1. Thomas WEST (My GGGGrandfather)
Spouse: Elizabeth Unknown
Children:
John Gilbert WEST
Thomas
Samuel
Washington
Martha WEST ( GORRELL)
Betsy
Hannah
Anne
Caroline WEST (Touchton)
2. John Gilbert WEST (My GGGrandfather)
Birth Date: Apr 1820
Spouse: Mary Eliza DICK
Birth Date: Jul 1836
Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1858
Marriage Place: Harford CO. MD.
Children:
Alice (Hipkins)
Annie M.
3. Annie M. WEST
Birth Date: 18 May 1862
Birth Place: Harford CO. MD.
Death Date: 20 Dec 1916
Death Place: Harford CO. MD.
Spouse: William Edward CARTY
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1849
Birth Place: Aldino, MD.
Death Date: 23 Jan 1889
Marriage Date: 10 Mar 1879
Marriage Place: Harford CO. MD.
Children:
Elsie Irene
George Edward
Bertha Estell
Agnes Viola
4. GEORGE EDWARD CARTY (My Grand Father)
Birth Date: 24 Mar 1881
Birth Place: Aldino, MD.
Death Date: 6 Nov 1970
Death Place: Havre de Grace, MD.
Spouse: Ruby Belle Singleton PRESTON
Birth Date: 7 Mar 1891
Marriage Date: 10 Apr 1911
Children:
Harold Edward
Bernice Irene
William Horace
Roland Louis
Willard Lee
Lois Maye
5. ROLAND LOUIS CARTY (My Father)
Birth Date: 18 Jul 1918
Birth Place: Aberdeen, MD.
Spouse: Beatrice COMBS
Birth Date: 7 Mar 1916
Marriage Date: 7 Jan 1939
Children:
Barbara Lou
Ronald Lewis
6.RONALD LEWIS CARTY (Me)
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1953
Birth Place: Havre de Grace, MD.
Marriage Date: 31 Jul 1976
Marriage Place: Grace United Methodist Aberdeen, MD.
Children: Winzer Lewis (My Son)
This is a transcript of an 11 page document I found at the Historical Society of Harford County when I (Ron Carty) paid a visit there on Wednesday August 6, 1997. In the Archives Section of the building was a card catalog for the archives. I looked at the name WEST and found the card that lead me to these pages plus at least a dozen other cards that I did not pursue yet. I have tried to be as exact as I can reading this hand writing. Any notes in italics are mine. Any mark such as this:(?) means I can't decipher the original hand writing.
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Copy begun 8mo. 1 1935 of
Copy, paraphrase, or abstract of layhru or/and shorthand notes written by Geo. B. Cock over 11 mo 7, 1934, guest at Ficuhs' Boarding House 434 Greenwood Ave, Trenton, NJ. working as meales at The Taylor, 2001 N. Park Av. Baltimore, Maryland.
Mary Whitaker West dtr. of Jesse West below says 11/2/1926 her grandmother Martha C. West below born Simpers had 2 sisters who married respectively Zebulon Mauldin and John Mauldin.
Martha C. West
I Martha C. West of North East Cecil Co. MD.xxxsecond I give ?evise and bequeath the mansin house wherein I now reside situated upon the main street in said town of North East with the grounds about the same extending along said street from the land of the estate of the Cole Johnson Simpers on the North to the northern boundry line of the lot of land fronting 90 feet on said main street and having a width of 70 feet on the inner or east side of the ???----conveyed by me to my daughter Beulah W. Nutt by deed ???? December 31st 1889 and bounded for the land hereby devised upon the east by the land of Martha S.Williams together with all the outbuildings here ??? thereto belonging, also the personal property of every desctintion within said mansion house at upon said premises to my Four children Jesse West, Harry M. West, Martha S. Williams and Beulah W. Nutt, their heirs and assigns forever to have and to hold the same as tawards in common with these ??ss?ortions, however that my grandchildren, the children of my Four children named, and William G. Nutt, the husband of my daughter Beulah, shall durring their respective lives, have the privilege of a house within said mansion house when they may desire;..... 10 years bought by me at the sale of the estate of my brother John Simpers, lying upon the road leaving from North East to Elkton, adjoining the lands of Dr. S.E. Ford and the colored church upon the east;..... Sarah M. & Isiac Henry Ford upon the South and west......
.....my said son Jesse West exce?
2 May 1901
Chas T. Fllearns(?)
Harry E. Pietson(?) Wits.
John R. Mearns(?)
Provn Aug 6 1901
T. Ellsworth Simpers, realtor, North East, Cecil Co; Md. says 11/2 1926
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he knows not the West stories of Samuel West the Grandfather of that Jesse West poastmaster of North East, MD. mentioned in afsd will of Martha C. West, but that ???????
Martha C. West afsd had two sisters Sallie and ..... who married Zebulon Mauldin and bro. John Mauldin. Maudlin Family (Marion Rose says as to foregoing) lived at Elk Neck near North East and they were in Johnson's History of Cecil Co, Md. [see copy of said history prob say between 1885 & 1890]
An octagenarian in North East sd 11/2/1926 he had been a schoolmate of Jesse West afsd. and could see no resemblance between said Wests and me Geo. B. Cock 11/2/1926.
