Asa Carter

1750 - 1822  (71 years)

• Name	Asa Carter
  Birth	6 May 1750	Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  Moved To	abt1774 (23 years)	Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  Married	7 May 1774 (24 years)	Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  Betty Wood. She was born on 27 September 1753 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts and she died 15 January 1811 in Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Issue: 1. Eunice Carter (1774-1816) 2. Nathaniel Carter (1776-1784) 3. Joel Carter (1778-1825) 4. Asa Carter (1780-1833) 5. Abel Carter (1780-1844) 6. Betty Carter (1782-1782) 7. Betty Carter (1783-1784) 8. Jonas Carter (1785-1810) 9. Sewell Carter (1788-1821)
  Moved To	Abt 1781 (30 years)	Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, U.S.A.   [1]
  According to Carter (1887), "The tradition is that the way was marked only by cuts upon the trees; that he carried the two oldest children on one horse, while his wife followed with the twins, about a year old, on another."
  Moved To	Abt 1783 (32 years)	Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  History	say 1800 (49 years)  [1]
  According to Carter (1887), "He became blind, and many stories are told of his keen perception of persons and things, although deprived of sight. Hearing what he supposed to be a bear about the house one night, he seized an axe and threw it in the direction of the noise; the next morning a bear's foot and bloody tracks were found, and in a few weeks a bear which had lost one foot was killed in the woods near by."
  Death	21 Jan 1822	Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1]
  Agency: at the home of his son Abel
  Siblings	5 brothers and 5 sisters
  1. Elizabeth Carter,   b. 9 Feb 1734, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 24 Apr 1760, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 26 years) > 2. Captain Nathaniel Carter, Jr.,   b. 17 Dec 1735, Lancaster, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 13 Mar 1812, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 76 years) ▻ Dorothy Joslin,  m. 26 Jun 1760 ;   Prudence Wilder,  m. 20 May 1790 + 3. Elias Carter,   b. 24 Nov 1737, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 21 Dec 1821, Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 84 years) ▻ Deborah White,  m. 15 Nov 1760   4. Susannah Carter,   b. 20 Apr 1739, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Dec 1777, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 38 years)   5. Abigail Carter,   b. 10 May 1741, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 18 Jun 1813, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 72 years)   6. Prudence Carter,   b. 10 May 1741, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. After 1778  (Age 37 years)   7. Elisha Carter,   b. 11 Sep 1743, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 8 May 1746, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 2 years)   8. Samuel Carter,   b. 1 Aug 1746, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   9. Elisha Carter,   b. 12 Jul 1748, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   10. Asa Carter,   b. 6 May 1750, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 21 Jan 1822, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 71 years) > 11. Thankful Carter,   b. 6 Jun 1752, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. —, Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ▻ Captain Gardner Wilder,  m. 24 May 1775
  Patriarch & Matriarch	James Carter,   b. Abt 1578, Ipswich, Suffolk, England   (3 x Great Grandfather)  Isabel  (3 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I12847
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2017

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Carter,   b. 1706, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 20 Jul 1787, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Thankful Sawyer,   b. 1715   d. 5 Dec 1755, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F3338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Asa Carter(1750 – 1822) 2Nathaniel Carter(1706 – 1787) 4Samuel Carter(7 Jan 1677/78 – 1738) 8Rev. Samuel Carter(1640 – 1693) 16Rev. Thomas Carter(Abt 1610 – 1684) 17Mary Dalton( – 1687) 9Eunice Brooks(1655 – ) 18John Brooks 19Eunice Mousall 5Dorothy Wilder(1686 – 1738) 10Lt. Nathaniel Wilder(1655 – 1704) 20Thomas Wilder( – 1667) 21Anna( – 1692) 11Mary Sawyer(4 Jan 1652/53 – ) 22Thomas Sawyer(1616 – 1706) 23Mary Prescott(24 Feb 1629/30 – 1716) 3Thankful Sawyer(1715 – 1755) 6Elias Sawyer(1689 – 1752) 12Thomas Sawyer(1649 – 1736) 24Thomas Sawyer(1616 – 1706) 25Mary Prescott(24 Feb 1629/30 – 1716) 13Hannah Lewis(18 Mar 1648/49 – 1718) 26William Lewis( – 1671) 27Amy Wells( – 1670) 7Beatrix Pope 14John Pope(1658 – 1689) 28 29 15Beatrix Houghton(1685 – ) 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 6 May 1750 - Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Moved To - abt1774 - Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 7 May 1774 - Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Moved To - Abt 1781 - Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Moved To - Abt 1783 - Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 21 Jan 1822 - Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [s234] Carter, Clara A and Sarah A. Carter. Carter - A Genealogy of the Descendants of Samuel and Thomas, sons of Rev. Samuel Carter, (Clinton, Massachusetts: W. J. Coulter, Courant Office, 1887).