Dave and Sally, August 4, 2002
The 300 Year Genealogy
for MARGARET GANNON CARR
of Carr’s Cove, Union Springs, New York, 1713-2013.
*** DAR No: 836478 dated July 5, 2005. ***
This genealogy is in six parts:
PART ONE: Genealogy record for Margaret Gannon Carr. DAR # 836478.
PART TWO: 7th Generation children of Bradley, Nancy and Margaret Carr.
PART THREE: 8th Generation children Nancy Kelley Carr.
PART FOUR: 8th Generation children of Bradley James Carr.
PART FIVE: 8th Generation children of Margaret Gannon Carr.
PART SIX: Margaret, Bradley and Nancy’s lineage in America’s Wars 1713-2013.
PART SEVEN: Other Carr’s associated with the direct line from Carr’s Cove, N.Y.
PART ONE
FIRST KARR GENERATION
JOHN KARR (KERR or CARR) was born in the Teviotdale area of Scotland’s borderlands with England probably sometime in the year 1714. He then joined his older brother Bradford Karr in New Hampshire sometime before 1742, (1) The exact spelling of family’s original name before it immigrated to America from the Teviotdale area is unknown and was most probably either Karr, Kerr, or Carr.
No explanation is available for either of the Karr brothers trip to the New World from the Scottish borderlands. The Union of 1707 forced Scotland to unite with England and started decades of French and Spanish intrigues among the borderland Scots which led to numerous rebellions in which the Karr’s were undoubtedly involved. These intrigues generally failed, leading large numbers of Scottish borderland families to depart for the America’s in search of a better life.
The first record of Margaret Gannon Carr’s (Karr) lineage appeared in Chester, New Hampshire, when that town conducted a population inventory of adult males in 1724. The inventory recorded the presence of Bradford Karr, John Karr’s older brother. (2) The census showed that Bradford had married a woman named Anna in Chester, and their union in the following years produced four children… Joseph Karr (born November 20, 1742), Molly Karr (born Feb 16, 1747), Parker Karr (born May 29, 1750), and Judith Karr (born May 28, 1752). None of these however are in Margaret’s direct line as it was Bradford’s younger brother, John Karr from whom Margo’s line emerged in the United States.
The first official record of the presence of Bradford’s younger brother John Karr was recorded in Boscawen, New Hampshire, nineteen years later when he married Margaret Kile on or about December 6, 1743. Six children came from their union, the fourth of which was Margaret Gannon Carr’s progenitor. The death of John Karr’s wife on June 16, 1763, only eleven days after the birth of her sixth child suggests she may have died from complications of childbirth.
John Karr and Margaret Kile’s children:
1. Jane Karr January 15, 1745
2. John Karr January 17, 1747
3. Thomas Karr January 17, 1755 Boscawen, New Hampshire
4. James Karr June 5, 1759 Londonderry, New Hampshire. (3)
5. Elizabeth Karr, June 6, 1761 Boscawen, New Hampshire
6. Alexander Karr June 19, 1763
THE SECOND KARR/CARR GENERATION
JAMES KARR, was born on 5 June 1759, at Londonderry, New Hampshire. He spent his youth in the area around Londonderry, and at age eighteen decided to join the local militia fighting against the British. In late June 1778 he agreed to serve as a substitute for a man named Jacob Williamson, and signed up to serve in Captain Adiel Sherwood’s Company of Colonel Graham’s Regiment, which was organized under the Malcome Levy. History decades later would reveal that when he signed up, the man who enlisted him wrote his family name as James Carr instead of James Karr. Less than a week after James signed up, he was captured by the British on July 8, 1780, at the Battle of Fort Ann, New York, and transferred as a prisoner of war to Montreal, Canada, where he spent the next two years. He was released in a prisoner exchange conducted at Castleton, Vermont in November 1782. After release he returned to the Londonderry area.
James Karr, whose name was now spelled James Carr on state enlistment records, married Margaret Morrell in February 1784 at Cambridge, New York. The newlyweds then moved to Johnstown, N.Y, where the first seven of their ten children were born. They did not move to ‘Carr’s Cove’ in Union Springs until 1798 when James was thirty-eight years of age. (4)
James Carr and Margaret Morrell’s children:
