Pain Convers

Pain married Mary Halford. [Group Sheet]

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His [Samuel Carter, Sr.] son Samuel was the founder of Thompson, Conn., and had numerous descendants. --page 12, "Family History in the Line of Joseph Convers of Bedford, Massachusetts.

Samuel married Dorcas before 1694. [Group Sheet]

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From "Some Ancestors and Decsendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 11: 5. Sergeant Samuel Convers, of Woburn Mass., youngest son of Deacon Edward Convers, was baptized 12 March 1637-8, in the First Church, Charleston, Mass.; born probably but a few days or weeks earlier, died 20 February 1669. He married, 8 June 1660, Judith Carter, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Parkhurst) Carter.

From "Some Ancestors and Decsendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 12-13: Samuel Convers was admitted freeman, 1666, and was Sergeant in the Woburn Train Band. He came to an untimely death by an accident in the corn mill which he inherited jointly with his brothers from his father, Deacon Edward Convers. The records of his death, on file at East Cambridge, ...


Records of Samuel's death show James Thompson was a nephew.

Samuel married Judith Carter on 08 Jun 1660. Judith (daughter of Thomas Carter and Mary Parkhurst) died in 1677. [Group Sheet]

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From "Some Ancestors and Decsendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 11: "He [Samuel Convers] married, 8 June 1660, Judith Carter daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Parkhurst) Carter."

From "Some Ancestors and Decsendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 12: "Judith, wife of Samuel Convers, survived him, and married Giles Fifield, of Charlestown, 2 May 1672, and died 1677. Giles Fifield's will was proved 25 October 1676, in which he gives to his wife Judith "all she brought him." It also states, " I further give and bequeath unto Samuel Convers, and Abigail, his sister, as a Legaei of my love, to each of them ten shillings in silver, to be payed unto them by my executor." Judith Fifield's estate was appraised 3 October 1678."

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From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 1: Deacon Edward Convers was on of the select company of Puritans who came from England to this country in the fleet with Winthrop, whose ship, the "Arbella", preceding the other vessels of the fleet, arrived at Salem 12 June 1630, after a stormy passage of sixty-three days. With him came his wife, Sarah, and chilren, Josiah, James, and Mary. They settled first in Charlestown, Mass. "Edward Convers and Sarah Convers, his wife," were among the first members of the church received on the Sunday following its organization in Charlestown 30 July 1630, and which included in its congregation members on bothe sides of the river, the majority of who had removed to Boston within a few months. This was the First Church of Boston, and from it Edward and Sarah Convers and thirty-three other members were dismissed 14 October 1632, to be embodied as teh First Church of Charlestown, entering into mutual convenant for this purpose 2 November 1632.
The name of Edward Convers appears among those who "desire to be made freemaen" 19 October 1630, and took the oath as such 18 May 1631, these being the first to be admitted to the company in New England.
He established the first ferry between Charlestown and Boston under the vote of the General Court of 9 November 1630, and 14 June 1631 was authorized to charge, for ferrying, "two pence for every single person, and one penny apiece fi there be two or more." This lease was renewed 9 November 1637, for three years.

From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 3: He built the first house in Woburn previous to 4 January 1641, which was at the mill once called by his nme in the South Village, no Winchester. He also built this first mill there, a corn mill. The first bridge built in Woburn was next to his house and mill.

From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 5: "Mr. Hill, in his book, gives an account of what he states he had proof was the English ancestry of Deacon Edward Convers, the place of his residence in England as Wakerly, County of Northampton, the date of his birth as 30 January 1590, and his first wife as Jane Clarke, who died probably before 1617 and was the daughter of William Clarke of Theckenham, Worcestershir, England. Mrs. Sarah Convers died 14 January 1661-62, and Deacon Edward again married, 9 September 1662, Joanna Sprague, the widow of Ralph Sprague of Charlestown, Mass., the last two dates being from Woburn Records.

Richard Frothingham, in his History of Charlestown, Mass., says: --"She (Joanna) may have been Edward Convers' third wife." She bore no children to him, and she died 24 February 1679-80.

