Other Events:

• _FSFTID: 2739-94R
• _UID: 554BAEBC8E494D44B0059E564E29A482B878

Notes:

Buried:
Mount Union Cemetery

Other Events:

• _FSFTID: LDJH-RFN
• _UID: 246A95E0B8184683A1BFB33A8E984380D296

George married Abigail Gunn on 3 Jul 1814 in Owasco, Cayuga, New York, United States. Abigail (daughter of Elisha Gunn and Mindwell Carver) was born on 8 May 1796 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jul 1882 in Marengo, Mchenry, Illinois; was buried in Boone, Iowa, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _FSFTID: KLL8-QKF
• _UID: 30BDCF6A419F48F8BA77525258EE6227EADC

Notes:

Buried:
Garden Prairie Cemetery

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: L4TH-3J3
• _UID: 11E45F1769064DF8A49F52B0249522609F79
• Arrival: 7 Aug 1818, Maumee Valley, Lucas, Ohio; with his family aboard the small vessel the "Sally"

Elisha married Mindwell Carver on 28 Oct 1782 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts. Mindwell (daughter of Jonathan Carver and Abigail Robbins) was born on 1 May 1762 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 5 Feb 1825 in Monclova, Lucas, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LZTG-W3S
• _UID: 91AB4560D16044B7AF6116CB78B862B040D4

Other Events:

• Military: 1776–78, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; during the Revolutionary War as lieutenant in Capt. Moses Harvey's company, Hampshire County regiment,
• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LHX6-2Z2
• _UID: 4109A5C1E6BE4AEBAC1CE3441D50F7C19D60
• Residence: 1790, Montague, Hampshire, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1800, Montague, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Notes:

Gravestone Inscription: Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn died Apr. 22, 1807 in the 82nd year of his age. "Good health, prosperity and peace/With love to Christian friends/Made him bid welcome to the guests, pilgrims, strangers/Where they waited, waited long and sang the praise of the Lord/But sweetness and the heartfelt pang his last years did afford."
Nathaniel Gunn Lieut. is the son of Nathaniel, one of the 40 original settlers of Montague, Mass. From the information that we can gather, it appears that Nathaniel continued to operate the Tavern in Montague that was first built by his father. Other records indicate that Nathaniel served as a Selectmen of Montague for 1778-1779 and again in 1781.

Buried:
in Old South Cemetery

Nathaniel married Dorothy Marsh on 21 Mar 1745 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of Ebenezer Marsh and Elizabeth Gillett) was born on 28 Jul 1723 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1805 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; was buried in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LLCW-NZJ
• _UID: F5FDE47208524B2F8513511C89ED1AB263D0

Notes:

Gravestone Inscription: Mrs. Dorothy, consort of Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn, died July 13, 1805, aet' 82. "Who, after she patiently endured/As seeing Him who is invisible/And faithfully served her generation/By the will of God she fell asleep."

Buried:
in Old South Cemetery

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LCG7-T68
• _UID: 76C5C322608746C8951CCD4F315B2A11A95F

Notes:

Jonathan Carver was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on April 13, 1710. Little is known about his life until he joined the colonial militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Much of his time in the militia was spent at forts along the frontier. When he mustered out after eight years, Carver held the rank of Captain. By this time, he was 53 years old. With western lands opening up, Carver bought books on cartography and surveying so that he would be able to make maps of the new frontier.
Captain Carver’s opportunity to explore the expanded frontier materialized in 1766 when a party was organized to map part of the new land and find a western water route which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. Carver was charged with documenting geography as well as the number and location of Indians. He was also told to describe the trade posts that they encountered along the way.
Carver spent the winter of 1767 around Saint Anthony Falls and along the Minnesota River. When the rest of the party joined him that spring, they began to explore the area but quickly ran out of supplies and were forced to turn back. During the rest of 1767 and early 1768, Carver spent much of his time at the frontier Fort Michilimackinac in Michigan where he worked on his journals documenting their exploration. He then traveled to London where he found an editor to liven up his journals for wide-spread publication.
Carver’s book, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 was published in 1778 and immediately found critical acclaim. Unfortunately, the book’s profits did not come soon enough for Carver. He died destitute in 1780.
By 1789 praise for the book had faded and many were questioning the validity of Carver’s exploration claims and accused him of plagiarizing the work of other explorers. The controversy was heightened when Carver’s descendants claimed that two Dakotah chiefs had deeded the Captain thousands of acres of land in what is now southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Many, including the federal government, saw this claim as fraudulent and it has never been treated as valid.
The controversy over Travels persisted until the original journals documenting his explorations were discovered at the British Museum in the early 1900s. The journals helped prove that his book’s inaccuracies and plagiarism were based on the work of Carver’s editor, not Carver. And while the validity of his land claim has never been fully resolved to the satisfaction of his descendants, Jonathan Carver’s work as an explorer has been exonerated by most historians. - unknown

From HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SUNDERLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MONTAGUE & LEVERETT
By John Montague Smith (1899)