1. Margaret Carr Johnstown, N.Y.
2. Jacob Carr June 10, 1783 “ (5)
3. Betsy Carr February 17, 1786 “
4. John Carr June 6, 1787 “
5. Jonathan Carr July 13, 1789 “
6. Alexander Carr September 24, 1793 “
7. Hartman Carr August 11, 1797 “ (6)
8. Daniel W. Carr 1800 Union Springs, N.Y.
9. James Carr July 8, 1801 “ (7)
10. Deborah Carr 1815 “
The Continental Congress, in the years after Independence, became interested in pacifying the Upstate New York area which still contained large numbers of “British loyalists,” sympathetic to King George of England. Congress therefore decided to settle American veterans among them who’d fought for independence. In 1798, James Carr and his family of seven children left Johnstown, and headed into Upstate New York where they settled on a 640 acre land grant given to James Carr, one and a quarter miles south of Union Springs on the shores of Lake Cayuga. The property at the time belonged to the Cayuga Indian tribe chieftan named Canistoga. His tribe was part of the Iroquois Confederation which included the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca. When Chief Canistoga died about three years after John Carr took up residence at Carr’s Cove in 1798, three of his sons, Jonathan, Jacob and Hartman cared for him in his final days and then helped bury him in accordance with tribal burial tradition: wrapped in his chieftain’s blanket and beside him his favorite musket, some pottery vessels with food enough for three days, extra leggings and moccasins. His grave is on the west ridge of the great gully near to Utt’s barn which today is near the MacIntosh Farm. (8)
James Carr also buried a second Indian chief on his Carr property within a year or so, at the place known today as Farley’s point. This was the chief of the Tuscarora, known as Canistaigia, also known as, ‘Steel Trap.’ He was buried secretly by James Carr and his son Hartmann, and the location of the grave kept a secret down through the generations, only shared with a one or two Carr’s in each generation until today. (9) The Cayuga’s around Union Springs had sided with the British during the Revolution, and as a defeated enemy, their lands were later given to the American veterans who had secured independence, while the Cayuga’s were resettled northwards into Canada.
On 17 September 1832, now 69 years of age, James Carr had worked in Union Springs as a brick maker for thirty-five years and wanted to retire. He applied as a revolutionary war veteran for a pension, which was approved for he and his wife Margaret by the Continental Congress. (10) His pension approval noted the following:
A letter dated 23 October 1929, from Earl D. Church, Commissioner of Pensions advises that from papers contained in Revolutionary War Claim #W1652, it appears that James Carr was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and married Margaret Morrell at Cambridge, New York, in 1784.
THE THIRD CARR GENERATION
Hartman Carr, the sixth child of James Carr and Margaret Morrell, married Ann Brock of Newburgh (or Fishkill), N.Y. in 1821, and they spent their entire lives at ‘Carr’s Cove’ in Union Springs, N.Y. Fourteen children were produced from their union:
Hartman Carr and Ann Brock’s children.
1. Mary Jane Carr February 17, 1822 Union Springs, N.Y.
2. Jacob Carr May 9, 1823 . “
3. Margaret Carr December 23, 1825 “
4. Ashbel W. Carr August 1, 1826 “
5. William H. Carr January 4, 1828 “
6. Jonathan Carr December 19, 1829 “
7. Betsy Carr July 25, 1832 “
8. Deborah Carr September 3, 1833 “
9. Ellen Carr July 15, 1838 “
10. Henry Clay Carr March 1, 1839 “ (11)
11. George Carr May 24, 1840 “
12. Glorian Cook Carr January 24, 1842 “
13. Hartman Carr Jr December 24, 1844 “
14. Charles H. Carr May 14, 1846 “
THE FOURTH CARR GENERATION
Henry Clay Carr, the tenth child of Hartman Carr and Ann Brock, married Georgia Simmons at Union Springs, N.Y. in 1869, and they spent the rest of their lives at ‘Carr’s Cove’ in Union Springs. Their union produced five children:
Henry Clay Carr and Georgia Simmons children.
1. Clinton Carr Union Springs, N.Y.
2. Sydney Carr “
3. Louis Carr “
4. William Z. Carr “
5. Hartman Carr December 30, 1876 “ (12)
6. Hattie Farely Carr 1883
THE FIFTH CARR GENERATION
Hartman Carr, the 5th child of Henry Clay Carr and Georgia Simmons, married Leona Mae Carr, (A first cousin) in Union Springs, N.Y., on March 11, 1899, and spent the rest of their lives at ‘Carr’s Cove’ in Union Springs. Leona was also the postmistress at Union Springs for 15 years. Their union produced three children:
Hartman Carr and Leona Mae Carr’s children.
1. Henry Clay Carr Oct 12, 1899 Union Springs, N.Y.
2. Harlan Bradley Carr 1903 “
3. Marjory Carr 1906 “.
THE SIXTH CARR GENERATION
Harlan Bradley Carr, the 2nd child of Hartman Carr and Georgia Simmons, married Dorothy Kelley on 24 November 1932, at the Syracuse Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. He, a famous football player at Syracuse University, and his wife, a well known socialite in Upstate New York, were separated in the late 1940’s, but never divorced. Dorothy lived out her life in Syracuse while her husband spent his time between Carr’s Cove near Union Springs, and South Florida. Harlan died at Syracuse, New York on May 19, 1970, and is buried in Union Springs. Dorothy died sixteen years later at Syracuse, on January 24th, 1982 and is buried in DeWitt Cemetery, New York. Their union produced three children:
Harlan Bradley Carr and Dorothy Kelly’s children.
