of Capt. John Pearson, in Newburyport, Oct. 9, 1822. She was born May 2, 1802, and died in Bangor, Oct. 8, 1878. The children were:
i. Francis W., b. Aug. 21, 1823; m. Miss Margaret Wyman Webster, Feb. 16, 1853, by Rev. Geo. B. Little.
ii. John Pearson, b. Nov. 5, 1825; died Oct. 6, 1838.
iii. William Pearson, b. at John Pearson's house in Bangor, April 21, 1828; name changed to James Elliot.
iv. George James, b. April 9, 1830; died June 1, 1842.
v. Ebenezer French, b. March 12, 1833; died same year, Sept. 7.
vi. James Elliot, b. Sept. 10, 1834; died June 6, 1837.
vii. Mary Elliot, b. Jan. 31, 1837; m. Franklin A. Wilson, Sept. 21, 1859; died Feb. 9, 1867.
viii. Frances Mary Kent, b. July 28, 1839; died Aug 25, 1849.
