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Individual Report
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Name: Capt. William CARR Gentl. (1, 2, 3, 4)
Sex: M
Alt Names: KERR
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Individual Information
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Birth Date: Est 1707 Louisa Co., Virginia, USA (5)
Baptism:
Death: 2 Aug 1760 Spotsylvania Co., Virginia, USA (6)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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1. Owned Land in Lower Rappahannock River, Albemarle Co., VA, USA
2. Biography (8)
William Carr was the patentee of upwards of four thousand acres on the
north
fork of the Rivanna, above that entered by Major Thomas Carr, and embracing
the region lying west of the Burnt Mills. He was also granted a tract of
four hundred acres on Buck Mountain Creek. These entries were made from
1737
to 1740. After the death of William, his widow Susan was married to
Lodowick
O'Neal. He had a son Thomas, and a daughter Phoebe, the wife of Walter
Chiles; these persons who sold portions of the land above mentioned,
belonged to Spotsylvania. A part of this land also was the property of
Mordecai Hord, during his residence in the county. It is likely William had
another son named Charles, as in 1780 a part of the same land that William
had entered, and that "had formerly belonged to Charles Carr," was sold by
Walter Carr (presumably a son of Charles) and his wife Elizabeth.
Three other Carrs, heads of families, lived on the west side of the South
West Mountain, south of Stony Point. What relation they bore to each other,
or to those already mentioned, is not known; but there can scarcely be a
question that they were all derived from the same source. Their names were
Gideon, Micajah and John. Gideon died in 1795. His children were William,
Thomas, Mary, the wife of Thomas Travillian, John, Gideon, Nancy, the wife
of Benjamin Thurman, Micajah, Elizabeth, the wife of John Fitch, and
Meekins. It is probable most of the descendants of this family emigrated to
the West. A notice of the death of Thomas Carr is extant, in which it is
stated that he was the son of Gideon Carr, a pioneer settler on the Little
Mountain in Albemarle, that he removed to Wilson County, Tennessee in 1807,
and that he died in 1821 in the seventy-ninth year of his age.
Micajah died in 1812. He was at one time the owner of Colle. He and his
wife Elizabeth had ten children, Mary, the wife of W. J. Blades, Martha,
the
wife of Daniel Shackelford, Mildred, the wife of James Travillian, David,
James, John, Henley, the wife of Gideon C. Travillian, Sarah, the wife of
John H. Maddox, George, who in early life taught school in Charlottesville,
and at the time of his death in 1886 was the Nestor of the Albemarle bar,
and
Burton, who removed to Green County, Kentucky.
John Carr was a successful man. He became the owner
3. Occupation/Hobbies/Interests
involved in shipping
4. Note
Of the Children of This William CARR I can only prove the mother to Ann but
believe the older children to be Elizabeth Winston's & the younger to be
Susannah's
5. Biography (9) in Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA
William Carr was the patentee of upwards of four thousand acres on the
north
fork of the Rivanna, above that entered by Major Thomas Carr, and embracing
the region lying west of the Burnt Mills. He was also granted a tract of
four hundred acres on Buck Mountain Creek. These entries were made from
1737
to 1740. After the death of William, his widow Susan was married to
Lodowick
O'Neal. He had a son Thomas, and a daughter Phoebe, the wife of Walter
Chiles; these persons who sold portions of the land above mentioned,
belonged to Spotsylvania. A part of this land also was the property of
Mordecai Hord, during his residence in the county. It is likely William had
another son named Charles, as in 1780 a part of the same land that William
had entered, and that "had formerly belonged to Charles Carr," was sold by
Walter Carr (presumably a son of Charles) and his wife Elizabeth.
6. Note
He was the son of ? CARR and ? CHILES as shown by the court case 1724
Herdon
vs Carr about his estate, brought by his oldest son William Carr.
7. Parents (10)
Circumstantial Evidence that William Carr, Jr. (c.a.1711-1760) was the son
of William Carr, Sr. and Chiles:
I. William Jr. named his eldest son William Carr and had no son named John
Carr. [34: Cary, Ibid]
2. William Jr.'s suspected brother, Gideon Carr had two grandsons named
Fendall, after Fendall Southerland, i.e. Fendall Thurman, son of Nancy
Carr.
[35: Woods, Op. Cit. p. 330] and John Fendall Carr, son of John Carr. [36:
Ibid, p. 163][(comment by CRM) Forgot the son of William Carr III being
John
Fendall Carr & his brother Thomas having son John Fendall Carr] FendaII
Southerland was a known first cousin of William Carr Jr. (ca. 1711-1760)
[37: Jefferson, 1829, op. Cit., p133] by their mothers: ?Elizabeth (Chiles)
Southerland, wife of Joseph Southerland, and Mrs William Carr, Sr.
3. William Carr and Gideon Carr both witnessed a Caroline Co., Virginia
deed: "Thomas Carr jr. deeds of land indented to Thomas Carr Gen. was
proved
by William Carr. Gideon Carr and Wm. Mackgehee, witnesses thereto." 11
February 1736/37.See Dorman. 1966. p. 77.[38: Dorman, John Frederick, 1966.
Caroline County, Virginia, Order Book 1732-1740, Part Two 1734/5-1737, p.
77]
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