1. Nancy Kelley Carr February 16, 1934 Syracuse, N.Y.
2. Bradley James Carr April 20, 1938
3. Margaret Gannon Carr December 30, 1940 “
PART TWO
THE SEVENTH CARR GENERATION
Nancy Kelley Carr, the eldest daughter of Harlan Bradley Carr and Dorothy Kelley married Robert Shepard in Syracuse, New York on ------------------. Their union produced seven children:
1. Cindy Shepard Nov 7, 1956 Syracuse, NY
2. Robert Shepard Mar 23, 1958 Syracuse NY
3. Kelley Shepard May 29, 1959 Syracuse NY
4. Bradley Shepard Sep 12, 1962 Syracuse NY
5. Amy Shepard Sep 7, 1960 Syracuse NY
6. James Shepard Apr 18, 1964 Syracuse NY
7. Michael Shepard Mar 25, 1968 Syracuse NY
Bradley James Carr, the 2nd child of Harlan Bradley Carr and Dorothy Kelley married Barbara Russell in Syracuse, New York in -----------1965. Their union produced seven children:
1. Bradley James Carr Feb 19, 1966 Syracuse, New York
2. Kelley Russell Carr Feb 19, 1966 ”
3. Jeffrey Harlan Carr Feb 13, 1967 ”
4. Holly Margaret Carr Oct 16, 1968 ”
5. Amy Louise Carr Jul 28, 1970 ”
6. Brian Patrick Carr Jan 17, 1974 ”
7. Katy Sue Carr Apr 2, 1975 ”
Margaret Gannon Carr. Married Robert S. Miller. Jr. at Syracuse, New York, on October 29, 1966, and their union produced three children:
1. Robert S. Miller III Jr. November 16, 1967 Riverside, CA
2. Bradley Richard Miller October 20, 1970 Bellevue, NB
3. Brent James Miller April 19, 1973 Tehran, Iran.
PART THREE:
8th Generation of Nancy Carr’s grand children.
PART FOUR:
8th Generation of Bradley Carr’s grand children.
PART FIVE
8th Generation of Margaret’s grand children.
Robert Shirley Miller Jr III married Laura
Bradley Richard Miller married Elizabeth Elliot on
Emily Miller
Elliot Miller
Brent James Miller married Holly on
Guy Miller
PART SIX
MILITARY SERVICE OF THE CARR’S
(OF CARR’S COVE, UNION SPRINGS, NY),
IN AMERICA’S WARS SINCE 1713.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
BACKGROUND
ON COLONIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN 1779-1780
When James Karr (Carr) was born, in June 1759. The world of his times were set against a vast international drama involving the empires of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and the Ottoman Turks. In 1759 Britain’s world-wide supremacy at sea was still a half century away: when Britain’s Lord Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1805. Shortly after James was born, British Light Colonel Monroe surrendered his British fort just north of where James lived in the town in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and as Colonel Monroe evacuated his troops southward under a French flag of truce, his entire company was set upon and wiped out as depicted in James Fennimore Cooper’s famed book, ‘Last of the Mohicans.’
The death of Queen Ann and ascension of King George III in 1760 set the stage for the forthcoming American colonial struggle against Britain’s mounting financial needs for its huge army and navy, which increasingly fell on its American colonies. The British Parliament levied burdensome taxes, among them the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Acts of Trade. By Parliamentary Act of 1664, these colonies were forbidden to import gold or silver currency, turning them into barter economies. In 1774, when James Carr was fifteen, the British Crown, fearing the Colonies expansion westward would put them beyond the British tax authorities, the King gave all the Colonies western lands beyond the Allegheny Mountains to the French Canadian Province of Quebec. By the time James Carr was into his teen years the Colonial debate about secession included the communities around where James lived in New Hampshire. Recent British Army military defeats at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill also convinced many that British rule could be thrown off.
On July 3, 1776, thousands of British troops landed on Staten Island, in New York harbor, and the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia the following day. Four summers later in 1780 a series of critical battles would take place throughout upstate New York between the Colonials and two British armies moving up the Hudson River from New York City and another moving south from Canada down Lake Champlain and through the central New York area.
The Sullivan Upstate New York Wilderness Campaign of April - September 1779
In the spring of 1779, James Carr was living with his parents in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Word spread quickly through Londonderry that spring that General John Sullivan of New Hampshire had received orders from General Washington to assemble an army to march into upstate New York and destroy the pro-British Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga of the Iroquois nation. The Oneida and Tuscarora were already allied with the Colonials.
Although the revolution was only a three years old in 1779, the British were already holding some 20,000 Colonial prisoners, of whom a third had already died while in captivity. In upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1778 the Iroquois confederation (allied with the British) had raided the countryside and caused widespread panic, raiding and pillaging non-royalists along the frontier. British forces in New York City planned to deal with local area resistance before moving into upstate New York in the summer of 1780 while a second British army assembling in Canada would move south into upstate New York in 1780. The summer of 1779 therefore offered General Washington a chance to defeat the Iroquois Nation in upstate New York and then regroup that winter and deal with the two British armies the following year.
