Captain Henry (Harry) Carter, of Prussia Cove

1749 - Abt 1829  (80 years)

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  Name	Henry (Harry) Carter
  	Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 “Are you Captain Harry Carter?” I answered, “My name is Henry Carter.”
  Title	Captain
  Suffix	of Prussia Cove
  Nickname	Harry
  Birth	1749	Pengersick, Breage   [1]
  Christening	Y  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1749 (0 years)  [1]
  	I was born in the year of 1749 in Pengersick, in the parish of Breage, in the County of Cornwall. My mother had ten children, eight sons and two daghturs, eight of whom lived to maturity. My father was a miner likewayse rented a little farm of about 12l. pr. year who was a hard labring man, and brought up his family in what we caled[6] decent poverty. My oldest and youngest brothers were brought up to good 3 country scolars, but the rest of my brothers with myself, as soon as we was able, obliged to work in order to contribute a little to help to support a large family, so that I never was keept to scool but only to read in what we caled then the great Book
  Married	19 Apr 1786 (37 years)	Manaccan, Cornwall   [1]
  	Memoirs say 19 Apr; marriage registers say 3 April.. Day Month 03-Apr Year 1786 Parish Circuit Or Chapel Manaccan Groom Fn Henry Groom Sn CARTER Groom Age Groom Residence Groom Condition Groom Rank Profession Groom Signed / Marked (S/M) Groom Father Name Groom Father Rank Profession Bride Fn Elizabeth Bride Sn FLINDALL
  Death	Abt 19 Apr 1829	Rinsey, Breage   [1]
  Burial	19 Apr 1829	Breage [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Breage, Cornwall   [1, 2]
  Death	2 May 1829 (80 years)	Breage, Cornwall   [1]
  	At Breage, last week, at the advanced age of 80 years, Mr. Henry Carter, better known by the appellation of Captain Henry Carter.--For the last 40 years he was a ious and consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, and died in the full assurance of a blessed immor- tality, through the merits of the Redeemer. Royal Cornwall Gazette - Saturday 02 May 1829 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000177/18290502/016/0003?browse=true#
  Interesting fact	privateer, smuggler and laborer in American cornfields before settled near Prussia Bay to quieter life as class-leader and local preacher  [1]
  Occupation	Lived in Long Island where he "hoed Indian corn" with, and befriended, a black field laborer who also belonged to a New York Methodist society [1]
  	Abt 1758 (9 years) - Aboute 9 or 10 years old went to work to stamps, and continued there until 15 or 16 [1]
  	1765 (16 years) - I worked to bal[9] , as I think, until I was aboute 17 [1]
  	1766 (17 years) - Porthlea Porthleah King's Cove, Porthlea, Prussia Cove  - I worked to bal[9] , as I think, until I was aboute 17, and from thence went with my two oldest brothers to Porthleah[10] or the King’s Cove afishing and smuggling [1]
  	25 Dec 1777 (28 years) - Well, then, in the cource of these few years, as we card[18] a large trade with other vessels allso, we gained a large sum of money, and being a speculating family was not satisfied with small things. Built a new cuttar, aboute 197[19] tons, then one of 1777 7 the first in England; expecting to make all our fortunes in a hurry. I was in her at sea in Dec 1777, made one voyage about Christmas [1]
  	30 Jan 1778 (29 years) - Prison St Malo, Fort National, Saint-Malo, France  - I think it was on the 30 Jan. 1778, and I think the latter end of March[20] there was an embargo laid on all English bottams. They keept me on-board with all the people until I think the 1 May, when they took me onshore in order to examine me, and about four o’clock sent with a strong gard unto the Castle. This was a strange seeing unto me, the first prison I ever saw the inside of, the hearing of so many iron doors opening, etc. So I was put up to the last floor in the top of that very high Castle, in a criminal jail, where there were a little short dirty straw, etc. So after looking round a little to see my new habitation, I asked of the jailor to send me a chair to sit on, and sumething to eat, as I took nothing for the day, then seeming to be in tolarable spirits; but as the jailor left me, hearing the rattling of the doors and the noise of the keys, I begun to reflect, 9 where am I now? I shall shorley never come out of this place whilst the war lasts, shorley I shall die here, etc. I suppose in the course of an half hour heard the doors and keys as before for a long time before I saw any person, so in came a man with a chair, my bed, and a little soup, etc. Well, then, I sat myself down in the chair, looked at my dinner, etc., but then begun to weep bitterly. I had not loste only my liberty but the cuttar also, which was my God. My liberty was gone, my honour, my property, my life, and my God, all was gone; and all the ten thousand pounds I expected to get privateering was gone, as there was a commission sent for me against the Americans before I left home. There I walked the dismal place bewailing my sad case. But in the space of aboute two hours two or three of my people were sent to join me, and before night I think about eighteen of us, small room full. Then we begun to sing and make a noise, so that sume of my fears vanished away; hope of life sprung up, and as the Franch was such flatterers in general, 10 a very little hope for the cuttar, etc. The remainder of the ship’s company put in the town criminal jail. [1]
  	6 Feb 1778 (29 years) - [20] The treaty between France and the Americans was made on February 6, 1778. [1]
  	Aug 1778 (29 years) - Josselin, Brittany, France  - We was keept both in preson until, as I think, sume time in August, and was sent on parol about forty miles in a town called Josselin. However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen [1]
  	Nov 1779 (30 years) - Prussia Cove, Mounts Bay  - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state [1]
  	Nov 1779 (30 years) - London  - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state [1]
  	Nov 1779 (30 years) - Ostend, Belgium  - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state [1]
