Display Patriot - P-128448 - Samuel CARY/CAREY

Samuel CARY/CAREY

SAR Patriot #: P-128448

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A020262

Birth: 02 Apr 1752 Plumbstead Twp / Bucks / PA
Death: 06 Sep 1823 Salt Creek nr Chillacothe / Ross / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Private: CAPT Robert Gibson, LTCArchibald Mackilrow, Fourth Battalion, Plumstead Twp, Bucks Co, 1780, 1781


Additional References:
  1. Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol 5, pg 366, 368, 369, 370, 375
  2. The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol VI, pg 644

Spouse: Rachel McPherson
Children: Thomas; Elias; John; Rachel; Samuel; Cynthia; Jonathan;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1963-11-27 ID Unassigned Guy Holmes (88559) Elias   
1975-11-14 OH Unassigned Donald Edgar Lukens (109633) Samuel   
1980-01-01 KS Unassigned John Sherman Garey (119382)   
1980-07-17 KS Unassigned Marshall William Carey Jr (117289) John   
1988-10-27 KS Unassigned Richard C London (104937) Jonathan   
1992-10-16 PA 212318 Alan Donald Carey (139552) Samuel   
2010-06-23 NC 39415 Paul Anthony Zeiss EdD (177369) Thomas   
2012-08-01 OH 48948 Ronald Lowell Chaney (184378) Elias   
2013-02-26 TX 51863 Donald Dale McKusker (186455) Thomas   
2014-08-28 VA 60517 Matthew Stephen DiMarcantonio (192179) Elias   
2016-07-15 MI 70071 Dennis Carey Zeiss (199222) Thomas   
2018-08-14 WA 83081 Lawerence Keith Carrick (208589) Jonathan   
2019-04-12 AZ 86054 Chad Lee Carey (211241) Elias   
2019-10-25 OH 88986 Jeffrey Carey Matthews (213481) Elias   
2020-08-13 TN 90965 John Allen Carey Burdette (192745) Elias   
2023-09-08 WA 108297 Douglas Herbert Brown (227812) Samuel   
Burial:
Beals Cemetery (C-0371636)
Location:
Richmond Dale / Ross / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
39793
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
37815313
Marker Type:
vertical VA with DAR marker
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Michael B. Gunn
This biography was augmented by PRS staff.
 

Samuel Cary was born on 2  April 1752, in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the son of John and Elizabeth (Knight) Carey.

On 2 October 1781, Samuel was drafted as a Private in the Revolutionary War in the company of Captain Robert Gibson of the Bucks County of the 3rd Battalion of the Pennsylvania militia. As a Quaker, he would have been a pacifist. However, since he was drafted, it is thought that the action would not have been considered an offense, and he wouldn’t have been disowned by the congregation.

Samuel married Rachel Doane on 18 March 1776 in Bucks County, the daughter of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Doan, his cousin) Doane. She was born in 1754 and died in 1830. Their known children were:1

  • Cynthia was born on 11 January 1777 and married Joseph Bradfield.
  • Sarah was born on 7 July 1778 and married Elias Knight.
  • Jonathan was born on 28 February 1781 and married Ruth Bond.
  • John was born on 22 June 1783 and married Margaret Green.
  • Samuel Jr. was born on 2 December 1785 and married Anne McPherson.
  • Rachel was born on 10 December 1787 and married John Green Jr.
  • Elizabeth was born on 19 September 1789 and died young.
  • Thomas Eugene was born on 13 January 1791 and married Rhoda Ballard.
  • Elias was born on 3 December 1793 and married Margaret Hussey.

In about 1817, the family migrated to Ohio where the first record of Samuel purchasing land appears in 1821 in Highland County, and then sold to his son Elias a few months later.

The Patriot died of cholera on 6 September 1823 on his way home from a trip to Virginia. His death took place at Salt Creek, east of Chillicothe, Ohio, in a fellow Quaker’s home.2 He was buried in the Beals Cemetery, Richmond Dale, Ross County, Ohio. His grave has a Veterans Administration stone and a DAR marker.

Sources:

  1. Ross County, Ohio Deed Book 6, page 229; the property of Samuel Carey Sr., Dec’d, naming his children.
  2. Brown, Albert J., History of Clinton County, Ohio, p 754.
  3. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 1, p. 1008, Vol. II, p. 988, Vol.V, pp. 227, 322, 376 and 377, Vol. VI, pp. 304, 481, 630 and 631.
  4. First Friends in the Northwest Territories.
  5. Pennsylvania Archives. Series 5. Vol. V, p. 370 and 375.
  6. Recorded in "Military Accts: Militia," Records of the Comptroller General, RG-4, Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, Item 39, 
  7. Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. 



Author: Paul Anthony Zeiss
Samuel Carey was born on April 2, 1752 in Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Knight) Carey. Samuel became a weaver, commonly a man’s occupation in those days. In March of 1776, he married Rachel Doane, a Quaker, although Samuel had not yet joined the Society of Friends. Rachel was chastised by leaders of her congregation for marrying someone outside the membership of the Friends.

In 1780 when the Revolutionary War raged in Pennsylvania, Samuel and two of his brothers, John and Elias, joined the Bucks County Militia, 7th company under Captain Robert Gibson from Plumstead Township. Samuel served as a Private Second Class. Many battles were fought near his home at that time, but there is no record of Samuel’s regimental history.

In 1783, Samuel and Rachel and their three oldest children followed a Friends migration to Louden County, Virginia, then to Campbell County and finally to Grayson County, Virginia. In 1817 they moved to the new state of Ohio and settled in Highland County along with three of their children and spouses. He and Rachel had nine children during their lives together.

In 1823, Samuel visited his old homestead in Virginia and on his way back to Highland County, he became ill with Cholera and was taken in by a friend named Stewart who lived at Salt Creek, east of Chillicothe, Ohio. Samuel died there on September 6, 1823 and is buried in Salt Creek cemetery.



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