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1 XXXI McCarty Family The McCarty Family was founded in Bucks County by Cornelius McCarty, of Middletown, and Silas and Edward McCarty, of Haycock, all doubtless natives of Ireland, and all born about or shortly prior to the year An effort has been made to show that these three were brothers, and that they were sons of one John McCarty, of Piscataway, New Jersey, who was married 7 mu. 9, 1684, by New York marriage license to Ann Harman, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, but it has not been successful, though it is probable that these three, with Dennis McCarty, of Middletown, Monmouth County. New Jersey, and one or two other McCartys of record at about the same date, were the children of John and Ann (Harman) McCarty. The McCartys of New Jersey and Pennsylvania were doubtless descendants of the Earls of Clan ('arty, who were driven out of Ireland and dispossessed of their large estates under King William of Orange in I. SILAS McCARTY, born about the year 1700, was the ancestor of the McCarty family of Richland, with whom this narrative is concorned. He took up a tract of 350 acres a-foga:2"o of land in what ;otter became Haycock Township, just over the present line of Richland Township, adjoining the Logan tract on the west, the Bryan tract on the south, and the Jacob Strawn tract on the -.ast. The patent for this tract of land from John, Thomas and Richard Penn to Silas McCarty is dated 1 mo. 3, , but he was probably located there tinder a proprietary warrent of survey for some years prior to that date. He died seized of this land in the year 1750, leaving a will dated 11 mo. 3, , which was probated on 3 mo. 1, 1750, which devised to his wife Sarah his plantation for life, then to all his children, his son Carrell excepted. To this son Carrell he gave 100 acres off the end of his plantation. To the congregation of Baptists he devised a plot of one acre on the east side of his plantation "where a Meeting House stands." This was near the village long known as Strawntown, where a much neglected Baptist burying ground is still in existence. Silas McCarty married, in 1722, Sarah Carrell, daughter of James and Sarah (Dungan) 305

2 366 EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS Carrell, of Warminster, and granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan, founder and pastor of the first Baptist Church in Bucks County, in Children of Silas and Sarah (Carrell) McCarty: 2 Carrell, b ; 3 James, b ; 4 Silas, b Benjamin, b ; d ; 6 Lydia, b ; 7 Elizabeth, b ; 8 Hannah, b William, b Thomas, b ; d ; 11 Paul, b ; m. Tamar m. Sarah. m. Margaret Walton. in. Daniel Pursell, of Nockamixon. m. John Melvin, of Springfield. m. Elizabeth Lancaster. m. Cassandra Villiam, prior to 1780, dau. of John and Margaret William, of New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa. He was taxed in Bethlehem T p., Washington Co., Pa., in 1781, for 100 acres of land and live stock. Their (laughter Margaret is mentioned in wilt of John William, dated Aug. 2, Cassandra was then deceased. 5. BENJAMIN McCARTY= (Silas'), son of Silas and Sarah (Carrell) McCarty, born 8 mo. 5, 1731, was reared on his father's farm in Haycock, then known as "adjacents to Springfield." He married about 1757 Margaret Walton, daughter of Isaac Walton, Sr., of Richland. (See No. 16, Chapter XIXII.) He not being a member of the Society of Friends, she was disowned for marriage to him. Isaac Walton was at that time and for many years thereafter a tenant on one of the plantations or divisions of the Logan tract in Richland, his son Isaac Walton, Jr., being a tenant on another division of the same tract. It is possible that Benjamin McCarty on his marriage to Margaret Walton took charge of the farm of her father. The two tracts "in the tenure of Isaac Walton, Sr. and Isaac Walton, Jr." were devised by the will of William Logan to his daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas Fisher, and on 2 mo. 13, 1787, Thomas and Sarah Fisher conveyed 195 acres part of both tracts to Benjamin McCarty, and he and his family resided thereon until his death, on 10 mo. 27, The will executed on his deathbed devised all his estate to his wife for life or widowhood, then to his His executors, his widow and brother-in-law Daniel Walton, were directed to hold the share of his daughter Mary, wife of Peter Ashton, paying her the interest and paying the principal to her children at her death. The share of another daughter Sarah Mitchell a widow was divided between her and her daughter Mira. Most of the children of Benjamin and Margaret McCarty removed with the Waltons to Muncy and were prominently associated with affairs there.

3 McCARTY FAMILY 367 Children of Benjamin and Margaret (Walton) ifccarty: 12 Silas: 13 William, m. Mary Lloyd. 14 Isaac. 13 Sarah, m. Mitchell, in 1806, one child Mira, who in. Andrew Heller. 16 Mary, m. Peter Ashton. (See No. 6, Chapter VII.) 17 Alice, in. Parker. 18 :Margaret, in. David Lloyd. 19 Elizabeth, unm. in Rachel, unm. in Jane, unm. in Benjamin. In a little bi-monthly magazine entitled "Now and Then," published at Muncy, Pa., during the years 1888,1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, is an account of the removal of seven young men from Richland to Muncy. These included four of the sons of Benjamin and Margaret (Walton) McCarty, whose names appear in the above list. The data refers especially to the children of William and Mary (Lloyd) McCarty. The seven young men seem to have included David Lloyd, who married Margaret McCarty, a sister of the four McCarty brothers, and two members of the Walton family. An extended biography of "Uncle John McCarty" one of the sons of William and Mary, accompanied by his portrait, appears in Vol. II, pages Other notes in these volumes refer to his brothers, David, born 1803, died August 1, 1889, and Lloyd, born 1811, the latter the youngest of the fourteen children; also to Hon. Clinton McCarty and A. T. McCarty, son of Lloyd. A summary of the eulogistic biography of "Uncle John McCarty" is as follows: "In the year 1789 seven young men belonging to the Society of Friends came from the neighborhood of Quakertown in the County of Bucks, to make themselves homes in the beautiful valley of Muncy then not many years abandoned by the vanquished Indians and almost a wilderness." * * * "Four of these young settlers were devoted brothers, Silas, NVilliam, Benjamin and Isaac, surname McCarty." * * * "William and Benjamin bought and divided the 300 acres known as the John Brady Tract in the Manor of Muncy and by laying out the first lots a few years later became the actual founders of the town of Muncy. NVilliam before he came had married Mary Lloyd, a Quaker maiden, also of Bucks County, an aunt of the late David Lloyd the father of our townsman Captain Thomas Lloyd.* The young couple This was doubtless a son of David Lloyd. who married Margaret McCarty. sister to the four brothers, and accompanied them to Muncy in 1789.

