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 1751 - 1831

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• Birth	1751	Cavan County, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  _UID	2D3DB5BC67EF3D45BEA0C206AF3E94FD5752
  Died	1 Feb 1831	Union City, PA Erie Co.
  Buried	Union City, PA Erie Co.
  	Address: West Union Cemetery Union City, PA
  Person ID	I1516	Haldeman,Brown,Carroll,Rigdon
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2017
  Family	Isabella JOHNSTON,   b. 1756, Ireland ,   d. 28 Sep 1830, Union City, PA.
  Married	10 May1775	Drummcrow South, Cavan, Ireland
  	Surname: Carrol Church of Ireland Townland recorded as Drumcrow
  Children	1. Samuel CARROLL,   b. 20 Mar 1776, Ireland ,   d. 28 Jan 1836, Middleton, PA Erie Co.   2. Sarah CARROLL,   b. 9 Nov 1777,   d. Unknown, Cavan County, Ireland   3. George CARROLL,   b. 31 Jul 1779, Ireland ,   d. 4 May 1873   4. John CARROLL,   b. 22 May 1781,   d. Unknown, Cavan County, Ireland   5. Phoebe CARROLL,   b. 15 Feb 1784, Ireland ,   d. 1874   6. Jane CARROLL,   b. 10 Apr 1786, Ireland ,   d. 1858   7. Elizabeth Betsy CARROLL,   b. 23 Jan 1788, Ireland ,   d. 1867   8. Mary CARROLL,   b. 15 Jan 1790, Ireland ,   d. 1869   9. James CARROLL,   b. 15 Feb 1792, Cavin County, Ireland ,   d. 2 Apr 1846, Erie County, PA.   10. Thomas CARROLL,   b. 22 Feb 1794, Ireland ,   d. 1857   11. William CARROLL,   b. 12 May 1796, Ireland ,   d. 24 Dec 1882, Union City, PA Erie Co.   12. Isabella CARROLL,   b. 10 Feb 1799,   d. 1801
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2017
  Family ID	F91	Group Sheet

• Documents	Flax Growers Killishandra Parish, Cavan County, Ireland
  	Flax Growers Killishandra Parish, Cavan County, Ireland
  	Ferdinand Carroll Obituary Obituary
  Headstones		Ferdinand Carroll Status: Located. 1751 - Feb. 01, 1831 "Like to a shock of ripened corn so is our Father gathered home. He sleeps in Jesus til that morn, when all the just quit the tomb"

• Notes

  The Carroll History After the laps of one hundred years, the Carroll Family sent out a call for their first reunion, which was held September 19, 1901, (note by TedCarroll : This date is probably in error as it was a Thursday the third Sunday was on the 15th) at the site of the old homested on Tract 159, inthe South West part of Union Township, Pennsylvania and which is stillowned by a branch of the Family. The attendence of relatives was about140, counting old and young. The following facts, handed down by recordsand traditions were noted: Ferdinand Carroll was born of Scotish-Irish ancestry in the North ofIreland in County Caven in 1751, his father dying before he was born.When in his teens, he was suitably equipped with a change of raiment andwas sent to make his home with a wealthy Uncle, living in London. On theway a fellow traveler stole his valise and as he could not appear at hisbest before his aristocratic Uncle, he turned in with a weaver, to whomhe bound himself for a term of seven years to learn the weaver's trade. At the age of twenty-four, he married Isabella Johnston, five yearsyounger than himself. The records show that during the next twenty-fiveyears of his life, he became the father of six sons and six daughters,all alive and well at that time, except for two of the older ones, a boyand a girl, who died when young. The two oldest boys, Samuel and George, made up their minds to go toAmerica. Mr. Carroll said, "well if you are determined to go, let us allgo together". He immediately started out to get gold enough to coverexpences to the New World, by selling a life lease of his land. They embarked at Dublin in the spring of 1801, in an old war vessel, forNew York. The ship had two hundred passengers on board. Their youngestdaughter, Isabella, died with measles and was buried at sea. The ship was a sailing vessel and was eight weeks making the voyage andlanded at New Castle, Deleware, instead of New York. Ferdinand couldplay the violin, with which, by permission of the captain, who was atyrant, relieved the monotony of the trip. The winds were so light at first, that they made slow progress, then astorm drove the vessel far off its course. A legend of the trip relates that during the great calm, the captain cameon deck one morning, and seeing a feather-bed belonging to the Carrollfamily, which had been put out to air, threw it overboard and it driftedin sight many days. Soon after their arrival, the Carroll Family started for Chilicothe,Ohio. On reaching Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they heard of fever and plaague at Chillicothe, so a halt was made. Note : by Ted E. Carroll obtained from the Encarta MultimediaEncyclopedia. (Ohio was the 17th state of the Union and the first to be admitted fromthe old Northwest Territory, in 1803. Northwest Territory (1787), areawest of Pennsylvania between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Establishedby the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, by the NorthwestOrdinance, the territory consisted of what would become the states ofOhio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. Ohiowas separated from the remainder of the Northwest Territory in 1800, and in 1803 itbecame the first state of the territory to be admitted to the Union. Thestate capital was first established at Chillicothe, and after severalmoves, it was fixed at Columbus in 1816. ) Learning of the inducement held out to settlers by the Holland LandCompany, of one hundred acres free, for making settlement and staying onit for five years, took the familys attention. This land was on a creek,a tributary of the Allegany River, about one hundred miles north ofPittsburgh. Ferdinand and his two sons, Samuel and George, came up the Allegany river to Franklin, thense to Meadville, and then to Union Mills. Two miles South of Union Mills they found Andrew Halsey on Tract 159 ofthe Holland Land Company's land, and bought his right of settlement andimprovements for thirty dollars in gold. The family and household goodswere brought up from Pittsburgh on horses equipped with pack saddles. Hecompleted the settlement of tract 159 and got a clear deed for onehundred acres He had found it difficult to decide in which direction to locate, so setting up a stick as near plumb as possible, said he would go in thedirection it fell, and arrived at Castle Halsey. In 1809, he left tract 159 and moved to the Moravian, Grant now La BoeufStation, for which he paid rent. After ten years, he grew tired ofpaying rent and returned to his first home, but found many of his fieldshad grown up with a dense growth of timber which were harder to clearthan in the first place, so much of it was left and still stands, beingknown as second growth. The early custom in clearing land was to cut thesmall timber and girdle the big trees. The large ones had been blowndown, making it difficult to get them out. He lived thirty years on Tract 159, his death which was caused by canceron his face, occured February 1, 1831. His wife Isabella, dying inSeptember the previous year. Their tombstones were of native Sandstone,the lettering must have been done by an artist in his time, for they areplain and legible one hundred years later. Ferdinand left his farm to his youngest son William, who lived there allhis life, leaving it to his youngest son George W. Carroll, who in turnspent his entire life on the old farm. He built and operated a cheesefactory there for many years. The farm is now owned by Mrs. O. W.Carroll, a grand-daughter of William, son of Ferdinand. At the time Ferdinand arrived at Castle Halsey, his children were asfollows : Samuel, twenty five; George, twenty two; Phoebe, seventeen;Jane, fifteen; Betsey, thirteen; Mary, eleven; James, nine; Thomas,seven; and William, four years old.