In the spring of 1779 General Washington ordered General John Sullivan of New Hampshire to lead a 4,500 man army into Central New York. His instructions:
“Attack the tribes of the six nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible.” (13)
By September 1779 Sullivan’s army had fought its way into the area north-west of the Finger Lakes, where it then split into four parts and moved south down both shores of the Cayuga and Seneca lakes towards a large Indian town called Tioga in central Pennsylvania. No longer facing any Indian resistance they completely destroyed all Indian habitation and farmlands they found. Lieutenant Colonel Walter (Zebulon) Butler, one of whose young officers was Captain James Carr, commanded about 600 men who moved down the eastern shore of Lake Cayuga. On September 21, 1779, Captain Carr pitched a camp at a place called Gewauga, also known as Tiohero to the Cayuga. (14) Given later events with the Carr’s settling at Carr’s Cove just south of Union Springs twenty-one years later in 1798, it is certain that when James Carr saw the lands around Union Springs in the summer of 1779 he decided he would return one day and live there.
Some distance just south of the Indian town of Tiohero (also known by the Jesuits as Saint Stephens), and today… Union Springs, Butler’s men reported amazement at the high standard of living they found among the Cayuga Indians around Union Springs and Springport. James Carr’s presence at Tiohero is further supported by the Carr family verbal and written record. He allowed the local Cayuga Indian Chief, Canistoga, now residing on land owned by James Carr, to not be forcibly evicted, and allowed him to remain on what was now James Carr’s property at Carr’s Cove until the Chief died sometime around the year 1800. Carr family verbal tradition passed along in the mid-20th century was that James Carr buried this Cayuga chief with honors at Carr’s Cove. (15)
A historian of the Butler Campaign era wrote:
“The existence of so many towns, and well built houses, of fruit trees, of cultivated lands, of vast corn fields and a great variety of vegetables, certainly evidence a higher degree of civilization than we have hitherto attributed to the aborigines.” (16)
Another involved in the campaign wrote:
“The most part of the day taken up in destroying scattering towns, corn and such, within two or three miles, all around this town, large and commodious, consisting of fifty houses mostly well built.”(17).
Some sixty years later, in 1841, Humphrey Howland of the town of Ledyard spoke to the Cayuga Agricultural Society and described the effect of Sullivan’s campaign as follows:
“Some of the soldiers selected large ears, of corn and carried them home in their knapsacks to New England: an advertisement in legible characters of this fertile country. And hence when the lands in the ‘military tract’ were allotted to the soldiers of the revolution. ‘soldiers rights,’ (as they were called), were much sought for, and soon this lovely section, which had been the home of the Indians, was changed from a wilderness to the abode of civilization, by the hardy pioneer.” (18)
Other historians would observe that:
“Land grants to veterans and fraudulent land deals formed the aftermath of the Sullivan campaign.” (19)
Current historical records available at Union Springs and Springport, are unable to identify any other specific land grants made to other revolutionary soldiers in the Union Springs area. James Carr appeared in Union Springs with his family in 1798 with title to a 640 acre tract of land around what is today Carr’s Cove, a mile south of Union Springs along the lake shore.
Battle of Fort Ann, NY,
20 July 1780
The Late spring of 1980 the word went out throughout the Albany area that the two British armies then bivouacked in New York City and Canada, were on the move, their objective, to meet in Albany and cut off the New England colonies from those to the south. Colonial levies were urgently called up in the Albany area, one of which was the Malcolm Levy in which James Karr volunteered to serve..
Lake Champlain extends northwards just above Albany almost to the Saint Lawrence Seaway near Montreal. This lake, in early 1780, enabled the British navy to move a British army by water from Canada to South Bay at the southern end of Champlain. At South Bay, a creek (which later became the Champlain canal) extends southward through the heavily forested countryside almost to the Hudson River near Albany. About half way along this creek in 1780 stood the rude frontier stockade then known as Fort Anne. It was a Fort Anne in early July 1779 that the first land battle of what history would later record as the Saratoga Campaign, took place. Erected two decades earlier in 1757, Fort Anne stood at the junction of Halfway Creek and Wood Creek.
James Karr volunteered for 90 days of military service at Rensselaer, New York, and his unit immediately moved eighty miles northward to Fort Anne. On July 8, 1780 the British and Colonial forces met in the woods and fields a mile northeast of the Fort Anne stockade. 550 colonials led by Lieutenant Colonel Henry van Renssalaer, skirmished across the fields and woods with 190 British redcoats led by Lt. Col John Hill and Major Forbes of the Royal 9th Foot Regiment. By sunset van Renssalaer’s troops had driven the British to a forested hilltop and surrounded them. As the sun set van Renssalaer was told that Britain’s Indian allies were approaching the scene, and he withdrew for the night to Fort Anne. James Carr was not among those who withdrew. He along with 30 other volunteers were captured that day and taken by the British to a prison camp near Montreal. Two years later in November 1782, James was exchanged in Castleton, Vermont, for British military prisoners captured by American Revolutionary forces. (20)
The day after the battle, believing that a larger British force now confronted him in the woods just to his north, LtCol Renselaer set fire to the fort and gradually withdrew towards Fort Edwards, dropping trees everywhere along the narrow road forcing the British to waste weeks hacking their way through the forests south of Fort Anne. During October 1780 a series of other battles also took place nearby in upstate New York at Albany and Rome resulting in British defeats. With the winter approaching British forces withdrew back to their starting points in New York City and Canada.
