Captain Thomas Arthur CARNEY (KEARNEY)

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I preface this particular person's lineage with the caveat that this is a 'best evidence' assumption based on facts and DNA evidence. Positive proof of Iklennabee's and John Carney's (B:1748-1750) father is NOT available and based on conclusions.

Background: It is concluded that the father of Iklennabee was likely a white man who married a Choctaw Indian woman. In Choctaw language, iklanna means 'half' in relation to blood (brother), and the full meaning was "Half-blood Warrior". Many Choctaw families helped their daughters select a trader as husband. Both Traders and elite Choctaw families sought these unions but chiefs like Franchimastabe and Taboca controlled the actions of such foreigners who wished to become part of Choctaw Society. Elite power became increasingly associated with these foreigners and their imported goods. Only elite Choctaws had marriageable access to traders and only elite Choctaw women married these traders in the late eighteenth century.

DNA testing of several Carney Family volunteers has confirmed the Mississippi John Carney (B: 1775) line is related through an exact match with 37 markers to the Tennessee John Carney (B: 1748) line. Despite other researchers speculation, we cannot merge Iklannabee into John Carney (B: 1748) who is believed to be his half-brother. Reasons: (1) That John Carney has children with sufficient documentation proving that they were born and partially raised in the North Carolina and then arrived in Tennessee territory in 1783 - Iklannabee birthdate firmed up about 1758 and would have been father at 12. (2) Iklannabee was Indian in appearance, and ? breeds were not then allowed to own land in Tennessee/North Carolina or serve as juror. (3) It is shown in several Censuses that John and his children were never mentioned to be anything other than white.

This leads us to conclude that John of Tennessee and John of Mississippi have a common male progenitor although the evidence points out it cannot be the same father, thus a generation is skipped and John of Tennessee is actually the uncle of John of Mississippi. These families are found together in eastern North Carolina, which later became Tennessee with ample evidence of association with each other and each other's friends and acquaintances. This father/grandfather of the two men, points to a Carney/Kearney man who probably entered the country from Ireland around 1731, arriving in all probability in either eastern Florida (later state of Mississippi), or colonial Georgia. Some evidence points to his being a Flax Linen Spinner/Trader from Northern Ireland who took up Trading in the new land, and some evidence points to his coming in as an Irish-Scott brigade soldier/farmer given land and passage by the French Military in exchange for service, and may indeed be the same former Flax Spinner. We do not know if this was a trader or soldier for certain. Not long after his arrival in America, this first Arthur Carney from Ireland had a son, Arthur Carney (Kearney), born in about 1735. It is known that he also had a son named Jeremiah (brother to Arthur B:1735) and another son named William who was a prolific and successful trader among the Indians (documentation maintained). Arthur Carney B: 1732 is also known as Thomas Arthur Carney but apparently usually used his middle name Arthur in most documentation.

Arthur Carney (B:c-1732) became a trader also, sometime after age 19 and his authorized area for trading was in Choctaw Territory, whereby this authority required he remain at his trading site 6 months out of the year. Most traders spent somewhat less, around 3 to 6 months of the year actually at their post, plus travel time - and like others, Arthur maintained a tobacco plantation and a white wife and family back 'home' for the other 6 months of the year. Documentation shows that Arthur was an active trader and land holder and was quite a successful businessman.

Arthur was offered, and took a Choctaw Indian wife - whose name is uncertain, but was from a prominent family; and from this union his wife bore Iklannabee, born around the year 1758. Arthur was married to a white woman also while in North Carolina and later Georgia where he based some of his holdings. Her name was Elizabeth Aderton, as noted in several dealings outlined below. From this marriage, Arthur had at least one daughter, Margaret Carney, and three sons - Jeremiah Carney (not Jerry), Arthur Carney (Indian Trader), and John Carney B:1748. Pending further documentation, Arthur may have a possible fourth son, a trader William Carney who died in 1795 without children.

The French withdrew from east Florida/Mississippi October 16, 1762 and ceded their claims in eastern Florida (Louisiana, Mississippi, etc) to Spain. The following year, the treaty of Paris gave Britain nearly all of France's holdings in America, setting the stage for dispute and conflict and a confusion of loyalties for the colonist. Who did they recognize as the true masters and heirs and to whom would they side with when the war of Independence broke out in 1776?

By October 1775 all branches of government in the Georgia Colony were gone except for the Judicial branch after being overtaken.
In December 1775 what was left of the Provincial Congress appointed a new Council of Safety. They were to organize a battalion to defend Georgia. On Jan 7th, 1776 the battalion was further organized by elected and commissioned field officers. This is when the prominent and wealthy ARTHUR CARNEY was "elected or commissioned" as a "Company Officer" with a rank of Captain, of the Fourth Company. John McIntosh, Jr Captain and Lachlan McIntosh JR 1st Lt were commissioned for the third Company. Capt Carney had 2 Lieutenants, 4 Sergents, 4 Corporals and 48 Sentinels in his company.

