There are about 5 emails today on the Portage county/ohio list dealing with Elisha (aka
old man Carrier)
I'll just zing the rest to the list and you Buckeyes can sort them out.
Neal Carrier
Source: OHPORTAG-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [OHPort'ge] Brimfield - Carrier family
Hi Jeff
I appreciate the information. I will have to see if I can find the book on
Portage County at the genealogical library.
Elisha Carrier has been an enigma. I have yet to find out who his parents
were or what siblings he may have had. However, there was a Betsy Carrier in
Brimfield on the 1840 & 1850 census. She is listed as being born in "CT." So
your
theory may very well be correct in that a relative of some sort was already
there or perhaps they came together.
Thanks again for responding.
Jan
in Connecticut
There was a canal boom in this part of Ohio beginning 1835 or so--the
canal
would pass through Kent, which is in a township adjacent to Brimfield. But
in general, many if not most of the early settlers of the Western Reserve
were Connecticut people. I'm researching a Bolton, CT couple who moved to
Charlestown, Portage County in 1834, when they were in their fifties. When
they arrived they were housed, I think, by relatives. Did your man have a
daughter, by chance, who settled in Brimfield? Maybe he moved to live with
her and her family.
There's an 1885 History of Portage County by Warner, Beers and Co. that's a
big book with lots of township info. You might be able to find excepts
online.
Good luck,
Jeff