George Logan Rowlandsville Md.
re Eliz. B. West's address mother of
Jane Bradley West
Mr. Geo. B. Taylor sold her effects as ave.? in 1926 at Rowlandsville
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1798 West Joseph AJR 749 Geo. B. Cock
1802 West Jonathan Sr. AJC 68 8 mo 3, 1935:
1827 West Nathainel SR. 1 391 For eight Wests at left
1835 West Thomas TSB5 75 see records at Court
1850 West Enos TSB6 243 House, Bel Air,
1856 West Stacey CWB7 104 Harford Co, Md.
1901 West John G. GSN 12 393
1908 West Wilson D. HTB 13 486
wife Mary E. Granddtrs. Else Irene Carty and Bertha Estelle Carty chiln of my dtr. Annie E. Fletcher
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Samuel Reed Esq. in 1837 bo't (?) an iron sledge of Mohlon Hibbs West est. was the father to that Wm (?) Reed of Reed & Morton, Balto.?
See (?) Kurtz at Jarrettsville.
[Memo. 11/7/1934 re above by George B. Cock afsd not (?) man (?) named Hibbs say between 1900 and 1918-he for many years with my bro-in-law Wm Hoopes's (West Chester, Pa.) Cousin Barton Hoopes's cou?rn Bolt & Nut wa???s at Brood (?) & Hamilton or Patterson (?) Sts. Philadelphia, Pa.-Reed of Reed & Morton, Balto. said that Thomas West who with wife born Elizabeth Hibbs of Bucks Co. Pa. came down to Harford Co; Md, during Revolutionary War, bought land cheap and sold it high-----was a bastard. Geo. B. Cock afsd. Mrs. (?) Hibbs above, both were (?) Hoopes, ?ud Reed ?all within these Brackets, are all dead. GBC]
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ALL OF THESE NOTES WERE OFF TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE "MEMO" PARAGRAPH
Courwant (?) by Geo. B, Cock afsd. on 8 mo 1, 1935:- Warren S Ely, genealogist, now
or late of Bucks Co, Pa, within last year or so informed me he had carefully gone over Bucks County's criminal court records in re Thomas West (born 10 mo.10,1757; died
3.29 1835) at my (?) be?est and his reaearch failed to aiselox (?) any trace of bastardy.
Said Thomas West was my maternal (?) great - grand father.
Geo. B. Cock
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Attend. Qrtrly Mtg @ Fallston 11/7/1926
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Samuel West below was born in 1797 and his son Harry Mauldin West perrcevd (?) in Bible owned by Miss Mary Whitaker West of North East, Md. shows me11/6/1925. Said MWW dtr. of the postmaster of North East Jesse West, deceased
Alice Augusta Hipkins [since deceased:- Geo. B. Cock 11.7.1934] says 11/18/1923 she knows not of any terdition (?) of P??uk. (?) origin not where her father John Gilbert West was born but that he had bro.
I. Thomas (who moved (?) West)
II. Samuel (whose children were (1) Jesse (who married and became postmaster of North East, Cecil Co, Md. (2) Harry (who may be living @ North East) (3) Martha ( who married Lavarcher (?) Williams) (4) Beulah; III.- Washington (one or the oldest of them) IV. Martha (married a Gorrell & became grandmother of the [heavy-weight GBC 11.7.1934] Jones sisters keeping a boarding house in Bel Air); V Betsy (unmarried); Hannah (unm[?]); VII. Anne(?) (unm.) (?); VIII.-Caroline(m. a Touchton) (all of Caroline's decadts. (?) dead)* The men of my West tribe have been 150 lbs or less....
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Chas. H. Armstrong (ca. 65 or 70) and Samuel Walker (a.45 or 50) both living at Aldino P.O. knew John Gilbert West afsd.Bub(?) live, ?aus from Bel Air to Havre de Grace passing(?) ?isideures
of both men.
Sd. John Gilbert West afsd. was a carpenter and excelled in use of broad-axe in hewing timber Foregoing per overle(?) of George Deaver Gorrell over telphone 11/8/1923...........
Alice Augusta Hipkins....I never heard of the Moutgowery(?) farm. Don't know(?) who ther(?) my Wests were an old Harford Co. family or not. The only ones I know that's living is there in North East. I wouldn't know what the H [which Geo. B. Cock the interviewer supplies in the postmaster Jesse H. West's name(?) stood for.
Daughter of Jesse West the poastmaster usualy(?) Miss Mary Whitaker Wed dcelae? (?) 11/6/1925 her father had no middle name.
[Mem. 11/17/1934 by Geo. B. Cock. Adjoining farm of Frank(?) Hanway(?) West near Forest Hill Son of Clarkson son of Enos son of Thomas West (10.10.1757 - 3.29.1835) by wife Elizabeth Hibbs - was a farm formely of a Whitaker family where say in 1926 or 27 lay horizontally a large slab with Whitaker names in bloodiue(?) luding(?) Nancy West who it would seem was Ann(?) daughter of Joshua Whitaker who became one of the three wives of Stacy West son of Thomas and Elizabeth [Hibbs] West. Recently(?) the 20 -year-old daughter of Frank(?) Hanway(?) West told me occup(?) and durier(?) of Sd. adjoining farm had rewovs(?) said slab.]
