Lt. John Carleton, of Haverhill

John Carleton was born in 1637 or 1638 to Edward Carleton and Ellen Newton. John married Hannah Jewett, daughter of Joseph Jewett and Mary Mallinson in 1658 or 1659 in Rowley Massachusetts. He was a town recorder and Clerk of the Writs between 1664 and 1668 in Haverhill. He was a Lieutenant in the state militia. He died 22 Jan 1668 in Haverhill, Essex County, MA.

By Hannah, daughter of Joseph Jewett, esq.  he had issue four sons viz:

• a.  John married Hannah Osgood, 1681, lived in Andover, Mass.
• b.  Edward, born 1664, married Elizabeth Kimball lived at Bedford, Mass.
• c.  Joseph, born 1662, married Abigale Osgood, 1644, Andover, MA (ed note -this is wrong)
• d. Thomas, born 1667, died 1734, married Elizabeth Kimball (sic: Haseltine) he is number 20.

notes

John was the owner of a large tract of land in Haverhill and a large part of Lawrence, Massachusetts. No record has ever been found of the conveyance of this land away. His children were very young at the time of his death and his estate was not settled for twenty-five years. It is thought that a knowledge of his owning this land was not obtained until 1860. In 1860 Benjamin Franklin Buttler began looking into the land ownership issue, but the Civil War broke out and the investigations came to an end. 18

References

• NEHG Register. “The English Ancestry of Edward Carlton of Rowley, Mass.,” Volume: Volume 93. Author: Hazen, T. E. Publication: January 1939. Page 10a. “Carleton of Beeford and Brandesburton, Yorkshire, and Rowley, Mass.” Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) < AmericanAncestors >
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=roncarlto...
• http://home.rbcarleton.com/rbc/carleton.html
• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Google eBook) William Richard Cutter Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1908 - Boston (Mass.) page 1071
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Haverhill/aDeathsC.shtml "(CARLTON (Carelton, Carleton)) John, Lt., Jan. 22, 1668."