John Carman^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}

1708 - 1782  (74 years)

• Name	John Carman  [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Birth	26 Mar 1708	Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America   [9]
  Christening	14 May 1711	Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America   [6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft. 26 Mar 1782	Rattlesnake Creek, Caswell, North Carolina, United States
  Person ID	I312684220751	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Caleb Carman,   b. 1689, Hempstead Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. Bef. 06 Oct 1744, Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Mrs Abigail Carman,   b. 1686, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. Oct 1745, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F3075	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah,   b. Abt. 1722, Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Aft. 1800, Salisbury District, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	Bef. 1742	Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Children	1. John Carman,   b. 1742   d. Apr 1840, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States (Age 98 years)   2. Jemima Carman,   b. 02 Jul 1742, Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. 04 Sep 1822, Flat Rock, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States (Age 80 years)   3. Hezekiah Carman,   b. 1745, Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. 07 May 1803, Caswell, North Carolina, United States (Age 58 years)   4. Caleb Carman,   b. 1748, Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States d. 1841, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States (Age 93 years)   5. Susannah Carman,   b. 1754, Maryland, British Colonial America d. Bef. 1860, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States (Age 105 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   6. Andrew Carman,   b. 03 Apr 1756, Jarrettsville, Harford, Maryland, British Colonial America d. 25 Feb 1832, Jarrettsville, Harford, Maryland, United States (Age 75 years)   7. Abigail Carman,   b. 1758, Maryland, British Colonial America d. 17 Sep 1794, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States (Age 36 years)   8. Carman,   b. Maryland, British Colonial America  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   9. Carman,   b. Maryland, British Colonial America  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   10. Carman,   b. Maryland, British Colonial America  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
  Family ID	F3080	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  !May have been married twice. If so, the !May have been married twice. If so, the other wife may have been Nancy. If so, Hannah outlived her husband and was executrix of his estate. This John immigrated from New Jersey to North Carolina probably in 1746-1747 - not over the mountains, but farther south and west than any of his ancestors. Since he did not inherit from his father, who died in 1744, it was reasonable for him to move west. As a result, our line of the Carmans missed the political buildup to the Revolution. Daniel Carman has found a wonderful story about a decision that only landowners could vote for the state assembly in 1776 (Citation below). In this article are mentioned as landowners: John Carman Sr., John Carman, Jr., Caleb Carman, Thomas Kimborough Sr., Thomas Kimborough Jr., William Moore, and Thomas Dixon. All of these folks appear elsewhere in these records. SOURCES: Will of John Carman, Caswell Co., Book A, 1782, p. 197 (The division of John's estate also left property to a Robert and a Jesse Kimbrough); North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, 10 (1984), p. 98. John and wife Nancy is his son John. John was only married once by all accounts to date. The family did not move directly to North Carolina either. They were in Maryland between circa 1754 & 1777. Two of his children marry in Maryland; both named in the estate files in NC in 1782. At least one of the in-laws was of Quaker stock as well which could both account for their absence in records; and also for their moving to North Carolina as several of them participated in the American Revolution. Slowly but surely... and I have been digging into this line now for 48 years. Thomas "Kevin" DeLeuil Carman 7th Great Grandson Professional Genealogist

  
  

• Sources

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