Palatinate Origin of David Carlock (1)

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Person:David Carlock (1)

Palatinate Origin

David Carlock is commonly identified as being a Palatinate who immigrated to the New World sometime before 1737. He is said to be related to a family of Carlock/Garlock/Gerlach who settled in New York by 1708 in the Palatinate immigration, but eventually moved south into Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Whether David was infact related to the early Palatine immigrant Carlocks, is not certain. However, in Virginia he is found in association with the Starnes and Goldman families who are also believed to be Palatines. On this basis it seems reasonable to assume that David was also from the Palatine area of Germany, but not necessarily part of the initial Palatine immigration of 1708. His place of birth is commonly given as the Palatinate, but different genealogists have placed him in different towns of that general area, including Heidelberg, Weinheim, Marnheim, and Leutersheim. Documentation to support any of these locations does not seem to be readily available. See: Data.David Carlock Summary Ancestry World Trees.

Date of Birth

If David's place of birth is uncertain, so is his date of birth. Here there seem to be three schools of thought: a) those who give his DOB as about 1674, b) those who give it as about 1679, and c) those who give it as about 1700. Again, documentation on his DOB is limited. A possibility is that the different DOB's reflect dates for three different persons, each named David Carlock, or perhaps David Garlock/Gerlach, or similar variant. This may also explain some of the variation in place of birth. Without original source documentation for these dates, an easy resolution of the problem is not obvious.

The earliest original source documentation that we have for David seems to be a listing of settlers on the Shannandoah River in Augusta County VA in 1735. (See: USGenWeb archives.) That presumably makes him an adult in 1735, and so born no later than 1714. He is known to have survived until at least 1761 when he is exempted from Augusta County taxes because of "age and infirmity (See Carlocks in Southwest Virginia. If age 60 might be an effective date for someone exempted from taxes because of age, then we might accept a DOB of about 1700. Son youngest (probably) son Frederick appears as an adult in Augusta County records in 1746. Assuming he was at least 21 at the time, he would have been born no later than 1725. Assuming his father was at least 21 at the time of his birth, David would have been born no later than 1704. Since David had several apparently older children, a somewhat earlier DOB seems likely. A 1674/79 DOB seems not out of the question, and would certainly have justified his exemption from taxation in 1761 on the basis of being "old and infirm".