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Capt. married Hannah Baxter in 1682 in Massachusetts. Hannah was born in 1661 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; died in 1727 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet]

Capt. married Hannah Frary on 9 Feb 1676 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 22 Feb 1660 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died in 1678 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Hannah married David Carver in 1709 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. David (son of John Carver and Millicent Ford) was born about 1669 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 14 Sep 1727 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; was buried in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Jonathan Carver was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on April 13, 1710. Little is known about his life until he joined the colonial militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Much of his time in the militia was spent at forts along the frontier. When he mustered out after eight years, Carver held the rank of Captain. By this time, he was 53 years old. With western lands opening up, Carver bought books on cartography and surveying so that he would be able to make maps of the new frontier.
Captain Carver’s opportunity to explore the expanded frontier materialized in 1766 when a party was organized to map part of the new land and find a western water route which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. Carver was charged with documenting geography as well as the number and location of Indians. He was also told to describe the trade posts that they encountered along the way.
Carver spent the winter of 1767 around Saint Anthony Falls and along the Minnesota River. When the rest of the party joined him that spring, they began to explore the area but quickly ran out of supplies and were forced to turn back. During the rest of 1767 and early 1768, Carver spent much of his time at the frontier Fort Michilimackinac in Michigan where he worked on his journals documenting their exploration. He then traveled to London where he found an editor to liven up his journals for wide-spread publication.
Carver’s book, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 was published in 1778 and immediately found critical acclaim. Unfortunately, the book’s profits did not come soon enough for Carver. He died destitute in 1780.
By 1789 praise for the book had faded and many were questioning the validity of Carver’s exploration claims and accused him of plagiarizing the work of other explorers. The controversy was heightened when Carver’s descendants claimed that two Dakotah chiefs had deeded the Captain thousands of acres of land in what is now southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Many, including the federal government, saw this claim as fraudulent and it has never been treated as valid.
The controversy over Travels persisted until the original journals documenting his explorations were discovered at the British Museum in the early 1900s. The journals helped prove that his book’s inaccuracies and plagiarism were based on the work of Carver’s editor, not Carver. And while the validity of his land claim has never been fully resolved to the satisfaction of his descendants, Jonathan Carver’s work as an explorer has been exonerated by most historians. - unknown

From HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SUNDERLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MONTAGUE & LEVERETT
By John Montague Smith (1899)

CARVER, JONATHAN, from Canterbury, Ct., doubtless descended from Robert Carver (believed to be the grand nephew of John Carver, financier of the Mayflower expedition and first Governor of The Plymouth Colony), who settled in what is now Marshfield, sometime prior to 1636. He married 1746, in Canterbury, Ct., Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and Phebe (Sevine) Robbins; lived in Montague, perhaps also in Northfield; soldier in the last French and Indian war, and narrowly escaped with his life at the massacre of Fort William Henry; afterwards Captain. In June, 1766, at his own cost and risk, he undertook a journey into the vast territory acquired by Great Britain at the establishment of peace in 1763. "What I had chiefly in view," he says, after gaining a knowledge of the manners customs, languages, soil and natural productions of the different nations that inhabit the back of the Mississippi, was to ascertain the breadth of that vast continent which extends from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean, in its broadest part, between 43 and 46 degrees, northern latitude. Had I been able to accomplish this, I intended to have proposed to government to establish a post in some of those parts about the Straits of Annian, which having been first discovered by Sir Francis Drake, of course belong to the English." The straits of Annian are not known by that name at the present day, but Seattle and Tacoma now flourish in the region where Carver would have established his post. However, the head waters of the Mississippi was the remotest region which he reached. He was everywhere hospitably received by the natives; was five months with the Nandowissies, who made him a chief. But few of them had ever before seen a white man. He arrived at Boston on his return journey, Oct., 1768, and the next year went to London, where he published his book of travels, of which there have been about 20 editions. He entered into a project with Richard Whitworth, Esq., a man of means, to equip an expedition to carry out his original intention and not only that, but to find a passage from the Pacific to Hudson's Bay (The elusive Northwest Passage. King George II was offering a reward of 100,000 Pounds Sterling for its discovery). They were to have erected a fort at Lake Pepin by which to hold the new possessions and open them up to development, but the commencement of the Revolution thwarted their plans.He recognized the value of this section of country, which later explorers pronounced a barren region, incapable of sustaining a large population.

He started on his expedition, from Boston in June, 1766. He travelled in all as much as 7000 miles, by canoe along the shores of the Great lakes alone with one guide, and explored much of the territory in the present State of Minnesota. He spent some time with the Indians, and as a reward for negotiating a peace treaty between them, received from two of their chiefs a deed to 12,000 acres of land on the Mississippi, east of Lake Pepin and the Falls of St. Anthony. (This account is largely thought to have been a fraud or a myth, perpetrated to generate income, but for nearly 50 years a large tract of land appeared on maps of the U.S. designated as "Carver's Tract", and areas of Minnesota still bear his name. See "The Journals of Jonathan Carver" by John Parker, Minnesota Press, for a studied treatment of this issue. ISBN 0-87351-099-2) He returned to Boston in October, 1768, and, having spent his entire fortune in carrying out his explorations, he sailed the next year for England, where he petitioned the Government for a reward for his services. He received nothing, except permission to publish his journal and charts. In 1778 the first edition of his book appeared in London, under the title, "Three Years' Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America." For this he received nothing except his expenses, and less than two years later he died in poverty. After his death the book had a large sale, and before the close of the century eight editions had been published.

