Jeremiah CARLETON^[1]

1715 - 1768  (52 years)

• Name	Jeremiah CARLETON
  Born	3 Jul 1715	Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Jeremy
  Died	1768	Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I36655	Main
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	Joseph CARLETON,   b. 21 Mar 1663, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 22 Mar 1743, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Abigall OSGOOD,   b. 29 Aug 1673, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1754, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Married	2 Aug 1694	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F13013	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eunice TAYLOR,   b. 30 Oct 1717, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1794, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 76 years)
  Married	22 Jun 1740
  Children	1. Mary CARLETON,   d. ?, Warren, Grafton, New Hampshire   2. David CARLETON,   d. 17 Jun 1775, Bunker Hill, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts + 3. Jeremiah Trent CARLETON,   b. 13 Apr 1743, Newton, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 16 Mar 1814, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 70 years) + 4. Abigail CARLETON,   b. 14 Jan 1752, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire ,   d. 5 Jan 1835, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 82 years)   5. Timothy CARLETON,   d. 1774, Wilton Church, Wilton, Hillsborough, New Hampshire + 6. Capt Osgood CARLETON,   b. 17 Jun 1741, Nottingham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire ,   d. Abt May 1816, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 74 years) + 7. Ebenezer CARLETON,   b. 1 Apr 1754, Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire ,   d. 8 Dec 1836, Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F12849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 3 Jul 1715 - Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Died - 1768 - Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  eremiah and Eunice lived in Newton, now Amesbury, Essex Co., Ma, where part of their children were born. His business was that of a carpenter, millwright and lumber dealer. About 1750, he moved to Litchfield, Hillsborough Co., Nh, and 6 years later in the fall hecame to Salem, Canada and pitched his camp on land owned, in recent years, byE. Curtis. It was built beside a big rock situated about 30 rods from theNE corner of said land. Tradition says he was much esteemed by his fellow citizens. At onetime he possessed a large property, but in consequence of large losses occasioned by inability to deliver a large amount of lumber for the royal navy and by what was regarded by his neighbors as unfair dealingon the part of a man I will not record, his estate was so diminished thathe only had enough left to purchase a small farm in Lyndeboro, New Hampshire. (The following quotation is from "The 'Olden Time' in Lyndeboro"[:ITAL] by J. A. Woodard): "these log houses were oftenbuilt with one end against a large boulder, this to serve as a backing forthe fireplace. Jeremiah Carleton's was built that way and so was Adam Johnson's. The fireplace was usually a mammoth affair, and it neededto be to warm the loosely constructed house. Jeremiah began his clearing, among the big hemlocks on the flat the other side of the brook andworked 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 wintersome hunters drove a lot of deer into the big brook near by and gettingfire 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 aplentiful supply of venison. He returned that year with his family and built a cabin, but Indians burned his cabin and killed his stock. He wasforced 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 houseabout 100 rods NE of where E. C. Curtis' brick house is located in early1900's and near the brook. He hewed all the timber for his house from oaklogs. 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 had8 acres of corn planted the first year. The bears were numerous and took toll of the corn and livestock. The Carleton's 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 withtheir hemlock brooms and had scared the bear away from the carcass and the livestock. Jeremiah was indignant that he should lose the chance toshoot 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 avery religious woman and used to walk to Amherst, 6 miles, to attendChurch, guiding her way by marked trees. at the siege of Louisborough, NH.

  
  

• Sources

  [S117] CARLETON Carr, Andrue (Andrew) of Martha's Vineyard, Ma, Andrue Carleton Carr. [S108] Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZ6-N97S.