Roger --
Did a little digging at your prompting and found this rather interesting
piece of information. Seems George Carr, b 1599, was not aboard the Mayflower
as stated in Edson Carr's book, but came to America about 1632 and settled at
Ipswich. I'm not sure what that says about the extensive diary quotation at
the front of the Carr Family Records, pp 10-11. Sounds like the diary is a
hoax.
-- Pat
"CARR. George Carr did not come to America on the Mayflower. He arrived and
settled at Ipswich about 1632. [MD 23:75; Genealogical Dictionary of the
First Settlers of New England 1:338; Gov. William Bradford's Of Plymouth
Plantation]"
Source: False and Faked Mayflower Genealogy, seen at Caleb Johnson's
Mayflower Web Page,
http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html
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"Over the past two centuries, many people have--either deliberately or
because of poor research--published accounts of Mayflower ancestry that are
completely false. Here is a collection of the most commonly known false and
faked Mayflower lines. This list is based on a series of articles appearing
in the Mayflower Descendant, volume 20, 21, 23, 34 titled "False and Faked
Mayflower Lines"; the Mayflower Descendant article in volume 43 entitled "A
Mayflower Hoax Resurfaces"; published articles in the Mayflower Descendant,
The American Genealogist, the New England Historic and Genealogical Register,
Mayflower Families and Mayflower Families in Progress series of books, and my
own experiences answering visitor questions.
The list is organized alphabetically by the surname involved. Source
abbreviations are as follows: MD = Mayflower Descendant; MQ = Mayflower
Quarterly, NEHGR = New England Historic and Genealogical Register; MF =
Mayflower Families for Five Generations; MFIP = Mayflower Families in
Progress, TAG = The American Genealogist, NYGBR = New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record, and TG = The Genealogist."