On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:55:22 -0400, <NPotts8588(a)aol.com> wrote:
I thought Thomas's surname while still in the UK was Morgan??
Well, that depends on the meaning of "alias" back then. Did they use it in
the context that it's used today?
Also note that Savage says that Thomas "came, perhaps from Wales" but
doesn't say he was a Welshman as stated in the books about the Witch
trials.
Maybe he left England through a Welsh port.
The following is the only mention of our family in my copy of Savage's
book.
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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.
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