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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.)