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• Birth	1730	Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	1810	Spartanburg County, South Carolina
  Person ID	I0988	Kletke-Durham
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2009
  Father	Blake Carlton,   d. 1755, Brunswick County, Virginia
  Family ID	F201	Group Sheet
  Family	Agatha Lindsey
  Children	1. Mary Carlton,   b. 1753, Brunswick County, Virginia ,   d. 4 Apr 1837, Spartanburg County, South Carolina   2. John Carlton,   b. 1760, Brunswick County, Virginia   3. Elijah Carlton,   b. 1763, Virginia ,   d. Aft 1850   4. Lindsey Carlton,   b. 1765, Virginia ,   d. 1834, Surry, North Carolina   5. George Carlton,   b. Aft 1765,   d. Aft 1830, Sullivan, TN   6. Rebecca Carlton,   b. Jul 1776, Surry, North Carolina ,   d. 26 Oct 1859, Greenville, South Carolina
  Family ID	F193	Group Sheet

• Notes

  John Carlton of Brunswick County is the first family member who has been documented. He first appears as a witness for William Lindsey in May 1756. He was a neighbor of William Lindsey in Brunswick Co, VA in the 1750's. He was a young man, with wife Agatha and a daughter, Mary, born in 1753 or 1754. John Carlton received a grant of 130 acres of land from William Lindsey in 1757, on Wildcat Creek, in an area where William Lindsey had patented or bought much land, and sold parcels at a nominal rate to his sons and sons-in-law. The grant to John Carlton is the basis for supposing that he was also a son-in-law of William Lindsey. There was clearly a family connection--John and Agatha Carlton named a son Lindsey Carlton. John Carlton sold this land to Thomas Holcombe in 1760, but he, together with his wife "Agga," is found a few miles away in Lunenberg County between 1760 and 1768. In 1774, he appears as a taxpayer in Surry County, North Carolina. From 1757 to 1768 John Carlton owned farmland in Brunswick and later just across the line in Lunenburg County. A 1766 lawsuit initiated by John Carlton in Lunenburg County was discharged by "his not being an inhabitant of this colony," suggesting that he was already moving back and forth between Virginia and North Carolina. He and his family were settled in Surry Co NC by 1774. There are many records of John Carlton in Surry County, where he was a substantial farmer and owned land in the Deep Creek area, near Yadkinville in what is today Yadkin County. There were eleven in his household in 1787 and eight in 1790. In 1791 or 1792, he moved to Spartanburg County, South Carolina and lived near his son-in-law John Durham in the southern part of the county. There he and his wife are found, living alone, in the census of 1810. Both would have been about 80 years old--not an unusual age for members of this family. John and Agatha Canton may have had seven or eight sons and at least four daughters, although some in the household by 1787 may have been grandchildren or other relatives. Two daughters of John and Agatha Carlton can be identified, most likely the oldest and youngest. Family members in Spartanburg County in the 19th century knew that Mary Durham and Rebecca Fowler were sisters, and that their maiden name was Carlton. Three sons can also be identified. Others are "lost", or may have died young. John Carlton and his wife Agatha had a large family. Elijah and Lindsey Carlton, who are consistently associated with John in the records, must be his sons. They stayed in Surry County, along with a John Carlton (John Carlton II) of the same age, who must be another son. Two of the daughters of John and Agatha Carlton can be identified, most likely the oldest and the youngest. Both went to Spartanburg County, where it was known in the 19th century that Mary Durham and Rebecca Fowler were sisters, and that their maiden name was Carlton*. *From personal recollections of Matilda Durham Hoy, written in 1901, courtesy of Mary Benson Maxwell. The Durhams in Georgia referred to the Fowlers as "cousins."