Item 1: Photocopied Publication and Notes from Francis Overfield Pratt to Unknown, 1900 May 19, of Eleazer Cary Family, Published by [Mary A. Carey] Smith, [ca. 1908]

Item — Box: 16, Folder: 23

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Photocopied Publication and Notes from Francis Overfield Pratt to Unknown, 1900 May 19, of Eleazer Cary Family, Published by [Mary A. Carey] Smith, [ca. 1908]

Dates

Created: [ca. 1908]

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photocopied Publication and Notes

Condition Note:

Good, no issues.

Measurements:

5 15/16 in. x 8 ½ in.

Title:

Eleazer Cary Family with Affiliated Lines Also Items of Interest to Other Lines.

Description:

The following item depicts photocopied pages of an original publication called the Eleazer Carey Family, published around 1908 and written by Mary A. Carey Smith. There is an accompanying photocopy of a letter with the publication photocopies. The first partial notes gives further biographical information on the family line, moving from 1801 with Benjamin Jenkins and forward. The second partial note is written by Francis Overfield Pratt, and discusses her recent and future travel plans to and through the valley. She writes that she hopes the recipient can visit them and offers many dates in which she can host them. She continues on the following pages to explain a connection between the Carey and Jenkins families, and asks if the recipient is able to map larger family lines. This publication is a detailed account of the Eleazer Cary family in Luzerne County, originally one of the oldest and honored family lines in England. The publication in its entirety follows the history of various important figures of the family, including barons, viscounts, earls, knights and important posts and positions, with the earliest account recorded as Adam de Kari, born in 1170. These pages are from a biography about many members of the Cary family focusing on their role in settling the Wyoming Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Transcription:

Photocopied Notes:

Benjamin Jenkins was married to Betsy Carey June 5th 1801 My great grandfather was in the 23rd year of his age and his wife was in the 22nd year if her age at that time. & as Mrs Hall now deceased saijd [said] she had a brother Emory Carey living between Keelersburg and Exeter then Samuel must have been his father and my great grandfather. Now whose son could Samuel have been? Rhoda Carey half sister of C. J. A. Chapman in a letter to Tho[ma]s Hart dated Aug[ust] 19, 1892 speaks of her uncle Sameul Slocum Eleazar Carey born July 8th 1786 and Frances Slocum his wife born August 26th 1790 were parents of Rhoda Carey In Roger’s History of—

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you might make me a visit either going or coming from Montrose and was wishing you to this effect. I hope it is not now too late. We go to Wilkes Barre on Tuesday and return on Wednesday afternoon. On Saturday we go to Towanda to spend Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lanning. Could you not spend Thursday and Friday of next week with us? If this date is not convenient for your, could you not come the thirty first of May and spend a

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week with us? Tunkhannock is a quiet town but we will take some drives through the country and we may find an occasional ancestor. The members of the Jenkins and Harding families who left the Valley, now became possessed of very many of thesis [this] world’s goods but some of them I am proud to own because of their upright lives. Have you ever traced a large line? My great grand mother Jenkins’ maiden name was Carey and on account of the record in the

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family Bible having been destroyed I have not been able as yet to learn whether I am entitled to a line on that side or not About three years ago I wrote to Rhoda Craey who was then living in California for their family record, which she sent me, but for some reason I do not find it. Rhoda Carey was a niece of Samuel Carey who was captured by the Indians. Her death occurred about two years ago. I think she was half sister of Capt[ain] A Chapman Sincerely Francis Overfield Pratt

May nineteenth Nineteen hundred