Robert Carver, the Pilgrim ancestor, had in 1638 a grant of 20 acres at Green Harbor river, Marshfield, and a garden place at Stony Brook in Duxbury.   According to Marshfield records it was granted Feb. 12, 1643, "that Robert Carver should have that tract of meadow that doth lie between Mr. Edward Winslow's fence and Mr. William Thomas' fence from fence and creek to creek."   He is called a sawyer on the records.   He was admitted a freeman in 1644.   A portion of the original grant at Green Harbor is owned and occupied by the sons of David Carver.   John Carver, son of Robert, had lands in Duxbury in 1640.   Aug. 5, 1706, about 100 acres of land was granted to William Carver and Joseph Waterman.   It was bounded on the east by "puddle wharf brook" and a cart way called "Rogers, his way."   Probably this was the estate formerly owned by Silas Carver, which only recently passed from Carver ownership, as it is known to have been occupied by Israel Carver⁵ previous to his removal to Fox Islands, Me., in 1766, then owned by his son Alanson, by the latter's son Israel, and last by son Silas Carver, and now by Fremont Whidden.   A John Carver was selectman in 1757.

   Stephen Gardner, the sixth by that name in a direct line from John Gardner, who came from England to Plymouth in 1635 and setled in Hingham in 1640, was born in Hingham June 2nd, 1812.
   At the age of twenty-one he married Maria Ford of So. Scituate, now Norwell.   At that time he was a shoemaker, but he also worked in the shipyard in Medford with his friend, Wm. P. Tilden, who later became a noted Unitarian