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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Carter
Given Name:
Thomas
Soundex Code:
C636
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
Town:
London
County:
Middlesex
Nation:
England
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1635
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Massachusetts
Research Notes
Comments:
"Thomas Carter was also recorded as a servant but was in fact a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, and in Massachusetts he served as a minister first at Dedham, and then at Woburn." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999), 63; (2) John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 (1874; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 46.