Ann,
Below are some notes I pasted to some of your question. As I stated in a
previous e-mail Robert Davidson done a lot of research on the Carlton's of
Surry County, NC abt 1991. Some of his information has been corrupted.
I do know that the George Carlton listed below as bondsman for the marriage
of Lindsey Carlton & Rachel Carter is my 4th great grandfather.
Robert Davidson list George & Lindsey Carlton as brothers sons of John
Carlton & Agatha Lindsey. The same John Carlton that move around from SC to
Surry County, and back to SC.
The marriage record (his 2nd) of my 3rd great grandfather Moses Carlton b. 3
3 1805 in SC (confirmed by family bible) listed his father as George.
George had children to settle in Surry/Yadkin County, NC as well as Tenn.,
and Scott County, Va.
Ron Collins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Oppenheimer" <oppysgirl(a)satx.rr.com>
To: <CARLTON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:56 PM
Subject: Carltons of Surry Co NC
Hello Carlton Researchers,
I am trying to review/understand the records I have. I welcome any
input/insight.
> Question 1: Who is this John Carlton? Who is his wife and what of his
family he may left in Surry Co. NC and of his family in Spartanburg Co.,
SC.
Question 2: There is a Carlton LINDSEY & a Lindsay CALTON or is it
CARLTON? Who are they and who are their families?
Information compiled and
supplied by Robert Davidson
John Carlton of Brunswick County is the first family member who has been
documented. He first appears as a witness for William Lindsey in May 1756.
He was a neighbor of William Lindsey in Brunswick Co, VA in th e 1750's. He
was a young man, with wife Agatha and a daughter, Mary, born in 1753 or
1754.
John Carlton received a grant of 130 acres of land from William Lindsey in
1757, on Wildcat Creek, in an area where William Lindsey had patented or
bought much land, and sold parcels at a nominal rate to his sons and
sons-in-law. The grant to John Carlton is the basis for supposing that he
was also a son-in-law of William Lindsey. There was clearly a family
connection--John and Agatha Carlton named a son Lindsey Carlton.
John Carlton sold this land to Thomas Holcombe in 1760, but he, together
with his wife "Agga, " is found a few miles away in Lunenberg County betwen
1760 and 1768. In 1774, he appears as a taxpayer in Surry County, Nor th
Carolina.
From 1757 to 1768 John Carlton owned farmland in Brunswick and later just
across the line in Lunenburg County. A 1766 lawsuit initiated by John
Carlton in Lunenburg County was discharged by "his not being an inhabitant
of this colony," suggesting that he was already moving back and forth
between Virginia and North Carolina. He and his family were settled in Surry
Co NC by 1774.
There are many records of John Carlton in Surry County, where he was a
substantial farmer and owned land in the Deep Creek area, near Yadkinville
in what is today Yadkin County, NC. There were eleven in his household in
1787 and eight in 1790. In 1791 or 1792, he moved to Spartanburg County,
South
Carolina and lived near his son-in-law John Durham in the southern part of
the county. There he and his wife are found, living alone, in the census of
1810. Both would have been about 80 years
old--not an unusual age for members of this family.
John and Agatha Carlton may have had seven or eight sons and at least four
daughters, althoug h some in the household by 1787 may have been
grandchildren or other relatives. Two daughters of John and Agatha Carlton
can be identified, most likely the oldest and youngest. Family members in
Spartanburg
County in the 19th century knew that Mary Durham and Rebecca Fowler were
sisters, and that their maiden name was Carlton. Three sons can also be
identified. Others are "lost", or may have died young.
John Carlton and his wife Agatha had a large family. Elijah and Lindsey
Carlton, who are consistently associated with John in the records, must be
his sons. They stayed in Surry County, along with a John Carlton (John
Carlton II) of the same age, who must be another son. Two of the daughters
of John and Agatha Carlton can be identified, most likely the oldest and the
youngest. Both went to Spartanburg County, where it was known in the 19th
century that Mary Durham and Rebecca Fowler
were sisters, and that their maiden name was Carlton*.
*From personal recollections of Matilda Durham Hoy, written in 1901,
courtesy of Mary Benson Maxwell. The Durhams in Georgia referred to the
Fowlers as "cousins."
Such as: CARLTON, Lindsey md Rachael CARTER 29 Sep 1818 Bondsman:
George CARLTON
CARLTON, Lindsey, Jr. md Polly RUTLEDGE 7 Mar 1822
Bondsman: Jonathan Hinshaw.
Is this same Lindsey CARLTON & he marries twice. He is too
young to be the Lindsey CARLTON listed in the early deed records.
Other marriages are Elijah CARLTON to Nancy LONG 31 Oct 1836; John
CARLTON
to Letuice MOREFIELD 16 Feb 1816-bondsman William CARLTON to name a few.
And then finally this tidbit in "Surry County North Carolina Court Minutes
Vol 1 & Vol 2 1768-1789 by Mrs. W. O. Absher:
15 Feb 1787 Ordered Fload (sic) CARLTON, orphan of Blake CARLTON,
deceased be bound to William COOK, Jr. for term of 22 months from date to
learn art and mistry of Saddler".
"John Flood Carlton was a son of Blake
Carlton of Lunenberg County VA in
1762."
From Surry County Court Minutes, February 15, 1787:
"Ordered--that John Flood Carlton, orphan of Blake Carlton, dec'd, be
bound to William Cook Junr for the term of 22 months to learn the art and
mistry of a saddler. And the said Cook doth agree to learn him to read
and write and to give him
six pounds at his freedom or cloathes to the amount thereof."
John Flood Carlton did not stay long in Surry County. He is living in
Wake County, NC in 1790, recently married, and in 1800. He bought land
there from John May in 1798, which he sold to Henry Evans (Wit: Charles
May) on March 10, 1807.
Later in the same year a John F. Carlton married Mary Watson,
amuchyoungerwoman, in Mercer Co, KY. The assumption here is that the two
were the same. John F. Carlton served in the war of 1812, and his widow's
pension file documents the second marriage. He finally settled in Hopkins
County, in western Kentucky, and after his death the family moved on to
Johnson Co, Illinois."
His first wife was born in 1789 in NC and "...died before 1807. The four
sons and one daughter of this marriage, listed in the 1800 census, have
not been found later. If they survived childhood, they do not seem to
have gone to KY--there may be some record of them in Wake County NC."
Sources:
Name : Information compiled and supplied by Robert Davidson
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