  	30 Jan 1788 (39 years) - Cawsand, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall  - I have been very near drowned, I think, twice before this, and have been exposed to many dangers many a time in the course of time betwen the five years the lugger was loste in the North Channel and this time, privateering, smuggling, etc., but I think conscience never so dead as now. I stayed there that night and the next evening took chaise. My brother and me, and the docter came with us so far as Lostwithiel, and arrived at home the night after to brother Charles house. I stayed there about six or seven days, until it was advertised in the papers, I think three hundred pounds for apprehending the Captain for three months from the date thereof, which set us all of alarm. So I moved from there to a gentleman’s house at Marazion. I think I stayed there about two or three weeks, and from thence moved 27 to Acton Castle[31] , as my brother John rented the farm, the famely not being there then, so that the keys and care of the house were left to his charge, and after a few days removed to Marazion again, then afraid of the shaking of a leaf. I think I might have stayed at Marazion for the course of a fortnight, and then went to the Castle again.[32] I used to half burn my coals by night in order that there should be no smoke seen in the daytime. In the course of about three months, after my wounds were nearly healed, I used to go at night to the King’s Cove and there to drink grog, etc., with the Cove boys until the gray of the morning, convictions following me very sharp still at times. -------------------- On 31 January 1788[10] Harry Carter took a cargo to Cawsand in the Revenge to be landed to a waiting team which included his brother Charles. The ship's hatches were opened to two boats which were assumed to be part of the landing party; the boats were actually from HMS Druid. The Revenge fired on HMS Druid, killing one of her crew and injuring seven more, before being boarded. Harry was badly injured in the fight on board Revenge and only survived being captured by throwing himself overboard and pulling himself to shore using the ship's ropes. Ten of the smugglers were captured and impressed into the Navy,[11] and six were killed.[9] [1]
  	Mar 1788 (39 years) - Acton Castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall  - I think I stayed there about two or three weeks, and from thence moved 27 to Acton Castle[31] , as my brother John rented the farm, the famely not being there then, so that the keys and care of the house were left to his charge, and after a few days removed to Marazion again, then afraid of the shaking of a leaf. I think I might have stayed at Marazion for the course of a fortnight, and then went to the Castle again.[32] I used to half burn my coals by night in order that there should be no smoke seen in the daytime. In the course of about three months, after my wounds were nearly healed, I used to go at night to the King’s Cove and there to drink grog, etc., with the Cove boys until the gray of the morning, convictions following me very sharp still at times. [1]
  	24 Oct 1788 (39 years) - Leghorn, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy  - Octr. 24, in 1788, sailed from Mounts Bay for Leghorn in the ship “George,” Captn Dewen, master. Was put on board with a boate from the King’s Cove, accompanied by brother John [1]
  	19 Apr 1789 (40 years) - New York, United States of America  - I arived at New York on the 19 April in 1789, and aboute ten or twelve days before I arived there, I was taken with a violent inflammation in one of my eyes, so I could see very little on that eye and the other was much afected allso. [1]
  	16 Sep 1790 (41 years) - Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France  - The same day, aboute three or four o’clock, got close in to Calais, where we took a pilot for Dunkerk the same evning, on the 16 September in 1790 [1]
  	16 Sep 1790 (41 years) - [Vessel] Brig Bettsey of Truro  - The same day, aboute three or four o’clock, got close in to Calais, where we took a pilot for Dunkerk the same evning, on the 16 September in Ô90. And as we went up the harbar I saw in a brig’s starn, I think, the “Bettsey, Truro.” I thought if there was any place caled by that name out of Cornwal, but the next day, as the Captn. and I was so great he could then not go onshore without me, neither eate nor drink without me, I was then with him as it were all and in all. It was a great chainge indeed, whether through fear or love I know not. So the next day I, as a complement, asked him to go on board with me to see what the brig was. So it proved to be from Truro, from Petersborg, loaden with hemp and iron, there 82 wind bound, and bound to Daniel’s Point[54] the first fair wind; and as I did not want to make myself known unto him as an Englishman, I thought I would lett him know that I know some jentelmen at Falmouth, and after a little discourse sume in Penzance; so after a while, he naming of one and another until he come home to our family, and added, “Poor felows, they have had a great many and very great misfortings of late years. Harry, poor felow, lost a valuable lugger, with a valuable cargo, and was obliged to leave his Country, being taken with sume manawar’s boat. I saw him in Leghorn, dined and supped with him, and from there he went to America. I have not heard anything concarning him since; whether he is dead or alive, I know not, poor felow.” So at laste I said, “I am the man, and I desire the favour of you to give me a passage home.” He stared like a man frightened, and said, “I never saw such chainge on any man in my life, and I had no more knoledge of you no more Returns to Cornwall 83 then if I never saw you. Anything in my powar I will gladly do for you. Do you want money, or anything else? You’l make free with me. I am sorry I cannot take you to sleep with me, as the cabin is full of hemp, etc. Be not afraid of being pressed, as all my men is protected, but you shall not be pressed unless they press me also.” [1]
  	1 Oct 1790 (41 years) - Kenneggy, Breage  - 84 1 Octr The same night, aboute nine o’clock, arrived home to Kenneggy,[55] to Br. Charles’s. So I was received as one rison from the dead, as they know nothing of my coming home, nither had heard from me for aboute twelve months. So after a little I related what cause I had to come, and after I had settled my business I was minding[56] to return to New York again. He said, “I will send for our brothers in the morn- ing, and praps we may find sumething other wayse.” So earley in the morning they come, and said, “If you go to America again we shall never see you more; we think you may stay at home in safety, there is no person will meddle with you, but we advise you first to go aboute this neighberhood as publick as you please, where you are well known, but shun the towns, and after a few days there will no person take notice of you.” I very gladly consented to what they said, this being on Saturday. First went to the King’s Cove to see the Cove boys, [1]
