Hello,
Here's a letter I sent to the Carruth family e-mail list at Listbot that I thought
someone may get some useful information from.
Best Wishes,
Harvey Carrouth
Ps. - some of the webpages found below are no longer active or the links to them have been
changed.
Archive for Carruth Family E-Mail List: Message #328
Date: Apr 08 1999 09:04:20 EDT
From: HARVEY33(a)aol.com
Subject: Carruth Family History Info.and Elizabeth Anderson
Adam Carruth was b. abt. 1704 in Antrim Co., Ireland and immigrated to the area of
Lancaster Co., Pa. in 1729, shortly after his parents James and Margaret
(Law) Carruth passed away in 1728 and 1729, along with brothers Walter and Alexander and
sister Mary (Carruth) Huggen with husband John Huggen. Adam and family migrated on to
Augusta Co., Va. between the time of his son James birth abt. 1744 in the Hanover
Township, Lancaster Co., Pa. and the birth of his daughter Mary in 1745 in Augusta Co.,
Va. Adam's son Robert Carruth was born in 1746 in Augusta Co., Va. Adam is found
selling 8 acres in Augusta Co., Va. that was located on a branch of Naked Creek on 04
August 1747. This
is at the time Adam and family moved on to the area of present day Iredell Co., N.C. along
the Rocky River and Coddle Creek just west of the Yadkin River and east of the Catawba
River (probably traveling on the Great Wagon Road which leads right to the place they
settled). Records show Adam's brother Walter as one of the first justices of the
peace appointed to the
newly formed Anson Co. in 1749. Anson County was created from Bladen Co., N.C. and at the
time, it reached all the way to the Mississippi River. A
section of New Hanover County, N.C. was broken off in 1734 to form Bladen, N.C. The
Bladen County boundaries were described in 1734 as, "No less than man dared to travel
West." The N.C. counties that the Carruth family later lived in all came from Anson
County including Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg,
Rowan, Rutherford, and Tryon Counties. There is a good link to a map and the counties
listed here at:
<
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/link01a.htm>
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/countyfm.htm>
The second address above will take you to a page that shows the time line for the
formation of the N.C. Counties. In 1749, the governor granted petitions to 80 different
persons for land in the county of Anson and these are considered the initial immigrants to
Lord Granville’s domain lying west of the Yadkin on the northwestern frontier.
Adam, Walter, and Jane (wife of
brother Alexander) Carruth were listed among these initial settlers. Their brother-in-law
John Huggen (listed as Huggins) is listed as one of the early
settlers also and bought land at the Rocky River
and Coddle Creek area as well.
Rowan County was formed in 1753 from Anson County. Initially Rowan included the entire
northwestern sector of North Carolina, with no clear western boundary, but its size was
reduced as a number of counties were split
off leaving a smaller Rowan County that comprised present-day Rowan, Iredell (formed
1788), Davidson (1822), and Davie (1836) Counties. This branch of
the Carruth family grew in size and migrated to many if not all the states to the west and
south.
There are other branches of the Carruth family that moved from Ireland and settled in
America. One of these is the family who’s forefathers were John
Carruth and his brother William Carruth. John Carruth was b. probably in Ireland abt.
1708, d. Northborough, Mass. 27 Dec. 1771, and married Jemima Carruth b. Lexington, Mass.
08 Sept. 1714, d. Northborough, Mass., Sept. 1798, daughter of James and Mary (Howe)
Russell. Jemima’s maternal great grandfather was William Russell who died in
Cambridge, Mass. 14 Feb.1661-62.
Her maternal grandparents were Phillip and Joanna (Cutler) Russell. William Carruth was
b. in Northern Ireland abt. 1713, d. Barre, Mass. in 1799, and
married Margaret Perry b. probably in Northern Ireland abt. 1712. John arrived in Boston
as early as 1730 and the first child of John and Jemima was born in
June 1734. William and Margaret’s first child was born in 1738 in the town of
Westborough which later became a part of Northborough. John was the 2nd great grandfather
of Arthur Jay Carruth, the author of
“Genealogy of a branch of the Carruth Family or the
Descendants of James Carruth of Phillipston” published in 1926 by
Arthur’s sons, Arthur Jay Carruth, Jr. and Edgar William Carruth. William was
the 3rd
great grandfather of Harold Bertram Carruth, the author of “Carruth
Family” published in 1952. There are other branches of the Carruth family shown
in Harold’s book as immigrating to America.
