The following is pure speculation, and has no basis in fact other than
the similarity in locations. In one of the thread of posts begun by a
query regarding Walter Carson, Logan Co KY was mentioned as a temporary
residential point for the families discussed. including Carson and Reed.
Logan CO had been settled after 1795 by siblings of Capt William Porter
who received a 3,111 acre military land grant there. Husbands of two of
the sisters included Thomas Carson and Moses Reed. This extended family
had previously resided in Prince Edward/ Bedford/ Campbell Co VA. One
version of John Carson's, (father of Thomas above) arrival to the VA area
has the family arriving in Baltimore ca 1760, and removing fairly quick;y
to central Va where he died in 1762. His widow remarried twice, the last
time to John Porter, father of Capt William above.
Another Carson line, that of James S Carson is also found in central VA.
John and James are listed as brothers in the LDS files without cites to
records. The descendants of the two definitely intermingled through the
Porters in Logan/Butler Co KY.
While in VA the families were closely associated with Rev John Thompson
and his son-in-law, Rev Richard Sankey, both of whom brought sizeable
numbers of Scotch-Irish from southeastern PA to central VA. Thompson was
in the vanguard of the push south into NC ca 1750. There is no proof,
that I have found, that ties the above families directly to the treks of
these frontier ministers.
The question is, was it pure chance that put the various Carson lines
together in KY or was there a family tie?
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