Ever in search for my Jacob Carrier, b. PA 1798, marrying Sarah Stephens, I
have been in looking for early Carriers who perhaps might provide clues. In
this search I have found three new people. From the Bristol Ship records,
vol.
1 1654 - 63, (Bristol and America, a record of the first settlers in the
colonies of North America, 1654-1885, including the names with places of
origin
of more than 10,000 servants of foreign plantations who sailed from the port
of Bristol to Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of the Atlantic Coast, and
also to the West Indies, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, MD,
1967) come two names, page 373, John Carrier to Nevis, the year 1660 and
page
425, Thomas Carrier, to Virginia, no year given but it would be between 1660
and 1664. Further information from the Maryland Archives in Annapolis show,
that John Carrier and several others, boarded a ship at Bristol on July 23,
1660 headed for Nevis Island to be in the service of a Mr. John Woory for a
period of six years. However, other records show that this John Carrier was
later in the service of Thomas Bennett of Maryland, transferred
(illegible) in
1662 to Maryland. Given that the Maryland Colony contained all of Delaware
and
a great deal of Virginia at the time, it is very possible that this John
Carrier is the man that married Elizabeth Hardwick in VA and left a will
making
her his heir. (Will dated 1697 Westmoreland Co. VA.) I have not come up with
any further information concerning the Thomas Carrier to VA. Also from the
Bristol records, there was a Thomas Morgan to Virginia, page 447, between 1654
- 63, most likely between 1660 -63 (There were only two Carriers, but many
Morgans.)
The other new Carrier is a Jacob. From the Muster Rolls and Prisoner of War
Lists in American Archival Collections Pertaining to the German Mercenary
Troops Who Served with the British Forces during the American Revolution,
Clifford Neal Smith. This Jacob came into the county 1881 and was at Camp
Greenwich, NY 1781. He is listed as an infantry man. This list deals with
the
soldiers who, by one means or another, stayed in this country. The text
reveals that many of the early German prisoners were moved to Lancaster, Pa
and were hired out to farmers. It would seem that with this German population
in Lancaster, soldiers who came late to the war, might find Lancaster an
attractive place to settle. The date 1781 might make this man my Jacob
Carriers father , marrying in Lancaster in 1787 to Rachael Brown.
I dont have strong feelings about this Jacob Carrier
.it is possible that he
migrated to Lancaster Co. I dont know if the John Carrier married to
Hartwick
had children and heirs, and of course there is Thomas of VA, a much earlier
settler that those we know about and have documented in the John W. Carrier
line. I will just keep looking, perhaps sometime there will be an answer.
Margie