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This is an update of the 1939 NEHGS article on the Carlton Family. Volunteer needed to further edited this HTML .

THE ANCESTRAL LINE

EDWARD CARLETON, our immigrant ancestor, son of Walter Carleton, was born in Hornsea, and baptized at Beeford, Yorkshire East Riding, 20 Oct. 1610. His wife,
ELLEN NEWTON, daughter of Launcelot and Mary (Lee) Newton, was baptized at Hedon, Yorkshire, 24 Feb. 1614. They were married at St. Martin, Micklegate, York, 3
Nov. 1636. Their first son, John, was probably born in 1637, but no record of his baptism has been found. On or about 9 April, 1638, they disposed of Ellen’s ancestral
property, and soon after embarked with the party of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, probably from Hull, in the ship "John of London", which arrived in Salem or Boston in
the autumn of 1638. The next spring, the company began the settlement of Rowley, near Newburyport, and there the Carleton’s second son, Edward was the first recorded
birth, 28 Oct. 1639.

(My brother found the above facts by extensive research in the parish registers of Yorkshire, and published his conclusions on the ancestry of Edward Carleton and Ellen
Newton in two articles in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 93, 1939 and Vol. 94, 1940. The supposed line of 19 generations, going back to a
certain Baldwin de Carleton in 1066, which was accepted by our uncle, Rev. Hiram Carleton, D.D. and by many others in this country, was thus proved incorrect. The name
in early records is spelled both ‘Carlton’ and ‘Carleton.’) Edward Carleton was a man of some importance in the Rowley settlement, holding various offices. He returned to
England about 1649, and his wife and children later. No further record of the parents or of the three younger children has been found, and it is supposed that they remained
and died in England. John, the eldest son, was sent back to New England with a letter of attorney, by which he received a portion of his father’s estate. From him are
descended all of our Carleton family in America.

2. (Lieut.) JOHN2 CARLETON, (Edward1), born probably in Yorkshire, about 1637; died at Haverhill, Massachusetts, 22 Jan. 1668; married, probably about 1658-9,
HANNAH JEWETT, born at Rowley 15 June, 1641, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Mallinson) Jewett. Children, John, Joseph, Edward and Thomas.

3. JOSEPH3 CARLETON (Lt. John2, Edward1) 2d son, born at Haverhill, 21 Mar. 1662/3; died at Newbury in 1745; married at Andover 2 Aug. 1694, ABIGAIL OSGOOD,
born at Andover 29 Aug. 1673; died at Newbury about 1754, daughter of Christopher and Hannah (Belknap) Osgood. 10 children.

4. JEREMIAH4 CARLETON (Joseph3, John2, Edward1), 10th child, born at Bradford, Massachusetts 3 July, 1715; died at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire 1768; married 22
June, 1740, EUNICE TAYLOR, born at Dunstable, Massachusetts, 30 Oct. 1717; died at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire about 1794; 7 children.

5. (Lieut.) JEREMIAH5 CARLETON (Jereiniah4, Joseph3, John2, Edward1), 2d child, born at Newtown, Massachusetts 13 Apr. 1743; died at Lyndoboro, New
Hampshire 16 Mar. 1814; married at Newburyport 12 May, 1767, LOIS HOYT, born at Newbury, Massachusetts 11 Nov. 1746; died at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire 6 June,
1830. 11 children.
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