James CARTER^[1]

1740 - 1818  (78 years)

• Name	James CARTER
  Born	11 Feb 1740	Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine
  Gender	Male
  DNA Fact	confirmed by triangulation
  DAR#	A019947
  Military Event	American Revolution - MA, Capt Nathaniel Fales, Maja Bagaduce: Pvt  [2]
  Served American Revolution?	Y
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	20 Jun 1818	Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine   [3]
  Buried	unknown
  Person ID	I7278	Main
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	John CARTER,   b. 1719, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 30 Jun 1754, Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine  (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Hannah SANDS,   b. Abt 1719, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Oct 1755, Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Married	27 Jan 1738	Biddeford, York, Maine   [4, 5]
  	Int 7 Jan 1738
  Family ID	F1495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia DAY,   b. 13 Feb 1743, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Aug 1828, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 85 years)
  Married	4 Jan 1764	Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine
  Children	+ 1. James CARTER,   b. 31 Oct 1764, Damariscotta, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. 4 Nov 1834, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 70 years)   2. Lydia CARTER,   b. 25 Oct 1765, Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. Jun 1834, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 68 years) + 3. Joanna CARTER,   b. 3 Dec 1766, Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. 1839, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 72 years) + 4. David CARTER,   b. 24 Jul 1768, Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. 14 Mar 1844, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 75 years) + 5. Mary E. CARTER,   b. 14 Jan 1770, Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. 5 Mar 1857, Bartlett's Island, Hancock, Maine  (Age 87 years) + 6. Hannah CARTER,   b. 14 Apr 1771, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 12 Apr 1829  (Age 57 years)   7. Jerusha CARTER,   b. 11 Aug 1772, Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine ,   d. 28 Feb 1773, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 0 years)   8. John CARTER,   b. 6 Feb 1774, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 28 Feb 1774, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 0 years) + 9. John CARTER,   b. 31 Mar 1775, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 19 Dec 1858, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  (Age 83 years) + 10. Abigail W. CARTER,   b. 30 Aug 1778, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 1 Feb 1844, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine  (Age 65 years)   11. Judith CARTER,   b. 21 Jul 1780, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 14 Sep 1839, Islesboro, Waldo, Maine  (Age 59 years)   12. Robert CARTER,   b. 29 Oct 1782, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine ,   d. 7 May 1807, At sea Sulawesi, Tengah, Indonesia  (Age 24 years)
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F2844	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 20 Jun 1818 - Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Military: Bet 1 Aug 1779 and 29 Aug 1779 Castine, Hancock, Maine. Came from Edgecomb Maine to Blue Hill in 1770. —— Revolutionary note: Expedition —— The expedition organized by the Americans in June, 1779, to dislodge the British who had occupied the point where is now the town of Castine, Maine, as a base of supplies and a naval station, has been known in history as the Bagaduce expedition, but at that time was called "The Expedition to the Penobscot." The arm of the sea now called Bagaduce River was in former times called Matchebiguatus, an Indian name meaning at a place where there is no safe harbor. At the time of the Revolution it was known as Maja-Bagaduce, which was contracted into Bagaduce and hence the name of the expedition. The fact that the campaign was a disastrous failure has probably deterred historians from the preparation of a full history of the affair; but as it was one of the most prominent events in Maine's Revolutionary history, it seems proper that the service, with the company rolls of the men who composed the regiments, should be recorded. The men were in no wise responsible for the results, and no doubt acted as well as they could under the circumstances in which they found themselves placed. http://www.kinquest.com/usgenealogy/revwar/bagaduce.php —— The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted during the Revolutionary War by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 smaller support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779 for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying a ground expeditionary force of more than 1,000 colonial Marines and militiamen. Also included was a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Colonel Paul Revere. The Expedition's goal was to reclaim control of what is now mid-coast Maine from the British who had seized it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland. It was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place both on land and at sea in and around the mouth of the Penobscot and Majabigwaduce Rivers at what is today Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August of 1779. One of its greatest victories of the war for the British, the Expedition was also the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later in 1941. On June 17 of that year, British Army forces under the command of General Francis McLean landed and began to establish a series of fortifications centered on Fort George, located on the Majabigwaduce Peninsula in the upper Penobscot Bay, with the goals of establishing a military presence on that part of the coast and establishing the colony of New Ireland. In response, the Province of Massachusetts, with some support from the Continental Congress, raised an expedition to drive the British out. The Americans landed troops in late July and attempted to establish a siege of Fort George in a series of actions that were seriously hampered by disagreements over control of the expedition between land forces commander Brigadier General Solomon Lovell and the expedition's overall commander, Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, who was subsequently dismissed from the Navy for ineptness and failure to effectively prosecute the mission. For almost three weeks General McLean held off the assault until a British relief fleet under the command of Sir George Collier arrived from New York on August 13, driving the American fleet to total self-destruction up the Penobscot River. The survivors of the American expedition were forced to make an overland journey back to more populated parts of Massachusetts with minimal food and armament. —— From “The Carter Families of Hancock County” Blew hillbay Fabruary 25d 1779 Cornel Buck Sir I Have Reseved a Grait Loss By the ingins I now Live On A island Alone & the Ingins Came & sott Down here with me & there Dogs Have Drove 6 sheep in the water & Drowned Them & I have gott 2 fleeses out of them & 3 yews & the Rest was All Lost The ingins ses that if I Right to you that they will pay you so that I may have may pay if they Dont Pay you I should Be glad that you wold send me word to Cornel Holt & some of them ses that Cornal Johnathan Lowder will pay me there is 3 or 4 injuns that must pay Sum says that one did Drive them (some) that the other Did Drive tham But it Layes in the Club (group?) for they All sott Down together there was meeseee & sabattes & Little Essah & Sabees & I shall be very Glad if you wold Be so kind As to Take sum Note of thes fue lins & Git the pay or Let me in sum way to Git it for i am a poor man & want toe wool to cloath my Famely very much the injuns Has Desirerd that I should send to you By them So No more A present But I Remain you Most ABliged. Frind James Carter Sir pray send me A fue lins to Cornel Heth. [6, 7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] Blue Hill, ME: Vital Records, 1766-1809., Grace Limeburner. [S24] Daughters of the American Revolution, A019947. [S188] Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910, "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F48G-K4C : 16 January 2020), James Carter, 1818.--. [S248] Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q219-11NQ. [S250] . [S24] Daughters of the American Revolution. [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penobscot_Expedition.