The Fort Ann engagement, while not one of the biggest battles of the Saratoga campaign, was a critical delaying operation that denied Britain victory at a decisive moment, and lead to their withdrawal and eventual recognition of United States.
Later in the year 1780 British Army Major Forbes, of the 9th Foot Regiment that fought at Fort Anne, returned to London where he submitted his official military report to the British House of Commons on the Fort Anne engagement. In it Major Forbes stated:
“At half past ten in the morning, they attacked us in front with a heavy and well directed fire. A large body of them passed up the creek to our left and fired from a thick wood across the creek on the left flank of the regiment; then they began to re-cross the creek and attack us in the rear. We then found it necessary to change our ground to prevent the regiment being surrounded. We took post on the top of a high hill to our right. As soon as we had taken post, the enemy made a very vigorous attack and they certainly would have forced us, had it not been for some Indians that arrived and gave the Indian whoop.” (21)
British forces at Fort Anne suffered 13 killed, 23 wounded, and 15 captured. Van Rensselaer’s troops lost 7 killed and 30 captured. Major Forbes accounts of this battle in British Archives also mentions the capture of two Revolutionary battle flags which Forbes describes in detail in his personal diary as follows:
“thirteen red and white bars with a blue field in the upper left corner. Embroidered in the center of the blue field are the words, ‘In Honor of Our Freedom,’ and surrounded by thirteen stars. Across the bottom of the blue field are the words ‘United States of America.’ The second flag was mustard colored with a yellow circle in its center. Around the border of the yellow center was ‘American Congress 1776,’ and in its middle, ‘We Are One.’ In the mustard field around the yellow circle are thirteen interconnecting ovals, each with the name of one of the founding thirteen colonies.(22)
THE WAR OF 1812
James Carr (2nd Generation Carr) and three of his sons, Jonathan, Jacob, and Hartman, were veterans of the war of 1812, one of them having served on the Niagara frontier.
THE CIVIL WAR
Five of Hartman Carr’s (Third Generation) eight sons served in the Union Army during the Civil War, at Gettysburg, Fredricksburg, and several other key battles. The following five sons of Hartman and Ann Brock participated in the battle at Gettysburg.
Ashbell Carr 3rd NY Artillery Regiment.
Henry Clay Carr 3rd NY Artillery Regiment (3rd Generation Carr).(23)
George Carr 119th NY Infantry. (24)
Jonathan Carr Co A&B, 1st Regiment , 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
Hartman Carr USS Lancaster. Flagship of the Pacific Fleet . (25)
On the second day of the battle Confederate General Lee’s forces pushed General Mead’s Union forces back through the town of Gettysburg to the nearby heights known as Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge. On the morning of the third day the two armies were at their maximum strength and faced each other along a three-mile front.
Ashbell Carr’s battery was at the north end of the union Line atop Cemetery Ridge, about a hundred yards north-west of Mead’s Headquarters. Jonathan Carr’s Cavalry Regiment was a quarter mile south of Mead’s headquarters. After several hours of heavy Confederate shelling of the Union positions at the north end of the Union line, the famous confederate advance known as “Picket’s Charge,” began towards the center of the Union line where Henry Clay and Hartman Carr’s field artillery were stationed. It is almost certain that their battery spent that afternoon firing directly into the 12,000 confederates in the open fields before them, opening huge gaps in their lines as they crossed the open fields. Some of Picket’s troops actually broke though the Union lines only to be mown down with canister charges. Exhausted the remnants of the Confederates withdrew. Henry Clay’s cemetery tombstone in Union Springs proudly declares that he was also a “Musician” with the 3rd NY Light Artillery. (26)
George Carr’s 119th NY infantry was at the south end of the Union line just below Little Round Top. The south end of the Union line had 11 Regiments of about 3000 men in what was then known as the ‘Wheatfield.” Just east of the Wheatfield was George Carr’s Regiment, one of 16 dug in at the “Devils Den.” Persistent attacks by General Longstreet’s Corps headed by General Hood’s Division relentlessly pressed its attack, trying to outflank the Union line. Driving entrenched Union troops from the Wheatfield and Devil’s Den, Union survivors fell back to Little Roundtop.
Towards sunset Hood’s confederates, trying to outflank the Union line, continued to press their attack around the south flank of Little Round Top where close fighting and heavy casualties on both sides eventually resulted in Hood’s decision to withdraw. George Carr was among the remnants of some forty exhausted Union regiments as the day ended. George’s unit started the day with 300 men, and by sunset 140 of them were dead, wounded or missing. (27) That evening, General Lee, realizing the extent of his losses, withdrew towards Virginia and days later Lincoln toured the battlefield before making the ‘Gettysburg Address.’ Other Carr’s who served at Gettysburg in the Union Army are shown below with their Regiments. Their genealogical ties to the Carr’s of Carr’s Cove is unknown and needs to be investigated.
