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144 CARR FAMILY RECORDS—SEVENTH GEXEKATIOX.
2312 6. Elizabeth Ann Carr, b. May 2, 1833, d, Jan. 8, 1844.
2313x7. Joseph Middleton Carr, b. March 9, 183G. •
VII. Levi Carr (1261) was probabl}^ born in Massachusetts
about 1765. Young as he was, it is said that he was in the battle
of Saratoga with his father, owing no doubt to the fact that
his father lived so near that memorable battle Held, and the
connonading
on that occasion made him deaf for life. He
must have served in some capacity the remainder of the war,
for he received a pension from the government. He married
Ruth Goodrich in Saratoga county, about 1790, and later in
life settled in Manlius, N. Y., where he died in 1849. She died
in the same place. Their children were,
2314x1. Allen Goodrich Carr, b. 1791.
2315x2. Phebe Carr, 1). 1793.
2316x3. Levi Carr. b. 1795.
2317x4. Vader Carr, h. al^out 1707.
2318x5. Hannah Carr, 1).
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1799.
2319x6. Mason Carr, b.
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1800.
2320x7. Ruth Carr, b.
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1802.
2321x8. Margaret Carr, b. about 1803.
2322x9. Hulda Carr, b. June 29, 1805.
VII. Capt. John Carr (1262) born about 1767, in Massachu-
setts or Connecticut, married Prudence Benton, in Galway,
N. Y., in 1788. He was only a l)()y at the close of the revolutionary
war, luit he had early imbibed a spirit for military adventure,
which led him to some extent to jiarticipate in the Indian
warfare following the close of the revolution. Before he
had arrived to manhood, he with six of his comrades were one
day surprised and captured by a band of Indians who la\' in
ambush along their route, and taken a long distance into the
Indian country. The usual penalt}" of death was the decree
of the redinen's council, and active preparations were made to
have the execution as painfull as possible. 'I'hey were all stak-
eil tlown to the ground, blazing fag()ts applied to their bodies,
and sul)jected to a lingeiing death of most excruciating agony.
All suffered death in this horrible manner but John Carr,
whom the chief discovered to b^- a line singer, and while his
comrades shrieked in their awful suffering l)y the slow fire of
death, he was made to sing their heart-rending recpiiem. After
the consummation of this iiendish work of the savages, they