  	19 Apr 1791 (42 years) - Roscoff, Finistère, Brittany  - So I told my brothers what the news was, and that I was meaning to take the jent’s advice. They answered, “If you go to America we never shall see you no more. We are meaning to car on a little trade 92 in Roscoff in the brandy and gin way, and if you will go there you’l be as safe there as in America; likewayse, we shall pay you for your comision, and you car on a little business for your self, if you please.” So that with prayer and supplication I made my request known unto God. I still continued to walk in the same rigrous self denial as before, abstaining from food, etc. Well, then, with much fear and trembling I concluded to go. The greatest tryal I had aboute going, I know there was no religious people there, and sume times in fears I should be lead away into the world again. I know I was going un slepry ground, but, glory be to God, I know his grace was sufficient for me. So at the 19 of April, in 1791, I saild in an open boat from the King’s Cove, in company with a merchant that had business there, so that after fifteen hours’ passage arived there very safe, still in the same frame of mind. I lodged at a publick house, I think, two days, and as the merchant had business to Morlaix, desired me to go with him, where I staid there aboute 93 ten or twelve days, and returned again back to Roscoff [1]
  	15 Jun 1794 (45 years) - I staid there until the 15 June, 1794, when the house was cleared of all the presnors, and then put to a convent a little out of Town, that was made a prison, caled the Calemaleets[70] , where there was aboute 270 men and whimen, the house very full of people. We arived there aboute nine in the morning, and as Mr. C. and me was shifting aboute the house seeing for a place, standing in the room talking together, he was taken with a fit and fell as dead in my arms [1]
  	28 Jul 1794 (45 years) - [75] Robespierre was executed on 28th July, 1794. Soon after his death the Convention decreed that “Prisoners and other persons under accusation should have a right to demand some “ Writ of accusationÕ and see clearly what they were accused of.” Carlyle: French Revolution, Book vii. ch. i. This decree was followed by the release of great numbers of “ Suspect” and other prisoners. http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ebooks/carter.html#_ftnref75 [1]
  	Sep 1794 (45 years) - France  - Carter had discussed religion with Carmelite nuns in a French prison cell in 1794 All the people still full of friendship to me; but I keept myself still to myself as much as posable, without giving an ofence. There was there amongst the whole number aboute sixty nuns, one of whom I conversed with more then all the rest; seldom miss a day, if she saw me, but what she would have sume thing to say unto me. But I had not French enough to enter into any depth of Religion, but I never heard one sound of persuasion from her to turn to her Religion. 128 Once I remembered she asked me, saying, “Carter, did not you feel your self very sorry when you was first convinced of sin?” or sume thing to the same purpas. I was struck with wondar where she got that from. I think I may safely say she was a burning and a shining light. She had small suplys often from her father’s house, and well she had it often as it was possible. It was alwayse in her powar to govern her own mind. Every day she would give allmoste all she had to the poor, or to any person she thought that wanted; lived allmoste entirely on bread and water herself. She have often told friend C., “Do not leave Carter want any thing, but speak to me” I have often thought that she would allmoste tear out her eyes to do me good, and I have often thought that she had not the least doubt but what I was built for a Catholick. I have thought then, the same as I think now, that if I am faithfull untel death, and she continued in the same way, that she and me, with many more that I saw there, shall meet at God’s right hand, where we shall sing 129 louder and sweeter that ever I sung in that garden. May the Lord grant it. She was so nice, butifull a young lady as I think the sun could shine on; I suppose aboute 26 or 27 years old. Her father was a nobleman of a large income, her mother, a sistar to the great, rich Bishop of St. Paul’s, and him, as I have heard, for all his incom, could scarsely keep a goode sute of clothes aboute him it was busy all[72] for the poor. I think she was the pictar of humility in all her deportment. I could not help to admire her, as I was in the same house, or housas, for, as I think, nearly six months. [1]
  	23 Jan 1795 (46 years) - Mr Peter Diot, Morlais, Finistère, Brittany  - Aboute this time I had an account that Mr. and Mrs. Maccullock was labrated out of preson[75] , and they and all 133 their family were then at Mr. Diott’s, in Morlaix. It was a day of rejoicing to me, indeed, to think that the Lord was so graicous to bring us so near together again. And in the course of a few weeks they had liberty to come to see dear C. and me in prison. We shorley had a happy meeting- together, as we had not seen each other for aboute fifteen months, they receved me as their own child, and I them as my father and mother. Praise God for so many dear friends. Aboute the 10 Jany. 1795, Mr. Diott sent for me to come to dine with him. I went with much fear and trembling, as it was ever a great cross to me to be with my great superiers, and so in every place I moved at a solam awe of the presance of God resting upon me with a fear to ofend him. There I meet with Mr. and Mrs. M., with all their loving famely, and through the tender mercy of God, after all our tryals and sufferings, being separated to nearley sixteen months from each other, escaped, through mercy, all the lyons in France, not one hair 134 of our heads diminished. We staid there until evning, when Mr. Diot said, “I will in the course of a few days gitt you out of preson and you shall boath come to live at my house.” We thanked him, wished good night, and arived at home with our gard aboute seven. So the 23 Jany. 1795, in the morning, we was boath librated. I went to Mr. Diet’s, Mr. C. went with Mr. Morrow in the same town. Still pervision at that time very scarce to be had, the inhabitants of the town had all their provisions sarved out every day according to their famely. Without we had money we should not be able to gett board on any account. I was received into that famely as a king, treated as if I had been a nobleman, and being the laste strainger was placed at the head of the table, where I begged to be excused again and again, but could not prevail. But to the end of six or seven days I shifted to the other end, where I thought I was more in my place. I thought it then, as I have many times since, a piece of bread behind the kitchen 135 door was more suitable for me [1]
