Sarah's Family Tree

From Fox's Book of Martyrs; Thomas Hudson, Thomas CARMAN, and William Seaman were condemned and burned at the stake. Thomas Carman was specifically burned for pledging his allegiance to another Puritan leader at his earlier execution, which is documented in another volume of Fox's books.

Sketch & Lineage of Earle Pruden Carman - info. taken from "Amer. Fm.
of Hist. Lineage, L. I. Edition" publ. 1915 by Nat'l. Amer. Soc. 9N.Y.) and
from gen. records of L. I. Hist. Soc., Brooklyn, N.Y. and Public Library NYC.
..."both Puritan leaders & both burned at the stake at Norwich, Wm. 1557
& Thomas in 1558 along with Wm. Seaman of Menelsham in Norfolk. Soon
after a dau. of Wm. mar a son of the martyr, Wm. Seaman (See
Bloomfield's 'Hist. of Norfolk'; Neal's 'Puritan Martyrs'). Also from Trish
Carman on Prodigy 10/30/92: "The following is an exact copy of the
work my father-in-law compiled on our line of the Carman family. It
runs from 1042 to the present - ending with my stepson Daniel Carman.
Carman Family Gen., (Comp. in 1973 by Robert D. Carman using facilities
of the New York Public Library Gen. Dept.) ... Info. was found inthe
following volumes: 1. "Thomas C. Carman & Phebe Pruden Carman - A
Family History" comp. by Albert Pruden Carman c. 1935. Twin City
Printing Co., Champaign, Ill. 2. "Sketch and Lineage of Earle P. Carman
from Jordan's "Encyclopedia of Biography" - Copy. Pa. 1915 - In N.Y.
PUblic Library Gen. Dept. Carman APV is Library #) 3. Book No. 4 of
Carman Genealogy. According to Theron L. Carman: "The name Carman is
dirived from a word "Kar"or "Car" meaning a castle, a stronghold or
fortified lace...and Carman Means "The Lord of the Stronghold.". By going
back to the Domesday Records, he traces the Carmans as manor holders
back to 1042 sin the Reign of Edward, The Confessor. According to the
sketch and lineage of Early P. Carman from Jordan's "Encyclopedia of
Biography" "The Carman family is one of the oldest of the Anglo-Saxon
race. It's authentic ancestry, based on official records begins in the
English Nobility of the Rein of Edward, The Confessor (AD 871-901), in
the Genealogy of the Bishops of Mercia (AD607-796) and in the works of
Bede, the first Historian of England...(Note: His brother William Carman,
was burned at the stake in the previous year, 1557. In the same fire as
Thomas Carman was William Seaman of Menlesham in (Menndham?)
Norfolk, whose son, William Seaman, married a daughter of the
previously martyred William Carman.)"