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(III) Samuel (2). third child of Rev. Samuel (1) and Eunice ( Brooks) Carter, was born
in Woburn, January 7. 1677-78, and died in Lancas- ter, August 30. 1738. He married, March, 1701, Dorothy Wilder, born 1686, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Sawyer ) Wilder. He lived on the north side of the road that goes up George Hill, a little to the north of the school-house, on the site of a house formerly known as the Captain Ephraim Carter house, his father, Rev. Samuel Carter, having pur- chased two lots of Captain Henry Kerley in 1688. He was assigned to a garrison on George Hill with
his brothers-in-law, Lieutenant Nathaniel and Ephraim Wilder, Thomas Ross, and his brother, John Carter, and lost by an attack of the Indians. July 31, 1704, one cow, one horse, two calves, two swine, and one dwelling house. He was selectman in 1723, and served on various committees for the location of highways and so forth. Samuel and Dorothy ( Wilder) Carter were the parents of twelve children : Samuel, Eunice, Nathaniel, Dorothy, Anna, Jonathan, Ephraim, Oliver, Mary, Elizabeth, Pru- dence and Josiah.
Dorothy, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary ( Saw- yer) Wilder, became the wife of Samuel (2) Carter, as above noted.
(IV) Nathaniel, second son and third child of Samuel (2) and Dorothy ( Wilder) Carter, was born 1706, in Lancaster, and died July 20, 1787, in Leomin- ster. He resided on Bee Hill in that town, on the farm given him by his father. At the first town meeting, July 9, 1740, he was chosen selectman and on December 15 of the same year was made one of a committee to build a meeting house. He was one of the first sixteen to sign the church covenant, when that body was incorporated, September 25, 1743. His son, Elisha, was the first person baptized by the first minister of that church. He was married (first), February 9. 1731, to Thankful Sawyer, daughter of Elisha and Beatrix Sawyer. She was born 1715, and died December 5, 1755. He married (second), July 21, 1758, Dorcas Spofford, of Lunenburg, and died August 6, 1784. His children were: Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Elias, Susanna, Abigail, Prudence, Elisha (died young). Samuel, Elisha, Asa and Thankful.
(V) Susanna, second daughter and fourth child of Nathaniel and Thankful (Sawyer) Carter, was married (intention published December 5, 1757,) to John (2) Joslin (see Prouty, VI).
(IV) Josiah, youngest child of Samuel and Dorothy ( Wilder) Carter. was born January 26, 1726, and died in Leominster, February 14, 1812. He mar- ried (published May 24), 1745, Tabitha Hough, born 1729, died June 29, 1810. He was but eighteen and his wife sixteen at the time of their marriage. He settled at Leominster. Massachusetts, where he cleared the homestead upon which three succeeding generations were born and reared. He served in the Revolutionary war, attaining the rank of colonel. He was with the army under General Washington in the disastrous campaign in New Jersey previous to the retreat across the Delaware. He died at the age of eighty-four years on the farm his own hands had cleared and in the house his own hands had reared. At the time of his death he had living more grand- children than he was years old, several of the fourth generation and one or two of the fifth. Inscriptions on gravestones in the old burying ground, Leomin- ster: "In Memory of Col. Josiah Carter, who d. Feb. 13. 1812, AE. 85." "In Memory of Mrs. Tabitha Car- ter, wife of Col. Josiah Carter; who died June 29, 1810. Aet. 8t." They had fourteen children : Tabitha, Tabitha (2). Josiah, Jude. Sarah, Zerviah. Relief, Mary, Abigail, Jacob, Relief (2), James, Relief (3) and Jonah.
(V) James, twelfth child of Josiah and Tabitha
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(Hough) Carter, born December 12, 1768, died at Leominster, May 28, 1853. He married, January I, 1795, Betsey Hale, born December 21, 1771, died April 20, 1844. He was a farmer, and lived and died on the Carter Hill farm in Leominster. The children of James and Betsey (Hale) Carter were: James G., Betsey, Sarah, Solon, Caroline, Henry. Sophronia, Catherine Hale, Josiah Howe, Artemias, and Julia Maria-in all eleven. James G., the eldest son, graduated from Harvard College in 1820, and was engaged in educational enterprises, being contem- porary with Horace Mann, and a co-worker with him in educational matters. notably the establishment of the system of normal schools in Massachusetts.
