Nicholas Cartwright, Jr

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21857992/nicholas-cartwright

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Nicholas II and Patience were the parents of 10 children:

• Elizabeth b. 1731;
• Christopher b. 1732 married Anna Sheaffe;
• Sarah b. 1733, may not have married;
• Edward b. 1735 never married;
• John b. 1737 never married;
• Marcia b. 1739, may not have married;
• Samuel b. 1741 married Abiel Pond;
• Ruth b. 1745 never married;
• Ann b. 1748 never married;
• Reuben b. 1751 married Elizabeth Sanford.

[Cartwright, Nicholas, was the common ancestor of the Cartwright family, which have been numerous in the town. He was originally from Barnstable, Massachusetts, and lived a short time on Philip's Patent, now South-East, N. Y. He came to Sharon in 1756, and settled near the place where Austin Cartwright now lives. He was baptized in September, 1781, when he was nearly eighty years of age. He died in May, 1782.

He had three sons, Reuben, Christopher and Samuel. Reuben lived where George W. Peck lived. He died, leaving a numerous family, in May, 1790, aged forty. Christopher lived near David Curtis's late residence, and before the revolutionary war he removed to Shaftsbury, Vermont. In 1775, he joined the army under General Montgomery, and was in the battle of Quebec, in which Montgomery fell. He died of the small-pox, in the American camp, on the island of Orleans, before the retreat from Canada. Samuel lived where Austin Cartwright now lives. He was also in the army with his brother Christopher, but escaped his untimely end. He lived to a good old age, and died January 17th, 1819, aged seventy-eight. He left two sons, Nicholas and Anson, who are both now deceased. Sedgwick - History of the Town of Sharon. c1877]