This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground
(First Burial Ground) in Woburn, Massachusetts
MEMENTO FUGIT
MORI HORA
HERE LYES Ye BODY OF
CAP. JOHN CARTER
AGED ABOUT 76
YEARS, DECEASED Ye
14 OF SEPTEMBER 1692
Captain John Carter, my 8th great grandfather,
was the son of Thomas Carter (1585 – 1652) and his wife, Mary (died 1665), of
Charlestown, Massachusetts. John Carter
was born about 1617 in England and died 14 September 1692 in Woburn,
Massachusetts. He married first to
Elizabeth Kendall, my 8th great grandmother, in 1642 in Woburn. She had five children, and died on 6 May 1691
in Woburn. John Carter married a second
time, to Elizabeth Groce, in 1692.
My CARTER lineage:
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Tombstone Tuesday ~ Captain John
Carter, buried 1692 in Woburn, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July
25, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/tombstone-tuesday-captain-john-carter.html: accessed [access date]).
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