(VI) Solon, fourth child of James and Betsey (Hale) Carter, was born September 4, 1801, died June 3, 1879. He married, December 4, 1834, Lu- cretia Joslin, born June 27, 18II. He succeeded to the homestead farm which he cultivated successfully. He was an active participant in the social, religious and civil affairs of his town, being called upon at different times to fill various town offices within the gift of his fellow. citizens. The children of Solon and Lucretia (Joslin) Carter were: Solon Augustus, Frances Lucretia, William Withington. Helen Martha and Grace Darling. The second son is a resident of Chicago, Illinois. The elder daughter is the widow of Henry T. Thurston. residing in Bos- ton. The second daughter married John Morse Locke, of Leominster, Massachusetts, where they now live.
(VII) Solon Augustus Carter, eldest child of Solon and Lucretia (Joslin) Carter, was born June 22, 1837, upon the farm cleared by his grandfather. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and completed his education in the high school at the age of seventeen years. During term-times as well as between terms, he worked on the farm. The winter succeeding his seventeenth birthday he taught a district school in Leominster, and was complimented on his success in the report of the superintending committee. The following winter he taught in Lancas- ter, and the summer of 1857 he spent in Chicago in the employ of his uncle. Artemas Carter, engaged in the lumber trade, but the panic of that year de- pressed business to such an extent that he preferred to return home rather than to continue there. The following winter he lived at the old homestead and devoted his attention to teaching school. He be- came superintendent of the Keene Gas Light Com- pany, in December, 1859, and moved to Keene, where he maintained his residence until 1884, when he re- moved to Concord, New Hampshire.
In the month of August, 1862, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned captain of Company G. He served with his command until July, 1863, when he was ordered upon recruiting service at Con- cord, where he was assigned to duty as acting as- sistant adjutant-general upon the staff of Brigadier- General Edward W. Hinks. The following spring General Hinks was assigned to the command of a division of colored troops near Fortress Monroe, and Captain Carter was, at General Hinks' request, by a special order from the war department directed to report to him for assignment to duty. Captain Carter was announced in general orders as acting assistant adjutant-general of the Third (Colored) Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, and remained on duty with that organization until the close of the war, having received a commission from the president as assistant adjutant-general of volunteers, with the rank of captain. July 25, 1864. He participated with his com- mand in all the skirmishes and battles in which it
was engaged before Petersburg, on the north of the James, at Deep Bottom, Newmarket Heights, and Ft. Harrison, and in both expeditions to Ft. Fisher and the subsequent campaign to Raleigh, North Carolina. He was subsequently brevetted major and lieutenant- colonel for gallant and meritorious services during the war. In recommending him for brevet commis- sions Brevet Major-General Charles J. Paine wrote : "Captain Solon A. Carter, late assistant adjutant- general, United States Volunteers, served as assistant adjutant-general of the division which I commanded for about a year, from the beginning of August, 1864. First in front of Petersburg, under constant fire day and night ; then across the James, in front of Rich- mond, taking part in a very severe and successful as- sault by the division of the enemy's lines on the New- market road. September 29, 1864, and in other engage- ments ; later, in both Fort Fisher expeditions, at the taking of Wilmington, and in the march in pursuit of General Johnston's command, never for a moment away from his post, and never neglecting his duties, which often were quite as severe as those of any of- ficer of the division. He was a brave and faithful officer of great merit, and I always exceedingly re- gretted that he was not promoted. There is not. within my knowledge, an instance of equal desert without a greater reward." After his discharge from the service, Captain Carter returned to Keene and engaged in the furniture trade.
He was a member of the house of representatives from Keene in 1869 and 1870. In June, 1872, he was elected state treasurer, which office he held since that time with the exception of one year ( 1874-75), receiving the nomination by acclamation and without opposition in successive re-elections. He is an ac- tive member of the Unitarian organization, and has served several years as president of the State Asso- ciation. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Grand Army of the Republic. He has taken an active part in Masonic organizations, having passed the chairs of the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Com- mandery. and also the chairs of the Most Worship- ful Grand Lodge, serving as most worshipful grand master for two years ( 1878-79), and as right eminent grand commander of the Grand Commandery in 1875. He attained the Thirty-third Scottish Rite, September 19, 1905.
