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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Carley, Bowden, Bully, Sherwood, Jellette, Carle, Williams,
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We are amending the theory on the origins of the Joseph Carley who was in Nobletown,
Columbia, NY in the mid 1700's and who probably was the parent of this Bartholomew,
Elijah and Abraham. Three sons of William the Mariner and Mary Bowden Carley who were
married at Boston, May 3, 1703, by Cotton Mather are thought to have been together in
Fairfield County, CT in the 1720-30s. Son John, who married a Sarah Sherwood of Fairfield,
CT in 1731, and Joseph and James Carley. These two other men are fairly well documented
there in various court records -- Joseph mainly for debts incurred, and James in whose
name a request for funds to reimburse caretakers for taking care of him after he became
ill while traveling. Knowing the background of John, I think we can safely assume that
these other Carley men were his brothers and indeed, a James is listed in the names of
children for William and Mary, having been baptised along with a sister Sarah at
Marlborough in 1715. Since William the !
Mariner was at sea most of the time, we have come to believe that his wife Mary moved
from Boston to Marlborough after the death of her parents there, father John in 1697 and
mother, Grace Bully Bowden in 1710. We feel that Mary took residence in Marlborough with
the senior Bartholomew and Hannah Carley, Bartholomew being a cousin of William's,
descended from the William of the "Confidence" in MA in 1638, and William the
Mariner being the son of Capt. Henry and his second wife, Elizabeth Ward, widow of John
Howe, Jr. - Henry the son of William the Immigrant who was probably the Planter at Hull in
1637.
Another brother of Joseph, John and James, was the Abraham who married Susannah Brookins
and who died at Hillsdale, Columbia, NY in 1790 where Joseph was also living in the mid to
later 1700s.
Joseph is known to have married into the Jellette family who came out of CT and into NY
prior to the Rev. War - According to John's father-in-law David Sherwood's Will of
1760, John and his family had moved into the Oblong of Dutchess County whre many members
of the family are noted as Minute Men on that county's Militia Roster.
There was also a William Carle, b 1735, who left Dutchess County for Canada who was
probably the son of either Joseph or John and named for his grandfather William. From my
notes on William -
"An affidavit dated July 10, 1807, made by Christopher Winters of Twsp. Haldimand,
Northunberland County, stated that he was well acquainted with William Carl now living in
Cramahe and that William Carl and his family lived in Dutchess County, New York before the
late revolution; that the said William Carl left home during the late war and joined the
British Standard at NY and that he saw horses and cattle belonging to the said Carl taken
by the rebels and sold for the benefit of the US. This William Carl received land grants,
as did his son, Joseph Carl. Joseph Carl marr Welmpy Carl (daug. of James Peck of
Amesliasburg, also a UE loyalist)." William had married Catherine Williams in
Dutchess Co. bef. 1765.
It must have been an interesting time living in such divided times!
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