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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CHARLTON
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September 18, 1999
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A History of Monroe County West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, 1916, p. 325
CHARLTON
The Charltons crossed the ocean to Philadelphia about 1750. One of them was
Thomas, who died in that city in 1791, leaving to his cousin Thomas 30 pounds
and all his wearing apparel. His benevolence is illustrated by his legacy of
60 pounds to the poor among the communicants of his church. The second Thomas
(1741-1819) (Alice Perry, 1763) came here about 1792 and settled on a large
tract between Hillsdale and New Lebanon. It is said he was the first pioneer
to arrive in a wagon. It was a four-horse conveyance with a canoe-shaped bed,
and it held hinnseIf and wife, their eight children, and their household
goods Heis also credited with bringing the eglantine to Monroe. The two
roomed log house he built stood by the spring near the home of S. R. H.
Irons. The only one of his children with descendants in the county was his
youngest son, Joseph (b. 1784, m. Janet Ewing, 1807)-C: Frances
Oliver-Thomas-Jennie-Letti-Joseph P E-James E. Like three of the sisters of
their father, the three daughters of Thomas, Sr., never married, but lived
most of their lives in a home of their own. The door of John's house was made
like a slat curtain or a stave hammock, and in the day time was rolled up and
fastened by pins above the door.
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