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328 Robert Carver and Some of His Descendants [Oct.
and is still known as Carver?s Harbor, in the southern part of Vinalhaven. On it he built first a log house and later a frame house, in which his great-granddaughter was living in 1932, her grandchildren being the sixth generation of the family that has lived in the house. It is the oldest house in the town.
In his will, dated 18 Feb. 1820, he mentioned his wife Hannah, his sons John and Reuben, whom he made his executors, his daughters Polly Calderwood, Susannah Vinall, Patience Smith, Sally Vinall, Lydia Shaw, Charity Smith, and Hannah Smith, and his grandson Thaddeus Smith.
Children, bom on South Fox Island, later Vinalhaven (Vinalhaven records):
i.	Maby,? b. 18 Feb. 1779; d. 12 Sept 1845; m. 21 Dec. 1799 Mar*
Caldebwood.
ii.	Susannah, b. 14 Jan. 1783; d. 28 Apr. 1863; m. in 1810 Joan
Vinal.
iii.	Patience, b. 10 Dec. 1784; d. 22 Sept 1849; in. 17 Jan. lanQ
William Smith.
iv.	Hannah, b. 25 Apr. 1787; d. in childhood.
v.	Sarah, b. 21 May 1789; d. 16 Apr. 1874; m.	30 Oct 1811 Wfc.
liam Vinal, Jr.
vi.	Lydla, b. 10 Feb. 1791; d. 26 June 1829; m. 31 Aug. 1807 Ona
Shaw.
vii.	John, of Vinalhaven, b. 12 Apr. 1793; d. at	Vinalhaven 3 Nor
1877; m. there, 15 Jan. 1818, Rhoda Abey, b. at Vtnalhavca 26 Apr. 1800, d. there 26 Mar. 1882, daughter of Ebenezer urf Mary (Burgesi) Arey of Vinalhaven. (Cf. the Resists*, voi 87, p. 6, Arey genealogy.)
Children, b. at Vinalhaven (Vinalhaven records) :*
1.	Hannah* b. 26 June 1819; d. 25 Nov. 1899; m. Jesse Norto*.
2.	Ebeneser, b. 23 Sept. 1820; d. 24 Dec. 1853; m. Nancy din.
3.	David Lane, b.	25 June 1822; d. 21 Apr. 1902; m.	Jane	Gin.
4.	Thaddeus, b. 2	Oct 1824; d. in the Civil War, 7	May	lgjt
5.	John Blaney, b. 18 Oct. 1826; m. Hannah Susan Delano.
6.	Charlotte, b. 2	Apr. 1828; m. James McDonald.
7.	William Vinal,	b. 27 June 1829; d. 20 Sept 1880;	m. I
Wannes.
8.	Rhoda Ann, b. 19 Oct. 1830; m. John Hopkins.
9.	Harriet Green, b. 24 July 1832; d. 6 May 1910; m. her fint
cousin, Philip Pierce (see the Register, vol. 87, n. 7 Arey genealogy, Nos. 28, v, 10, and 28, vi, 2).	?
10.	Charity Smith, b. 6 Sept. 1834; tn. Willard R. Creed.
11.	Jane Elira, b. 27 June 1836; m. Henry Hopkins.
12.	Lafayette, b. 2 June	1838; d. in the	Civil War, 22	Jm
1864; m. Charlotte	A. Pierce.	? ; >
13.	Mary Josephine, b. 29 May 1840; d. 7 June 1896; m. LeaaW>
Pendleton.	*
14.	George T., b. 3 Dec. 1848.
viii.	Charity, b. 14 Mar. 1795; d. 12 Sept 1848; ra. 12 Dec. UU
Levi Smith.
ix.	Reuben, of Vinalhaven, b. 27 Aug. 1797; d. at Vinalhaven 17
Jaa 1890; tn. (1) 7 Dec. 1820 Hannah Caldebwood, who 4 in 1856; m. (2) 17 Nov. 1858 Mrs. Diana Coombi, wfao 4. in 1885.
?The following lift of the children of John	and Rhoda (Arey)	Carver	differ* ia
reapecu	from	tbe li?t of th?ir children given	in the Racism,	vol. 67,	pp. ?-7	(Atm
genealogy, under No. 28, v). The two tisU should be carefully compared.
1934] Marriages in Boston by Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D. 329
Children by first wife, b. at Vinalhaven (Vinalhaven records) :
1.	Jane C.,* b. 19 Mar. 1822.	5.	Maria G., b. 21 May	1832
2.	Elisa, b. 10 July 1825.	t.	Cordelia C? b. 7 July 1834.
3.	Sarah V., b. 6 Sept 1827.	7.	Reuben T? b. 2 Oct	1836.
4.	Lucy A., b. 22 Jan. 1830.	8.	Lydia T? b. 12 Dec.	1838.
9. George S., b. 18 June 1841. x.	Hannah, b. 28 Oct 1800; ra.	(1)	Aaron	Smith; m.	(2)	Reuben
Leadbetter. (Cf. Historical	Sketch	of	Vinalhaven,	page	46.)
42. Seth* Carver (Reuben,1 William,* William,* John* Robert1), of the Fox Islands in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and of North Yarmouth (Freeport), Maine, bom at Pembroke and baptized there 1 Sept. 1764 (Pembroke Vital Records), died probably at Freeport. He married, probably at North Yarmouth (Freeport), Jane Brown.
His father must have taken him, as a young child, about 1766, from Pembroke to the Fox Islands; and later he moved to North Yarmouth (Freeport).
Children, bom at Freeport (Freeport records):
i.	Reuben/ b. 18 Dec 1790.	?
ii.	William, b. 30 Mar. 1792.
iiL Babnabus Bartoll, b. 26 May 1799; tn. Mary Camx, who d. at Freeport 31 Jan. 1873, aged 72 yeara (ft.).
Children, b. at Freeport (ib.):
1.	Mary Frances,* b. 28 Mar. 1828; d. 17 Feb. 1832.
2.	Sorer [Wc]	Ann, d. 24 Feb.	1832.
3.	Frances A.,	b. 24 Feb. 1832;	m. 14	Not.	1859 William P.
Kendall.
4.	Hannah A., b. 23 Mar. 1834.
5.	Nancy b. 15 Dec. 1835.
6.	Amos, b. 3 Aug. 1838.
iv.	Phebe, b. 23 Aug.	1802; m. in 1824	Isaac	Ward.
v.	Rurua, b. 1 Mar.	1805.
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