Francis Carlton (1756 - 1813)

Born 1756 in County Down, Ireland

Husband of Priscilla (Cravath) Carlton — married about 1781 in Monmouth County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 1813 at about age 57 in Trumbull County, Ohio

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Biography

Francis was born in Ireland in 1756. He arrived in America around 1774^[1] and served in the Revolutionary War from 1776 through 1783, taking part in the battles of Monmouth and Trenton^[2]. Francis married Priscilla Cravath around 1781.^[1] Afterwards they settled in New Jersey, where Priscilla died.

Francis was later one of the early settlers of Trumbull County, Ohio.^[3][4] He died there in 1813, in the great typhoid epidemic of 1813 which also killed his daughter Martha.^[5] He is buried in Girard Liberty Union Cemetery.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} A Brief Record of Francis Carlton and His Descendants, H.D. Carlton, Warren, Ohio, 1880, later updated by unknown person
2. ↑ see "DAR" clipping attached to this profile
3. ↑ see "Seeing Eye" clipping attached at right
4. ↑ Early Settlement of Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Leonard Case, Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, No. 30, Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., Printers, Cleveland, Ohio, March, 1876, page 2
5. ↑ Girard Historical Society
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #116551557

• New Jersey and Ohio census records
• See Ancestry.com "Greve Family Tree" and Kelts-Van Wye-Cecil-Austin Family Tree (tree no. 71402081)