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There is no birth record for Thomas in the Sudbury Town Records. Some compilers believe he was born anywhere from 1703 to 1720, and give the place of birth as either Marlborough or Sudbury, Massachusetts.
There is no death record for Thomas either, perhaps moving away after his likely marriage to Mrs. Bent. His name stops appearing in the tax rolls for Sudbury about this time as well. An interesting item of note which I found at http://freepages.history .rootsweb.com/~historyofmarlborough/1770pollist.htm#1770, which provides the 1770 Poll list of heads of households in Marlborough, Massachusetts, is that there is a Thomas Carr listed. This could well be the original Thomas Carr who settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, who after the death of his wife Grace Sherman, married a Mrs. Grace Bent (nee Rice). At that point in time there seems to be no further mention of him in Sudbury town records. This record in Marlborough seems to pick up this Thomas Carr at almost the same time.
The ancestry of Thomas Carr is not known, although it would seem reasonable to believe that he was descended from one of four brothers born in England who came to America in the early seventeenth century. Whether Thomas had any brothers and sisters is not known either.
The following is a quote from Edson I. Carr's "The Carr Family Records" published in 1894: "The difficulty of tracing the early families of Carrs in England centuries back in a definite and concise manner, is exceedingly perplexing and attended with many failures and disappointments. The records of the earliest Carrs who settled in this country, date back three centuries, to four brothers who were born in London. Their names were Benjamin, William, George and James Carr. The name of the father of these four sons, the author has been unable to find." (Nowadays, the father's name of the afore-mentioned four brothers is given as William Carr, the 10th baron of Ferniehurst Castle.)
Neither Thomas nor any of his descendants are to be found in Edson Carr's work. Perhaps the explanation for this could be the statement that Edson himself made in the Preface to his book: "The work might have been vastly more complete in detail, if hundreds who have been addressed on the subject, had manifested interest enough to reply to letters soliciting information." If any of Thomas' descendants, that is to say, any of my ancestors, had received any communication or request from Edson Carr, it perhaps went unanswered.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
- Aft 1778
, d. Bef 4 Nov 1778 (Age < 71 years)