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Descendants of Martin and Margaret (Turner) Carlow

Generation No. 1

1. John Martin² Carlow (John Jacob¹) was born 11 October 1757 in Pownalborough, Maine ^1,², and died Bef. 1830. He married Margaret Turner 06 November 1781 in Pownalborough, Maine ^3,⁴, daughter of Richard Turner and Ellen Cowell. She was born Abt. 1752 in Yorkshire, England ⁵, and died Bef. 1850.

Notes for John Martin Carlow:
John Martin Carlow (hereafter referred to as Martin Carlow) was a Loyalist along with the rest of his family. Lorenzo Sabine records in Biographical Sketches of the American Revolution, "[John and Martin Carlow] set out to travel by land in 1778 and, after enlisting with the 'Rebels' to avoid detection, and various other adventures, they arrived in Nova Scotia. The year following, Martin was in Lunenburg, in that Colony, and John at the British post at the mouth of the Penobscot, [Castine]. In 1782 Martin had 'gone to live at home in peace.'" According to Robert Brooks [The Maine Genealogist, May 2004, p. 55], Martin was a carpenter in the Engineering Department sent from Halifax, Nova Scotia to build Fort George at Majabigwaduce (Castine), Maine. He began work April 1780. After the war ended, Martin was granted land in Charlotte County, New Brunswick in the summer of 1784 as a reward for his loyality to the Crown as part of the Penobscot Association Land Grants. He was granted a house lot (Parr's Division #L3) in the town of St. Andrews and a tract of land of 100 acres to develop on Bohannes Stream off the St. Croix River in what was then the Parish of St. Stephen (lot #202). In 1781 he and his bride were listed as living in Balltown, Maine (now known as Whitefield) as well as recorded in the 1790 and 1800 census records as living there. On 10 November 1801, while living in Balltown, he sold both his town lot and the Bohannes Stream lot to James Turner. He bought land and moved back to St. Andrews shortly after that because on 8 November 1809 he is recorded as living there when he sold 100 acre lot #52 (originally granted to James Maloney) to Stephen Lawrence. On 27 December 1809 he sold 100 arce lot #50 (originally granted to Benjamin Pomeroy) to his son Jacob Carlow. On 7 November 1812 he sold 100 acre lot #51 (originally granted to James Stewart) to his son Richard Carlow. Lots 50, 51 and 52 fronted the St. Croix river about midway between the mouth of Oak Bay and the town of St. Andrews. In 1820 Martin is living in Lubec, Maine (In the 1820 census an unknown male under 10 years of age is living in Martin's household, probably not his child). I am not sure what the original source is for the names of Martin's children, but I have not seen the list I am using contradicted anywhere. However, I did drop the name Eliza Isobella Carlow because it seems out of place and does not fit with other evidence.

Notes for Margaret Turner:
Margaret is head of the household and living in Robbinston, Maine in 1830 and Calais, Maine in 1840.

Children of John Carlow and Margaret Turner are:

Elizabeth³ Carlow, born 1783 in Maine ^6,⁷; died September 1883 in Calais, Maine ⁸.

Notes for Elizabeth Carlow:
Elizabeth was probably the female aged between 25 and 45 living with her father and mother in Lubec, Maine in 1820. She is probably the female living with her widowed mother in Robbinston, Maine in 1830. She was living as a border in the home of Duncan McPhail in Calais, Maine in 1870. In 1880 she is living with Arthur Carlow in Calais. She lived to be 100 years old!

+	3	ii.	Elinor Carlow, born Bef. 1790; died Unknown.
+	4	iii.	Richard Carlow, born Abt. 1790 in Maine; died 09 September 1865 in Calais, Maine.
+	5	iv.	Jacob Henry Carlow, born Abt. 1792 in New England; died Bef. 1851.
+	6	v.	James Carlow, born Abt. 1795 in Balltown, Maine; died 27 January 1861 in Brewer, Maine.

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