Margaret Carr, [Robert, Benjamin, William] born in Newport, [Newport County] Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Robert Carr. Robert is said to have followed George Fox and "embraced" the Society of Friends. She was born during a period of relative peace and coexistence between Indians and settlers in Rhode Island.

She married Richard Hartshorne 27 April 1670. Richard also was of Quaker faith. The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations gave protection to Quakers in 1657.

By November 1670 Margaret and her family had settled in Middletown township, New Jersey. Middletown is bounded to the north by Raritan Bay and east by the Atlantic Ocean. The following year Margaret bore the first of eleven children. Her son Robert was born December 5, 1671. In 1672 they entertained George Fox who wrote about the visit in his journal.

They resided at Navisink/Navesink meaning "good fishing" by the Lenape Indians. The British called what is now Highlands, "Portland" because of the similarity to Portland, England with a bay protected by a peninsula. Margaret’s husband named the place "Portland Poynt" where they held vast land holdings along the river and bay by 1678, purchasing the land form Lenape chiefs Tucus and Vowavapon. By the time of this land purchase five children had been born to the family including our ancestor, Mary born the 14^th August 1676.

Little more is known about Margaret. Sometime between 1673 and 1685 her 2^nd son Hugh died. They named a son born 21 June 1685 after the deceased child. Mary bore her last child in 1693 named Mercy. Margaret’s husband Richard Hartshorne died in May 1722 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.