There are also branches of the family in his book that are living in Ireland and
Scotland as well as moved from these areas to Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The
Carruth family has spread across the United States and the world as well. Most of you I
have communicated with so far seem to have come from one of the branches of the family
I’ve documented
above with a few exceptions. Mariah Coruth has a few of these documented at her web page
found at:
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http://www.bnpages.com/computers/homeofhomes/index.html>
Mariah’s family is one of these that is also shown in “Carruth
Family” coming from John and Isabelle (Shearer) Carruth of Dippany Farm in
Kilmacolm Parish,
Renfrewshire, Scotland. John and Isabelle’s grandson James is the immigrating
forefather of this group. James was born in Green Farm, Kilmacolm Parish, Renfrewshire,
Scotland, 21 Mar. 1771 and died in Ryegate, Vermont, 05 Nov. 1862, married Mary (Molly)
Mills, b. abt. 1783, daughter of John Mills, Sr., and granddaughter of Richard Mills of
Portsmouth, N.H.
James immigrated in 1794 and he and Mary were married in Newbury, Vt. 20 Oct. 1800.
Mariah’s mom is Tina Coruth and she is an Irish Culture writer who has a web
page you can visit at:
<
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/ire_culture>
There are other branches of the Carruth family that I have not made mention of above.
One of these can be found in message number 129 of our Carruth
Family E-Mail List archive at: <
http://carruthfam.email.listbot.com/>
In this message Georsan Caruth wrote about his family living in Maraval, Trinidad.
Georsan’s father was named George and he was born in Tobago.
Georsan also wrote that four brothers - Peter, John, Aaron, and Phillip - migrated from
Barbados and that John was his father’s great grandfather.
There are still other branches of the family and it’s many cousins and
descendants who’s surname may not be Carruth (or it’s variant
spellings), but
are part of our Carruth family and have not been contacted. I’d like to ask
each of you reading this letter to invite our cousins and to join our family
e-mail list as you make contact with them. Also, please encourage them to write to the
list and let us know of their family history. The address to
send mail to the list is:
<CarruthFam.EMail(a)Listbot.Com>
I found one thing knew to report that may interest some of you. Adam
Carruth’s son Robert Carruth married Elizabeth Anderson. Robert lived in Rowan
Co., N.C. on the plantation of his father until he was 16. His father sold the Rowan Co.
plantation in 1762 and moved to Mecklenburg Co., N.C. buying land along Paw Creek of
closeto 1000 acres. As an adult, Robert bought and sold land in soon to be Rutherford,
Lincoln, and Polk Counties, N.C. He married Elizabeth Anderson
in 1770 and they lived early married life in Rutherford Co., N.C. before moving to Ga.
They are found on the 1790 Census in Rutherford Co., N.C. They moved to Ga. within a few
yearswhere Robert is found paying taxes as early as 1793 in Wilkes County, Ga.
I have thought that Elizabeth’s family could be found documented at the
following address:
<
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/others/johna.html>
There is an Elizabeth Anderson listed as number 36. Her father is listed above her as
number 7. He was Robert Anderson (John2, John1) and died in
Abbeville Co., South Carolina. He married Ann Thompson in November 1765 in Virginia.
This Elizabeth would not be Robert’s wife if she were born after 1765.
Elizabeth is listed here as:
36 iii. Elizabeth Anderson.
She married (1) Robert Maxwell.
She married (2) Caruth.
Notes for Robert Maxwell:
!(1) "Gleanings of Virginia History," by William Fletcher Boogher (19 65)
p.314.
FHL #975.5 H2bw.
(1) "Of the Revolution."
After checking for other possibilities of who this Elizabeth may have married I found
that she did marry a Carruth and this was her second marriage. This is documented in Mrs.
Lela Grant Carruth’s book, “From Whence Ye Came” published
in 1982. On page 106 and 107 Adam Carruth-3 (Alexander-1, Robert-2) is shown marrying
Mrs. Mary Anderson Maxwell Carruth before 25 Jan. 1810. There is also a short history
about Mary’s family shown here. Mary’s first husband Colonel
Robert Maxwell was an officer under General Robert Anderson (Mary’s father).
Robert Maxwell was the first sheriff of Greenville Co., S.C. and was killed
from ambush 10 Nov. 1797. So this information matches for the above except the
information from the web page was for Elizabeth. Perhaps the Elizabeth Anderson that
married Robert Carruth is on this page as well and I have not found her there yet. The
information for this Anderson family matches pretty closely with the
information for the Carruth family. It is noted for Robert Anderson that Anderson Co., SC
was named for him. I found a couple of web sites with
information to back this statement of the naming of the county at:
<
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/ande.html>
<
http://www.andersonsc.com/community/anderson.asp>