Found these Carrier tidbits from
http://history.rays-place.com/ct/marlborough-ct.htm
The first settlements in the town were made in the southern part.
Tradition tells us that a Mr. Carrier came up from Colchester town and
made the first clearing, on which he built the cabin that was his dwelling
for some years. He had several encounters with the Indians, but finally
succeeded in establishing himself as proprietor of the soil. Messrs. Foot
and Skinner soon followed, and later the Messrs. Lord settled in the same
neighborhood. The lands in that part of the town are still owned by the
descendants of those early settlers. A little later Samuel Loveland came
from Glastonbury and built the first house in the northern part of the
town. The first settlers in the eastern part were persons by the name of
Buell, Phelps, and Owen, while Ezra Strong, Ezra Carter, and Daniel
Hosford settled at the centre and western part.
On the 4th of April, 1748, the society voted unanimously "to set a
meeting-house on the top of the hill on the east side of time highway
twenty-eight rods north of Ezra Strong's house." They appointed a
cornmitted consisting of Epapliras Lord, Captain William Buell, Lieutenant
Dickinson, Daniel Hosford, Ezra Carter, and Andrew Carrier, to frame,
raise, and cover the meeting-house. Before anything was done toward the
building beyond the appointing of this committee and a contribution of
timber, the society turned their attention to the settlement of a
preacher. The Rev. Evander Morrison seems to have preached to them for
some time previous to and after the incorporation of the society but they
did not give him a call to settle. The Rev. Samuel Lockwood, who had
graduated at Yale in 1745, was invited to settle, but declined. The Rev.
Elijah Mason, a graduate of Yale in 1744, was then asked to preach as a
candidate; and Aug. 17, 1748, the society gave him a call to settle, which
he accepted, and was ordained in May, 1749. The church, which was not
organized until the council met to ordain Mr. Mason, was composed of such
members as were in good and regular standing in the churches to which they
belonged.
Inventive genius seems to have slumbered some fifty years after Mr.
Kilbourn's death, when a number of inventors appear, Henry Diekinson being
the first. He invented a new fastenimmg for gates, which was somewhat
used, and a washing-machine. Joseph Carrier invented a bread-knife, and
Charles Jones a flower-stand. During the past year Charles Hall has
secured a patent for a wagon-seat.