TITLE: Notice of Early Families of Candia:  

SOURCE: HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once known as Charmingfare; 
	with notice of Some of the Early Families, by F.B. Eaton, Press 	
        of the Granite Farmer, James O. Adams, Printer, Manchester, N.H.  	
        ©1852 

				CARR, JOHN

Was born in Chester in 1737.  His father was a native of Ireland, and we 
here give a copy of a certificate still preserved in the house.

	"That John Ker and his wife Elisabeth Wilson lived within the bounds
of this Congregation from their Infancy behaving themselves Soberly honestly
 and piously free of any Public Scandall, so that they may be received as 
members of any Christian Congregation or Society where God in Providence may 
order their Lott is certified at Ballywollon June 23, 1736              
							by Ja:  Thompson."

	John Carr married Mary Wilson, of Chester, and came to Candia in 
1764, where he built the house still occupied by Mr. Nathan Carr, supposed to
be the oldest inhabited house in town.  There was no clearing when he came, 
so that there was some work to be done.  During the Revolution, he served 
three years, and came home with silver enough in the lining of his coat to 
pay for his farm.  In his absence the family were exposed to some hardships;
the wolves and bears sometimes destroyed their corn and took away their 
sheep.  At night they barricaded their doors and windows.-- sometimes of an 
afternoon they had a social gathering to which dames Turner, Ramsey and 
Rowell came and brought their work.  It was a tea party, with this 
difference, that instead of tea they had a huge bowl of sweetened water, with
the accompaniment of rye bread and butter.  This bowl was of stone ware 
curiously figured, and when in after days the Colonel kept tavern, it 
occupied a conspicuous place as a punch bowl.  It seems to have been a sort 
of heir-loom and fell to one of the daughters.  The family was one of some 
wealth in Ireland, and the name has changed from Ker, Kerr and Karr, to Carr,
of the present day.
	Towards the close of the war, Mr. Carr was chosen captain of the 
Alarm List, composed of old men and retired soldiers, who held themselves 
ready in case of need, and was ever after called colonel.  He died in 1813, 
and his wife in 1827.  Of their six children, none of whom are now living, 
Joseph married Nancy Brown, and kept the home farm, where he died in 1842.


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