Abner may have been born "Benoist McCARTY", and has been identified as the son of Revolutionary War Captain Richard McCARTY of Gen. George Rogers CLARK's Virginia expedition to seize the Illinois country. This Captain Richard McCARTY is known to have been married to a French Canadian lady living in the Cahokia, IL, area, Ursula BENOIST, and from French records, Abner's birth would coincide with the birth of their son Benoist McCARTY.
Capt. Richard McCARTY's parentage has been researched by a number of people, but only recently have some apparent breakthroughs been made. Check back for updates on his ancestry.
Our Ursula (BENOIST) seems to have been born around 1745, probably in Montreal, Quebec, but her parentage may be confused with a different Ursula BENOIST. One of them seem to be the daughter of (?) Antoine Gabriel Francois BENOIST and Marie Louise LeBER, and the other may be connected to the BABIE/BABY family. More research is needed.
Captain Richard McCARTY may have moved his family to the Louisville, KY, area during the late Revolutionary War period. Captain McCARTY was sent as a courier to the Governor of Virginia, and after leaving Louisville, was never heard of again. It has always been accepted that he was ambushed and killed by Indians in KY on 2 June 1781, probably around modern-day eastern Shelby County, KY. These would have probably been Shawnee or Miami warriors. It is claimed by one branch of known descendants of Abner that shortly after his birth, his father removed his wife and family further east, still, to Scott County, VA, where he may have had some previous connections, and that Abner essentially grew up there, later moving back to northwest central Kentucky.
Researchers have been working on the parentage of Abner McCARTY for many years, but have ruled out any identifications with the McCARTY family in eastern Indiana in this same generation of late 1700's. That family may have been cousins of some kind, but not Abner's actual nuclear family.
Parentage quests aside, this Abner McCARTY was some kind of stagecoach driver in the very early days of this Nation. Abner and his wife Sarah B. (MOORE) were married in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, on 22 Aug 1807.
Sarah was the daughter of John N. MOORE and (apparently) Averilla (ALLENDER) MOORE (married 5 Aug 1785 or 1786 in Baltimore), and Sarah was born in Baltimore, MD, as was her older brother Philemon MOORE. John N. MOORE and family moved west to Jefferson Co., KY, sometime after daughter Sarah's birth in Nov 1787 in Baltimore.
(This John N. MOORE family needs sorting out with further research. The John N. MOORE father of Sarah and Philemon was deceased by August 1807, as Abner's Marriage Bond clearly states. Philemon stood as bondsman with Abner, in Jefferson County, KY. However, there is also a John Gay MOORE, of the same approximate age, who lived until 1836 and is buried in the Moore Family Cemetery in far western Hancock Co., KY, on the Daviess County line, near Lewisport. He had a son James MOORE, who is buried there as well, and is referred to as Rev. James Jacob MOORE. That Rev. James MOORE is supposed to have been born in 1789 in Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, which seems to fit the identity of the John N. MOORE family. The 1785/86 Baltimore marriage to Averilla ALLENDER will help sort out who is who, so check back for updates.)
By 1814, when daughter Nancy was born, Abner and Sarah had moved to what is now the Hartford area of Ohio Co., KY. By 1820, they had moved again about 50 miles north to the N/E part of Crawford Co., IN. It may have been during the 1820's, but Abner was reported to have had a regular stage route to Richmond, Indiana and back, which may have meant that for a while, the family would have been perhaps in Clark Co., IN. That story remains to be researched more. By the 1830 census, they were known to be back in Ohio Co., KY, but didn't stay long, for by 1834, they lived in Warrick Co., IN, where their oldest daughter Nancy McCARTY married John WHETSTONE. John and Nancy WHETSTONE moved to White County, IL, the following year or so, and by 1840, Abner and Sarah and youngest son George McCARTY also west to the northern part of White County, IL, which is about 60 miles from Warrick Co., IN. Here in White County, IL, Abner and Sarah finally settled down and later died. They would have a second family of sorts in their later years, raising all of daughter Nancy WHETSTONE's children, after John and Nancy died in 1843 and 1844 respectively, with 4 or 5 children from age 2 to age 9!
By the time Abner died, he had been farming for probably close to 20 years in the Burnt Prairie area of White County, IL. His stagecoach and traveling days seem to have been over once he had reached his mid-50's. Probably just too much bouncing around---literally and figuratively!