  	13 Aug 1795 (46 years) - Harbour, Brest, Finistère, Brittany  - Same morning took a boat, and at four in the afternoon arrived on board the ship in Brest harbar, where we met all the family together, the same ten of us that was stopped together through a merical of mercy in deed, and not one hair of our heads diminished. Praise be to God, here was another chainge. This ship was formerly an English frigate, then under Danish coulars, and the Captn. an English man. The first night I 142 sleept on the cabin flooar covered with a great coat, then got a hammack amongst the sailors. And when more people came on board, I went between decks, being more quiat I supose the whole numbar of pasengars was aboute fifty offesars in the army and navy, where I never was in such hurry and noise yet, in all the course of my life, nither to sea nor land. I was allwayse imploid in reading, in cooking, tending my famely to the table, etc. And there was a black boy, the sarvant to one of the officers, very ill moste of the time, and no person to do the leaste thing for him but myself onely. I had a quiat place between decks to lodge in and pray, so that no person desturbed me. I used the same self-denial as before. I have been often led to wonder many times since of the goodness of God, for all they were such wild, distracted, disapated souls, I never had the least tryal from one of them, nither one of the ship’s company during the whole time. I could always bring any dish of meat from the cook to the cabin Return to Falmouth 143 to my famely, and no person set the least hand on me; or if one of the others did, they was ready allmoste to kill one the other; and the Captain would trust me with the tea and shugar canestar, but not one person else on board. I have thought many times since aboute it, more than at that time through [ILLEGIBLE] d favour with God and man. We lay in Brest Roade nine days wind bound, and then got d fair wind to the Northward and westward [ILLEGIBLE] etc., arived at Falmouth 22 August, 1795 [1]
  	22 August, 1795 (46 years) - Mrs Smythe's, Falmouth, Cornwall  - arived at Falmouth 22 August, 1795. Arived onshore aboute three o’clock in the afternoon with much fear and trembling, where I meet with my dear little Bettsy, there staying with her aunt, Mrs. Smythe, then between 8 and 9 years old. [1]
  	22 Aug 1795 (46 years) - Falmouth Docks, Falmouth, Cornwall  - Arived at Falmouth 22 August, 1795. Arived onshore aboute three o’clock in the afternoon with much fear and trembling, where I meet with my dear little Bettsy, there staying with her aunt, Mrs. Smythe, then between 8 and 9 years old. In the evning went to prayer meeting in the great Chaple... ... It is now brought into my remembrance as the ship lyed to of Falmouth harbar, there was not boats enuf to carry all the pasangers and bagage at once, and I waited to the laste with two more, staid untel another boat should come, the wind blowing fresh from the westward. The Captain grew very impatient, looking out for a boat, and at laste said, “I shall not wait only a few minuts longer, and take you with me” One of these pasangers was making such a noise, allmoste ready to jump over- board, for fear to be card up Channel. I 145 said to him, “Have a little patience, we shall have a boat in a little time now.” He turned unto me in a very sulky manner, and said, “Who is like you, you are allwayse at home, you don’t care where you are car’d.” I smiled, said nothing, but rejoiced within, and said to myself, “You are saying the truth.” And I thought if it was the will of the Lord that I should be car’d to Copenhagen, that good is the will of the Lord. So in the course of a few minits after saw a boate coming, and so all was well again. [1]
  	23 Aug 1795 (46 years) - Rinsey village, Rinsey, Breage  - Sunday, took a horse and arived at Breage Church town[78] aboute eleven o’clock, where I meet my dear brother Frank, then in his way to Church. As I first took him in surprise, at first I could harley make him sensable I was his brother, being nearley two years without hearing whether I was dead or alife. But when he come to himself as it were, we rejoiced together with exceeding great joy indeed. We went to his house in Rinsey, and after dinner went to see brother John[79] . We sent him word before I was coming. But he could harley believe it, with the voice of, “How can these things be?” But first looking out with his glass saw me yet a long way off. Ran tomeet me, fell upon my neck, and said in language like this, “This is my brother that was dead, but is alive again; he was loste, but is found.” We passed the afternoon with him, and in 147 the evning went to Keneggy to see brother Charles, where we meet with many tears of joy, and afterwards returned again to Rinsey in the evening, where we had all our con- versation about Hevenly things, which was a treat indeed, after being so long silent on the subject. [1]
  	1809 (60 years) - Prussia Cove, Mounts Bay  [1]
  	20 Dec 1809 (60 years) - Rinsey, Breage  - As it have been imprest upon my mind for sevral years to take a memorandum of the kind dealings of God to my soul, in particular these laste two or three years, I have been persuaded by sevral of my friends, in particular Mr. Wormsley and Geo. Carter. I have thought in general it would be so weak that no person of sense would ever publish it to the world, notwithstanding, this morning being 20 of Decr. 1809, I have taken up my pen, and may the Lord bring past things to my remembrance just[5] as they are, and if published to the world, may the Lord make it a blessing to every soul that 2 read and hear it for Christ’s sake, amen, amen. [1]
  Association	Sarah Carter/SMITH(SMYTHE) (Relationship: my dear little Bettsy, there staying with her aunt, Mrs. Smythe)
  Person ID	I7128	AHP
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Francis Carter,   b. 1712   d. 28 Feb 1774, Breage, Cornwall (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Agnes(Annice) Williams[WILLIAMS alias TOOKER]/CARTER,   c. 28 Dec 1711, Breage [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Breage, Cornwall bur. 3 Jul 1784, Breage [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Breage, Cornwall (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1736	Breage [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Breage, Cornwall
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 24 years and 4 months - She : 24 years and 4 months.
