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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Carley, Sherwood, Meeker, Jellett, Washburn, Quackenbos
Classification: queries
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Oh Boy! Are you opening a can of worms. I'm not exactly sure how to answer you -
There were two known Carley families in that town in the time frame of 1750 and on - 1.
Abraham and Susannah Brookins Carley - he was the Green Mountain Boy and son of Mariner
William and Mary Bowden Carley m. 1703 who may have had a son Joseph b. @ 1704/5. This
Joseph was probably the one also in CT in the 1720-40s with brothers James and John,
and the other was 2. Joseph, who seems to have had about 3 sons who went to Canada when
the Rev War broke out and actually the Josephs may have all been the same person.
Since your Joseph continued the name of Bartholomew, I think we'd have to assume that
he was a descendant of the Joseph, son of Peter, son of Bartholomew, and who is believed
to be in Upstate NY prior to the Rev War and who may have been the Joseph, Jr, son of
Joseph and Sally Washburn, for whom little seems to be known -- bear in mind that the
Washburn family was also in CT in the early 1700s.
This is from a correspondent in Canada also tracing this Bartholomew - "Our
Bartholomew was well documented in Ontario, as he was very active in the war of 1812 later
served as a judge and when he died he was a Col. in the local militia in Brockville, Ont.
His obit. does state that he was born in Nobletown, NY which is now Hillsdale in 1757. We
have copies of his appeal for reparations after the revolutionary war and this provides us
the link to the Gillete's of Fort Edward. He supposedly had a tenant farm of 140
acres! Joseph Jellet was his grandfather" -- the Jellets also came out of CT in the
1750/60s - I assume that is who you are chasing.
The following is related to various Josephs in that and surrounding areas in various
histories - (the Carley/Washburn descendants seem to have gone into VT but whose
descendants trickled down into Western Upstate NY later on.)
"The Joseph of Nobletown was there by abt 1757. Near him there is a Sherwood and a
Jackson and other southern CT familiy names." - (He could be the Joseph in Wilton in
1727 and in Fairfield after that into the 1730s and would have probably been the son of
William and Mary, as a known son, John, was also in that area and married a Sarah Sherwood
there in 1731. John also had a son Abraham names for John's brother - the Green
Mountain Boy - who married a Susannah (Jackson) but that Abraham died before 1759 when his
widow remarried one of his cousins - Thaddeus Gray.)
Nobletown Proprietors of 1767: David Sherwood (- that would have been the brother of the
Sarah who married John Carley in CT), Robert Meeker (- who would have been a cousin of the
above Sarah's as her mother was Sarah Meeker Sherwood), Joseph Carley and a
____Jackson( and also of course a Joseph Gillet who was the "President" - (a
Carley son named Bartholomew married an Eva? Gillett and they were the Carley couple in
Brockville, Ontario, Canada.) There was also a Joseph who married an Anjelte Quachenbos in
1778 and who was probably the son of the earlier Joseph in CT. Joseph Carley in Wilton
1726 owned property in Fairfield in 1742
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymontgo/canajoharie/canafeature.html
Minor Villages of the Town of Canajoharie, Montgomery, NY
MARSHVILLE is a hamlet near the center of the town. Here the first extensive saw-mill in
the town was built at an early day by one of the Seebers. Stephen and Henry Garlock
subsequently bought the property and operated the mill successfully for several years. At
this place one Joe Carley did the horse and ox shoeing for a large circle of country,
being near the main route to Cherry Valley. Carley was alive after the war of 1812, and
about the shinplaster period. Some sheep having been stolen from Mr. Goertner, a wealthy
farmer in the vicinity, the thief was traced to a dwelling near by, where bones and horns
were found under the floor. Shortly after manuscript shinplasters appeared purporting to
be issued by "the Muttonville Bank," signed by "Joe Carley,
President," and "payable in good merchantable mutton." Hence the name of
Muttonville, by which the little hamlet is still sometimes called. George Waffy, an
apprentice of Carley, bought him out and carried on the blacksmith !
business until his death, when he was succeeded by his son."
If you have any information that you'd like to add to this mix, please help us get all
these Josephs straightened out!
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