While browsing in the library yesterday I found some new, to me, information
concerning the early French Carriers. The book New world Immigrants, Vol 1,
edited by Michael Tepper, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1980, pages
224-227, contains an article by St Julien R. Childs, The Petit-Guerard
Colony.
This colony was located in what today is South Carolina. Ships passage and
land were sold...to those both in England and in Normandy...Petit being
English
and Guerard being French. I'll not go into the history other than to the time
period starting in 1680's and that the colony was a success at the time....
Listed as an early settler was Abraham Fleury De la Pleine of Tours France.
With him were at least four indentured servants. One servant was a Jean
CARRIERE. "In the Act of Naturalization (Carriere appears as a) cooper, a
trade
for which there was abundant employment in South Carolina, but as the St
Julien
list calls him an inhabitant of Santee, he probably became a planter. (it is
thought that when the indentured period was over Carrier had probably been
trained in agriculture.) According to the list, he was the son of Jean
Carriere and he was Norman like Guerard. No wife or children are mentioned,
but eventually he married for the birth of John, son of John and Elizaberth
Carriere, November 18, 1712, is recorded in the Parish of St. Thomas and St.
Denis. A John Carrier, possibly the father of the immigrant, was
denizened in
England in 1700. A warrant was issued in South Carolina, Jan. 3, 1701, for
the
survey of 100 acres for ' John Careau' ."
I hope this might be of some help to you finding your early Carrier roots that
didn't come to this country via the Quebec root!
Happy Hunting,
Margie Hansen