52 Ancestors - Week 492: #887 Abigail (Carter) Worthen (1686-1752) of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts

Abigail Carter (1686-1752)  is #887 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married  #886  Ezekiel Wathen/Worthen (1672-1755) in 1704 in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #443 Abigail Worthen (1714-????) who married #442 Joseph Colby (1707-1768) in 1736.

*  their daughter #221 Hannah Colby (1745-????), married #220 John Underhill (1745-1816)in 1767.

*  their son, #110 Amos Underhill (1772-1865), married #111 Mary Metcalf (1780-1855) in 1801.

*  their daughter, #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839. married #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in 1839.

*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.

*  their daughter, #13 Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.

*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
* their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                        Abigail Carter[1–3]

*  Sex:                            Female

*  Father:                        John Carter (1650-1697)

*  Mother:                      Martha Brown (1654-1717)

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                          7 March 1685/6, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]

*  Death:                        26 September 1752 (age 67), Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                     Ezekiel Wathen/Worthen(1672-1755)

*  Marriage 1:                  26 December 1704 (age 18), Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]

*  Child 1:                       Mary Worthen 1705-1784

*  Child 2:                       Jacob Worthen 1707-1791

*  Child 3:                       Ezekiel Worthen 1709-1783

*  Child 4:                       Thomas Worthen 1711-1773

*  Child 5:                       Abigail Worthen 1714-    

*  Child 6:                       Hannah Worthen 1716-1750

*  Child 7:                       Martha Worthen 1721-    

*  Child 8:                       Mehitable Worthen 1722-1806

*  Child 9:                       Anne Worthen 1724-    

*  Child 10:                     Samuel Worthen 1727-    

*  Child 11:                     Ephraim Worthen 1728-1763

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Abigail Carter was born 7 March 1685/6 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of John and Martha (Brown) Carter[1-2].

On 26 December 1704, Ezekiel Worthen married Abigail Carter in Amesbury, Massachusetts[1,3].  Ezekiel was the son of Ezekiel and Hannah (Martin) Wathen. They had eleven children, all born and recoded in the Amesbury town records:

*  Mary Worthen (1705-1784), married 1726 Samuel Buswell (1702-1795).

*  Jacob Worthen (1708-1791), married 1728 Sarah Lancaster (1708-1794).

*  Ezekiel Worthen (1710-1783), married 1733 Hannah Currier (1710-1782).

*  Thomas Worthen (1712-1773), married 1734 Jane Martin (1712-????).

*  Abigail Worthen (1714-????), married 1736 Joseph Colby (1707-1768).

*  Hannah Worthen (1716-1750), married 1735 Nathan Colby (1710-1759).

*  Martha Worthen (1721-????).

*  Mehitable Worthen (1722-1806), married 1741 Edmund Elliott (1716-1789).

*  Anne Worthen (1724-????)

*  Samuel Worthen (1727-????).

*  Ephraim Worthen (1728-1763).

Abigail (Carter) Worthen died on 26 September 1752 in Amesbury, Massachusetts[1].  There is no known burial record.

5.  SOURCES

1. Joyce S. Pendery, "Descendants of George and Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register ( New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.), Volume 154, Number 3 (July 2000), Pages 325-352, pages 348-349, Ezekiel Wathen family sketch.

2. Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), Births, page 44, Abigail Carter entry, 7 March 1685/6.

3. Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 520, Ezekiel Worthen and Abigail Carter entry, in "Amesbury," 26 December 1704.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 

 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1704 Marriage Record of Ezekiel Worthen and Abigail Carter in Amesbury, Massachusetts

 I looked in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings for Treasure Chest Thursday.

The treasure today is the 1704 marriage record of Ezekiell Wathen and Abigail Carter in Salisbury, Massachusetts:

The marriage record in the WORTHEN listing:

The transcription of this birth record is:

"[WORTHEN] Ezekiel, Jr., of Amesbury, and Abigail Carter, at Amesbury, Dec. 26, 1704*"

The source citation for this marriage record is:

Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 520, Ezekiel Worthen and Abigail Carter entry, in "Amesbury," 26 December 1704.

This record is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Ezekiel Worthen of Amesbury, Massachusetts and Abigail Carter. The original record is probably in an Amesbury town record book that may no longer be available.  

