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field, M ^Otflhfield 19 Mar. 17#/8 (Mirshfidd iW ' rtctrfdl)*	Mir.	1794,	aged	56 Veart. He marrfcd
at Kingirtoft, 23 Nov.,1775 (Kingston Vital Record*),' Sa*AII Holmes, bofft IfcKlngston 23 Mar. 1740/1 (#?)? died ** Marshfield 8 AjfyM&l, aged 80 year*, 3 jj&J rtxjntffl, daughter of j2?nreitn and Sarah (Tildett) Holmes.- In t , burying ground dftht First Congregational Church at Marwr . field then; is on? stone (from which the dates given abcnrt have been tititfen) for David Carver and his wife, Sarah, Joshtojk: CtOnhtf, bfbther of David, and David Carver, Jr., a|w hiifcwTfe S&fftti {The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 13, p. 242).
Children, bom at Marshfield (Marshfield vital records):
44.	L Dahu/ b. 23 An*. 1776.	j
ii.	Rmbxa, b. 12 June 1779; m. 5 Jan. 1806 Autolo Fuzkar ot Duxbury.
25.	James* Ca*V4* (C&pt. Josiah* ? John* John* Robert1), oj
Plymouth, bom, probably at Plymouth, about 1733, died between 1757 and 1764. In Ethan Allen Doty?s "Doty-Doten Family? (page 165) and in Davis?s ?Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth? the date of his birth is given as 5 May 1729; but the Janies Carver who was born on that date died 15 Jan. 1731 (Epitaphs froin Burial Hill, page 12, and Plymouth vital records, in Thi Mayflower Descendant, vol. 13, page 173). Capt. Josiah Carver must, therefore, have had a second sod James, probably by his second wife. Janies? Carver married (intention recorded at Plymouth, 28 Feb. 1756, Plymouth vital records) Hors Doten, born at Plymouth 19 Feb. 1739, died before 21 July 1765 (see below), daughter of Isaac and Mary (Lanman) Doten of Plymouth. She married secondly, at Plymouth, 6 Dec. 1764 (cnurch records), Capt. Ebeneier Gorham of Barnstable.
James Carver was chosen a petit juror at a town meeting on 23 Feb. 1757 (Plymouth Town Records, vol. 3, page 89).
Child:
1. Jams,* of Plymouth, b. at Plymouth 28 Sept 1757 (Plymouth vital records) and bapt 21 July 1765, the church record reading: ?James Carrer, son to Hope Gorham, dec?d., baptized on ye Riritt of Its Grandmother Mary Doten;" d. before 1790, when the administrator of his estate, Andrew Croswell, and h? widow, Mary Carver, sold his house and lot in Plymouth; (intention recorded at Plymouth, 16 Oct 1779, Plymouth rital records) Maky Harlow, b. in 1761, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Holmes) Harlow of Plymouth.
His name appears on	lists	of citizens of Plymouth,	dated
1	Jan. and 26 Nor. 1781,	who	were assessed for the	purpose of
procuring able-bodied soldiers for the Continental Army (Ply* mouth Town Records, vol. 3, pp. 406, 433).
Children, b. at Plymouth:
1.	A child' d. 31 Aug.	1781	(church records).
2.	James, b. in 1782.
3.	A ehtld, d. 23 May 1784 (ib.), perhaps identical with nit
James who was b. in 1782.
Robert Carver and Some of His Descendants
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Cam. Nathaniel* Carve* (Capt. Josiah,* ? John* John* Robert'), of Plymouth, bom at Plymouth 24 Sept. 1740 (Plymouth vital records), died there 30 Apr. 1815, aged 74 years (gravestone). He married there, 6 Dec. 1764 (church records), Sarah Churchill, bom there 18 July 1739 (Churchill Family, page 26), died there 12 Aug. 1808, aged 64 [jic] years (gravestone), daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Barnes) Churchill.
On 24 Nov. 1773 he was one of a hundred signers of a petition addressed to the selectmen of Plymouth, requesting , them to call a special town meeting to consider necessary ' ?> measures to be taken to protect their rights against the tyranny of the British Government (Plymouth Town Records, vol. 3, p. 263). He served as second lieutenant in a Plymouth County regiment of Massachusetts Militia which was stationed at the Gurnet for the defense of Plymouth Harbor. He was commissioned, 26 Mar. 1777, commander of the sloop Reprisal, a privateer bound from Plymouth to France, and in a letter dated at Plymouth, 14 May 1777, he is mentioned as formerly second lieutenant of the company at the Gurnet, but ?has left that company and gone to sea. In 1779 he was master of the sloop Sally, engaged in transport service on the Penobscot expedition. (Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War.) Later in the war, in 1782, when in command of the schodner Harmony, owned by Thomas Davis of Plymouth, he was captured by Lieutenant (afterwards Admiral) Nelson, who, when pursued by the French fleet, made use of Nathaniel Carver?s services as pilot and escaped safely from the French. Nelson afterwards returned into the Bay, sent Captain Carver ashore, and gave the schooner back to its owner, with the following certificate:
"These are to certify that I took the schooner 'Harmony,? Nathaniel Carver, master, belonging to Plymouth, but on account of his good services have given him up his vessel again.
?Dated on board His Majesty's Ship 'Albemarle/ 17 August 1782 in Boston Bay.
??Horatio Nelson.?*
In addition to his services in the war, Captain Carver took an active part in the affairs of the town and often served on juries and on committees of various kinds. (Cf. Plymouth Town Records.)
Children bom at Plymouth (Davis?s Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, and the Churchill Family) :
45.	i.	Nathaniel,* b. 18 Jaa 1766	(Plymouth	vital	records).
46.	ii.	John, b. probably about 1767.
iii.	Capt. Josiah, of Plymouth,	probably a	master mariner,	b.	probably about 1769; m. (1)	at Plymouth, 6	Apr. 1797	(church
records), Elizabeth Davik, who d. there 22 Nov. 1815, in her 43d year (gravestone), daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Churchill) Davie; m. (2) 28 Apr. 1816 (church records)
*Cf. Tbacher?i History of Plymouth (Bolton, 1832), p. 220, and Soathey?a Life of Nebtm.
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