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Notes on Nathaniel CareyInformation on Nathaniel Carey comes mainly from early Venango County documents and material sent me 17 May 1997 by the late Ruth R. Heasley (died November 1998). Included in Ruth Heasley’s material was the brochure Breeches, Blankets and Bottles. A Story of an Oil Pioneer Nathaniel Cary, written by Ruth R. Heasley and published in 1983 by the Venango County Historical Society. Some information on the descendants of Nathaniel and Isabella Carey comes from a 14 May 1996 descendant chart by Stephen B. Seiple, Dublin, Ohio, and a GenServ report of William Holder,845 Gilmer, Texas, Name , both received in 1996. 1. NATHANIEL1 CAREY;
born 18 April 1758 in
Mansfield, Toland, Connecticut;846 died May or June 1814847
in what is present–day Cornplanter Township, Venango County,
Pennsylvania; married ISABELLA [—?—],848 born circa 1766–1774;849
died between 1814 and 1816 (see the Orphans Court document below).
Nathaniel’s parents were Nathaniel and Dorcas Marcy Carey (see later).
William Holder reports Nathaniel’s wife as Isabella McClintock; Stephen
Seiple suggests Nathaniel’s wife as either Isabella Culbertson or
Isabella McClintock. See discussion of this under Isabella McClintock (#24)
of “McClintocks.”
Nathaniel Carey and family were enumerated in Venango County in 1800 and 1810.850 Nathaniel’s farm adjoined Hamilton McClintock’s land. The Carey farm eventually became known as the Clapp Farm.851 Hamilton was appointed guardian of one of Nathaniel and Isabella’s children (see below), something one might expect of kin. From Eaton, J. M. (1876). Venango County, 48 pages, page 13:The Valley of Oil Creek was settled from 1797 to 1802. Old Cornplanter, the Indian Chief, owned the first tract above the mouth of the Creek. Above him Nathaniel Cary settled in 1800. Next above him was Hamilton McClintock …Nathaniel Carey, Sr., was a tailor by training.852 Bell (1890), page 349 and 350, comments on Nathaniel Carey collecting oil from oil springs on his property. And this from page 5 (no source given) of Pioneers of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1788–1800, edited by Robert D. Ilisevich. Heritage Books, 1985, 47 pages: NATHANIEL CAREY ––– one of the first settlers in French Creek Valley to be identified with the petroleum industry. Sometime in the 1790’s he and his brother–in–law, Hamilton McClintock, settled near the oil springs at the mouth of Oil Creek, not far from the spot where Colonel E. L. Drake in 1859 made his famous “discovery” of oil. Allegedly Carey and McClintock delivered the oil to the Pittsburgh market. Just how extensive was this early traffic in what was popularly known as “Seneca Oil” is not known. The final inventory at William Wilson’s store in 1797 included several kegs of the substance. Though Carey purchased barrels from Wilson, there is no evidence that he delivered any of the oil to this merchant. While Nathaniel Carey was among the first to make a commercial use of petroleum, he was preceded by a Pennsylvania German named Tobias Hirte who came from eastern Pennsylvania to gather “Seneca oil” and sell it in the Philadelphia area. His 1792 ad, printed in German, has testimonials as to the effects of the oil on various ailments and states that it is available at locations in Philadelphia, Germantown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Baltimore and other places. Kipling refers to him in REWARDS AND FAIRIES as “Apothecary Tobias Hirte...the famous Seneca Oil man that lived half of every year among the Indians: and adds “He came north every year for the wonderful Seneca Oil the Seneca Indians made for him. They’d never sell to anyone else.”853 The statement “… he [Nathaniel Carey] and his brother–in–law, Hamilton McClintock . . .” would indicate a sister of Hamilton McClintock married Nathaniel Carey. However, as indicated in the McClintock section, Hamilton’s sister Isabella McClintock, assuming the 1814 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Orphan’s Court Docket854 is accurate, was not old enough to have been Nathaniel’s wife. Perhaps what was meant was that Hamilton’s wife, Mary (Culbertson) McClintock, had a sister who married Nathaniel Carey. Unfortunately, no Isabella Culbertson, sister of Mary Culbertson McClintock, is known. The records here come mainly from Lewis Culbertson (1923), and perhaps he missed a child of Patrick and Mary (McClintock) Culbertson. Assuming Patrick’s wife Mary Culbertson was deceased by 1790 (Mary apparently was deceased by 1787), and Patrick had not remarried, then one daughter could be missing from Culbertson’s (1923) list of children of Patrick Culbertson—see #3 of “Culbertsons.” The 1790 census for Patrick Culbertson of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, shows 2 males 16 and over, 3 males under 16, and 3 females.855 Note also that Patrick Culbertson was a surety for the estate of Nathaniel Carey. Nathaniel Carey died intestate; letters of administration were granted to Isabella Carey and Samuel Hays on 4 June 1814. Sureties were Patrick Culbertson and John Broadfoot.856 From Venango County Orphans Court, page 14, number 2, 1816:857The petition of James Carey eldest son [of] Nathaniel Carey.Two other Venango County Orphans Court documents pertain to Nathaniel Carey’s children: February 5 1816. In the Petition of Nathaniel Carey a minor above the age of fourteen years. The Court appoints Hamilton McClintock guardian over his person and estate. (See Petition filed). The John McFate appointed guardian of John Carey was John McFate, born 1768 in Ireland; died 1842. He apparently did not marry. When in Venango County, he lived north of Franklin. John was a son of Joseph and Jane (Culbertson (relation to our Culbertsons yet to be established) McFate and brother of Robert McFate who married Jane Culbertson, daughter of John and Mary (McClintock) Culbertson—see #4 of “Culbertsons” and #12 of “Notes on McFates.” section of The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families, Volume 2. Two 1828 quit claims858 in the name of Nathaniel’s estate (to sell land to a Stephen Sutton, with specific mention of Nathaniel’s oil spring) mention five of Nathaniel and Isabella’s six children. Daughters mentioned were “Dorcas Cary now intermarried with Daniel Patterson,” and “Isabella Cary of Sugar Creek, Spinster.” On 31 May 1833, Mary Carey, the sixth child, of Sugarcreek Township, sold her undivided one–sixth part (of) “Nathaniel Carey, deceased, my father” to Stephen Sutton.859 If Nathaniel Carey’s birth year, 1758, is correct, he would have been about 37 when Nathaniel and Isabella’s first known child was born in 1795. There was a Nathaniel Carey enumerated in the 1790 census for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania860—at that time encompassing present–day Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming, and Lackawana Counties. The household’s age structure (1 male 16 or over, 4 males under 16, and 3 females) would rule him out as the Nathaniel of our concern, unless he had two families. It is known that Nathaniel Carey’s parents were Nathaniel and Dorcas Marcy Carey (daughter of Samuel Marcy of Woodstock, Connecticut) of the Mansfield, Connecticut area.861
2. JAMES2 CAREY (Nathaniel1); born 7 January 1795; died 29 November 1862,863 buried in the old Plumer burial grounds, Cornplanter Township, Venango County;864 married ANN [—?—],865 born circa 1788; alive in 1864, re land deed, see under son Hugh.