Solon A. Carter married Emily A. Conant, of Leominster. Massachusetts, December 13, 1860. They have two children : Edith Hinks, born January I, 1864, and Florence Gertrude, February 24, 1866. Edith Hinks Carter, eldest daughter of Solon A. and Emily A. (Conant) Carter, has since her gradu- ation from the Concord high school in 1881, been employed in the state treasurer's office as assistant to her father, having charge of two or more im- portant departments. Florence Gertrude, their sec- ond daughter, married, January 7. 1890. Edward Parkhust Comins, of Concord. New Hampshire; died June 8, 1905. at Dorchester. Massachusetts : sur- vived by her husband and daughter Sara, born Sep- tember 7. 1892.
(II) Thomas (2), youngest child of Rev. Thomas (1) Carter, was born June 8, 1655, in Wo- burn, and was a husbandman and proprietor, in his father's right, of considerable land in that town. He married Margery, daughter of Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge, in 1682. She died October 5. 1754. Their children, born in Woburn, were: Mary. Thomas, Eleazer, Daniel, Ebenezer and Ezra.
(III) Ebenezer, fourth son and fifth child of Thomas (2) and Margery ( Whitmore) Carter, was born September 24, 1695, in Woburn, and lived in
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Wilmington, Massachusetts, where he died before March 10, 1746, at which date a committee was appointed to appraise his estate. The whole valued at three thousand eighty-one pounds, and the cstate was administered by his widow, Lydia. It included one piece of forty-four acres with mansion house in the first range of "Great Lots" of Woburn, and another of twenty-three acres in the second range, beside lands in Wilmington. His widow's es- tate was divided in April, 1775, administration being granted to John Flagg, a son-in-law, to whom the heirs agreed to give the in-door goods in compensa- tion for her care in old age. She was born June II, 1695, daughter of William and Rebecca Butters, of Woburn ; was married to Ebenezer Carter, April 15. 1719, and died February 14, 1775. Of their children, the first six were born in Woburn and the others in Wilmington, namely : Ebenezer, Lydia, Abigail, Ezra, William, Nathan, Rebecca and James.
(IV) Ezra, second son and fourth child of Ebenezer and Lydia (Butters) Carter, was born May 2. 1723, in Woburn, and resided in Wilmington, dying there about 1771. His son, Ezra, was ap -. pointed administrator of his estate May 21 of that year. He was married September 5, 1745, to Lydia Jenkins, of Wilmington, who survived him and mar- ried (second) John Flagg, who assumed the guar- dianship of her minor children November 12, 1771. Samuel, who was over fourteen years of age, chose his mother, as a certificate by James Morrill shows, as did also Benjamin, James, John and Moses. Joseph, William and Lydia chose their Uncle Nathan as their guardian. Samuel, Benjamin and James, with their mother's consent, signed a request May 26, 1777, for the appointment of Edward Kendall as their guardian. The children of Ezra Carter were: Ezra, Benjamin, Joel, Ebenezer, Joseph, William, Lydia, Samuel, Benjamin, James, John and Moses. (Mention of Samuel and descendants is a part of this article).
(V) Joel, third son and child of Ezra and Lydia (Jenkins) Carter, was born April 28, 1749. in Wil- mington, and passed his life in his native town. where he was a farmer. He was married December 26, 1771, to Sara, daughter of Joseph and Sara Jen- kins, of Wilmington. Their children were: Joel, Sara, Lydia, Dolly, Joseph. Hannah, William, Re- becca, Amaziah, Mary and James. (Amaziah and descendants receive extended mention in this article. )
(VI) William, third son and seventh child of Joel and Sarah (Jenkins) Carter, was born April 17, 1787, in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and was an early resident of New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He subsequently resided in Chelsea, Vermont and War- ner, New Hampshire, and passed his last days in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he died Novem- ber II, 1875, aged eighty-eight years. He was mar- ried March 8, 1813, to Jane Scott, who was born March II, 1791, and died May 1, 1818, leaving only one child, William (2) Carter. William (1) Car- ter was married December 31, 1818, to Percis Wood, who was born July 31, 1791, and died May 29, 1866. The children of the second marriage were: Henry W., James H. and Mary Ann. The latter became the wife of T. W. Wyman, of Stanstead, Quebec.
(VII) William (2), only child of William (1) and Jane (Scott) Carter, was born February II, 1816, in Warner, New Hampshire, and received his education in the public schools of that town. He was early engaged in the mercantile business there and was for many years postmaster and a prominent man in town affairs. He was much respected and esteemed for his integrity and. business ability.
