Person:William Carr (33)

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William Carr
b.17 Jun 1597 London, England
m. Abt 1589
  1. Benjamin Carr1592 - 1672
  2. William Carr1597 - 1672
  3. George Carr1599 - 1682
  4. James Carr1602 - 1681
  5. Richard Carr1603 -
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Name William Carr
Gender Male
Birth? 17 Jun 1597 London, England
Death? 4 Jun 1672 Bristol, Rhode Island, United States


References
  1.   Carr, Edson I. Carr Family Records: Embracing the Record of the First Families who settled in America and their Descendants, with many branches who came to this country at a later date. (Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois, United States: Herald Printing House, 1894)
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    "I. William Carr was born in London, Eng. June 17, 1597. He married Susan Rothschild, in London, May 16, 1619. She was born in Devonshire, Eng., April 30, 1598. They came to America in the fall of 1621, in the ship Fortune, Capt. Roger Williams, with thirty-five passengers on board. They landed at Plymouth, Nov. 7, 1621. They stayed the following winter in Plymouth, and on June 1, 1622, they started in a south-westerly direction through the trackless wilderness with an Indian for a guide, and after a journey on foot of forty-eight days, they located a home, July 18, 1622, where the town of Bristol, R.I,. was afterward built. The town was laid out and named in 1636, by Roger Williams. William Carr died in Bristol, June 4, 1672, and his wife Susan ded in the same place, May 3, 1671. They only had:

    6x1 George Carr, b. March 12, 1620."