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CAK'K' I'AMll.Y K'i;'/()K'I)S I'll Til (ilvNKK AT[( )N. 61
civil behavior. And as it was Iut wish, so it is iiiitie, that you
should not make 3'ourselves too line. vS[)eak no bad words, take
not (rod's name in vain l)y any means, keep no 1)ad company,
tell no lidsehoods, be not forward in idle discourse, be just in
N'oiir dealinos as I have been, punetual to your promises,
charital)le to the i)oor, and keep to tlu> I*^-ieiids' plain language.
And if ^'ou sliould arrive to be men and women, and are inclined
to niarr>', set not ^our affections on any ])ers()n till you
lind them to be well groundetl in your own religion, and to be
living in the fear of God. For that with a morsel will be bet-
ter to you llian great riches without it. To my children, given
l)\- me your father, 4th month, 19th da}', 17()2, Caleb Carr."
The children of Caleb and Sarah Carr were,
()70xl. Mary Carr, b. Sept. 80, 1747.
()71x2. Job Carr, b. July 15, 1750.
()72 3. Thonuis Carr, b. Jan. 27, 17513, d. April 8, 17o8.
(578x4. Samuel Carr, b. Oct. 22, 1754.
(574x5. Isaac Carr, b. March 10, 1757.
(575x6. Hannah Carr, b. Sept. 10, 1759.
676x7. Sarah Carr, b. April 14, 17(32.
V. Capt. Caleb Carr (840) born in Newport, K. I., 1720, married
Elizabeth Phillips, in Newport, Nov. 15, 1741, bj^ Rev.
Nicholas Eyres. She was born in 1722, and died Feb. 28, 1805.
He died Dec. 30, 1783. The following is a cop}' of Capt. Carr's
commission in the colonial service:
"By the Hon. Samuel Ward, Esquire, Governor, Captain General
and Commander-in-Chief of and over the English colony
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation in New Eno-land.
in America."
"To Caleb Carr, Gentleman, Greeting: Whereas the General
Assembly of the colony aforesaid, at their session in Newport
on the first Wednesday' in this instant, may chose and appoint
\()u the said Caleb Carr,^Captain of Fort George upon Goat
Island, in the township of Newport, in the colon}' aforesaid, I
do therefore in the Name of His Most Sacred Majesty George
the Third b}' the (rraceof God King of Great Britain, &c., hereby
authorize, emjiower and commission you the said Caleb
Carr to have, take and exercise the Office of Captain of the
Fort aforesaid, with full Power and Authority to conduct, order
and command all such Officers and Soldiers as do or sliall