Place:Carley Mills, Oswego, New York, United States

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Carleys Mills near Parish,NY, was named for George Lewis Carley who married Anne Bonsteel after her first husband,George's brother Samuel, was killed in the war of 1812. They came there to Oswego CO from Otsego,NY, in 1823. George L. descends from Job and Hannah Lewis Carley. Job b.1754 in Westport,CT, was a son of Abraham Carley b.abt1733 m Susannah Jackson abt 1748. Abram and Susannah lived in Weston,CT, on 3 1/2 acres sold them by Ephraim Jackson,Susannah's father, and children,including Job, were born in the 1750s here in Weston/Wilton.Abraham's father and mother,John Carley b. 1706 in Boston and Sarah Sherwood Carley b. 1711 in Fairfield were married in 1731, probably at the Greens Farms Church where David Sherwood,Sarah's father is buried. David was the son of Issac Sherwood of Hulls Farms, Long Lots Road,Fairfield. Sherwoods were "bank farmers".

The Carleys were founders of the Northfield Church after 1750 in Weston. John had sold his fatherinlaw's farm in Westport where the Long Shore Club is located today and moved north into Weston. Son Abraham died in 1759. Susannah married (2)Thaddeus Gray whose mother was Elizabeth Meeker Gray ,sister of Sarah Meeker Sherwood, Sarah Sherwood Carley's mother.

John Carley was the son of Mariner William Carley and Mary Bowden and who had been married by Cotton Mather in 1706 in Boston. Mary was descended from Lethbridge and Bully families of Saco,Black Point,Maine, and Boston. Mariner William Carley, born about 1680 to Capt Henry Carley and Elizabeth Ward Howe, widower and widow of Marlborough,Ma, were survivors of the Lancaster Massacre of 1676. Henry b.1632 was the second son of the immigrant William Carley and Mary white who came to Boston in 1637 from Ashmore, Devon,England.

Other branches of this Carley family were in Lewis County,NY/ New Fairfield,CT/Palatine,NY/Tompkins and Schuyler COs of the Finger Lakes/Jobs Corners,Tioga County, Jackson Township, Penn/ Schenectady and Montgomery County,NY/ and points west. One major branch,William Cearley, went to Virginia and North Carolina where the name is spelled Cearley today. By Bob Lefler of Paul Smiths

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