  Notes	Lot of guesswork on this - despite foreword there are a LOT of Carters in and around Breage for hundreds of years. Chosen the Annie Williams in part as her father Henry - other main contender Father is William which doesn't seem as of such strong family interest Foreword to Autobigraphy says "Of his family I can learn but little. It is said that originally they came from Shropshire, and certainly the name does not show a Cornish origin. His father, who was called Francis, was born in 1712, and died on February 28, 1774; his mother, Agnes, was born in 1714, and died in 1784. Of the eight sons and two daughters of whom he speaks, I can only trace four of the sons besides himself. Thomas, whom he does not mention, was born in 1737, and died in 1818; and John, whom he refers to as the eldest, Francis, born in 1745, and Charles, born in 1757, xxiv and died in 1803, are mentioned in the autobiography. His daughter, Elizabeth, as far as I can learn, died while young. " Henry Carter states John oldest. Wikipedia has Thomas oldest. Were there two Thomases? Several Carter families are known in Cornwall from at least the middle of the 16th century. The Carter family later associated with Prussia Cove had roots in Breage and Germoe. Francis Carter married Annice (also recorded as Agnes)[2] Williams in 1736, and the couple were recorded as having ten children:[3][4] Thomas Carter (1737-1818), married Alice Carter of Breage in December 1766 and had nine children. Died in June 1818 and is buried in Breage. John Carter (1738-1803), married Joan Richards of Breage in September 1765 and had six children. Died intestate in November 1803, being buried in Breage. Also known as the 'King of Prussia' and lent his name to Prussia Cove (or King's Cove) which had previously been called Porthleah.[5] John obtained the nickname because he was said to closely resemble Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia,[6] and was said to much admire him. John was a devout Methodist and had a reputation for honest-dealing as a smuggler.[2] Frances Carter (1739-1744) Ann Carter (1742-?), married Richard Champion who became involved in the family's smuggling enterprise. Francis Carter (1744-1814), married Mary Stephens of Breage by special licence in October 1776 and had ten children. Died in December 1814 and was buried in Breage. Alse Carter (died in infancy) Harry Carter (1749-1829), married Elizabeth Flindell of Manaccan in April 1786 and had one child. Gave up smuggling after his return from a French prison,[3] and became a preacher.[5] Died April 1829 and was buried in Breage. Edward Carter (1751-c.1790), married Jane Polglaze of Breage in December 1785 and had two children. Died intestate before 18 October 1790, when Jane remarried. Roger Carter (1754-c.1780), married Rebecca Ford of St Hilary by special licence in January 1779. Had no children and died intestate. Buried in Breage in October 1780. Charles Carter (1757-1803), married Catherinda Blewett of St Hilary by special licence in February 1778 and had five children. Died intestate and was buried in Breage in May 1803. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carters_of_Prussia_Cove
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  Family	Elizabeth Flindall/Flindel/CARTER,   b. Abt 23 May 1762, Helford d. Abt 7 Mar 1789 (Age 26 years)
  Marriage	3 Apr 1786	Manaccan [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Manaccan, Cornwall   [3]
  	Memoirs say 19 Apr; marriage registers say 3 April..
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 37 years and 4 months - She : 23 years and 11 months.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Carter,   b. 19 Apr 1787  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F2003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
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• Event Map		Birth - 1749 - Pengersick, Breage  Occupation - I worked to bal[9] , as I think, until I was aboute 17, and from thence went with my two oldest brothers to Porthleah[10] or the King’s Cove afishing and smuggling - 1766 (17 years) - Porthlea Porthleah King's Cove, Porthlea, Prussia Cove  Occupation - I think it was on the 30 Jan. 1778, and I think the latter end of March[20] there was an embargo laid on all English bottams. They keept me on-board with all the people until I think the 1 May, when they took me onshore in order to examine me, and about four o’clock sent with a strong gard unto the Castle. This was a strange seeing unto me, the first prison I ever saw the inside of, the hearing of so many iron doors opening, etc. So I was put up to the last floor in the top of that very high Castle, in a criminal jail, where there were a little short dirty straw, etc. So after looking round a little to see my new habitation, I asked of the jailor to send me a chair to sit on, and sumething to eat, as I took nothing for the day, then seeming to be in tolarable spirits; but as the jailor left me, hearing the rattling of the doors and the noise of the keys, I begun to reflect, 9 where am I now? I shall shorley never come out of this place whilst the war lasts, shorley I shall die here, etc. I suppose in the course of an half hour heard the doors and keys as before for a long time before I saw any person, so in came a man with a chair, my bed, and a little soup, etc. Well, then, I sat myself down in the chair, looked at my dinner, etc., but then begun to weep bitterly. I had not loste only my liberty but the cuttar also, which was my God. My liberty was gone, my honour, my property, my life, and my God, all was gone; and all the ten thousand pounds I expected to get privateering was gone, as there was a commission sent for me against the Americans before I left home. There I walked the dismal place bewailing my sad case. But in the space of aboute two hours two or three of my people were sent to join me, and before night I think about eighteen of us, small room full. Then we begun to sing and make a noise, so that sume of my fears vanished away; hope of life sprung up, and as the Franch was such flatterers in general, 10 a very little hope for the cuttar, etc. The remainder of the ship’s company put in the town criminal jail. - 30 Jan 1778 (29 years) - Prison St Malo, Fort National, Saint-Malo, France  Occupation - We was keept both in preson until, as I think, sume time in August, and was sent on parol about forty miles in a town called Josselin. However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen - Aug 1778 (29 years) - Josselin, Brittany, France  Occupation - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state - Nov 1779 (30 years) - Prussia Cove, Mounts Bay  Occupation - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state - Nov 1779 (30 years) - London  Occupation - However, we was keeped in difrante places in the country until I think the latter end of Novr. in 1779, when we were private exchanged by the order of the Lords of the Admiralty in the room of two French gentlemen 12 sent to France in our room. And then to come by the way of Ostend, being, as well I can remember, aboute five hundred miles. From thence came by the way of London, and arrived at