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Author: WACARDER
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The 1758 George Carder is an error that has been propagated for years. It was just a guess
by someone who had not really done any research, and then it was propagated as fact.
There were three George Carders in Hampshire County, WV in the late 1700s / early 1800s.
One was William and Sarah's son, and he was born in the mid 1770s based on tax
records. He left and went to Ohio at the same time as his parents (I think around 1798),
and married Jane (Jenny) Ross. The other two George Carders were father and son, born
around 1750 and 1776, and they came to Hampshire County, WV from Culpeper County, VA after
1801. This George Carder family was related to the William Carder family. The 1750 George
and William were closely related, maybe brothers or cousins, but no documentation has been
found to prove the relationship. William Carder's son Abbott's children and my
grandfather's father's generation (descendants of the 1750 George) visited each
other (they lived about 5 miles apart) until the early 1900s, and always referred to each
other as cousins.
The 1758 birthdate of a George Carder as son of William should be erased from anyone's
records. I knew the person who came up with this date just by guess and spread it around.
He is now deceased, and was speculating back in the 1960s and 70s that my ancestor George
was a son of William, but my research has proven that they were not father and son, and
that another younger (1777-ish) George was the son of William, and that George left and
moved to Ohio before my George came to Hampshire County.
Hope this helps. I did extensive research and wrote a 350 page book on the Carder family
in 1992.
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