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| Fact 1: 1759 Cornwall, CT 2 |
| Fact 2: 1763 To Pike Co., PA 2 |
| Reference: CRTR129 |
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| Sarah Bennett (Wife) b. 4 Mar 1708/09 in Stonington, New London, CT
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| Marriage: | 8 Nov 1739 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT |
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 Jemima Carter b. 2 May 1742 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
- Mary Carter b. 13 Jul 1744 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
- Nathan Carter b. 16 Apr 1748 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
- Sarah Carter b. 22 Dec 1750 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
- Elizabeth Carter b. 28 Aug 1754 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
 Nathaniel Carter b. About. 1756 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT
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Jemima (Carter) Bates, the mother of Desire Bates, came from a branch of the Carter family sometimes called the "Killingworth (Ct.) Carters," said to be descended from Robert Carter, a shipbuilder who came from Bristol, Eng., about 1700 to Guilford or Killingworth, Ct. He is said to have had children, John, Benjamin, Samuel, Joseph, William, Mary and Nathaniel,--the youngest, and the only one born in Connecticut, so far as the records of Guilford and Killingworth show. Nathaniel, born in Killingworth April 27, 1717, married there Nov. 8, 1739, Sarah Bennett, to whom were born in Killingworth, Jemima, (May 2, 1742), Mary, Nathan, Sarah, Elizabeth and Nathaniel. In the spring of 1759 Nathaniel Carter bought land in the town of Cornwall, Ct., not far from the Warren line, where he lived until the spring of 1763, when he again removed with some other families to a new settlement in what is now Pike County, Pa., taking with him three or more children. Jemima had recently married Isaac Bates and was not of the party, and it is supposed that Nathan also remained behind. Mary died 1759.
In the autumn of the same or following year, the entire family excepting Sarah, Elizabeth and Nathaniel, were massacred by Indians. The two girls were later ransomed and returned to their friends in Cornwall, but the boy, Nathaniel, in some way got into the Cherokee Nation, where he married and had several children, one of whom, David, later by a strange coincidence attended the famous mission school at Cornwall, Ct., his father's old home. He there met his relatives, but would not remain after finishing his course at the school. He returned to his home and became Chief Justice of the Cherokee Nation, Delegate to Congress, and died at Talequah, I. T., Jan. 6, 1867, leaving a family of eleven children.
Five of his sons served in the Confederate army, two as officers. Richard organized and was elected Captain of an independent company for the Confederate forces in May, 1861, in which position he remained until the close of the war in 1865. Benjamin W. was made Captain of a company, 1st Cherokee Regt., in 1863, which position he held until the close of the war. All of the children attained honorable positions in life and their descendants are widely scattered. Hon. Charles David Carter, now (1909) a representative in Congress from Oklahoma, is a great-grandson of Nathaniel Carter, who was captured by the Indians.
The daughter, Elizabeth, married Benjamin Oviatt of Goshen, Ct., and became the mother of a large family, many of whom and their descendants have been of much prominence both in Connecticut and in the West. Theodore G. Carter Esq., for many years connected with the Chicago and Northwestern R. R., is a descendant of the son Nathan.
("A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Carter")
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