Richard Carr

1659 - 1727  (68 years)

• Name	Richard Carr
  Birth	2 Apr 1659	Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Sep 1727	Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I30641	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	George Carr,   b. Bef 1613   d. 4 Apr 1682, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. Abt 6 May 1691, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1642  [1]
  Family ID	F10897	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Boyce   d. 3 Aug 1694, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	10 Feb 1684	Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Carr   d. Aft 1772
  Family ID	F6972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  On 9 Sep 1692, along with Zerubbabel Endicott, he testified against Mary Perkins, wife of Thomas Bradbury, accusing her of exercising witchcraft thirteen years earlier by appearing as a "blue boar" and darting about the legs of George Carr's horse, causing it to stumble.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2088] History of the Kimball Family in America from 1634 to 1897 by Leonard Allison Morrison and Stephen Paschall Sharples. Boston: Daniel & Upham, 1897., place only. [S535] Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849. Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915.