Person:Lindsay Carson (1)

Wikipedia Note

From wikipedia page of Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson, son of Lindsay Carson:

Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson, born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809, Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri. Carson's father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War[4] under General Wade Hampton. He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson. Kit Carson was the eleventh child in the family.[5] He was known from an early age as "Kit". The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase. The Boone and Carson families became good friends, working and socializing together, and intermarrying.

Kit Carson was eight years old when his father was killed by a falling tree while clearing land. Lindsey Carson's death reduced the Carson family to a desperate poverty, forcing young Kit Carson to drop out of school to work on the family farm, as well as to engage in hunting.

[Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson].

Land Records

Deed Bk. 10, pg. 160 1 June 1784 Lindsay Carson, eldest son and heir to William Carson deceased, to James McCullom for 100 pounds, 310 acres on Third Creek adjoining Wm. Morrison, part of 692 acres granted by Granville to said Wm. Carson, deceased 21 Dec. 1761. Witnesses: Sam’l Harris, James Morrison, Thomas Morrison. Proved Feb. Court 1785. [Source: Abstracts of Deeds of Rowan County, North Carolina 1753-1785]

Deed Bk. A, pgs. 525-526 14 Sept. 1792 Lindsay Carson, Maddison County, Kentucky to Abner Harris for 5 pounds, 20 acres ridge between Third and Fourth Creeks adjoining James McCollum, Samuel Harris, Robert Carson. 15 Aug. 1793. [Source: Iredell County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts]

Notes

The primary source for the life of Benjamin Midkiff is Jerry Long of Owensboro, Kentucky. Mr. Long has spent years collecting information on Benjamin Midkiff and his descendants and the main body of our knowledge of Benjamin is based on the work he has done. Mr. Long has established that Benjamin Midkiff came to Kentucky by 1796, possibly with the Robinson family of which his first wife Elizabeth belonged. Elizabeth’s father, James Robinson, and her brother-in-law appear in Madison County, Kentucky tax list of 1790; however, there is no evidence of Benjamin at this time. The Robinson family can be traced back to Botetourt County, Virginia where Elizabeth’s sister her sistere Sarah married John Sawyer in 1786 and her Jane married James McMullin in 1788. Elizabeth’s sister, Rebecca, is said to have married Lindsay Carson and was the mother of mountianman Kit Carson. The Midkiffs and Robinsons both appear in tax records of Madison County, Kentucky and by 1805 left records indicating they had settled in Shelby County, Kentucky. James Robinson died in Shelby County in 1805 and left a will dated the 03rd of May 1805 naming among his his heirs, a daughter Elizabeth and her husband Benjamin Midkiff. The will further identifies the Midkiffs by naming one of their children.

[Citation: http://www.oocities.org/heartland/farm/4162/midkiff.html].

1.   Sabin, Edwin LeGrand. Kit Carson Days (1809-1868)
   pp. 1-2.

   The Carson family, now established in America, proceeded to scatter like quail. An Alexander Carson migrated to Mississippi; Robert Carson to Kentucky, where he lived until he died; Lindsay and Andrew to the Hunting Creek settlement in the north of Iredell County. Here Andrew, at twenty, and Lindsay, at twenty-two, proved the Carson metal in the fire of the Revolution.
   
   Andrew became a captain in the command of Marion the Swampfox; and while Lord Cornwallis was harrying South Carolina he carried dispatches between Marion and Greene. He was in the battle of Camden, and tradition states that he bore out in his arms, from under fire, the fatally wounded Baron DeKalb, stricken while crossing a creek, October 16, 1780.
   
   Of Lindsay Carson's exploits in the Revolution less comes down to us; but so sturdy an Indian fighter must have graven deep his signature. After the war he removed to South Carolina, and married Miss Bradley, to raise another wilderness brood, the flight of which was to reach from Kentucky to the Pacific.
   
   This, the first of his two marriages, added to his race William, b. 1786, who by union with Millie Boone of the Kentucky Boones, perpetuated around Fayette, Missouri, the Carson name; Sarah, b. 1788, m. Peyton and lived to an advanced age; Andrew, b. 1790; Moses Bradley, b. 1792. The mother did not long survive this last child, but died soon after reaching the new home in Madison County, Kentucky, whither, 1792, the restless Lindsay moved on.
   
   Here, in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1797, he took unto himself a second wife, Rebecca Robinson, of Greenbriar County, Virginia, and so resumed the interrupted sequence; for those were wholesome days of large families. Six more boys and four more girls arrived, with Second. But this, his namesake, the father never saw, for the birth occurred after the fatality of September, 1818, when Lindsay First died, aged sixty-four, crushed by a falling limb.