I am searching for traces of Joseph McCarty, my 3g grandfather. The given name
Joseph was not common in those years and I have been able to find the following (my
comments are bracketed):
"Wapello County History", Chapman Bros. (1887)
[http://www.beforetime.net/iowagenealogy/wapello/PortraitAndBiographicalAlbum1887/F504.html]
says:
“…. Joseph and Catharine (Livingston) McCarty, natives of [Pennsylvania] …. removed
to Virginia when John [b. 1809] was a lad of twelve [?] years old, locating in
Lexington, Rockbridge County, where they remained until 1821, thence went to Ross
County, Ohio, where [John] remained fifteen years, …..”
The 1810 US census shows:
1810 > Pennsylvania > WASHINGTON > MORRIS Series: M252 Roll: 57
Page: 95
MCCARTY JOSEPH PA WASHINGTON MORRIS 10001 10010 00
[1 male 0-9, 1 male >45, 1 female 0-9, 1 female 26-44].
The 1810 US census shows:
1810 > VIRGINIA > ROCKBRIDGE > NO TWP LISTED Series M252 Roll 70 Page
783
MCCARTY JNO VA ROCKBRIDGE 00100 10100
[1 male 16-25, 1 female <10, 1 female 16-25]
The 1820 US census shows:
1820 > Virginia > Rockbridge > Lexington Series: M33 Roll: 130
Page: 526
MCCARTY JOSEPH VA ROCKBRIDGE LEXINGTON 011210 40001
[1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-18, 2 males 16-25, 1 male 26-44, 4 females <10, 1 female
26-44]
[This record is very light and nearly illegible.]
[Perhaps the 1820 census represents the combination of both the families shown in
the 1810 censuses.]
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/rockbridge/images/1798/1798-028a.jpg shows a
marriage bond for Betsy McCarty, daughter of a John McCarty, dated 28 Jul 1798.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/rockbridge/images/1798/1798-028b.jpg shows a
note from John McCarty agreeing to this bond.
Joseph’s son John shows land grants in Ohio, but there are none listed for Joseph.
I have no death date, burial site, or any information after the 1820 census. I have
not been able to connect with any of the McCartys listed in McCarty and Much “The
McCartys of the Northern Neck”, or in O’Brien “McCarthys in Early American History”,
or with any of the McCartys from Bucks County, PA. I have had a twelve marker Y
DNA done with no matches. I have a hunch (but no evidence) that Joseph’s father’s
name was John, since Joseph named his first son John. This is why I suggest that
the two above families have combined – perhaps upon the death of Jno. between 1810
and 1820.
Does anyone have any information or suggestions for further search?
John E. McCarty
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