Other Carr’s
who Served at Gettysburg
and are listed on the service rolls for this battle.
State Regiment (28)
Maryland 1st Infantry
11th Infantry
16th Infantry
Massachusetts 1st Cavalry
11th Infantry
16th Infantry
New Hampshire 12th Infantry
New Jersey 11th Infantry
Pennsylvania 26th Infantry
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
Hartman Carr (4th Generation Carr and husband of Leona), served in the Spanish American war in Cuba.
WORLD WAR ONE
Hartman Carr (5th Generation Carr and husband of Leona) served in Europe and received a Purple Heart
FOOTNOTES
1. Obtained from records recorded in family bible of John and Margaret Carr, loaned to Mrs. Marion Gulliver in 1971, a copy of which was provided by Mrs. Gulliver to Robert S. Miller for Carr family genealogy.
2. Three years earlier, in 1721, historical records available in Chester, recorded the capture by local Indians of John Karr and his brother-in-law, Thomas Smith, by local Indians. Smith is reported to have been married to John Karr’s sister (name not recorded) while John Karr at the time was about 18 years of age. The two men escaped their captivity two days later and returned to Chester. See, extract from Dr. Nell, New Hampshire Society Collection, Volume 7, p. 404. Also see Ancestors of Thomas Byron Brodnax Family Origins in Chester, New Hampshire. Undated,
3. Date of birth shown for James Carr’s tombstone at Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Union Springs, New York is June 5, 1759. This date is four years earlier later than that reflected in the Family Bible of his parents, John Karr and Margaret (Kile) Karr, which is shown as June 5, 1763. The date of 1763 on the tombstone is believed to be correct, and not that of the family bible because if the family Bible were correct, then James Karr would have been 13 years of age when he first enlisted in the Militia in 1779. The 1759 date is shown in this genealogy because it is the date publicly displayed on his tombstone in Union Springs.
4. Elliot G. Storke and James H. Smith, History of Cayuga County, New York, 1789-1879. Syracuse, N.Y. 1879, p. 364.
5. Pearl Helen CARR Cuddeback’s DAR registration #770042 Miami, Florida, Palmetto Chapter, refers to Jacob Carr, born 10 June 1783 as DAR # 766822.
6. Page 226 of the Biographical Review for Cayuga Country, New York, Shows Hartman Carr as being the 7th of 10 Children of James and Margaret Carr of Union Springs.
7. Marion Ethel Gaston Gulliver’s DAR registration #548513, Owasco Chapter of Auburn, New York refers to James Carr, born July 8, 1801 in Springport. Laura CARR Cleveland’s DAR registration # 267881 Owasco, Auburn, New York Chapter refers to Jacob Carr, born 10 June 1783). Also see “Carr Family Records,” by Edon Carr, 1894. p. 75 States “Hartman, son of James, died September 23, 1876.”
8. Storke and Smith, “History of Cayuga County, New York 1789-1879. Syracuse, New York, 1879. P. 369.
9. Claudia Chappell. ‘The Carr’s of Carr’s Cove: A historical Research Paper.’ April 11, 1962. Union Springs. New York. Pp. 11-16.
10. James Carr is listed on the Roll Call of Troops for New York on page 74 of “New York in The Revolution.” James Carr’s pension Claim # W1652 and DAR Nat. # 267881.
11. Census of 1850 transcribed from official Cayuga County Records at Auburn, New York, by Springport City Clerk, Norma (Cathy Bridge) Bilak, (DAR OWASCO Chapter Registrar # 678007), shows Henry Clay Carr (Aged 30) residing at the residence of his parents – Hartman Carr and Ann Brock in Union Springs, New York. (b). Page 226 of Cayuga County Biographical Review, also shows Henry Clay Carr as the 10th of 14 children of Hartman Carr and Ann Brock in Union Springs.
12. Hartmann Carr served in WWI, initially as a sergeant, then attended Officer Training and returned to the war on August 23, 1917. He served initially in intelligence, then in the closing days with the Tank Corps. He was awarded the Croix du Guerr, Purple Heart and the Distinguished Service Medal. Carr Family Scrap Book. Page 305.
13. General Washington’s orders to General John Sullivan, at Headquarters, May 31, 1779. See Stanley J. Adamiak’s “The 1779 Sullivan Campaign. A little known offensive strategic to the war breaks the Indian Nations’ power.”
14. Galpin. ‘Central New York: an Inland Empire. 1941. Vol II, p. 15.
15. Bradley James Carr (6th Generation) the second child of Harlan Bradley Carr of Carr’s Cove, had repeatedly pointed out to me during meetings with him in the fall of 1966 and again in the fall of 1970, that his father, (Harlan Bradley Carr) had repeatedly pointed out to him the location at Carr’s Cove where their forbearers had buried the Indian Chief. When asked where it was, Bud Carr stated it was a subject not discussed outside family circles.