Jonathan married Abigail Robbins on 20 Oct 1746 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Nathaniel Robbins and Elizabeth Leavens) was born in 1726 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; died on 9 Nov 1802 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont; was buried in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet]

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Mary married Simeon King on 10 Jul 1765 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. Simeon and died. [Group Sheet]

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Abigail married Joshua Goss on 10 Sep 1774 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. Joshua and died. [Group Sheet]

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Sarah married Samuel Church on 19 Jun 1775 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. Samuel and died. [Group Sheet]

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Rufus married Priscilla Cummings on 6 Nov 1780 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. Priscilla and died. [Group Sheet]

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Olive married Moses Gunn. Moses was born on 3 May 1754 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 6 Feb 1844 in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Mindwell married Elisha Gunn on 28 Oct 1782 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts. Elisha (son of Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn and Dorothy Marsh) was born on 10 Oct 1765 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 4 Mar 1841 in Monclova, Lucas, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

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Sewell married Elizabeth Sackett. Elizabeth was born in 1794; died in 1868. [Group Sheet]

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Pauline married David Bucklin. David was born in 1803 in Danby, Rutland, Vermont; died in 1834 in Damascus, Henry, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

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Soon after marriage they left Vermont along with other members of the Rhodes and Richmond families and traveled west stopping in Cayuga Co., NY (prob. Sempronius) for several years before moving on to Concord, Erie, NY. Eliakim and his uncle George Richmond were early settlers in the Concord, NY area, both appearing in the 1810 census. The Rhodes family probably didn't move there full time until around 1816. They lived in Concord, Erie, New York from about 1816 to after 1849.

State vs. Eliakim Rhodes. Indicted for passing counterfeit bank bills, &c. respondent, and George Richmond bail for his appearance, in D. 400,00. Bonds called out. - Journals of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, Rutland Co.

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Aurelia married Eliakim Rhodes on 3 Jul 1808 in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont. Eliakim (son of Benjamin Rhodes and Judith Richmond) was born on 9 Feb 1784 in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont; died after 3 Jul 1855 in Concord, Erie, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Thaddeus married Amy Fettiplace. [Group Sheet]

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Richard married Mary Grant in 1819. Mary and died. [Group Sheet]

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Dexter married Jane Colwell in 1816 in Owasco, Cayuga, New York. Jane was born in in New York; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Abigail married George Washington Bennett on 3 Jul 1814 in Owasco, Cayuga, New York, United States. George was born on 16 Apr 1792 in Mohawk, German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States; died on 12 Dec 1867 in Marengo, Mchenry, Illinois; was buried in Garden Prairie Cemetery, Boone, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Obituary: Uncle Carver Gunn died at his home 3 miles west of town, where he has been living with his son-in-law John Reed, last Monday night the 20th. Mr. Gunn has been in a declining state of health for some time and his death was not an unexpected event. He was born in July 1799 and was therefore almost eighty-six years of age. In the year 1838 he married Miss Lucy A. Owen who departed this life on the 21st of last June. The year after their marriage he moved from Illinois to Lawrence Co., this state where they lived for 12 years. Since which time Mr. Gunn has been a respected member of this community and leaves a host of friends to bear witness to his good name. Six children survive him four of whom are well known citizens of this county Viz. O.D., H.O., R.B. Gunn and Mrs John Reed and two daughters, Mrs. Eliza Pease and Adline Hanlock (Hadlock) residing in Kansas. His remains were interned in the Hadlock burying ground, on Wednesday afternoon, by a large concourse of sorrowing neighbors, friends and relatives. - Copied from Microfilm at Bolivar, Missouri of The Bolivar Free Press Thursday, April 28, 1885

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Carver married Lucy Arvilla Owen on 1 Jul 1838 in Tazewell, Illinois. Lucy was born on 1 Oct 1812 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 21 Jun 1884 in Bolivar, Polk, Missouri; was buried in Bolivar, Polk, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

Carver married Nancy Ann Scribner on 2 Dec 1824 in Williams, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

Carver married Eve DeLong on 1 Jun 1828 in Williams, Ohio. Eve died about 1836. [Group Sheet]

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Osman married Ann Eliza Scribner on 31 Jan 1825 in Damascus, Henry, Ohio. Ann was born in 1805; died on 6 Jan 1859. [Group Sheet]

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Clarissa married William L. Bellinger on 14 Oct 1821 in Waynesfield, Wood, Ohio, United States. William was born about 1798 in Mayfield, Fulton, N.Y.; died before 1850 in Providence, Lucas, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Malinda married John Knaggs on 10 Feb 1823 in River Raisin,Monroe,Michigan. John was born on 8 Mar 1802 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died in 1845 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; was buried in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio. [Group Sheet]