4. NATHANIEL2 CAREY [JR.] (Nathaniel1). born circa 1800; died 25 June 1864;871 buried in the Franklin Cemetery, Paul McKenzie plot;872 married MARY (MARYANN) SHUPE.873 Nathaniel Carey [Jr.], was active as an administrator and listed as a witness in several early wills and intestate documents for people with apparently no relationship to him.874
5. JOHN2 CAREY (Nathaniel1); born 1 March 1803 in present–day Cornplanter Township, Venango County; died 16 May 1877 in Deer Creek Township Mercer County, Pennsylvania; married ELIZABETH JANE MILLER, born 4 March 1812 in Venango County; died 25 February 1882 in Frenchcreek Township, Venango County Pennsylvania. Both John and Elizabeth are buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Sandy Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.875 A John Crary (sic?), age 20, was reported as a member of Venango Guards in the 1823 Muster Roll.876
6. ISABELLE2 CAREY (Nathaniel1); born circa 1804; married WILLIAM MCKISSICK, born circa 1804.878 William (Billy) McKissick was a son of John and Isabelle (McFate) McKissick,879 #49 of “Notes on McFates” section of The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families, Volume 2. Isabelle was a sister–in–law to Jane Culbertson who married Robert McFate, see #12 of “Notes on McFates.” Isabella Carey McKissick “joined the Plumer U. P. Church on June 28, 1861, coming from the Fairfield congregation in Crawford County.”880 In 1850 the family was living in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.881
13. GEORGE3 W. CAREY (Nathaniel2, Nathaniel1),882; born 17 April 1824;883 died 1898 in Venango County;884 married MARY SHUGERT,885 born circa 1827.886 George was a physician. This from Bell (1890), page 200: G. W. Cary, of East Sandy [Cranberry Township, Venango County], was born Franklin 17 April 1824, son of Nathaniel Cary, a pioneer of this county. His professional training was obtained at Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1847. He located in East Sandy in 1849 and has enjoyed an extensive practice. Mrs. Cary is a daughter of John W. Shugert. In 1870 and 1880, the family was enumerated in Cranberry Township, Venango County, where George W. was listed as a physician.887
15. EBENEZER3 CAREY.(John2, Nathaniel1). born circa 1800; died 25 June 1864;871; born 1832; married MARGARET BROWN.889
16. NATHANIEL3 CULBERTSON CAREY (Nathaniel1) (John2, Nathaniel1); born 31 March 1835; died 1 January 1921; married 5 January 1859 MARY ELIZABETH UBER, born 16 February 1836; died 26 January 1913.890
23. MARY2 J. MCKISSICK (Isabelle2, Nathaniel1); born 10 February 1833; died 28 February 1862; married GEORGE FREDERICK MALLARD, born 8 March 1822 in France; died 2 February 1891 in Meadville, Pennsylvania.892
NOTE: The 1860 federal census for Wayne Township, Crawford
County, Pennsylvania (page 1175), differs significantly from McFate et
al. (1982) and leads to a alternate interpretation of the Mallard
family:
The census reports G. Mallard, age 60 (born circa 1800 in France) and
wife Mary, age 61 (born 1799). They would be too old to be the George
Frederick Mallard who married Mary J. McKissick. Instead they would be
the parents of George Frederick Mallard, born 1833, who married Mary
McKissick, born 1836.
The census report was written as follows: 24. BELLE3 MCKISSICK (Isabelle2, Nathaniel1); born 1835; died 1911; buried in New Lebanon, Pennsylvania; married 7 April 1859 ABRAHAM BLATT, born 14 July 1833; died 22 December 1917; buried in New Lebanon, Mill Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Abraham was an undertaker in New Lebanon.893
31. EVA4 J. CAREY (George3, Nathaniel3 Nathaniel1), born circa 1851; married ROBERT STEWART,896 born circa 1851; reported as a laborer in 1880, when the family was living in Cranberry Township, Venango County (census page 27D).
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