"Samuel Carman, second son of Richard the Loyalist ancestor, was born at Hempstead, on Long Island, September 7, 1782, and came to New Brunswick at the close of the Revolution with his parents - himself an infant Loyalist - and in early life lived at Maugerville. Like his father, Richard, he took much interest in Church matters. He was Warden of the parish church in Maugerville when the Rev. J.M. Stirling was inducted rector, April 1, 1844. The family often attended the parish church in Fredericton, which was only about three miles above their home in Lower St. Marys, but on the opposite side of the river. But their usual place of worship was the Parish Church of Maugerville, nine miles below. Here also their relations of the Miles, Perley, and other families attended.  I find that on the occasion of the first Annual Meeting of the old Diocesan Church Society, held in Fredericton, Feb 9, 1838, Samuel Carman was elected one of the first Executive Committee and he and his family were thenceforward for nearly 60 years annual subscribers to the Society. Grandfather Carman, as I remember him, was a mild-mannered gentleman of the old school. The soul of honour and truthfulness, gentle in his ways, modest and unobtrusive, he was not ambitious and passed a peaceful, contented life. He occasionally visited my mother, his daughter, in Woodstock, N.B. His last visit was in the summer of 186_. I remember this because my father was then taking down the old barns at his own and Grandfather Raymonds place preparatory to building the large one which is now standing. I remember that on returning from school, I found the old barn level with the ground, and Grandfather Carman saying to me, You should have been here to see the barn fall, Willie. This was his last visit to Woodstock. He died at his home in Lower St. Marys, York County, in his 82^nd year on the 3^rd of November, 1864, which, as it happened, was the 233^rd anniversary of the arrival in America of his ancestor John Carman and his wife Florence on the 3^rd of November, 1631." - W.O. Raymonds Family Notes, William Odber Raymond, 1920

Samuel⁷ Carman (Richard⁶, Benjamin⁵, Benjamin⁴, Caleb³, John², John¹) married Maria Moore, born 20 April 1786 at St Mary's, York County, New Brunswick, Canada, married 6 April 1811 at Maugerville, Sunbury County, New Brunswick and died 11 February 1855 in St Mary's. She was the daughter of James Moore, son of John Moore of Newtown, Long Island,  and Elizabeth Hallett, Elizabeth first having been married to William Seaman, and officer in the Revolution and killed.

"The only thing outside of the Church in which grandfather Carman seems to have been especially interested was the militia. His commission as First Lieutenant of a Company in the Sunbury County Regiment of Militia is dated July 11, 1806, and is signed by President Ludlow and Provincial Secretary Jonathon Odell. This commission is in the drawer of the old mahogany desk. The circumstances under which Samuel Carman came into possession of the farm at the lower line of the county of York, on which he resided from the date of his marriage to Maria Moore in 1811, will be more fully referred to when we come to speak of the Moore family ancestry. I can remember the old (Carman) homestead in Lower St. Marys very well. The house was surrounded with old willows, of which the scions are believed to have been brought to the Country from New York in 1783. Some fine old chestnut trees grew in the garden - the house fronted the noble Saint John River. The chestnut trees, it should be mentioned, were raised from seed brought to New Brunswick by James Moore. They were long said to be the only chestnut trees in the Province." - W.O. Raymonds Family Notes, William Odber Raymond, 1920

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