THE CARLETON FAMILY
CARLETON: In Massaachusetts and Vermont in 1635, from England. (Edward Carleton, son of Walter and Jane Gibbon Carleton from England, goes back to Strickland family, Neville, Catherine Roet Swynford, former wife of Sir Hugh (Her sister was married to Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest Poets) and, John of Gaunt,1340-1399, King of Castile, son of King Edward III.
Catherine and John of Gaunt had children Joan Beaufort and John Beaufort. Our line comes from Joan who married Ralph Neville of Raby. John married Margaret Holland and had Henry VI, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Qeen of Scots, James I, etc. etc.
Edward Carleton and Ellen NEWTON were married in England. After disposing of her estate, they set out for Massachusetts and Vermont (on ship John of London?) with son, John Carleton, a baby. Edward and Ellen Carleton returned to England from Rawley, with their family, after 10 years and Lt. John Carleton, oldest son returned to the US, and his family's land etc., and married Hannah Jewett, daughter of Joseph Jewett and Mary Mallinson. They had four children and one was Joseph, born 1661 in England, died 1746, Newbury Massachusetts, buried Elwood Cemetery, Barre, Vermont. On stone is: "May thy God be thy childrens's God through all coming generations". My Joseph Carleton married Abigail Osgood, daughter of Christopher Osgood and Hannah Belknap/Belnap. Son Jeremiah I, married Eunice Taylor born June 22, 1740 Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, died Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, daughter of Sarah Cummings and John Taylor. Jeremiah II, married Lois Hoyt. Jeremiah III., born 1772, Lyndelboro, New Hampshire, died 1844 in Barre, VT married Deborah Edwards 1798. Jeremiah IV, born August 16, 1799 married March 14, 1822 died 1882. Betsy Robey, daughter of Phillip Abbott Robey and Lucy Proctor, their daughter, my Gt Gt Grandmother Charlotte Gertrude Carleton married Dr. Alexander Turner of Moore county NC, son of Malcolm and Isabella Curry Turner from Scotland to NC.
This summer I saw pictures of these Gt Gt's for the FIRST time, AND, the house they lived in at White Oak Springs, Al, out from Clayton, Barbour county. At the time, she had gone south to tutor a child of wealthy family, English and Art. Her brother, Marcus (Rev.) Manard Carleton, was on his way to India as a missionary with wife Celestia Bradford, 2nd Elizabeth Calhoun. Carleton names: Ingalls, Silas, Hazan, Tracy Elliot, Marcus, Osgood, Ebenezer, David, Mary, Abigail.
If you have Carleton with an "e" we are probably kin.
Edward, our immigrant, son of Walter Carleton b 1582 and Jane Gibbon b 1594.
Edward Carleton, son of Walter Carleton, was born in Hornsea (England) and baptized at Bedford, Yorkshire east riding, 10/20/1610. His wife, Ellen Newton, daughter of Lancelot and Mary Lee Newton, was baptized at Hedon, Yorkshire, 2/24/1614. They were married at St. Martin, Micklegate, York, 11/3/1636. Their 1st son John was probably born in 1637, but no record of his baptism has been found. On or about 4/9/1638, they disposed of Ellen’s ancestral property, and soon after embarked with the party of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, probably for Hull, in the ship "John of London", which arrived in Salem or Boston in the autumn of 1638. The next spring, the company began the settlement of Rowley, near Newburyport, Mass., and there the Carleton’s 2nd son, Edward, was the 1st recorded birth, 10/28/1639.
Edward Carleton was a man of some importance in the Rowley settlement, holding various offices. He returned to England about 1649, and his wife and children later. No further record of the parents or of the 3 younger children has been found, and it is supposed that they remained and died in England. John, the eldest son, was sent back to New England with a letter of attorney, by which he received a portion of his father’s estate. From him are descended all of our Carleton family in America.
(LIEUT.) John Carleton, born probably in Yorkshire, England, about 1637. Died at Haverhill, Mass. 1/22/1668. Married, probably about 1658-59, Hannah Jewett, born at Rowley 6/15/1641, d/o Joseph and Mary Mallison Jewett. Children: John, Joseph, Edward and Thomas.
Joseph Carleton (2nd son of John ) born at Haverhill 3/21/1662-3. Died at Newbury in 1745. Married at Andover 8/2/1694 to ABIGAIL OSGOOD, b. at Andover 8/29/1673. D. at Newbury about 1754. D/o Christopher and Hannah Belknap Osgood. 10 Children. Another source lists 6 children: David, Jonathan, Moses, Jeremiah, Mary and Abigail.
JEREMIAH CARLETON (10th child of Joseph) born at Bradford, Mass. 7/3/1715. Died at Lyndeboro, N.H. 1768. Married 6/22/1740 to EUNICE TAYLOR, b at Dunstable, Mass., 10/30/1717, died at Lyndeboro, N.H. about 1794.
