Thomas Carter

Abt 1585 - 1652  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Thomas Carter  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1585  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 5 May 1652 and 25 Jun 1652	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I40421	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. 6 Mar 1665, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Abt 1606  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Carter,   b. Abt 1618   d. Aft 3 Nov 1673 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Family ID	F23717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was a blacksmith. "An item which quite surely pertains to Thomas Carter, blacksmith, shows a donation of £1-2-0 to Harvard College in 1652 ... If an old man whose life had been spent in manual, though most useful, labor, had pride enough in education to give as generously as that, though he had no child who could profit by it, it suggests a keener mentality and sense of values, than had many men who might have considered themselves his betters." [Mary Walton Ferris, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32. [S1853] Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller by Mary Lovering Holman (vol. 1) and Winifred Lovering Holman (vol. 2). Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948-1952. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.