But again they said "perhaps".
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Neal Carrier <nfcarrier(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>From google books:
History of Billerica, Massachusetts: with a Genealogical register
By Henry Allen Hazen
http://books.google.com/books?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC&printsec=frontcover&...
page 22
and
A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND,
SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS
OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692,
ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.
BY JAMES SAVAGE,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR
OF WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.
WITH TWO SUPPLEMENTS IN FOUR VOLUMES.
[[Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994]]
Baltimore GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862
Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata,"
excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139
And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes
of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884.
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore,
1965,1969,1977,1981,1986, 1990
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 65-18541
International Standard Book Number: 0-8063-0309-3
Set Number: 0-8063-0795
CARRIER, RICHARD, Andover, s. of Thomas, and of that victim of
horrible delusion, his unhappy w. and, with his sis. of 7 yrs. old.
witness,
1692, against the mo. that bore them, as he also was against Rev. George
Burrows, wh. was convict. and hang. at the same time with her for the
same imagin. crime, m. 18 July 1694, Elizabeth Sessions. THOMAS, Billerica,
came, perhaps, from Wales, m. 7 May 1664, Martha Allen, when
his name in rec. of B. is writ. Morgan, alias Carrier, had sev. ch. of wh.
Thomas, the preced. and Sarah, b. a. 1685, were witness. in the unnatur.
proceed. that end. in the execut. of their mo. 19 Aug. 1692. He had
rem. to Andover short. bef. and in few yrs. after went to Colchester,
there live more than 20 yrs. and d. 16 May 1735, said in N. E. Weekly
Journ. soon after, to be 109 yrs. old; and exaggera. in this case may not
be more than ten or fifteen yrs. The contempo. tells, that he was not
gray, nor bald, walk. erect. and short. bef. his d. went six ms. on loot,
left 5 ch. 39 gr.ch. and 38 gr. gr.ch. but it was not much less than
forty-three yrs. from the judic. murder of his w.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Nicole Price <nicole.price(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Do we know which historical records?
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Neal Carrier <nfcarrier(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Several historical records from Andover & Billerica call him a Welsh
man.
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