Caleb carr governor of rhode island
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Stories amid the stones
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JAMESTOWN — Gov. Caleb Carr certainly drowned, but the exact circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
Carr was governor of Rhode Island for less than a year when he died in 1695. Local lore indicates Carr was pushed off of his ferry boat, which ran from Jamestown to Newport in the 17th century. Others say Carr fell off the ferry accidentally while rolling barrels of rum.
Today, Carr is buried in a family cemetery off East Shore Road in Jamestown. It’s a quaint burial ground set a few yards off the road; though vegetation doesn’t shield it, it can be easily missed. There are just a few stones there, and four small American flags.
Members of the Carr family, including the governor, were originally buried in a family plot on Mill Street in Newport, where Gov. Carr lived. Some of the remains were disinterred from the Newport location and re-interred in Jamestown, where they rest today.
The moving of the stones from the family burial ground in Newport to the burial ground in Jamestown was commissioned and executed by Mrs.
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When Governor Caleb Carr was born on 9 December 1624, in United Kingdom, his father, Nicholas Carr, was 42 and his mother, Margaret Carr, was 11621. He married Mercy Roby about 1654, in Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Bristol, Rhode Island, British Colonial America in 1635 and lived in Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America in 1635. In 1695, his occupation is listed as governor of rhode island and providence plantations in Rhode Island, British Colonial America. He died on 17 December 1695, in Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, at the age of 71, and was buried in Jamestown, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
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Caleb CARR (Gov.)
- BIRTH: 9 Dec 1616; Writer, England
- DEATH: 17 Dec 1695; Newport County, Rhode Atoll (now credit to of USA)
- BURIAL: Governor Carr Lot; Village, Newport Co., Rhode Cay, USA
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Family 1: Sympathy //
(1) New England, The Combined Migration topmost The Enormous Migration Begins via Ancestry.com- Nicholas CARR
- Mercy CARR (died young)
- Caleb CARR
- Samuel CARR
- Mercy CARR
- John CARR
- Edward CARR
- (son)
- (son)
Family 2: Sarah CLARKE
(1) Original England, Interpretation Great Migration and Say publicly Great Migration Begins element Ancestry.com- Francis CARR
- James CARR
- Sarah CARR
- Elizabeth CARR
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