Anyone with McCarty connections with Indiana and Illinois please fill me in on your McCarty line that was in Illinois and Indiana. I also have McCarties that were in Indiana and Illinois.. But I don't know if mine has a connection to yours. Hope to make a connection. Carolyn Miles [email protected] > > > >From: "H. S. Patton" <[email protected]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [McCARTY-L] Re: McCarties--Silas, John ?, etc Bucks Co PA > >Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:32:37 -0400 > > > >Eva, > >Sometime back I picked up information that this fellow John McCarty who > >married Anne Harmon Immigrated to the colonied Circa 1617's and that the > >marriage between he and Ann Harman took place in New Jersey. Were this the > >case Your Silas and siblings would likely have been born in the colonies > >and > >not in England.I have tried without success to relocate that data. It did > >say that there was a supposed connection between he and the McCarty's of > >Bucks county but it was unconfirmed by that writer. I found this data > >orriginally on the internet and was very much interested in it lated when > >trying to find the roots of the Floyd County (Magoffin County) KY McCarties > >who seem to be related to the group that settled the Falls of the Ohio > >region (Louisville area. Somehow that family is also related to Darby and > >hanna McCarty. This is because of the near perfect match of the descendants > >given names. Just how this all plays out I am certain is a key to all the > >Scotch Irish McCarty's in the early Virginia and later Kentucky area, also > >those who end up in Indiana, Illonois, the carolinas and on to texas and > >Missouri. One interesting point was that Jeremiah b. 1819, son of Abner > >McCarty, B1798 and who is found in Scott County Va in 1850 (census), and > >who > >is likely the son of John McCarty of Louisville area > >As John McCarty's Father whose name is not at hand immediately, came out of > >Pensylvania before joining Richard Chenoweth and others (another possible > >son Thomas McCarty and possibly Richard McCarty) in a group of settlers who > >accompanied George Rogers Clark to the Falls of the Ohio to establish a > >Fort > >at Corn Island in what is now Louisville KY. The group seems to have been > >settled temporarily around the Monongahelia area at the time of the French > >and Indian Wars and several are involved in fighting there. I can not say > >for certain but I believe Darby who is married to hannah is either a son or > >brother to this John or is otherwise closely related. I was hoping to find > >more information on silas's siblings and what other information you might > >have on John McCarty and Anne Harman. > >Note that most records show Darby to have been born in Ireland and the date > >of his birth certainly goes back farenough to be a brother to John. I have > >traced Darby's line extensively (it is well doccumented by bible records) > >and although it is likely a collateral line he is not a direct ancester, > >dwespite the near perfect match of given names. > > > >Steve Patton > > > > Steve > > I am part of this McCarty line from Indiana, I come into this by way of > Elizabeth McCarty borned 1771 she married a Johann George Streepy in Jan > 1796 in Goshenhoppen, Berks Co., Pa in which they had 8 children together, I > would love to know more about this family if anyone could fell he in, I have > some of it all the way back to Nicholas McCarty borned 1670 Ireland. > > THANKS > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ==== McCARTY Mailing List ==== > Email Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/