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Brenda -
To the best of my knowlege, there was only one Carley branch in the area of Ithaca at the
time you are asking about and you may have gotten the Abraham idea from me - but this is
how it went --
The parental line stemmed from Albert and Hannah Covey Carley, m. 1778, (he was a Rev War
Vet). Albert was the son of Abraham and Susannah Jackson Carley of Wilton, CT - NOT THE
ABRAHAM AND SUSANNAH BROOKINS CARLEY OF HILLSDALE, COLUMBIA, NY - our Abraham was the son
of John and Sarah Sherwood Carley of Fairfield Co., CT. Albert and Hannah were in
Saratoga Co. from 1790 - 1800, in Montgomery Co from early 1800 to @ 1815 and Oneida
County by 1821, where Albert died later that year. They had 6 sons who had settled in
Oneida and Tompkins Co by 1820. They were:
Abraham, b 1781 - m. Catheine Jefferson, they settled in Hector by 1820 and had children
b. from 1803 to 1829 (Catherine was 15 when they married), the list is fairly complete but
there is a space between births in 1822 and 1829;
Cyrus b 1786 - m. Eunice Springer @ 1826 - they were living in Clay, Onondaga in 1830 and
in PA in 1840 where he seems to have died soon after - the family then went to Iowa by mid
1840s;
George C. b 1790 - m Margaret Elizabeth Wilkes, lived in Hector, Tompkins and in the 1830
Census he had 2 sons under the age of 5 - we have very incomplete information about
George, they seem to have had a rocky marriage and had separated by mid 1830 when George
went to Ohio with the eldest daughter and Margaret eventually went to Wisconsin with son
Thomas A. This looks like a distinct possiblilty for you; - but
John, b. 1792 seems to be very hard to trace - he was in Camden, Oneida in 1820 and I
think the parents were living with him and his wife, but we do not know who his wife was
and by 1830 he was no longer in Oneida, may have been in Hector also, but every one had a
son named John for their great-grandfather, John Carley, and that made for a lot of
confusion - I see that Otis had a son John A. which could be a clue (for his father John
and stand for his grandfather Albert, ala the old English naming patterns);
William, b. 1794 m. Delaney Cady. They also lived in Camden until 1830 when they also
appear in Hector with Abraham and George and a Cady relative but their census for 1830
does not show a son in what would be Otis' age group; and last - James, b. 1796 m
Chestina Tremain, had 1 son in 1815 and had died by 1817.
The other Carley families anywhere near by were off shoots of the Carley/Washburn family
who had moved out of VT/NH - anyone who knows differently, please let us know - and they
were clustered west of Oneida County in Oswego and Jefferson Counties and to my knowlege
did not extend much furthere south, at least in that time frame.
That's pretty much the accounting of Carleys in the Ithaca area at the time you are
talking about -- all I can say is -
Good Luck! Sorry I can't be of any more help -
Judy