My William Carey came from the Wyoming Valley after the massacre there. I
am trying to identify his parents. Do you have any leads on any of
Eleazer's children?
William was born 17 May 1805 and died 6 Mar 1871 in Springfield, Bradford
County, PA.
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Eleazer was one of the first forty Connecticut Pioneers to the Wyoming
Valley,
Pennsylvania in February of 1769. He moved his family to the valley
3 years later and settled in what was then known as Putnam Township,
Westmoreland County, later known as Carytown, now Cary Avenue, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. The Pioneers above referred to were granted lands by the
Susquehanna Company of Connecticut, a copy of his certificate issued for
said land is as follows: "This is to certify on examining the records of
the settlers of the New England peolple on the Susquehanna River, that I
find that Mr. Eleazer Carey, deceased, late of this town, was entitled to a
right in one of the towns laid out for the use of the proprietors and
settlers fo the Susquehanna purchase; he being entitled to such rights as a
suffering settler." (Cert. Zebu Butler, late comitte of Sd. settlement
Wilkes-Barre, 24th December, 1789.)