When Samuel Carter was born on 31 May 1734, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, his father, Thomas Carter, was 47 and his mother, Sarah Warner Gilbert, was 24. He married Martha Buell on 14 May 1759, in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Warren, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 April 1822, in Society of East Greenwich, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Society of East Greenwich, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Originally comprised a portion of Kent and was organized as the Society of East Greenwich
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"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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