1665 - Captain John Carr, chief officer for New York's possessions on the Delaware, married c. 1665, Petronella Ollesdotter, born in New Sweden c. 1645. They lived in the town of New Castle.
John and Petronella Carr had five known children:
Richard Carr, born c. 1666, still living in 1716.
Elisabeth Carr, born c. 1668, married Peter Clawson [Swedish] in Cecil County.
Maria Carr, born c. 1670, married John Bristow, Jr., of Chester County, Pa.
Petronella Carr, born c. 1672, married Peter Mainardo of Cecil County, Md.
1673 - After the Dutch recapture of former New Netherland in 1673, they fled with their children and Patrick Carr (John's bachelor brother) to Cecil County, Maryland, where they were granted a 2,000-acre tract known as "St. John's Manor" on the west side of Elk River.
On 1 September 1675, John CARR deeded "one neck of land" the "third neck up from my dwelling plantation" to John COCKRELL, for 10,000
pounds of tobacco. Abraham WILDE witnessed this transaction.
1676 - After a prolonged illness, Carr died in 1676. To handle their New Castle County affairs, the Carr family relied upon Hans Block and their Tussey relatives.
Petronella remarried to George Oldfield, also English.
- Susannah Oldfield, born c. 1677, married Lawrence Rawson [Swedish] of Marcus Hook, Chester County, and lived in Cecil County on George Oldfield's former land.
In 1695, George and Petronella Oldfield and her son Richard Carr sold Carr's lands in Cecil County and moved to Chester in Chester County, Pa., where Petronella died after 1697.
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