16. “The Campaign against the Cayugas.” p. 178
17. Ibid. p. 177
18. Joyce M. Tice. “Tri-Counties Genealogy and History.” Major General John Sullivan’s 1779 Campaign Against the Iroquois. 2001 The Daily and Sunday Review, Towanda, Pa, reprinted with permission of James Towner, Publisher. P. 5.
19. Ibid. Following the 1779 Sullivan Campaign, the Gayuga reservation lands extended south and north from Union Springs. By 1795 (16 years later) much of this reservation land was lost to illegal white settlers. In 1795, through another treaty with the local Indian tribes, all white settlements on Cayuga lands were considered as land leases, which were henceforth legally able to be changed to a land purchase at about 1 cent per acre for 250 acre tracts. Twelve years later in 1807 the last Cayuga reservation land was confiscated and the tribal remnants moved west to reservations at Niagara others in Canada. (See pp 186-189)
20. See 1780 House of Commons Report, submitted by Major Forbes, 9th British Foot Regiment, page 61 of official documents relating to Burgoyne’s expedition concerning engagement at Fort Ann, New York, October 1780). Also see, Clinton S. Carr, Record of the Carr Family in America. Union Springs, New York, 1915, n.p., p.1.
21. Ibid. Also see Henry B. Carrington. “Battles of the American Revolution.” Barnes and Co. New York. 1876. p. 315. Also see House of Commons Report, page 61 of official documents relating to the Burgoyne expedition, October 1780. Another American captured with James Carr at Fort Anne was Samuel Brown of Albany, who escaped from prison in Canada in May 1881. Brown’s Pension file is #312211. (See James Roberts, NY in the Revolution as Colony and State, 1898. p. 29)
22. OpCit: See British Major Forbes, of the 9th Light Foot Regiment, late 1780 report to the House of Commons in London, concerning the engagement at Fort Anne, New York, on July 8, 1780, and his description of the two American battle flags captured and brought back to England.
23. Two cousins of Henry Carr were captured by Confederate forces at Beach Grove, South Carolina, and were later interned at Andersonville and died there. Army registration Book, Union Springs, New York, 1864., p. 5.
24. George Carr was wounded during some Civil War battle in 1862 and discharged. Later in the Civil War he joined the Union Navy and served aboard the Union warship which chased the Confederate warship ‘Shenandoah’ around the Horn of South America.
25. Hartman Carr is reported to have participated in the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Clinton S. Carr. Record of the Carr Family in America. 1915. n.p. Also see: Claudia Chappell’s, ‘ the Carr’s of Carr’s Cove: A historical research paper.’ April 11, 1962. Pp. 11-16.
26. See Gravestone at Union Springs Cemetery, New York
27. Edmund J. Raus, Jr. “A Generation On the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg.“ Thomas Publications, Gettysburg. 1996. p. 80.
Units of the Union Army were manned as follows: A Regiment contained 300 to 400 men. A Brigade contained 4 to 5 Regiments of about 1,500 men. A Division contained 2 Brigades of 3000 to 4000 men. A Corp contained 2 to 3 Divisions. An Artillery Battery contained 6 cannon
PART SEVEN
The 300 Year Genealogy
for MARGARET GANNON CARR
of Carr’s Cove, Union Springs, New York, 1713-2013.
DAR No: 836478 dated July 5, 2005.
Miscellaneous Ancestors of MARGARET G. CARR Associated with her direct line obtained from reliable research sources.
(1) the following children are listed for the union of JONATHAN CARR and Hanna Green (Second Generation) in Union Springs, and shown in Edson Carr’s 1889 book on the Carr’s.
1. Luman D. Carr, born December 29, 1814 in Union Springs, NY. He married twice with three children in Cayuga, NY.
2. Sylvia Carr, married JamesVan Gardner
3. Horace C. Carr, born August 27, 1819 married Ann Tobias and had several children who moved to Wisconsin.
4. Leonard H. Carr, born June 9, 182 married Lucy Ann Angel, had two children and moved to Wisconsin.
5. William E. Carr, was born on October 13, 1824 and died in 1935,
6. Daniel W Carr, was born October 9, 1828, married twice and had four children in Wisconsin.
7. Albert H. Carr, was born May 13, 1835.
(2) The following births and deaths of the children, grandchildren of JACOB CARR (born June 13, 1791 (Second Generation), were listed in the Family Records contained in a Family Bible of Jacob Carr, dated 1825. Jacob (BORN 9 May, 1823/3rd Generation) also married one of the Rorapaugh sisters (Betsy) in Union Springs. Their family Bible record was transcribed by Marion Gulliver in 1972, and are among records contained in the Frontenac Museum in Union Springs, NY. See “Records copied by Marion Gulliver, 1972 – Carr 1.” This record bears the handwritten page number 111 and 112. (Note: The following 19 names and dates and places of birth covering a span of 114 years, along with 10 deaths, appear to be general historical record of family and related family members of Jacob’s lineage.
