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16 CAlJK FAMILY RECORDS—-SECOXD GENfERATIO^J.
Newport,
R. I., with his brother Robert about 1640, He held
many offices of public trust and honor during his lifetime, and
accumulated considerable property. He was general treasur-
er from May 21, 1661, to May 22, 1662. In 1687-8, he was justice
of the General Quarterly Session and Inferior Court of Cominon
Pleas. He was governor of the colony in 1695, \vhich last
office he held till his death, which occurred on the 17th day of
December, of the same year. He was drowned. In religious
belief he was a Friend or Quaker.
He had seven children by his first wife Mercy, (probably
Merc}^ Vaughan) who died Sept. 21, 1675, and was buried in the
family burying ground. The inscription on her gravestone
reads as follows: "Here lieth interred ye body of Mercy Carr,
first wife t>f Caleb Carr, who departed this life ye 21st day of
September, in ye 45th year of her age, and in the year of our
Lord, 1675. His second wife was Sarah Clarke, (Widow Pinner)
daughter of Jeremiah Clarke, and sister of Gov. Walter Clarke,
and by whom he had four children. She was born in 1651 and
died in 1706.
He died Dec. 17, 1695, and was buried in the family- burying
ground on Mill street, beside his first wife. The inscri}>tit)n
on his tombstone reads: "Here lieth interred the body of Caleb
Carr, governor of this colony, who departed this life ye 17th
day of December, 1695, in 3^e 73rd (79) year of his age."
The following is a cop3" of Gov. Caleb Carr's last will
testament:
and
"In the name of God, Amen. The eighth day
of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninetythree
or four, 1693-4, 1, Caleb Carr, of Newport, on Rhode Island,
in their Majesty's colony' of Rhode Island. King's Province
and Providence Plantation, in New England, in America, l)eiii^
years of age, and being now of perfect mind
and memory, (thanks be given unto (rod,) therefore calling to
mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed
for all men once to die, do make and ordain this niN- last
will and testament, in manner and form following: That is to
say, first and principally, I give my soul into the hands of God
who gave it me, and for my body, 1 commend it to ye earth, to
be buried in christian ami decent manner; and as touching
such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased Crod to bless me