James Carroll Research

From Cousin Charles:

I recently found a very large pdf file primarily on the family of Peggy Carroll Langdon, sister of our James Carroll, born 1805.  I believe, but am not sure, that this file is from James Mark Valsame, a descendant of Peggy.

The following is an excerpt from page one of this file where Valsame tells of his research on the ancestry of our James Carroll, born 1765. 

 Here is the link and the excerpt:
 
The following came from a large PDF file (859 pages) found at
www.wemightbekin.com/Descendants%20of%20James%20Carroll.pdf
Notes for JAMES CARROLL:

From James Mark Valsame:

As I have mentioned before, James Carrell was NOT born in Ireland nor was he an immigrant.  He was also NOT the son of (probably fictional) couple Duncan McCarrell and Isabella

Dallas. For years, I and other researchers thought that James was the son of William Carrell
(d. 1811) of Johnston County, NC and later Columbia County, GA by his first wife Ann.
William's 1809 will named both sons James and William. However, research in GA records
has revealed that William's sons James and William actually did settle in Columbia County,
GA with their father William, and can not be identical with our ancestor James Carrell and his
known brother William Carrell (md. Sarah Stephenson, 2md. Piety Fluellin). James'
Revolutionary War Pension Application states that he lived in Cumberland (now Harnett)
County, NC before the war. There was a James Carrell who died in Cumberland (Harnett)
County, NC in 1778. He did not leave a will, but his estate papers show that Abraham Perry
was his administrator. Abraham Perry later served as a bondsman when William Carrell
married his second wife Piety Fluellin in 1797 in Johnston County. The estate papers of James
Carrell do not indicate whether he had a wife or any children. However, Dennis Carrell, a
likely brother of James and William, applied for a Revolutionary War Pension in Shelby
County, AL. He stated that he was born in 1766 in Wake County (not formed until 1771) and
that he had brothers who had also served in the war.

Dennis is the only other Carrell who lived in the area of Pleasant Grove Township in the 1790s
period besides James and William. He left Johnston County and migrated to Buncombe
County, NC, and then Tennessee and later Shelby County, Alabama. In Buncombe County,
NC, there is a deed in 1815 where Dennis Carrell had conveyed land to his step-father
Abraham Perry, suggesting that Perry might have married James Carrell (d. 1778)'s widow.
All of the Carrell family descends from John Carrell, who acquired land on Swift Creek in
Johnston County as early as 1752. He died sometime in 1762, and in 1763, Elizabeth Johnson,
widow of Sill Johnson, assumed guardianship of his minor children. Elizabeth was likely a
Carrell herself, possibly John's younger sister or elder daughter. John's orphans were William,
John, Lucy, Susannah, and Benjamin. Court records later show that another possible child of
John was Absalom, a "base born (i.e. posthumous) child." William apparently came of age
right around 1763 as he had a land transaction shortly after being placed under guardianship in
1763. In the 1750s, John Carrell had had a land transaction with James Carrell. James Carrell
later was appointed guardian to John's daughter Lucy Carrell. In a later transaction involving
James Carrell in Cumberland County, Lucy Carrell served as a witness. This seems to prove
that James Carrell moved from Johnston County to Cumberland County. There are two
possibilities. One is that Lucy was a younger sister of James, who became her guardian; or
James was a possible relative of John Carrell and married John's daughter Lucy. Either way, it
is likely that James Carrell (d. 1778) of Cumberland (Harnett) County was either the son or
son-in-law of John Carrell (d. 1762) of Johnston County. Based on the evidence, it seems
likely that our ancestor James Carrell (1765-1834) and his brother William and likely brother
Dennis were children of James Carrell (d. 1778) of Cumberland County, and that after their
father's death, their mother (maybe Lucy or some other woman) married Abraham Perry.