Person:Joshua Carter (5)

Watchers
m. 22 Oct 1663
  1. Joshua Carter1668 - Bef 1735/36
  • HJoshua Carter1668 - Bef 1735/36
  • WMary Skinner1664 - 1752
m. 21 May 1691
  1. Sarah Carter1694 - 1783
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Joshua Carter
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][4] 6 Jun 1668 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 21 May 1691 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Skinner
Will[5] 22 May 1733 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][5] Bef 26 Feb 1735/36 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Before date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[5] 26 Feb 1735/36 £1521-10-01. Taken by John Skinner and Joseph Skinner.
Probate[5] 2 Mar 1735/36 Will proved.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Joshua Carter, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    160.

    "Joshua Carter s of Joshua & Mary (Field) born June 6, 1668 died 1735-6 … Joshua Carter ad full com 1 Ch Sept 22, 1695."

  2. 2.0 2.1 Joshua Carter, in Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton Genealogies, 1640-1838. (Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States: n.p., bef 1899)
    82.

    "Joshua (Carter): b. June 6, 1668. He settled in Hartford, where he m. Mary Skinner, May 21, 1691, and had seven children."

  3. Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the Times when and the People by whom it was Settled, Unsettled, and Resettled, with a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley; with Genealogies. (Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1895-1896)
    2:2:100.

    "3. Joshua (Carter), s. of Joshua (2), b. 1668; returned on the permanent sett., but aft. 1691 rem. to Hart."

  4. Corbin, Walter E. Corbin Collection. Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts: Northampton Vital Records. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
    334.

    "Carter, Joshua & Mary _____ Joshua s. b. June 6, 1668 [OB-11]"

  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Carter, Joshua, Hartford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    148.

    "Probate Records. Vol. XII, 1732 to 1737. Page 349-50.

    Carter, Joshua, Hartford. Invt £1521-10-01. Taken 26 February, 1735-6, by John Skinner and Joseph Skinner. Will dated 22 May, 1733.

    I, Joshua Carter of Hartford, doe make this my last will and testament: I give unto Mary, my wife, 1-3 part of my moveable estate forever, and 1-3 part of my houseing and lands during life. I give to my son John all my land, with the buildings thereon, in the west division of lotts in sd. Hartford, so-called, and £30 to be paid by my son Joshua for what is hereafter mentioned as given to him sd. Joshua. I give to my son Joshua my dwelling house, barn, orchard and 16 acres in the homested, more or less, adjoining, and also my cow pasture in Wethersfield butting on Hartford line, containing 10 acres more or less, he paying £30 to my son John. I give to my son Gideon all my land in Hartford that lyeth on the west side of the highway opposite from my house, and also all the houseing and land that fell to me from the estate of Robert Shirley decd. I give to my daughter Mary £5. I give to my daughter Sarah £5. I give to my daughter Ruth £50. I give to my granddaughter Abigail Benton £10 if she continue to live in my family with her grandmother till she be 18 years of age. After my debts are paid, the remainder of my estate, if any, I give to my 4 children, John, Joshua, Gideon and Ruth. I appoint my son Joshua and my wife Mary to be sole executors.

    JOSHUA CARTER, LS.

    Witness: Thomas Richards, Thomas Seymour, Jr., Hepzibah Seymour.

    Court Record, Page 41—2 March, 1735-6: Will proven."