CARVER, JONATHAN, from Canterbury, Ct., doubtless descended from Robert Carver (believed to be the grand nephew of John Carver, financier of the Mayflower expedition and first Governor of The Plymouth Colony), who settled in what is now Marshfield, sometime prior to 1636. He married 1746, in Canterbury, Ct., Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and Phebe (Sevine) Robbins; lived in Montague, perhaps also in Northfield; soldier in the last French and Indian war, and narrowly escaped with his life at the massacre of Fort William Henry; afterwards Captain. In June, 1766, at his own cost and risk, he undertook a journey into the vast territory acquired by Great Britain at the establishment of peace in 1763. "What I had chiefly in view," he says, after gaining a knowledge of the manners customs, languages, soil and natural productions of the different nations that inhabit the back of the Mississippi, was to ascertain the breadth of that vast continent which extends from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean, in its broadest part, between 43 and 46 degrees, northern latitude. Had I been able to accomplish this, I intended to have proposed to government to establish a post in some of those parts about the Straits of Annian, which having been first discovered by Sir Francis Drake, of course belong to the English." The straits of Annian are not known by that name at the present day, but Seattle and Tacoma now flourish in the region where Carver would have established his post. However, the head waters of the Mississippi was the remotest region which he reached. He was everywhere hospitably received by the natives; was five months with the Nandowissies, who made him a chief. But few of them had ever before seen a white man. He arrived at Boston on his return journey, Oct., 1768, and the next year went to London, where he published his book of travels, of which there have been about 20 editions. He entered into a project with Richard Whitworth, Esq., a man of means, to equip an expedition to carry out his original intention and not only that, but to find a passage from the Pacific to Hudson's Bay (The elusive Northwest Passage. King George II was offering a reward of 100,000 Pounds Sterling for its discovery). They were to have erected a fort at Lake Pepin by which to hold the new possessions and open them up to development, but the commencement of the Revolution thwarted their plans.He recognized the value of this section of country, which later explorers pronounced a barren region, incapable of sustaining a large population.

He started on his expedition, from Boston in June, 1766. He travelled in all as much as 7000 miles, by canoe along the shores of the Great lakes alone with one guide, and explored much of the territory in the present State of Minnesota. He spent some time with the Indians, and as a reward for negotiating a peace treaty between them, received from two of their chiefs a deed to 12,000 acres of land on the Mississippi, east of Lake Pepin and the Falls of St. Anthony. (This account is largely thought to have been a fraud or a myth, perpetrated to generate income, but for nearly 50 years a large tract of land appeared on maps of the U.S. designated as "Carver's Tract", and areas of Minnesota still bear his name. See "The Journals of Jonathan Carver" by John Parker, Minnesota Press, for a studied treatment of this issue. ISBN 0-87351-099-2) He returned to Boston in October, 1768, and, having spent his entire fortune in carrying out his explorations, he sailed the next year for England, where he petitioned the Government for a reward for his services. He received nothing, except permission to publish his journal and charts. In 1778 the first edition of his book appeared in London, under the title, "Three Years' Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America." For this he received nothing except his expenses, and less than two years later he died in poverty. After his death the book had a large sale, and before the close of the century eight editions had been published.

Jonathan married Abigail Robbins on 20 Oct 1746 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Nathaniel Robbins and Elizabeth Leavens) was born in 1726 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; died on 9 Nov 1802 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont; was buried in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LC26-VVB
• _UID: 36AD9A745CD84F5AA06F001100B779E70507
• Baptism: 17 Apr 1726, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; in Canterbury First Congregational Church

Notes:

Abigail's grave stone was very hard to read. We gently removed some of the moss so it was readable. It reads Abigail Carver Died Nov.9,1802 in the 73rd. year of her life. A virtuous wife, a mother dear, To friends and neighbors very near, She left them all in peace and love, We trust she's gone to dwell above. - Notes by esmiley161 on ancestry.com

Buried:
Brandon Congregational Church yard

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: ML6G-PJ7
• _UID: C4EE0DCD84994DA7A7A5239E9463B4C91E42

Notes:

Gravestone Inscription: Mr. Nathaniel Gunn, died Nov. 29, 1779, aged 86. "The Lord be served/The Saints be preaised/The poor be fed/The vile reproved/Himself deney'd, and when he died/Oh welcome death/Aloud he cried."
"Had three wives and seven children. One of the first settlers of the town of Montague locating there about 1726." - From "A Typical Puritan Town"

"One of the 40 first settlers of Sunderland, Mass.; home lot, No. 8, East side. He succeeded his father as town clerk in 1730, but soon returned to Hatfield. His children, Elisha and Ester, were born in Hatfield, Mass. After 1739 he returned and settled in 'Hunting Hills'" - From "History of the Town of Sunderland Massachusetts"

Buried:
in Old South Cemetery

Nathaniel married Esther Belden on 26 Nov 1724 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Stephen Belden and Mary Wells) was born on 1 May 1697 in Hatfield, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 12 Feb 1779 in Franklin, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LH6W-57Q
• _UID: 65C22B4F50224E5995E195459DBC664E17D6

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LLCW-NZH
• _UID: C78331B6A6D24374B4468D9B3D149B50BE1E

Ebenezer married Elizabeth Gillett in 1707 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Gillett and Esther) was born on 12 Apr 1689 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 8 Mar 1753 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LKKM-JM8
• _UID: A93914DE37F046BAB4770F646F32F51241EC
• Baptism: 12 Apr 1689, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LH5F-MK5
• _UID: 3CF5B24CB9874426A75F5E2E894CF88AC297
• Possessions: 1681, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachucetts; moved with his mother from Marshfield to Weymouth, Mass.
• Possessions: 28 Apr 1718, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; sold his property to Benjamin Dyer in Weymouth and moved to Canterbury, Conn.

Notes:

Buried:
in Neck O' Land Cemetery

David married Hannah Dyer in 1709 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Capt. Joseph Dyer and Hannah Baxter) was born on 13 Feb 1683 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died before 1722 in prob. Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LZCR-R1X
• _UID: 7AE85E94A5694B81B956E7C4F3F86B7FBDFF

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LC85-JRN
• _UID: 3E667408C33F4C48BEB334E9D306574BBFE4

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Leavens. Elizabeth was born in 1688 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut; died on 9 Sep 1729 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• _COLOR: 8
• _FSFTID: LC85-J22
• _UID: BB1456942D93454BB1241A524D02FD740A38