BIRTHS
1. Jacob Carr Jun 13, 1791, in Johnstown, NY.
2. Betsy Carr Feb 14th, 1797, Ecremont, Mass.
3. Peter Carr Jun 2nd, 1818. Springport, NY.
4. Alexander Carr Jul 14th, 1820. at Springport, NY.
5. Caroline Carr Jun 1st, 1822,
6. Mariah Carr May 25th, 1824.
7. Lucinda Carr Sep 11th, 1826.
8. Luman Carr Jun 20, 1833.
9. Emily Carr Nov 29th, 1835.
10. Abigail A. Hopkins Carr Oct 2, 1816 in Groton , NY.
11. Annette A Carr Feb 26th, 1839 in Union Springs, NY.
12. George Edwin Carr Nov 3rd, 1840 I in Union Springs, NY.
13. Norman B. Carr Dec 6th, 1842 in Union Springs, NY.
14. Frederick Asher Carr Feb 8th, 1849 in Union Springs, NY.
15. Hiram Carr Nov16th, 1828.
16. Mariah Carr Dec 24, 1831.
17. Jessie Gertrude Carr Aug 20, 1876 in Union Springs, NY.
18. L. Dudley Carr Jun 22, 1880 in Union Springs, NY.
19. Virginia Irene Carr Mar 10, 1905 in Auburn, NY.
DEATHS
1. Mariah Carr Jul 27, 1828
2. Marah Carr (2nd) Apr 21, 1833
3. Luman Carr Mar 9, 1835
4. Betsy Carr Sep 27, 1838, in Union Springs, NY.
5. Annette A. Carr Aug 1, 1843, in Union Springs, NY.
6. Peter Carr Oct 20, 1879 in Union Springs, NY.
7. Abigail A. Carr Dec 29, 1898 in Auburn, NY.
8. Gertrude M. Carr Jun 7, 1908.
9. George Edwin Carr Dec 5, 1926 Town of Ledyard, NY.
10. Frederick Asher Carr Jan 9, 1930 in Auburn, NY.
(3) The following births and deaths of the children, grandchildren of PETER CARR, Born in Union Springs on June 2, 1818, and whose uncles were Hartman and Jonathan are listed in the Family Records contained in a Family Bible of Peter Carr, dated 1850. They were transcribed by Marion Gulliver in 1972, and are among records contained in the Frontenac Museum in Union Springs, NY. See “Records copied by Marion Gulliver, 1972 – Carr 1-2.” These pages also bear the handwritten page numbers 113 and 114. (Note: Names and dates and places of birth are as shown, and all may not be in the direct family line of Peter).
Family Record of Marriages (Page One of the Peter Carr Bible)
1. Peter Carr married on May 27, 1838
2. Norman B. Carr married on April 29, 1866
3. Annie F. Carr married on July 22, 1889.
4. Pearl F. Carr married on June 18, 1890
5. Laura H. Carr married on June 6, 1984.
Family Record of Births (Page Two of the Peter Carr Bible)
1. Peter Carr born June 2, 1818 in Union springs, NY.
2. Abigail A. Hopkins Carr born October 2, 1816 at Groton
3. Annette A Carr born February 26th 1839 at Union Springs, NY.
4. George E. Carr born November 3, 1840 in Union Springs, NY.
5. Norman B. Carr born December 6, 1842 in Union Springs, NY.
6. Frederick A. Carr born February 8, 1849 in Union Springs, NY.
7. Norman B. Carr born December 6, 1842 in Union Springs, NY.
8. Frances H, Carr born July 16, 1850 in Deriyter
9. Annie A Carr born November 27, 1868 in Union Springs, NY.
10. Pearl F. Carr born June 7, 1870 in Union Springs, NY.
11. Alice M. Carr born September 10, 1872 in Union Springs, NY.
12. Laura H. Carr born March 7, 1876 in Union Springs, NY.
Family Record of Deaths (Page Three of the Peter Carr Bible)
1. Annette A, Carr died August 1, 1843
2. Peter Carr died October 20, 1879.
3. Abigail Carr died December 29, 1898.
4. Alice M. Carr died December 3, 1873.
5. Frances H. Carr (Bugbee) died February 20, 1904. (**)
6. Annie A. Carr died August 11, 1904.
7. Pearl Frances Carr died August 1, 1945
8. Norman B. Carr died April 21. 1931.
9. Albert Norman Cleveland died April 30, 1957. (born March 5, 1893).
10. Laura H. Carr (Cleveland) died May 29, 1969.
(**) Frances H. Carr (Bugbee’s) daughter is Laura Fredrika Bugbee born July 19, 1893
Robert S. Miller
Carr Family Genealogist.
This sixteen page genealogical record prepared by Robert S. Miller Jr. is a historical record of James Karr (Born June 5, 1759), the 4th child of John Karr and Margaret Kile, who were married on December 6, 1743 in Boscawen, New Hampshire. This record was assembled for the membership of Margaret Gannon Carr, a direct descendant of James Karr, for acceptance in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), No: 836478 on July 5th, 2005.
Robert S. Miller
CARR/KARR/KERR Family Genealogist
January 31, 2009
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