* Not so Geo. B. Cock 11/5/1927. = have heard John Gilbert West wgd. between 160 & 170, was taller than I [I am aged 76 and in shoes say 5 ft. 6 and 1/2 in.] & could handle a 50 lb. crow bar with ease. GBC 11/6/26.= C.H.A died summer of 1926. t Under names(?) Samuel (Walker) Iseam(?) to Rave(?) written Aberdeen R.D.1. Shd. be 2. G B Cock 11/5/1926
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Thomas West To James Martin
Deed
This indenture made this Twenty eighth day of November Anno Dom One
thousand sevenhundred and eighty seven (1787) Between Thomas West of
Harford County in the state of Maryland of the one part and James Martin of
the same County and State of the other part Whereas the right honorable
Charles the second Lord Barron of Baltimore County deceased by his Letters
Patent under the great Seal of Maryland bearing date the twelfth Day of
September Anno Dommi One Thousand Sevenhundred and Twelve for the
Consideration therein mentioned Did Grant unto a Certain John C__ppn all
that Tract of Land Called Cowens Settlement then Lying in Baltimore County
But now in Harford County Between the waters of Swan Creek and Deer Creek
part of which Grants appears to ly (?) foul of an Elder Tract of Land
Called Westwood Granted to a certain Robert West Grand father to the above
named Thomas West Now this indenture Witnehseth (?) that the said Thomas
West for and in Consideration of the sum of seven pounds ten Shillings
Specie to him in hand paid by the said James Martin the Recept whereof the
said Thomas West Hath Granted Bargaines(?) and sold aliend(?) and Confirmed
and by these present Doth Grant Bargain and Sell Alien and Confirm unto the
said James Martin his Heirs and a_iens (?) forever all that part or parcel
of Land Sold by Edward Cowan Son of the above Named John Cowen To a certain
Thomas Hilley and now in possession of the above named James Martin it
being one Hundred Acres part of the above Grant to John Cowen Beginning for
the same at three Bounded White Oaks Standing on a small Ridge at the head
of a Branch Called the G_owe said Branch Descending into Deer Creek on the
South Side and running Hence South East by East fifty perches. East One
hundred and Twelve perches North Twenty Degrees East fifty two perches till
it interseeth the North twenty three Degrees West Two Hundred and ten perch
Line of the whole tract and thence Running with the said Line Eighty nine
perches then West by north fifty four perches then South seventy Degrees
West twenty perches then South sixty (?) four Degrees West one hundred and
Ten perches then with a straight line to the Beginning Containing one
hundred acres of Land more less Lying and being situate in Harford County
aforesaid Together with all Improvements thereon being and apfurten
assurances thereunto belonging also the Revession(?) of Reveions (?)
remainder and remainders Rents Hsue (?) and ServI__es of the said Primiserg
(?) of every part and parcell thereof and all the Estate right (?) Title
Interest Claim and Demand Whatsoever of him the said Thomas West his Heirs
or asigns of in and to the said Messuage (?) Peice (?) or Parcell of Land
and Every Part of Parcell thereof To Have and to Hold the said Mefsuge (?)
Tenements and parcell of land Described in aforesaid and Every part of
parcill there of with the appurtenances (?) unto the said James Martin his
Heirs and asigns To the only Proper (?) use and behoof of the said James
Martin his Heirs and asigns for Evermore and to and forwhatever use Intents
or purpose whatsoever and the said Thomas West for himself and his Heirs
Doth here by Grant and agree to and with the aforesaid James Martin his
Heirs and asigns in manner and form (?) following to witt that the
aforesaid Land and premises (?) every (?) part and parcell thereof at the
time of Executing this present Writing is free and Clear from all and Every
Other Grant. Bargain Sale (?) Dower or Incumbrance whatsoever by from or
under him the said Thomas West and that he has Lawfull authority to sell
and Convey the same (?) to the Aforesaid James Martin his Heirs and asigns
forever and that the said Thomas West for him and his heirs the said
mefsuage and Parcell of land and Tennements and Every part thereof against
him and his heirs them of them and against all and Every other person and
persons Whatsoever Claiming by from or under him the said Thomas West Unto
the said James Martin his Heirs and asigns Shall and will Warrent and
forever Defend by these present In Witness where of the said Thomas West
hath hereunto sett his hand and affixed his seal on the Day and Year first
above Written.
Signed Sealed & Delivered In presence Off Thomas West his X
mark "seal"
James (?) McComas
John Rumsey
Received of James Martin the just and full sum of seven pounds ten
shillings Specie the full Consideration for the within Bargained Land and
Premises as witnesth on hand said seal this Twentyeight Day of November
anno Dom one Thousand and Eighty seven
Thomas West his X mark
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