Deacon Edward Convers died in Woburn 10 August 1663. His will was dated August 1659, and recored 7 October 1663. His estate was valued at L827. In his will he mentions his wife, Sarah; his sons, Josiah, James, and Samuel; Edward, the son of James; his daughter Mary and her chilren by her first marriage; his "kinsman, Allen Convers;" "his kinsman," John Parker; and his "kinsworman" Sarah Smith. Mr. Eben Putnam suggest that Sarah Smith may be the Sarah Converse named in the will of Samuel Fuller of Plymouth, the good physician who relieved the sick at Salem and Charlestown, date and probated in 1633."

Edward Convers helped to establish and found the town of Woburn in 1640 which was organized in 1644, Massachucetts. He was selectman and Deacon of its church from its founding to his death.

Edward married Sarah before Jun 1630. Sarah died on 14 Jan 1661/62 in Wobrun, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 9: "He [Samuel Convers] married, 8 June 1660, Judith Carter, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Parkhurst) Carter. Rev. Thomas Carter was the first minister in Woburn, and continued in that position forty-two years. He died, in Woburn, 5 September 1684, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He matriculated at St. Johns College, Univ. Cambridge, England, 1 April 1626, at which University he took degree of A.B., january 1629-30, and M.A., 1633. Sewall's History of Woburn says that he came to this country, while yet a student of divinity, in 1635, and may reasonably be supposed to be the Thomas Carter who embarked with forty others, at London, 2 April 1635, on board the "Planter," Capt. Nicholas Trariee, bound to New England. the passengers brought with them certificates from the minister at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, which has led to the supposition that Rev. Thomas Carter came from that place. He was first in Dedham where he took the freeman's oath 9 march 1636-7. Thence he removed to Watertown, where he was an Elder in the Church, and proprietor of a homestead of ten acres, and a farm of ninety two acres. It was probably in Watertown [MA] that he married Mary Parkhurst, who died 28 March 1687."

From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 10: "When Rev. Thomas Carter was first invited to preach at Woburn 3 November 1641, it is mentioned as a reason for his not being applied to earlier that it had been doubted whether Watertown would be willing to part with him." he was ppointed minister of the Church in Woburn in 1642, and was ordained 22 November 1642. Thise is an account of his ordination in "The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 by John Winthrop, Esq., First Governor of Mass.," and also in Capt. Edward Johnson's "Wonder-Working Providence," wihich describes him as a "reverend, godly man, apt to teach the sound and wholesome truths of Christ," and one who had "much encreased with the encreasings of Christ Jesus."


Possible had a son or brother named John Carter. This name shows up on wills and court documents

Thomas married Mary Parkhurst. Mary (daughter of George Parkhurst) died on 28 Mar 1687. [Group Sheet]

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From "Some Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr." page 9-10: He [Samuel Convers] married, 8 June 1660, Judith Carter, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Parkhurst) Carter. ... It was probably in Watertown [MA] that he married Mary Parkhurst, who died 28 March 1687. She was the daughter of George Parkhurst, Senior, of [page 10] Watertown, but was long supposed to have been born a Dalton. The late William H. Whitmore, however, in new England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. 37, p. 364, printed a deed of Ruth wife of Rev. Timothy Dalton, of Hampton, dated 22 March 1663-4, and also her will dated 8 December 1665. Mr. John L. Blake of Orange, J. J., in a most carefully prepared monograph entitle the English Home of Timothy Dalton, makes clear the exact relationship in which the Daltons and Carters stood. Mr. Whitmore assumed that Ruth Dalton was the sister (or possibly the sister-in-law) of George Parkhurst, Sr., of Watertown, Mass. In that case, Deborah Smith, Elizabeth Merry, Phebe Arnold, Joseph Parkhurst, George Parkhurst, and Mary Carter, who are known to have been his children, were respectively the nephews and nieces of Mrs. Dalton. These were all beneficiaries under the deed aforesaid. In Sewall's History of Woburn, page 161, the wife of Rev. Thomas Carter is described as "Mrs. Mary (Dalton) Carter." Her son-in-law, John Wyman, Jr., "reseved" a part of the "legeisie weh whas given to my mother-in-law Merri Carter by Mrs. Ruth Dalton of Hampton deiseised."