home the 24 Decr. in the same year. We found the family all alive and well, but with the loss of the cuttar, and the business not managed well at home, as my brother was then a presoner, and wanting from home aboute two years, the family in a low state - Nov 1779 (30 years) - Ostend, Belgium  Marriage - 3 Apr 1786 - Manaccan [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Manaccan, Cornwall  Married - Memoirs say 19 Apr; marriage registers say 3 April.. Day Month 03-Apr Year 1786 Parish Circuit Or Chapel Manaccan Groom Fn Henry Groom Sn CARTER Groom Age Groom Residence Groom Condition Groom Rank Profession Groom Signed / Marked (S/M) Groom Father Name Groom Father Rank Profession Bride Fn Elizabeth Bride Sn FLINDALL - 19 Apr 1786 - Manaccan, Cornwall  Occupation - I have been very near drowned, I think, twice before this, and have been exposed to many dangers many a time in the course of time betwen the five years the lugger was loste in the North Channel and this time, privateering, smuggling, etc., but I think conscience never so dead as now. I stayed there that night and the next evening took chaise. My brother and me, and the docter came with us so far as Lostwithiel, and arrived at home the night after to brother Charles house. I stayed there about six or seven days, until it was advertised in the papers, I think three hundred pounds for apprehending the Captain for three months from the date thereof, which set us all of alarm. So I moved from there to a gentleman’s house at Marazion. I think I stayed there about two or three weeks, and from thence moved 27 to Acton Castle[31] , as my brother John rented the farm, the famely not being there then, so that the keys and care of the house were left to his charge, and after a few days removed to Marazion again, then afraid of the shaking of a leaf. I think I might have stayed at Marazion for the course of a fortnight, and then went to the Castle again.[32] I used to half burn my coals by night in order that there should be no smoke seen in the daytime. In the course of about three months, after my wounds were nearly healed, I used to go at night to the King’s Cove and there to drink grog, etc., with the Cove boys until the gray of the morning, convictions following me very sharp still at times. -------------------- On 31 January 1788[10] Harry Carter took a cargo to Cawsand in the Revenge to be landed to a waiting team which included his brother Charles. The ship's hatches were opened to two boats which were assumed to be part of the landing party; the boats were actually from HMS Druid. The Revenge fired on HMS Druid, killing one of her crew and injuring seven more, before being boarded. Harry was badly injured in the fight on board Revenge and only survived being captured by throwing himself overboard and pulling himself to shore using the ship's ropes. Ten of the smugglers were captured and impressed into the Navy,[11] and six were killed.[9] - 30 Jan 1788 (39 years) - Cawsand, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall  Occupation - I think I stayed there about two or three weeks, and from thence moved 27 to Acton Castle[31] , as my brother John rented the farm, the famely not being there then, so that the keys and care of the house were left to his charge, and after a few days removed to Marazion again, then afraid of the shaking of a leaf. I think I might have stayed at Marazion for the course of a fortnight, and then went to the Castle again.[32] I used to half burn my coals by night in order that there should be no smoke seen in the daytime. In the course of about three months, after my wounds were nearly healed, I used to go at night to the King’s Cove and there to drink grog, etc., with the Cove boys until the gray of the morning, convictions following me very sharp still at times. - Mar 1788 (39 years) - Acton Castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall  Occupation - Octr. 24, in 1788, sailed from Mounts Bay for Leghorn in the ship “George,” Captn Dewen, master. Was put on board with a boate from the King’s Cove, accompanied by brother John - 24 Oct 1788 (39 years) - Leghorn, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy  Occupation - I arived at New York on the 19 April in 1789, and aboute ten or twelve days before I arived there, I was taken with a violent inflammation in one of my eyes, so I could see very little on that eye and the other was much afected allso. - 19 Apr 1789 (40 years) - New York, United States of America  Occupation - The same day, aboute three or four o’clock, got close in to Calais, where we took a pilot for Dunkerk the same evning, on the 16 September in 1790 - 16 Sep 1790 (41 years) - Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France  Occupation - 84 1 Octr The same night, aboute nine o’clock, arrived home to Kenneggy,[55] to Br. Charles’s. So I was received as one rison from the dead, as they know nothing of my coming home, nither had heard from me for aboute twelve months. So after a little I related what cause I had to come, and after I had settled my business I was minding[56] to return to New York again. He said, “I will send for our brothers in the morn- ing, and praps we may find sumething other wayse.” So earley in the morning they come, and said, “If you go to America again we shall never see you more; we think you may stay at home in safety, there is no person will meddle with you, but we advise you first to go aboute this neighberhood as publick as you please, where you are well known, but shun the towns, and after a few days there will no person take notice of you.” I very gladly consented to what they said, this being on Saturday. First went to the King’s Cove to see the Cove boys, - 1 Oct 1790 (41 years) - Kenneggy, Breage  Occupation - So I told my brothers what the news was, and that I was meaning to take the jent’s advice. They answered, “If you go to America we never shall see you no more. We are meaning to car on a little trade 92 in Roscoff in the brandy and gin way, and if you will go there you’l be as safe there as in America; likewayse, we shall pay you for your comision, and you car on a little business for your self, if you please.” So that with prayer and supplication I made my request known unto God. I still continued to walk in the same rigrous self denial as before, abstaining from food, etc. Well, then, with much fear and trembling I concluded to go. The greatest tryal I had aboute going, I know there was no religious people there, and sume times in fears I should be lead away into the world again. I know I was going un slepry ground, but, glory be to God, I know his grace was sufficient for me. So at the 19 of April, in 1791, I saild in an open boat from the King’s Cove, in company with a merchant that had business there, so that after fifteen hours’ passage arived there very safe, still in the same frame of mind. I lodged at a publick house, I think, two days, and as the merchant had business to Morlaix, desired me to go with him, where I staid there aboute 93 ten or twelve days, and returned again back to Roscoff - 19 Apr 1791 (42 years) - Roscoff, Finistère, Brittany  Occupation - Carter had discussed religion with Carmelite nuns in a French prison cell in 1794 All the people still full of friendship to me; but I keept myself still to myself as much as posable, without giving an ofence. There was there amongst the whole number aboute sixty nuns, one of whom I conversed with more then all the rest; seldom miss a day, if she saw me, but what she would have sume thing to say unto me. But I had not French enough to enter into any depth of Religion, but I never heard one sound of persuasion from her to turn to her Religion. 