Old Philadelphia Families LXVII-CARSON
Philadelphia North American
Date: Sunday 13 SEP 1908
Conducted by Frank-Willing Leach
It was somewhere about the middle of the eighteenth century, certainly between 1750 and the beginning of the Revolution, that three brothers William, Joseph and Andrew CARSON, accompanied by at least one sister, Mary, and possibly others, children of Andrew CARSON, came to Philadelphia from County Antrim, Ireland, to secure a larger liberty and better opportunity to make fortunes for themselves and incidentally, a wider horizon for their posterity. That they chose wisely subsequent events certainly demonstrated.
One of the brothers, the youngest, Andrew CARSON, having married, March 1, 1769 Jane HALL, removed to that section of Pennsylvania now known as Northumberland County, then a wild, almost uninhabited country, except so far as the Indians roamed through the region, upon their predatory expeditions, which were at that time, not infrequently attended by disastrous results to the few white settlers who had ventured so far from the settlements on or near the Delaware. Of the progeny of Andrew CARSON we have no record. ...