Abner and Sarah McCARTY seem to have been Baptists, at least by the time of their later years. Their daughter Nancy married John WHETSTONE, who was a Presbyterian, but their Whetstone descendants mostly became Baptists, and it is believed to have been due to the influence of Abner and Sarah McCARTY.
Capt. Richard McCARTY's parentage has been researched by a number of people, but only recently have some apparent breakthroughs been made. Check back for updates on his ancestry.
Our Ursula (BENOIST) seems to have been born around 1745, probably in Montreal, Quebec, but her parentage may be confused with a different Ursula BENOIST. One of them seem to be the daughter of (?) Antoine Gabriel Francois BENOIST and Marie Louise LeBER, and the other may be connected to the BABIE/BABY family. More research is needed.
Captain Richard McCARTY may have moved his family to the Louisville, KY, area during the late Revolutionary War period. Captain McCARTY was sent as a courier to the Governor of Virginia, and after leaving Louisville, was never heard of again. It has always been accepted that he was ambushed and killed by Indians in KY on 2 June 1781, probably around modern-day eastern Shelby County, KY. These would have probably been Shawnee or Miami warriors. It is claimed by one branch of known descendants of Abner that shortly after his birth, his father removed his wife and family further east, still, to Scott County, VA, where he may have had some previous connections, and that Abner essentially grew up there, later moving back to northwest central Kentucky.
Researchers have been working on the parentage of Abner McCARTY for many years, but have ruled out any identifications with the McCARTY family in eastern Indiana in this same generation of late 1700's. That family may have been cousins of some kind, but not Abner's actual nuclear family.
Parentage quests aside, this Abner McCARTY was some kind of stagecoach driver in the very early days of this Nation. Abner and his wife Sarah B. (MOORE) were married in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, on 22 Aug 1807.
Sarah was the daughter of John N. MOORE and (apparently) Averilla (ALLENDER) MOORE (married 5 Aug 1785 or 1786 in Baltimore), and Sarah was born in Baltimore, MD, as was her older brother Philemon MOORE. John N. MOORE and family moved west to Jefferson Co., KY, sometime after daughter Sarah's birth in Nov 1787 in Baltimore.
(This John N. MOORE family needs sorting out with further research. The John N. MOORE father of Sarah and Philemon was deceased by August 1807, as Abner's Marriage Bond clearly states. Philemon stood as bondsman with Abner, in Jefferson County, KY. However, there is also a John Gay MOORE, of the same approximate age, who lived until 1836 and is buried in the Moore Family Cemetery in far western Hancock Co., KY, on the Daviess County line, near Lewisport. He had a son James MOORE, who is buried there as well, and is referred to as Rev. James Jacob MOORE. That Rev. James MOORE is supposed to have been born in 1789 in Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, which seems to fit the identity of the John N. MOORE family. The 1785/86 Baltimore marriage to Averilla ALLENDER will help sort out who is who, so check back for updates.)
By 1814, when daughter Nancy was born, Abner and Sarah had moved to what is now the Hartford area of Ohio Co., KY. By 1820, they had moved again about 50 miles north to the N/E part of Crawford Co., IN. It may have been during the 1820's, but Abner was reported to have had a regular stage route to Richmond, Indiana and back, which may have meant that for a while, the family would have been perhaps in Clark Co., IN. That story remains to be researched more. By the 1830 census, they were known to be back in Ohio Co., KY, but didn't stay long, for by 1834, they lived in Warrick Co., IN, where their oldest daughter Nancy McCARTY married John WHETSTONE. John and Nancy WHETSTONE moved to White County, IL, the following year or so, and by 1840, Abner and Sarah and youngest son George McCARTY also west to the northern part of White County, IL, which is about 60 miles from Warrick Co., IN. Here in White County, IL, Abner and Sarah finally settled down and later died. They would have a second family of sorts in their later years, raising all of daughter Nancy WHETSTONE's children, after John and Nancy died in 1843 and 1844 respectively, with 4 or 5 children from age 2 to age 9!
By the time Abner died, he had been farming for probably close to 20 years in the Burnt Prairie area of White County, IL. His stagecoach and traveling days seem to have been over once he had reached his mid-50's. Probably just too much bouncing around---literally and figuratively!
Abner and Sarah McCARTY seem to have been Baptists, at least by the time of their later years. Their daughter Nancy married John WHETSTONE, who was a Presbyterian, but their Whetstone descendants mostly became Baptists, and it is believed to have been due to the influence of Abner and Sarah McCARTY.