128 Once I remembered she asked me, saying, “Carter, did not you feel your self very sorry when you was first convinced of sin?” or sume thing to the same purpas. I was struck with wondar where she got that from. I think I may safely say she was a burning and a shining light. She had small suplys often from her father’s house, and well she had it often as it was possible. It was alwayse in her powar to govern her own mind. Every day she would give allmoste all she had to the poor, or to any person she thought that wanted; lived allmoste entirely on bread and water herself. She have often told friend C., “Do not leave Carter want any thing, but speak to me” I have often thought that she would allmoste tear out her eyes to do me good, and I have often thought that she had not the least doubt but what I was built for a Catholick. I have thought then, the same as I think now, that if I am faithfull untel death, and she continued in the same way, that she and me, with many more that I saw there, shall meet at God’s right hand, where we shall sing 129 louder and sweeter that ever I sung in that garden. May the Lord grant it. She was so nice, butifull a young lady as I think the sun could shine on; I suppose aboute 26 or 27 years old. Her father was a nobleman of a large income, her mother, a sistar to the great, rich Bishop of St. Paul’s, and him, as I have heard, for all his incom, could scarsely keep a goode sute of clothes aboute him it was busy all[72] for the poor. I think she was the pictar of humility in all her deportment. I could not help to admire her, as I was in the same house, or housas, for, as I think, nearly six months. - Sep 1794 (45 years) - France  Occupation - Aboute this time I had an account that Mr. and Mrs. Maccullock was labrated out of preson[75] , and they and all 133 their family were then at Mr. Diott’s, in Morlaix. It was a day of rejoicing to me, indeed, to think that the Lord was so graicous to bring us so near together again. And in the course of a few weeks they had liberty to come to see dear C. and me in prison. We shorley had a happy meeting- together, as we had not seen each other for aboute fifteen months, they receved me as their own child, and I them as my father and mother. Praise God for so many dear friends. Aboute the 10 Jany. 1795, Mr. Diott sent for me to come to dine with him. I went with much fear and trembling, as it was ever a great cross to me to be with my great superiers, and so in every place I moved at a solam awe of the presance of God resting upon me with a fear to ofend him. There I meet with Mr. and Mrs. M., with all their loving famely, and through the tender mercy of God, after all our tryals and sufferings, being separated to nearley sixteen months from each other, escaped, through mercy, all the lyons in France, not one hair 134 of our heads diminished. We staid there until evning, when Mr. Diot said, “I will in the course of a few days gitt you out of preson and you shall boath come to live at my house.” We thanked him, wished good night, and arived at home with our gard aboute seven. So the 23 Jany. 1795, in the morning, we was boath librated. I went to Mr. Diet’s, Mr. C. went with Mr. Morrow in the same town. Still pervision at that time very scarce to be had, the inhabitants of the town had all their provisions sarved out every day according to their famely. Without we had money we should not be able to gett board on any account. I was received into that famely as a king, treated as if I had been a nobleman, and being the laste strainger was placed at the head of the table, where I begged to be excused again and again, but could not prevail. But to the end of six or seven days I shifted to the other end, where I thought I was more in my place. I thought it then, as I have many times since, a piece of bread behind the kitchen 135 door was more suitable for me - 23 Jan 1795 (46 years) - Mr Peter Diot, Morlais, Finistère, Brittany  Occupation - Same morning took a boat, and at four in the afternoon arrived on board the ship in Brest harbar, where we met all the family together, the same ten of us that was stopped together through a merical of mercy in deed, and not one hair of our heads diminished. Praise be to God, here was another chainge. This ship was formerly an English frigate, then under Danish coulars, and the Captn. an English man. The first night I 142 sleept on the cabin flooar covered with a great coat, then got a hammack amongst the sailors. And when more people came on board, I went between decks, being more quiat I supose the whole numbar of pasengars was aboute fifty offesars in the army and navy, where I never was in such hurry and noise yet, in all the course of my life, nither to sea nor land. I was allwayse imploid in reading, in cooking, tending my famely to the table, etc. And there was a black boy, the sarvant to one of the officers, very ill moste of the time, and no person to do the leaste thing for him but myself onely. I had a quiat place between decks to lodge in and pray, so that no person desturbed me. I used the same self-denial as before. I have been often led to wonder many times since of the goodness of God, for all they were such wild, distracted, disapated souls, I never had the least tryal from one of them, nither one of the ship’s company during the whole time. I could always bring any dish of meat from the cook to the cabin Return to Falmouth 143 to my famely, and no person set the least hand on me; or if one of the others did, they was ready allmoste to kill one the other; and the Captain would trust me with the tea and shugar canestar, but not one person else on board. I have thought many times since aboute it, more than at that time through [ILLEGIBLE] d favour with God and man. We lay in Brest Roade nine days wind bound, and then got d fair wind to the Northward and westward [ILLEGIBLE] etc., arived at Falmouth 22 August, 1795 - 13 Aug 1795 (46 years) - Harbour, Brest, Finistère, Brittany  Occupation - Sunday, took a horse and arived at Breage Church town[78] aboute eleven o’clock, where I meet my dear brother Frank, then in his way to Church. As I first took him in surprise, at first I could harley make him sensable I was his brother, being nearley two years without hearing whether I was dead or alife. But when he come to himself as it were, we rejoiced together with exceeding great joy indeed. We went to his house in Rinsey, and after dinner went to see brother John[79] . We sent him word before I was coming. But he could harley believe it, with the voice of, “How can these things be?” But first looking out with his glass saw me yet a long way off. Ran tomeet me, fell