4 368 EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS moved into a temporary structure, located about five rods southwest of the site of Fort Brady, but soon built a better and permanent home (the same log house on North Main Street, in which his nephew William J. McCarty, the son of Lloyd, at the present time resides), where all but one of their eight sons and six daughters were born. Benjamin, their first born, came into the world in Bucks County, in 1788, the year they settled here." * * * "Uncle John McCarty was fourth of the fourteen children of William and Mary (Lloyd) McCarty, and was born in the old log house November 4, He was taught by example and precept the lessons of honesty, charity, frugality, and sobriety, to which he adhered during his long and tranquil life. Here he spent all his days except one year that he served as apprentice to the blacksmith trade with his cousin David Lloyd at Jerseytown, and here he died January 26, He never married." 10. THOMAS MeCARTN" (Silas'), son of Silas and Sarah (Carrell) McCarty, born in Haycock Township, 2 mo. 12, 1741, died at Muncy, Lycoming County, 10 mo. 9, He married in 1766 Elizabeth Lancaster, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Wardell) Lancaster. (See No. 14, Chapter XXVI.) He applied for membership in Richland Monthly Meeting in the latter part of the year 1765, and though the committee appointed to investigate his case reported favorably, there was some objection to his admission and the matter was delayed for several months. In the meantime, they were married without the consent of the meeting, and she was disowned 2 mo Elizabeth Lancaster had been allotted 40 acres of land in Richland, lying along the Doylestown Road in the present. limits of Quakertown Borough, part of her father's real estate, and she and her husband, Thomas McCarty, settled thereon. He purchased fifteen acres additional out of the allotment of Elizabeth's brother Moses Lancaster. On 5 mo. 29, 1784, Elizabeth McCarty applied for reinstatement as a member of Richland Monthly Meeting, and was received along with her minor They sold their homestead at Quakertown in 1775, moving near to Peter Snyder's Inn in Hummelton Township, Northampton County, Pa., which was within the compass of Richland Monthly Meeting. In 1794, the whole family took certificates from the meeting at Richland to the Monthly Meeting at Exeter, Berks County, Penna. The parents, however, removed soon after this date to Muncy, Lycoming County, with most of their Elizabeth and some of the younger children returned to Richland in 1804, after the death of the father. Thomas McCarty was a mason by trade and assisted in building the Friends Meeting House at Richland in 1762.

5 23 Phebe, Samuel, Silas, Sarah. 28 Joel, McCARTY FAMIL V 369 Children of Thomas and Elizabeth: (Lancaster) McCarty: b ; d ; b ; b ; b ; Mary, b ; b ; 29 John, b ; 30 James, b ; 31 Jane, b ; 32 Elizabeth, b ; 33 Thomas, b ; 34 Job, b ; 33 Hannah, b ; 36 Benjamin, b ; 37 Martha, b ; 38 David Lancaster, b ; 39 Jesse, b ; 40 Lydia, b ; 24 d ; d ; d ; d. at Muncy; unm. d. about 1842, at Muncy; m. Levi Roberts. (See No. 34, Chapter XL I.) nt. 1793, Margaret Green. (See No. 14, Chapter XVII.) Was a surveyor and lived and died in the neighborhood of NIuncy, Lycoming Co. They had 12 tn. Laura Lyman, dau. of Major Gen. Isaac Lyman of Kingsbury, N. V., was a prominent civil engineer ark: surveyor. tn. Judah Foulke. (See No. 33, Chapter XVI.) m. Christian Savidge of Toronto, Canada. In. Eleanor Roberts, a prominent minister of Elkland Mo. Mtg.; rem. to Elkland, Sullivan Co., Pa., about They had 11 unm. In Isaac Ogden. d ; tn. Samuel Thomas. (See No. 19, Chapter XLV.) m. Margaret White. In 1822 living at Aveston, N. V., on Seneca Lake. d ; m. 1808, Jane Paxton. d. at Woodbury, N.J.; tn. Joseph Ogden; no m , Elizabeth Lebs, had 8 d ; m. first, David McMichael; second, Thomas Ilasley; S children by first husband. Her dau. Eliza McMichael married Dr. Charles F. Lott, of Quakertown. (See No. 2, Chapter XXX.) tn. first, Margaret Goldy; second, Mary Campbell, and had 4 d ; rn. first, Margaret Gray; second, Mary 1Valter; had 9 He was a tanner by trade and lived near Dauphin, Pa. d ; in. 1821, Charles Leedom. She had 9 children, 3 of whom d. young. Her son Thomas Lancaster ( ), was a prominent carpet manufacturer at Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa.; her son Edward who married Sarah Knight, was the fatherof Walter F., one of the prominent business men of Bristol. Her daughter, Mary L., married Edward Taylor, of Newtown.