Abner may have been born "Benoist McCARTY", and has been identified as the son of Revolutionary War Captain Richard McCARTY of Gen. George Rogers CLARK's Virginia expedition to seize the Illinois country. This Captain Richard McCARTY is known to have been married to a French Canadian lady living in the Cahokia, IL, area, Ursula BENOIST, and from French records, Abner's birth would coincide with the birth of their son Benoist McCARTY.
Capt. Richard McCARTY's parentage has been researched by a number of people, but only recently have some apparent breakthroughs been made. Check back for updates on his ancestry.
Our Ursula (BENOIST) seems to have been born around 1745, probably in Montreal, Quebec, but her parentage may be confused with a different Ursula BENOIST. One of them seem to be the daughter of (?) Antoine Gabriel Francois BENOIST and Marie Louise LeBER, and the other may be connected to the BABIE/BABY family. More research is needed.
Captain Richard McCARTY may have moved his family to the Louisville, KY, area during the late Revolutionary War period. Captain McCARTY was sent as a courier to the Governor of Virginia, and after leaving Louisville, was never heard of again. It has always been accepted that he was ambushed and killed by Indians in KY on 2 June 1781, probably around modern-day eastern Shelby County, KY. These would have probably been Shawnee or Miami warriors. It is claimed by one branch of known descendants of Abner that shortly after his birth, his father removed his wife and family further east, still, to Scott County, VA, where he may have had some previous connections, and that Abner essentially grew up there, later moving back to northwest central Kentucky.
Researchers have been working on the parentage of Abner McCARTY for many years, but have ruled out any identifications with the McCARTY family in eastern Indiana in this same generation of late 1700's. That family may have been cousins of some kind, but not Abner's actual nuclear family.
Parentage quests aside, this Abner McCARTY was some kind of stagecoach driver in the very early days of this Nation. Abner and his wife Sarah B. (MOORE) were married in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, on 22 Aug 1807.
Sarah was the daughter of John N. MOORE and (apparently) Averilla (ALLENDER) MOORE (married 5 Aug 1785 or 1786 in Baltimore), and Sarah was born in Baltimore, MD, as was her older brother Philemon MOORE. John N. MOORE and family moved west to Jefferson Co., KY, sometime after daughter Sarah's birth in Nov 1787 in Baltimore.
(This John N. MOORE family needs sorting out with further research. The John N. MOORE father of Sarah and Philemon was deceased by August 1807, as Abner's Marriage Bond clearly states. Philemon stood as bondsman with Abner, in Jefferson County, KY. However, there is also a John Gay MOORE, of the same approximate age, who lived until 1836 and is buried in the Moore Family Cemetery in far western Hancock Co., KY, on the Daviess County line, near Lewisport. He had a son James MOORE, who is buried there as well, and is referred to as Rev. James Jacob MOORE. That Rev. James MOORE is supposed to have been born in 1789 in Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, which seems to fit the identity of the John N. MOORE family. The 1785/86 Baltimore marriage to Averilla ALLENDER will help sort out who is who, so check back for updates.)
By 1814, when daughter Nancy was born, Abner and Sarah had moved to what is now the Hartford area of Ohio Co., KY. By 1820, they had moved again about 50 miles north to the N/E part of Crawford Co., IN. It may have been during the 1820's, but Abner was reported to have had a regular stage route to Richmond, Indiana and back, which may have meant that for a while, the family would have been perhaps in Clark Co., IN. That story remains to be researched more. By the 1830 census, they were known to be back in Ohio Co., KY, but didn't stay long, for by 1834, they lived in Warrick Co., IN, where their oldest daughter Nancy McCARTY married John WHETSTONE. John and Nancy WHETSTONE moved to White County, IL, the following year or so, and by 1840, Abner and Sarah and youngest son George McCARTY also west to the northern part of White County, IL, which is about 60 miles from Warrick Co., IN. Here in White County, IL, Abner and Sarah finally settled down and later died. They would have a second family of sorts in their later years, raising all of daughter Nancy WHETSTONE's children, after John and Nancy died in 1843 and 1844 respectively, with 4 or 5 children from age 2 to age 9!
By the time Abner died, he had been farming for probably close to 20 years in the Burnt Prairie area of White County, IL. His stagecoach and traveling days seem to have been over once he had reached his mid-50's. Probably just too much bouncing around---literally and figuratively!
