Nagging in the back of my mind as I work on this genealogy jaunt coming up was the fact that I didn't know how the entire group of descendants of Ben Carey knew that Ben Carey who dies in Kentucky is the same Ben Carey who was born in Orange County, NY. I found it today. Lynda McGinnis had posted on her Ancestry Tree the answer to this. It is from the War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index 1812-1815. The record says that Ben Carey's wife is Mariah Ketchum and that the couple was married in Orange County, NY in 1817. But the important piece of information in addition to this fact is that Benjamin Carey is living in Lawrence County (PO Louisa) NY when he makes application for his pension in 1871. YEA! Very exciting to have this documentation!
Also on the Ancestry site, Nancy has posted the Census of 1850 for Lawrence County, Ky where Ben and Hannah are living at that time. This further corroborates the birth of Ben to have been in New York art 1797. He is 53 at the time the census is taken. Living in the house hold are children: Lewis 15, Henry 13, Sarah 11, Margaret 8, Nancy (who is my ancestor) who is 6, and Geo. who is 3.
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