Ezekiel Worthen (1672-1755) was born 18 May 1672 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay.  He married Abigail Carter (1686-1752) on 26 December 1704 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay.  Abigail was born 7 March 1686 in Salisbury, the daughter of John and Martha (Brown) Carter of Salisbury.  Ezekiel and Abigail had 11 children.

Ezekiell and Abigail (Carter) Worthen are my 7th great-grandparents.  I am descended through their daughter Abigail Worthen (1714-????)  who married 1736 to Joseph Colby (1707-1768).

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Amanuensis Monday - Inventory of Thomas Carter (1585-1652) of Charlestown, Massachusetts

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1652 Inventory of Thomas Carter (1585-1652) of Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts:

a)  Middlesex County, Mass. Probate Packet 4,303, image 4 (original document image):

b)  The Probate Court transcription (Volume 28, page 20):

Note:  I chose to transcribe the Probate Court transcription:

made the 25^th day of the 4^th month 1652

A true Inventory of the Housen, Lands, goods and Cattell of Thomas Carter of

Charlestowne late deceased. By us whose Names are heer under writt:

Imprimis His dwelling Hous, and shopp and Barne and all the          out housing with an orchard, yeard and Garden	At	80 – 00 - 00
Item The dwelling Hous that his son Thomas liveth in         with the Barn, and out Housing and orchard yeard         and garden with the Land adjoyning to the House         on the Back syde therof	At	30 – 00 – 00
Item A servant Mathew the scotchman	At	14 – 00 – 00
Item Thirteen Akers of Land more or less lying in y^e East field	At	50 – 00 – 00
Item Three Hay Lotts lying in the Low marsh in the High field	At	06 – 00 – 00
Item A parcell of meadow lying in Maldon nere John Spragues	At	04 – 00 – 00
Item four cowes comons and a quarter belonging to Him	At	08 – 10 – 00
Item four cowes and twoo Heifers	At	22 – 00 – 00
Item Three Piggs	At	00 – 15 – 00
Item In mony at his death	At	07 – 12 – 06
Item his wearing Aparrell	At	06 – 00 – 00
Item A muskett, a Sword, Bandileers, and rest	At	01 – 05 – 00
Item In Linnen: six paire of sheets, twoo table cloaths        Eaight napkins, seven pillowbeers, w^th other smale linen	At	05 – 00 - 00
Item A half headed Bedsteedl A feather Bed and bolster, and        6 pillows, a green Rugg, two blanquets, a straw bedd	At	10 – 00 - 00
Item A Bedsteed, and a fliock bed, in the chamber above with        a cover-lid, and other furniture to it	At	01 – 10 – 00
Item Three Chests, a box, a Table and five chairs, and four                   cushions	At	02 – 00 – 00
Item six bushells of wheat	At	01 – 00 - 00
Item In Bras, pewter, Iron vessells, and furniture in the         kitchen with Lumber in the Chamber	At	06 – 00 – 00
Item The shopp tooles, and Iron and steele in the shopp	At	15 – 06 – 00
Item His Debts	At	15 – 03 – 00
		286 – 01 – 06
Thomas Lynde Robert Hale Ralph Mousell
A true Record                          Attest W.E. Rogers Register

The source citations for this record are:

a)  "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors(http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 25 February 2018), Probate Packet #4,043, Thomas Carter of Charlestown, 1652 (original document).

b)  "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 February 2018), Middlesex County, Volume 28, page 20, Thomas Carter inventory (court clerk transcription of original).

Thomas Carter (1585-1652) was married to Mary --?--, and they had six children, all named in the will (Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, John, Hannah and Mary). 

Thomas and Mary (--?--) Carter are my 10th great-grandparents.  I am descended from their son Joseph Carter (1610-1676), who married Susanna Chamberlain (1616-1697) in 1644, and resided in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Amanuensis Monday - Will of Thomas Carter (1585-1652) of Charlestown, Massachusetts

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1652 Will of Thomas Carter (1585-1652) of Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts:

a)  Middlesex County, Mass. Probate Packet 4,303, image 2 (original document image):

b)  The Probate Court transcription (Volume 28, page 18):

Note:  I chose to transcribe the Probate Court transcription:

The last will and Testament of Thomas Cartar of Charlestown made the fifth

day of the third month A thousand six hundred and fifty

I Thomas Cartar weak in body but whole in my understanding and memory

do make here my last will and testament in menner and forme following

imprimis I comitt and Comend my soule unto God my faithfull Creator and

Preserver believing trusting and relying only on my Lord Jesus christ for

my Salvation and eternall hapines.