Abner and Sarah McCARTY seem to have been Baptists, at least by the time of their later years. Their daughter Nancy married John WHETSTONE, who was a Presbyterian, but their Whetstone descendants mostly became Baptists, and it is believed to have been due to the influence of Abner and Sarah McCARTY.
Capt. Richard McCARTY's parentage has been researched by a number of people, but only recently have some apparent breakthroughs been made. Check back for updates on his ancestry.
Our Ursula (BENOIST) seems to have been born around 1745, probably in Montreal, Quebec, but her parentage may be confused with a different Ursula BENOIST. One of them seem to be the daughter of (?) Antoine Gabriel Francois BENOIST and Marie Louise LeBER, and the other may be connected to the BABIE/BABY family. More research is needed.
Captain Richard McCARTY may have moved his family to the Louisville, KY, area during the late Revolutionary War period. Captain McCARTY was sent as a courier to the Governor of Virginia, and after leaving Louisville, was never heard of again. It has always been accepted that he was ambushed and killed by Indians in KY on 2 June 1781, probably around modern-day eastern Shelby County, KY. These would have probably been Shawnee or Miami warriors. It is claimed by one branch of known descendants of Abner that shortly after his birth, his father removed his wife and family further east, still, to Scott County, VA, where he may have had some previous connections, and that Abner essentially grew up there, later moving back to northwest central Kentucky.
Researchers have been working on the parentage of Abner McCARTY for many years, but have ruled out any identifications with the McCARTY family in eastern Indiana in this same generation of late 1700's. That family may have been cousins of some kind, but not Abner's actual nuclear family.
Parentage quests aside, this Abner McCARTY was some kind of stagecoach driver in the very early days of this Nation. Abner and his wife Sarah B. (MOORE) were married in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, on 22 Aug 1807.
Sarah was the daughter of John N. MOORE and (apparently) Averilla (ALLENDER) MOORE (married 5 Aug 1785 or 1786 in Baltimore), and Sarah was born in Baltimore, MD, as was her older brother Philemon MOORE. John N. MOORE and family moved west to Jefferson Co., KY, sometime after daughter Sarah's birth in Nov 1787 in Baltimore.
(This John N. MOORE family needs sorting out with further research. The John N. MOORE father of Sarah and Philemon was deceased by August 1807, as Abner's Marriage Bond clearly states. Philemon stood as bondsman with Abner, in Jefferson County, KY. However, there is also a John Gay MOORE, of the same approximate age, who lived until 1836 and is buried in the Moore Family Cemetery in far western Hancock Co., KY, on the Daviess County line, near Lewisport. He had a son James MOORE, who is buried there as well, and is referred to as Rev. James Jacob MOORE. That Rev. James MOORE is supposed to have been born in 1789 in Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, which seems to fit the identity of the John N. MOORE family. The 1785/86 Baltimore marriage to Averilla ALLENDER will help sort out who is who, so check back for updates.)
By 1814, when daughter Nancy was born, Abner and Sarah had moved to what is now the Hartford area of Ohio Co., KY. By 1820, they had moved again about 50 miles north to the N/E part of Crawford Co., IN. It may have been during the 1820's, but Abner was reported to have had a regular stage route to Richmond, Indiana and back, which may have meant that for a while, the family would have been perhaps in Clark Co., IN. That story remains to be researched more. By the 1830 census, they were known to be back in Ohio Co., KY, but didn't stay long, for by 1834, they lived in Warrick Co., IN, where their oldest daughter Nancy McCARTY married John WHETSTONE. John and Nancy WHETSTONE moved to White County, IL, the following year or so, and by 1840, Abner and Sarah and youngest son George McCARTY also west to the northern part of White County, IL, which is about 60 miles from Warrick Co., IN. Here in White County, IL, Abner and Sarah finally settled down and later died. They would have a second family of sorts in their later years, raising all of daughter Nancy WHETSTONE's children, after John and Nancy died in 1843 and 1844 respectively, with 4 or 5 children from age 2 to age 9!
By the time Abner died, he had been farming for probably close to 20 years in the Burnt Prairie area of White County, IL. His stagecoach and traveling days seem to have been over once he had reached his mid-50's. Probably just too much bouncing around---literally and figuratively!
Abner and Sarah McCARTY seem to have been Baptists, at least by the time of their later years. Their daughter Nancy married John WHETSTONE, who was a Presbyterian, but their Whetstone descendants mostly became Baptists, and it is believed to have been due to the influence of Abner and Sarah McCARTY.
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