Dear Kathy, There are a good many references in the book to Benjamin and Silas. Interesting, they were neighbors of my Ancestor, Peter Ashton, and I think I have a McCarty marriage somewhere in the Ashton line. p 32, Listing the early settlers of near Quakertown "Silas McCarty came to the "Great Swamp" district in 1735, and settled in Haycock Township (15), along the eastern line of Richland. The Baptist Burying Ground (16) located back of the barn now owned by Zeno Wireback is mentioned in Silas McCarty's will as follows: 'To William Bryan and others one acre of land on east side of my plantation where a church now stands.' The church has disappeared long ago and the burying ground is now over-run by pigs and chickens. Headstones with early dates are as follows: William Bryan died May 17, 1784, aged 76 years, 8 mos. 27 days; Rebekah Bryan died July 22, 1796, aged 78 years, 4 mos. 8 days; Esther McCarty died 1747; Edward Bryan died 1747; Eleanor Morgan wife of James Morgan died December 12, 1764." p 33 "Benjamin McCarty, son of Silas, moved to this location (28) in 1765, which was a portion of the Logan tract." pp 47-48 Peter Ashton (Peter, Robert), eldest son of Robert and Sarah (Thomas) Ashton, born Springfield, Bucks County, Pa., 8 mo. 16, 1760, died there 12 mo. 30, 1821. He was a farmer and acquired the farm of 219 1/2 acres of his father in 1812. He married, 1785, Mary McCarty, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Walton) McCarty, and had probably been living on the farm many years before the deed was made to him. In 1813 and 1819, respectively, he conveyed parts of this tract to his sons Benjamin and Samuel and his daughter Sarah, and died seized of 102 acres in 1821. His wife died a year earlier. (See No. 16, Chapter XXXI) Children of Peter and Mary (McCarty) Ashton: 15 Robert, b 12-13-1787 16 Benjamin, b 2-1-1789; removed from Bucks County prior to father's death 17 Sarah, b 7-5-1791; m David Davis (See Addenda.) 18 Samuel, b 7-20-1798; removed from Bucks Co. prior to father's death Oh, groan, there are pages of this. LOL p 365 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 1700. 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 married 7 mo. 9, 1684, by New York marriage license to Ann Harman, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, but it has not been successful, though it is probably 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 Carty, who were driven out of Ireland and dispossessed of their large estates under Kim William of Orange in 1690. 1. SILAS McCARTY, born about the year 1700, was the ancestor of the McCarty family of Richland, with whom this narrative is concerned. He took up a tract of 350 acres of land in what later 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 east. The patent for this tract of land from John, Thomas and Richard Penn to Silas McCarty is dated 1 mo. 3, 1737-38, but he was probably located there under 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, 1749-50, 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 acres 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) p 366 Carrell, of Warminster, and the granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan, founder and pastor of the first Baptist Church in Bucks County, in 1684. Children of Silas and Sarah (Carrell) McCarty: 2 Carrell, b 7-15-1723; m Tamar---- 3 James, b 11-1-1725-26; m Sarah ---- 4 Silas, b 4-16-1727 5 Benjamin, b 8-5-1731; d 10-27-1794; m Margaret Walton 6 Lydia, b 8-11-1733; m Daniel Pursell, of Nockamixon 7 Elizabeth, b 8-30-1735; m John Melvin, of Springfield 8 Hannah, b 10-6-1737 9 William, b 12-29-1739-40 10 Thomas, b 2-12-1741; d 10-9-1804; m Elizabeth Lancaster 11 Paul, b 2-29-1744; m Cassandra William, prior to 1780, dau. of John and Margaret William, of New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa. He was taxed in Bethlehem Twp., Washington Co., Pa., in 1781, for 100 acres of land and live stock. Their daughter Margaret is mentioned in will of John William, dated Aug. 2, 1780. 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 1737 Margaret Walton, daughter of Isaac Walton, Sr., of Richland. (See No. 16, Chapter XLVII>) 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 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, 1794. The will executed on his deathbed devised all his estate to his wife for life or widowhood, then to his children. 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." p 367 "Children of Benjamin and Margaret (Walton) McCarty: 12 Silas 13 William, m Mary Lloyd 14 Isaac 15 Sarah, m ---- Mitchell, in 1806, one child Mira, who m Andrew Heller 16 Mary, m Peter Ashton (See No. 6, Chapter VII) 17 Alice, m ---- Parker 18 Margaret, m David Lloyd 19 Elizabeth, unm in 1795 20 Rachel, unm in 1795 21 Jane, unm in 1795 22 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 toMunch. 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 n Vol. II, pages 146-7. 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, William, 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. William 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 p 368 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, 1794. 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, 1884. He never married." *This was doubtless a son of David Lloyd, who married Margaret McCarty, sister tothe four brothers, and accompanied them to Muncy in 1789. (at bottom of p 367) The rest of p 368 gives the genealogy of Thomas McCarty, son of Silas. This continues onto p 369 where the children are listed. p 576 gives the genealogy of Isaac Walton. His daughter, Margaret m Benjamin McCarty. Gay Wickersham Davis Washington State ----- Original Message ----- From: <KATNKEV5458@aol.com> To: <PABUCKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:16 PM Subject: [PABUCKS-L] Can someone do a lookup please? 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