Jerusha Bradford Sparrow Carver

BIRTH 20 Dec 1722, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 23 Apr 1820 (aged 97) Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL Cemetery at The Green, Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
MEMORIAL ID 24038931

Edward (1) Sparrow and wife Jerusha Bradford Sparrow had one child, Edward, who was born April 2, 1746 in Wareham, Mass. He will be referred to as Edward (2).

Edward (1) and his wife, Jerusha, were living in Plymouth, Mass. in 1744 as they sold the following to Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford, Jerusha’s widowed mother, and the deed was dated June 20, 1744—

“sold Northerly front lowe room in ye dwelling house where I now dwell in Plymouth together with the chamber over said room and the bed chamber as now partitioned off adjoining to ye South East end of said chamber, also the garrett cover over the said chambers, and the entry and stairway at ye North end of said house and a privilege in ye cellar under the said house, and also a piece of land adjoining to ye northerly end of said house. Said land is 19 feet front and 26 feet deep and is bounded as followeth—Northerly by land belonging to ye heirs of John Watson Esq., deceased, Easterly by the Training Green, Southerly by the said house and Westerly by my own land.”

After Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford died her daughter, Sarah Bradford Holmes, a widow, administrator of her mother’s estate, sold to a William Bradford of said Plymouth, Cordwainer, the above described property which Mrs. Bradford bought of Edward (1) Bradford and Jerusha. This second transaction was dated August 21, 1779.

Edward (1) Sparrow was lost at sea apparently some time before December 27, 1746, as the Mayflower Descendent Book 18, Page 119 has the publishment of marriage of Jerusha Sparrow and Josiah Carver, Jr. dated December 27, 1746. They were married January 22, 1747 at Plymouth, Mass.

Jerusha Bradford Sparrow Carver died April 23, 1820 and is buried in Middleboro, Mass. Josiah Carver died April 5, 1799, aged 74 years, and is also buried in Middleboro, Mass. Jerusha was 98 years old when she died.

Great, great grand daughter of Governor William Bradford and descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. First married to Captain Edward Sparrow (1718-1746), who died at sea, perhaps off the coast of Indonesia, in 1746. Next married to Josiah Carver (1724-1799). Mother of Colonel Edward Sparrow, "Minute Man", colonel in George Washington's Continental Army.

Parents
William Bradford 1686–1729
Elizabeth Finney/Phinney Bradford 1690–1778

Spouses
Edward Sparrow unknown–1746 (m. 1741)
Josiah Carver 1724–1799

Siblings
Josiah Bradford 1724–1777
William Bradford 1726–1726
Mercy Bradford Harlow 1729–1762

Children
Edward Sparrow 1745–1817

References

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24038931/jerusha-sparrow_carver

http://guntersparrow.blogspot.com/