upon my neck, and said in language like this, “This is my brother that was dead, but is alive again; he was loste, but is found.” We passed the afternoon with him, and in 147 the evning went to Keneggy to see brother Charles, where we meet with many tears of joy, and afterwards returned again to Rinsey in the evening, where we had all our con- versation about Hevenly things, which was a treat indeed, after being so long silent on the subject. - 23 Aug 1795 (46 years) - Rinsey village, Rinsey, Breage  Occupation - 1809 (60 years) - Prussia Cove, Mounts Bay  Occupation - As it have been imprest upon my mind for sevral years to take a memorandum of the kind dealings of God to my soul, in particular these laste two or three years, I have been persuaded by sevral of my friends, in particular Mr. Wormsley and Geo. Carter. I have thought in general it would be so weak that no person of sense would ever publish it to the world, notwithstanding, this morning being 20 of Decr. 1809, I have taken up my pen, and may the Lord bring past things to my remembrance just[5] as they are, and if published to the world, may the Lord make it a blessing to every soul that 2 read and hear it for Christ’s sake, amen, amen. - 20 Dec 1809 (60 years) - Rinsey, Breage  Death - Abt 19 Apr 1829 - Rinsey, Breage  Burial - 19 Apr 1829 - Breage [Parish Circuit Or Chapel], Breage, Cornwall  Death - At Breage, last week, at the advanced age of 80 years, Mr. Henry Carter, better known by the appellation of Captain Henry Carter.--For the last 40 years he was a ious and consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, and died in the full assurance of a blessed immor- tality, through the merits of the Redeemer. Royal Cornwall Gazette - Saturday 02 May 1829 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000177/18290502/016/0003?browse=true# - 2 May 1829 - Breage, Cornwall   = Link to Google Earth
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  Henry Carter | Reward | 16 Feb 1788

  
  

  Histories		Smugglers' Britain eBooks: Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler | archive copy 09 September 2009, 12:36:57 http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ebooks/carter.html http://history.angarrack.info/node/373
  		Helston based attorney Christopher Wallis, acting Dunkin and Carter defendants Suit Chancery by John Blewett, as John St. Aubyn’s agent for the Mount | 1792 Helston based attorney Christopher Wallis, was acting for Dunkin and Carter as defendants in a Suit in Chancery brought by John Blewett, as John St. Aubyn’s agent for the Mount tithes

  
  

• Notes

  privateer, a smuggler and a laborer in the American cornfields before he had settled down near Prussian Bay to a quieter life as class-leader and local preacher [p115; Swept into the Abyss] Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carters_of_Prussia_Cove 246 Carter, The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler. Carter had grown up in poverty as son of tin miner and, with his brothers, decided life at sea better than in the pits. Became notorious free traders, not shirking from violence when confronted by the British state, and leader became famous as "the King of Prussian Bay." But such a classically Cornish figure had a religious history that was startlingly wide ranging. Carter had discussed religion with Carmelite nuns in a French prison cell in 1794, and was converted to Methodism in New York while on the lam. Lived in Long Island where he "hoed Indian corn" with, and befriended, a black field laborer who also belonged to a New York Methodist society. The sizes of all his vessels are given in old measurement. Before 1835 ships were measured by the following elaborate rule. Subtract three-fifths of the greatest breadth from the length of the keel, multiply this by the breadth, and the result by half of the breadth; divide the result so obtained by 94, and the answer is the size of the ship in tons (see 13 Geo. III. c. 26, 74). They are now measured by the cubical contents. It is difficult to render these figures in modern measurement, but this sloop was probably about the size which would be now called 10 tons. The Cornish people always measure weight in scores (20 Ibs). The stone (14 Ibs) is unknown. The autobiography ends abruptly in the year 1795, but the writer lived until April xxiii 19, 1829, The last thirty years of his life he spent at Rinsey. He lived quietly, keeping himself occupied with a small farm, and occasionally preaching in the neighbourhood. From the memoir of him in the “Wesleyan Methodist Magazine,” to which I have already referred, I cull the two further facts that he retained the intensity of his religious feelings up to his death, and that he never failed in grateful recollections of James Macculloch the Mr. M. of his French prison experiences. Of his family I can learn but little. It is said that originally they came from Shropshire, and certainly the name does not show a Cornish origin. His father, who was called Francis, was born in 1712, and died on February 28, 1774; his mother, Agnes, was born in 1714, and died in 1784. Of the eight sons and two daughters of whom he speaks, I can only trace four of the sons besides himself. Thomas, whom he does not mention, was born in 1737, and died in 1818; and John, whom he refers to as the eldest, Francis, born in 1745, and Charles, born in 1757, xxiv and died in 1803, are mentioned in the autobiography. His daughter, Elizabeth, as far as I can learn, died while young.

  
  

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  [S113] Harry Carter, Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler | Harry Carter, (www.smuggling.co.uk) (Reliability: 3). Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler by Harry Carter This text is based on the version available at the Internet Archive: you can find the original by clicking here. I have proofread and corrected the text and removed many unwanted artefacts that resulted from the optical character recognition process used to capture the pages. However, I have retained -- as John Cornish did -- Harry Carter's now archaic local spellings. http://www.archive.org/details/autobiocornishsm00cartiala http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ebooks/carter.html [https://archive.ph/JFYv] Smugglers' Britain http://www.smuggling.co.uk › ebooks › carter ... arived at Falmouth 22 August, 1795. Arived onshore aboute three o'clock in the afternoon with much fear and trembling, where I meet with my dear little Bettsy, ... [S9] OPC, (Cornwall Online Parish Clerks (OPC)), 21 Apr 1829 (Reliability: 3). Day Month 21-Apr Year 1829 Parish Circuit Or Chapel Breage Forename Henry Surname CARTER Age 80 Residence Rinsey Notes Transcriber Notes Transcriber Althea Johnson [S9] OPC, (Cornwall Online Parish Clerks (OPC)), 3 Apr 1786 (Reliability: 3). Memoirs say 19 Apr; marriage registers say 3 April.. Day Month 03-Apr Year 1786 Parish Circuit Or Chapel Manaccan Groom Fn Henry Groom Sn CARTER Groom Age Groom Residence Groom Condition Groom Rank Profession Groom Signed / Marked (S/M) Groom Father Name Groom Father Rank Profession Bride Fn Elizabeth Bride Sn FLINDALL