Jeremiah and Eunice lived in Newton, now Amesbury,Mass, where part of their children were born. His business was that of a carpenter, millwright and lumber dealer. About 1750, he moved to Litchfield, NH, and 6 years later in the fall he came to Salem-Canada and pitched his camp on land owned, in recent years, by E. Curtis. It was built beside a big rock situated about 30 rods from the NE corner of said land. (The following quotation is from "The ‘Olden Time’ in Lyndeboro" by J. A. Woodard): "these log houses were often built with one end against a large boulder, this to serve as a backing for the fireplace. Jeremiah Carleton’s was built that way and so was Adam Johnson’s. The fireplace was usually a mammoth affair, and it needed to be to warm the loosely constructed house. Jeremiah began his clearing, among the big hemlocks on the flat the other side of the brook and worked at it during the fall and winter, and in the spring went back to his family, presumably at Litchfield. While he was in camp that winter some hunters drove a lot of deer into the big brook near by and getting fire from his camp, they killed a number. They stayed with him all night, and in the morning took the hides of the deer, leaving him with a plentiful supply of venison. He returned that year with his family and built a cabin, but Indians burned his cabin and killed his stock. He was forced to leave and did not return until 2 years later in 1760. When he returned, if he cleared 20 acres of land and built a framed house of certain dimensions he was to have 60 acres of land, and if he built a saw-mill he was to have 60 acres more for that. He built his house about 100 rods NE of where E. C. Curtis’ brick house is located in early 1900’s and near the brook. He hewed all the timber for his house from oak logs. He built the saw-mill in 1761 and 1762. It was situated about 30 rods below the bridge on the road from Johnson’s Corner to Wilton. In this mill the boards were sawed to finish his house. The mill did a good business as long as he was able to run it. He cleared the land and had 8 acres of corn planted the 1st year. The bears were numerous and took toll of the corn and livestock. The Carletons were at work among the corn one day, when they heard the hog squeal. The old man ran to the rescue, too late to save the hog, but the women folks had run with their hemlock brooms and had scared the bear away from the carcass and the livestock. Jeremiah was indignant that he should lose the chance to shoot the bear, but they had fresh pork for a while.
Jeremiah died in 1769. His wife, Eunice Taylor Carleton, survived him about 25 years. She was a very religious woman and used to walk to Amherst, 6 miles, to attend Church, guiding her way by marked trees. They had 7 children:
1. Osgood
2. Jeremiah
3. Mary married Reuben Bachelder, lived and died in Warren, N.H.
4. Abigail, married Adam Johnson who was killed in Rev War, then married Ensign David Putnam.
5. Timothy, killed by accident at the raising of the Wilton Church in 1774.
6. David, killed in the army during the Rev War.
7. Ebenezer, took part in the Rev. War, came home and settled in Chester, N.H. in 1840.
JEREMIAH CARLETON (2nd son of Jeremiah and Eunice Taylor Carleton) B at Newtown, Mass 4/13/1743. Died at Lyndeboro, N.H. 3/14/1814. Married 5/12/1767 to Lois Hoyt, b 11/11/1740 at Newbury, Mass. She died 6/6/1830 at Lyndeboro, NH 11 children Jeremiah lived with his father until he was 16, then enlisted in the army. The year after his discharge, 1760, he went to work as an apprentice to learn the ship carpenter’s trade, presumably in Newburyport, and stayed there until 1771. He moved with his family to the farm left by his father in Lyndeboro, but in a year or two, he went back to Newburyport, Mass. When the Revolutionary War came, there being no work at ship carpentering, he again returned to the farm. He lived there the rest of his life. Their children
1. Sarah, b in Newburyport, Mass. 1768. M William Richardson 1795. Lived in Barre, VT. 2 children
2. Jeremiah b and died in 1770
3. Jeremiah, in Lyndeboro 5/10/1772
4. Timothy, b 6/1/1774, married Miss Uzza in 1801, Lived in Barre, VT. 9 children
5. Lois b 3/2/1776, married Caleb Taft, moved to Barre, VT, 6 children:
6. Mary, b 8/3/1779. Married John Harwoood 1799. Lived in Mt. Vernon. 6 children.
7. Betty, b 4/19/1781.
8. Rhoda, b 6/27/1783. M Henry Cram 1806.
9. Hannah, b 9/16/1785.
10. Dudley, b 6/23/1788, m 12/23/1788. M 12/24/1817 to Elizabeth d/o John and Ruth Proctor of Lyndeboro, N.H>
11. Moses, b 9/7/1792, m 1818, Chloe Batchelder, lived at Amherst and New Ipswich, and 1832 moved to Oswego, NY
JEREMIAH CARLETON III (3rd child of Jeremiah and Lois Hoyt Carleton) b. 5/10/1771 at Lyndeboro, N.H. died at Barre, VT 9/3/1844. Married at Montpelier, VT 12/6/1798 to DEBORAH EDWARDS, d/o David and Deborah Clark Edwards. She was b. at Rochester, Mass., 4/6/1776, died at Bsrre. VT.3/18/43.
Jeremiah was b at the farm of his father in Lyndeboro, and moved in 1794 to Barre, VT, where he cleared his farm on "East Hill" The farm was in the possession of his son David until David’s death in 1888. David’s son Edwin sold the farm about 1900. Children of Jeremiah and Deborah Edwards Carleton born at Barre, VT.
1. Jeremiah 4th, b 8/16/1799 married Betsey Robey at Bristol, N.H. d/o Philip Abbott and Lucy Proctor Robey 3/14/1822 (My Great, Great, Great Grandparents.) He died at Barre. Betsey was b 10/28/1798 at Dunstable, now Nacho, N.H. d at Marshfield, VT 5/21/1836. Jeremiah later married Caroline Coburn. All children were by 1st wife:
2. 1. Betsey Robey, b 1822 d 9/12/1838 age 16
3. 2. Ingalls, b 3/30/1824 d.
4. 3. Marcus Manard, b 8/13/1825
5. 5. Silas Abbott b 10/13/1833.
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6. Charlotte Gertrude Amy Carleton see Turner family. Her husband, Alexander Turner,MD was b in Scotland, lived in Moore co NC (My Gt. Gt’s)see elsewhere.
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