I offer the following family information on Cornelius Carmack for evaluation
& comments as a means of sparking discussion on the list. This is the
information that I have been given. As I have spent most of my research on
the other end of my family tree I have not searched out the sources for this
information.
Descendants of Cornelius Carmack
Generation No. 1
1. CORNELIUS CARMACK was born 1681 in ,,Scotland, and died November 04, 1749
in, Frederick Co, MD, USA. He married GUEIN COREM 1701 in, Frederick Co, MD,
USA.
Children of CORNELIUS CARMACK and GUEIN COREM are:
i. CORNELIUS CARMACK , JR, b. 1714; d. 1733, ,Cecil Co, MD.
ii. WILLIAM CARMACK, b. 1716, ,Cecil Co, MD; d. May 1776, ,Frederick Co, MD;
m. JANE MCDANIEL, 1732, ,Prince Georges Co, MD.
iii. JOHN CARMACK, b. 1720, ,Frederick Co, MD; d. 1812, ,Washington Co, VA;
m. ELIZABETH BARTON, Abt 1740.
iv. MARIA COREM CARMACK, b. 1721; m. COREM.
v. CATHERINE CARMACK, b. 1724; d. 1804, ,Frederick Co, MD; m. DANIEL
RICHARDS.
vi. MARY CARMACK, b. 1725; m. RICHARDS.
vii. ELIZABETH CARMACK, b. 1726; m. EVANS.
Records kept by some Carmack families indicate Cornelius Carmack was not
himself an immigrant and place his birth in Maryland in 1681(No official
proof of this date). However the records show Cornelius was among the early
settlers in the Appalachian area of Prince George County, later Frederick
County, where the English, Scotch, Scotch-Irish and Germans were settling in
the 1730's and 1740's.
Cornelius Carmack is the earliest known ancestor in the line of Carmacks in
America. Apparently of Scotch ancestry, he was living in Prince Georges
County, Maryland in the 1730's. He wrote a Will 13 May 1746 in Prince
Georges County and November 14, 1749 (ref; Vol A #1 Folio 27 - Frederick Co.
Court House, Frederick, Maryland.), it was probated in Frederick County,
which was formed from Prince Georges County, 10 December 1748. This would
place Cornelius' death at some time during the period of December 1748 and
November 1749.
In his will he described himself as being from or "of Monecksey" but he
lived near todays Libertytown. Monecksey being all the area close to the
Monocasy River.
This area called Monecksy was then still a wilderness, the community was
near to the Monocacy Road which followed an old Indian trail and reached
from Wright's Ferry in Pennsylvania to the Potomac river. It was the main
road of the settlers traveling by pack horse and wagon, by Virginians to the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and by both British and American
troops.
Does anyone have any source for any of this information? Questions or
comments?
regards,
dale
Owner, Carmack List
dcarmack(a)eaglenet.com