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Monday, March 26, 2018

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 12: JOHN CARVER SR. OF MARSHFIELD AND DUXBURY,,, MA.

My 8x great grandfather John Carver Sr. was a farmer in Duxbury and Marshfield, Ma. Here's his brief biography from William Richard Cutter:

(II) John Carver, son of Robert Carver, was born at Ma rshfield, in 1638, and died June 23, 1679, aged forty-one years. He married, November 4 or 5, 1658, Millicent Ford, daughter of William Ford. His widow married (second) March 9, 1681, Thomas Drake, of Weymouth, who lived near the site of the old tide mill, corner of Commercial and Essex streets, North parish of Weymouth. She had a daughter, Experience, by her second marriage. Drake died in 1692. Children of John and Millicent Carver: William, born 1659, died October 2, 1760, over a hundred years old; John; Elizabeth; Robert; Mercy; Eleazer, mentioned below: David; Ann, born 1674; Mehitable, died April 19, 1679; Rebecca.-p2042

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4  Lewis historical publishing Company,  N.Y.,N.Y.,          1914

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