I Comitt my Body to be decently buried And for my outward estate I due dis-

pose of it and apoynt it to be disposed of as followeth.

I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary Cartar my now dwelling

hous with the garden ground the Barne, and the five Akers of Land which lies

in the feild behind and above my hous, with all my houshould stuffe;

alsoe two Cowes and three Cows Commons and a quarter alsoe halfe the Evry

of all my ground, and she to have all this as long as she lives; she each year

fynding and allowing halfe the ear corn for all the ground.

I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Thomas Cartar after my wives

decease my now dwelling hous garden and barne with the five Akers I

bought of my son Samuell, and the three Cows Commons and a quarter

And a Cow hay Lott lying wthout the Noll (by Ralph Mousalls Land) wch was

given me in the divident, Also the Dwelling hous that Thomas Cartar my son

now dwells in; Only out of this house I will and bequeath to my son Samuell

Cartar to bee payd him by my son Thomas Cartar ten pounds Also I give and

bequeath unto my two sons Samuell and Joseph the twoo Akers of ground that

lies on mistik Syde near Richard Spragues land it to be equally divided

amonst them, and to be theirs wthin a month after my decease.

I also give unto my son Samuell Cartar after my wives decease one of my

hay Lotts without the Neck, wch I bought of goodman Potter.

I also give and bequeath after my wives decease unto my son Joseph Cartar

three Akers of Land lying at moltons poynt bought of Mikell Bastoe Also a hay

Lott bought of mr Lyn without the necke, alsoe one cows Comon.

I bequeath and give after my wives decease unto my son John Cartar A cow and

three heifers.

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Brinsmead, and unto my daughter

Hanna Gre-- [Green] four Akers of land lying nere in Bunkers within the Neck

and my will is that to this foure Akers there shall be added as much out of

my houshould goods as shall make them up to be worth twenty pounds but this

to be theirs after my wives decease.

I alsoe give and bequeath after my wives decease, unto my beloved grand

children Caleb Cartar, Joseph Cartar, John Greene, and John Brinsmead, A hous

and the Ground belonging to it wch is about an Aker, wch Land and the

ould hous I bought of goodman Robinson, and a new hous to be sett upon

the garden platt where the ould house stands which I give amongst the

four children aforenamed to be theirs forever.

witneses the marke of W William Dad__                        Thomas Cartar.

                            John Green John Fuller.

Alsoe for the scotchman my will is that he shal be sould to mr Russel upon

resonble agreement and upon his good demeanor I do give him three quarters of a

year of the time he is to serve.

And I ordain my eldest son

Thomas Cartar to be my executors of this my last will and Testament.

A true record.

                                                    Attest W. Rogers Register

The source citations for this record are:

a)  "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 25 February 2018), Probate Packet #4,043, Thomas Carter of Charlestown, 1652 (original document).

b)  "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 February 2018), Middlesex County, Volume 28, page 18, Thomas Carter will (court clerk transcription of original).

Thomas Carter (1585-1652) was married to Mary --?--, and they had six children, all named in the will (Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, John, Hannah and Mary). 

Thomas Carter's probate packet had a lengthy inventory attached which was much more readable (!).  It was made 25 June 1652 by Thomas Lynde, John Hale and Ralph Mousell.  The estate totaled £286 - 1 - 6.  It included the dwelling house, shop, barn, out housing, orchard, yard, garden (£80), the dwlling house that son Thomas lives in (£30), "servant Mathew the Scotchman" (£14), four more plots of land (totaling £82-10), a sword, muskett, bandoliers, a green rug, etc.  

Thomas and Mary (--?--) Carter are my 10th great-grandparents.  I am descended from their son Joseph Carter (1610-1676), who married Susanna Chamberlain (1616-1697) in 1644, and resided in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2018/02/amanuensis-monday-will-of-thomas-carter.html

Copyright (c) 2018, Randall J. Seaver

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