Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Ruth Carver

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of William Rufus Day — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 53 
  • Father:
  • David Carver 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Whitmarsh   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Dec 1701 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Aug 1731 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Solomon Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1720/1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Solomon Paine

  Solomon Paine

  Ruth Paine

  Elihu Paine

  Ichabod Paine

  David Paine (Ahnentafel No:26 )

  • Notes: 

  • According to Mayflower Society, Ruth Carver's name being given as Sarah in the Canterbury vital records is probably due to a “scrivener's error.” Ruth and Sarah Carver are thought to be one and the same, daughter of David and Ruth (Whitmarsh) Carver.

• Sources for Ruth Carver

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 120, Birth record for son David Paine.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 121, Marriage record for Solomon Paine and Sarah Carver.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 121, Death record for Sarah Paine.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 1, p. 70, Birth record for Ruth Carver.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1964, Vol. 118, p. 103.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 177-178.
  • ⁷ Carver, Clifford N., The Carver Family of New England: Robert Carver of Marshfield and His Descendants, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. (1935), 58.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 75, 718.