For a time he was a partner in business with George A. Pillsbury, who was later very prominent as a flour manufacturer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to other public services, he acted for some time as town clerk. He was a Demorcrat in politics, and an active member of the Congregational Society. He died May 8, 1851, at the age of thirty- five years. He was married January 8, 1840, to Hannah Badger, daughter of Elliott and grand- daughter of Benjamin Badger, of Warner (see Badger, VI). They were the parents of two sons. The younger died at the age of twelve years.
(VIII) William Scott, elder son and only sur- viving child of William (2) and Hannah (Badger) Carter, was born September 28, 1842, in Warner, and received his primary education in the schools of his home town. He fitted for college at Hen- niker Academy under Professor Thomas Sanborn, a noted educator of his time. He entered Dartmouth College in 1862, but his pursuit of an education was laid aside to serve his country. He enlisted in the fall of 1862 as a private in Company D, Eleventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer In- fantry. He was soon appointed commissary sergeant of the regiment. With his regiment he served in Virginia and was present at the battle of Fredericks- burg. In the spring of 1863 they removed to Ken- tucky and were at Vicksburg, Mississippi when that city surrendered, and also at Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Carter also served at Cairo, Illinois, and in Kentucky, and spent some time in the hospital at Covington, Kentucky, while disabled with chills and fever. In the spring of 1864 he went to Annapolis, Maryland, and was quarter-master for a large body of convalescents located there. He subsequently joined his regiment and participated in Grant's campaign up to the battle of Petersburg. He was discharged in 1865 and returned to the arts of peace, having now reached the age of twenty-three years. He decided to take up a business career and pro- ceeded to Lebanon, New Hampshire. He entered the employ of H. W. Carter, a half-brother of his father, who was conducting a large mercantile busi- ness, William S. Carter becoming manager of the store. He continued this for five years and then be- gan business on his own account in a similar line, chiefly gents' furnishings. These he sold by sample for a time, upon the road, and in time admitted a partner in the person of Frank C. Churchill. This relation began in 1877 and after a period of twenty- one years, in 1898, Mr. Churchill withdrew from the firm. Since that time Mr. Carter has been president and active manager of the corporation. Before 1877 the business was confined to wholesale jobbing in gent's furnishings, but now includes the manufacture of shirts, lined coats, overalls and jumpers and simi- lar articles of daily use. In the operation of the business at the present time, five commercial travel- ers are employed in disposing of the products at wholesale. Mr. Carter is also interested in manu- facturing industries at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and in the south. He is a director of the Lebanon National Bank and a trustee of the Public Library of his home town. He was president of the Lebanon Electric Light Company for a period of eighteen years, until he resigned in 1906. He is active in every movement for the promotion of the welfare of his town and state. Since 1868 he has been a member of the Congregational Church; he is now identified with James B. Perry Post, No. 13, Grand Army of the Republic, and has been department commander of the state in that organization. He is prominent in the Masonic order, being a member of the Franklin Lodge and St. Andrew's Chapter and
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of the Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, and Bektash Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Con- cord. He has served as treasurer of his lodge and chapter for several years. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party ; has filled various minor town offices; was a member of the state senate in 1891-92, and was auditor of state treasurer's accounts in 1891. In 1901 Mr. Carter was appointed by Governor Jordan as one of the commissioners sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to ascertain and deter- mine the positions of the New Hampshire regiments in the siege of that city. His colleagues were : General S. G. Griffin and Colonel John W. Babbitt. Their action was approved by resolution of the legislature, and an appropriation of five thousand dollars made. On February 10, 1903, Mr. Carter was appointed by Governor Batchelder as chairman of the committee to select a monument to be placed in the National Park at Vicksburg to mark and commemorate the achievement of the three New Hampshire regiments that participated in the siege of that town. Mr. Carter is now president of the Eleventh New Hampshire Building Association with headquarters at the Weirs. New Hampshire. He was married, August 20, 1868, to Theodora Bugbee. who was born January 4. 1847, at Lakeport, New Hampshire, daughter of Orrin and Mary A. Bug- bee.
(VI) Amaziah, fourth son and ninth child of Joel and Sara (Jenkins) Carter, was born Febru- ary 15, 1792, in Wilmington, and settled in Con- cord, New Hampshire, where he died June 7, 1866. He was married about 1826 to Susan Dodge, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who survived him six months, passing away December 5, 1866. They were the parents of two daughters, Susan Maria and Sarah Elizabeth. The first died when five years old. The second is the widow of Dustin Watkins Waldron, residing in Concord (see Waldron, IV).
