An interesting sidebar - I just found a cite that states that a John Carley
and his family left Albany County (NY) after the hostilities (REV WAR) for
Nova Scotia - that may be the John and Sarah Sherwood Carley family or one of
their children - there is a Mr. Carley noted in the History of Ballstown as
having settled on 50 acres next to a George Scott.
Most of the family had left Fairfield County, CT before 1760 as noted in her
father David Sherwood's Will probated that year. He said that his daughter
Sarah and John Carley (didn't actually call him her husband but did recognize
that they were a couple - [I've never found an actual VR of the marriage but
know that they were together by 1731 - Jacobus on CT Genealogies]) were in
the Oblong of Dutchess County - now in Putnam County, NY by that time, and
many of their children and grandchildren settled in the
Ballstown/Hillsdale/Sydney areas after the Rev War as well as in Greene and Oswego Co.s
of Upstate
NY. It is my belief that Abraham of the Green Mountain Boys was a brother of
Abraham's and that their father was the William who married Mary Bowden/Boaden
in Boston in 1703. Many Carleys attributed to Bartholomew and Hannah ?
because William is not in the chain of known Carleys of the period.
I wish there were better paper trails for that time but much was lost during
the War and much was never registered although William is noted as a seaman
on the Province Galley in 1709 and his dod is recorded as being in before
May 7, 1739 when his estate was ordered to be inventoried in Boston - Suffolk
Co.Probate.