| Name | Capt. Caleb CARVER  |
| Birth | 26 Apr 1734, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Death | prob. ca 1798, prob. Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Father | Caleb CARVER (1715-<1786) |
| Mother | Abigail SHERMAN (1710-1795) |
| 1 | Abigail DAMON |
| Birth | Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Death | prob. Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Father | Ebenezer DAMON |
| Mother | Abigail THOMAS |
| Marriage | 25 Mar 1756, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Children | Melzar (1756-) |
| Ruth (1758-) | |
| Caleb (1762-~1830) | |
| Abigail (1764-) |
Caleb Carver Jr. & Abigail Dammond - Mar. 25, 1756
The Carver Family of New England, Clifford Nickels Carver, 1935, p. 100, mentions that Capt. Caleb & son Melzar were 'proscribed and banished.' He was quoting Sabine's Loyalists.
Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778 online lists both Caleb Carver and his son, Melzar Carver at web site belonging to R. Wallace Hale: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/Mass-Banishment-Act.html (It prints out to nine pages. Many towns and counties and locations in Maine are apparently named for people listed in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778, since many seem to have gone to Maine when they were proscribed and banished.)
Further Loyalist info: http://www.uelac.org/links.html
Sabine's Loyalists, Fragments, transcribed by R. Wallace Hale, CD-ROM; available through his web site http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/ (this is the earlier two publications of Sabine's Loyalists, not the last reprint with added information that does not include a mention of Caleb and Melzar - this is a copy and paste from Hale's CD - the information in square brackets is additional data Hale found about Caleb):
Carver.
Of Massachusetts. Caleb and Melzer, of Marshfield, were proscribed and banished in 1778. The latter embarked at Boston with the Royal Army for Halifax, in 1776. Of Pennsylvania. Nathan, of Philadelphia, attainted of treason and estate confiscated.
[Wright's 'Loyalists of New Brunswick,' lists Caleb Carver, of Massachusetts, a grantee at Parrtown. Bell's 'Early Loyalist Saint John,' indicates his family at New York consisted of a wife and eight children, all over ten years of age; arrived on the transport vessel 'Amity's Production,' without family. Caleb's Will, dated 14 May, 1798, at Springfield, Kings County, proved 15 May, 1827, names wife "Abigale," son "Melzor," other children. See Hale's 'Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835,' p. 73.]
??? Apparently Caleb (& Abigail) died at Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick where his will was made; transcribed by R. Wallace Hale who published it in his book Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835. p 73.
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick sent me a microfilm image of Caleb Carver's will (images of the entire two-page will are on this page which fills in other data in the transcription), as well as microfilm documents of two deeds where he's named, but the Provincial Archives could not find any record of death certificates for either Caleb or Abigail. Further research will be necessary to discover where Capt. Caleb Carver and his wife, Abigail, died, although it looks like it was probably in New Brunswick. However, I believe this is new information to U.S. researchers because I've yet to find any data online indicating anyone else has this information, and I've so far not found any information on any published Carver genealogies available to me that has published this data.
Provincial Archives Deed #1:
CARVER, Caleb
Volume: NS-A
Page: 39
Grant: 70
Place/Parish: Parr Town
County: Sunbury County
Date: 1785/01/02
Accompanying plan: No
Acreage: 0
Microfilm: F16301
Comments: Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/08/14
Other names on this grant: (0)
Provincial Archives Deed #2
CARVER, Caleb
Volume: A
Page: 40
Grant: 80
Place/Parish: Belleisle Bay
County: Kings County
Date: 1786/09/26
Accompanying plan: No
Acreage: 195
Microfilm: F16302
Comments: --
Other names on this grant: (102) [including Daniel Jenkins, one of the witnesses of Caleb's will]
Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835, R. Wallace Hale, CD-ROM
CARVER, Caleb
Town of Springfield, Kings County. Will dated 14 May 1798, proved 15 May 1827.
"Being Verey Infirm in Bodey," etc. Wife Abigale the improvement of one third of all real estate during her life, then to belong to my daughter Sarah. Son Melzor one shilling. Son Caleb one shilling. Son Ebenezer one shilling. Daughter Ruth one shilling. Daughter Abigale one shilling. Daughter Marey one shilling. Daughter Sarah all my land, "my Catle Beads and all my Houshold Firneture and Farming Utentisals."
Daughter Sarah sole executrix. Witnesses: Peregrine WHITE, Nathaniel JENKINS, Daniel JENKINS.
Probate granted 15 May 1827 to Sarah CARVER "otherwise called Sarah WALKER."
Much more research needs to be done on this family.
Caleb Carver Jr. & Abigail Dammond - Mar. 25, 1756
If Caleb's will is correct, at least three other children may need to be added to the list of children for Capt. Caleb and Abigail Damon. The four listed here are from information in The Carver Family of New England, by Clifford Nickels Carver, 1935