(V) Samuel, eighth child and seventh son of Ezra and Lydia (Jenkins) Carter, was born Oc- tober, 1758, in Wilmington, and settled in the north- ern part of Hillsboro, adjoining Bradford, New Hampshire, where he was a successful farmer. He was married about 1792 to Polly Abbott, of Hen- niker, and died October 3, 1826. His widow sur- vived until March 1, 1855, dying on the farm in Hillsborough, where all their children were born, namely : Jane, Nathan, Samuel, Benjamin, Cyrus, Ira and Lucy.
(VI) Nathan, eldest son and second child of Samuel and Polly (Abbott) Carter, was born Jant- ary II, 1796, in Hillsborough, and settled and al- ways lived in West Henniker. He was a carpenter by trade, yet able to do all the work of building and . finishing a house, from the foundation to the final painting, and is said to have done more work during his life than any other man in the town. He was also a fine cabinet-maker, and made many cases for clocks in early life. From time to time, as he was able, he purchased contiguous land until he acquired a large farm, which was mainly cultivated by his boys as they became old enough. For nearly fifty years he and his wife were members of the Congre- gational Church in Henniker. He died June 4, 1880. He was married, November 24, 1819, to Margery, daughter of Aaron H. and Sally (Wood) Wads- worth. of Henniker. She was born September 19, 1801, in that town, and died there January 23, 1892. Her children, born in Henniker, were: William Harrison, Caroline Matilda, Samuel Worcester, Nathan Franklin, Henry Carlton, Harrison and William Frederick. The first two died in early childhood, and the last in his fifteenth year. The
third was a farmer in Henniker, where he died. The fourth is the subject of the succeeding para- graph. The fifth was a carpenter and died in Con- cord. The sixth never married and remained on the parental homestead.
(VII) Rev. Nathan Franklin Carter, third son and fourth child of Nathan and Margery (Wads- worth) Carter, was born January 6, 1830, in Hen- niker, and fitted for college at Henniker and Kim- ball Union academies. He graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1853, and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1865. After leaving Dartmouth he was principal of the Highland Lake Institute at East Andover, New Hampshire, in 1853-54. of the Con- cord high school during the following year, and of the Exeter high school from 1855 to 1864. He was licensed to preach by the Piscataqua Association, April 20, 1859; May 15, 1864; and July 16, 1867. He was acting pastor at Pembroke, New Hamp- shire, in 1865-66; at North Yarmouth, Maine, for the next two years; and at Orfordville, New Hamp- shire, from 1869 to 1874. He was ordained as an evangelist at North Yarmouth. Maine, December 19, 1867, and was pastor at Bellows Falls, Vermont, five years, from October, 1874, and eight years at Quechee, Vermont.
On account of the failing health of his wife, he gave up an accepted pastorate in Massachusetts, and took up his residence in Con- cord, New Hampshire, where he has since resided. Meanwhile he has supplied churches in Wilmot, Andover and East Andover, East Concord, Camp- ton, Warner, Quechee, Vermont, and Hopkinton, for periods running up to two years. besides much occasional preaching as opportunity offered. He has been secretary of the New Hampshire Prisoners' Aid Association and of the Central New Hampshire Congregational Club since 1891 ; a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society since 1890, and was its librarian from 1895 to 1906.
He was married. March 12, 1860, to Harriet Frances, daughter of Major Nathaniel and Harriet ( Gilman) Weeks, of Exeter, New Hampshire. She was born July 15. 1833, in Exeter, and died in Con- cord. October 8. 1890. He was married (second) October 12. 1892, to Harriet Louisa Gale, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Elizabeth (Lovering) Jewell, and widow of Joseph Gale, of Exeter, where she was born January 9, 1842.
(Second Family.)
CARTER By a remarkable coincidence the founder of this line is of the same name as the clergyman who founded in America the line previously treated. The name must have been frequently found in England at the time of the Puritan emigration, and is readily traced in origin to an occupation. The records contain frequent mention of it at an early day in New England.
(I) Thomas Carter was among the original proprietors of Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he was a planter. He received land in the first division and again in 1640, and is mentioned in the list of commoners in 1650. He was taxed then and in 1652. It is possible that he was at Ipswich before he settled in Salisbury, as a man of that name was made freeman there May 2, 1638. The wife of Thomas Carter, of Salisbury, was named Mary, as shown by his will, which was dated October 30, and proven November 14. 1676. His death must have occurred between these two dates. His chil- dren were: Mary, Thomas, Martha (died young), Martha. Elizabeth, John, Abigail, Samuel and Sarah.
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