In August 1777, Captain Arthur Carney was taken prisoner by the British at St. Simons Island, Georgia "Their crews captured and carried away Captain Arthur Carney, five citizens, several negroes, and as much household furniture as could be conveyed in the barges." For any number of possible reasons, Arthur deserted to the British on the "10th of August 1777, and subsequently joined the enemy." His son Arthur (B: 1755/D:1804) was also a Tory he too sided with the British. After the war 100,000 loyalist were dispersed to all parts of the Empire, from Britain to Mississippi, West Indies, Canada and Florida.

Unfortunately, Arthur did not survive the war and was killed during the waning hours of the war in 1783. His property of 300 acres at Sunbury, was put up for auction in August 1781 as confiscated property, even before his death. This disposal of assets continued after his demise with other properties of "late the property of Arthur Carney...being persons named in the Act of Confiscation and Attainder, as enemies to the State." Public sale held at Sunbury February 1785. This was followed by Confiscated Estates sales in St. Patrick's Parish (now Glynn County), and others.

Partial Documentation (more on file):
1761- P 495 Jacob Lockerman of St Johns Parish, to ARTHUR CARNEY. Bill of Sale dated 1761, for his stock of cattle in said parish, and two flats (Boats) Witnesses L James Aderton, George Noble.

COMMENT: This sale witness, James Aderton confirms the ties our Arthur Carney with his wife Elizabeth Aderton and her family.

P 88 Kenneth Baillie, John Elliott, Grey Elliott, Trustees for the Town of Sunbury to ARTHUR CARNEY. Deed dated May 5, 1760 , for town lot 393 in Sunbury, size 70X130'. No Witnesses.
P89 James Maxwell, Kenneth Baillie, John Elliott, Trustees of the Town of Sunbury, to Samuel Tomlinson. Deed dated Jan 4, 1762 for lot #314 in Sunbury, size 70x130'. Witnesses: James Lockerman, Abraham Williams, Transfer recorded with deed, from Tomlinson to Arthur Carney, dated Dec 27, 1762

P 90 William Braswell to ARTHUR CARNEY. Bill of Sale for slave dated 9-11-1763. Witnesses: Alexander Kilpatrick, Sanders Colson. Deed signed by William Bracewell.

P255 Marriage Contract dated Sept 22, 1763, between Cornelius Rain and Margaret Lucas, widow, whereby her property consisting of six negroes is to remain hers, free from any clam on his part of his liabilities. Witnesses ARTHUR CARNEY and Elizabeth Carney. Probated by Arthur Carney in St Johns Parish before Francis Lee. J. P. of said Parish.
COMMENT: This marriage Contract probated by Arthur, and witnessed by him and his wife Elizabeth further document his wife as Elizabeth Aderton.
Thursday, July 28, 1763, Savannah, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings (Georgia Gazette) Notices: I hereby acknowledge that the words I inadvertently dropped to the prejudice of the characters of Arthur Carney, planter, and William Baker, carpenter, in respect to their being privy to or concerned in clandestinely conveying away horses from the northward, is without proper foundation and I never knew anything dishonest in either of them (Signed) John Hobbs. St John's Parish

December 1764 Colonial Records of Georgia - Text version of Arthur petition for 500 acres
A Petition of Arthur Carney, setting forth that had granted him two hundred and fifty Acres of Land ...
Desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife two Children and ten negroes Therefore praying
for five hundred Acres upon a Branch of Turtle River not be defrauded of his Quit Rents the Prayer of the Said Petition is granted---Dec 1764
P9
Samuel Tomlinson of St George Parish, carpenter, to ARTHUR CARNEY Bond for Title dated Dec 27, 1762, agreeing to make title to 250 acres on the Altamaha River bounded S. E. by George Moore, Witnesses: John Martin, Abraham Williams.

Arthur Carney Land Grant
100 Acres St Philip Parish
Surveyed Nov 18, 1760 Plat Book C page 38
Granted May 21 1762 Grant Book D, Page 134
Bounded on the Southwest by Thomas Goldsmith and North by Josiah Powell
(This was in the 1732-1758 District of Ogeechee (above Canoochee River) 1758-1777 Parishes of St Phillip Effingham County by 1777, Below the Canoochee River was in Chatham County by 1777 (Savannah)
St Simons was St James Parish, From the Altamaha to the Turtle River became St David Parish from the Turtle to the Little Satilla, St Patrick, Little Satilla to the Great Satilla, St Toms, Great Satilla to the St Mary's St Mary - created in 1765

Carneys Cowpen - In 1776 Bernard Romans Travel south of the Altamaha River The Trip to Brunswick was in April 1773 but the trip to St Mary's Rivers was in Summer of 1776; The Kings Rd to St Augustine? Follows the Old Post Rd at the county line of Brantley and Glynn Counties. One evening Bartarm stopped at a cowpen, probably Carney's Cowpen "Carneys are in the Earliest Land Grants of GA English Crown Grants as early as 1747. He lodged that night at a cowpens, identified by Francis Harper as belonging to Arthur Carney, a prominent planter in that sparsely settled region...

Land Summary:
Carney, Arthur 100 acres, St. Philip Parish, May 21, 1762
150 acres, St. John Parish, December 3, 1761
500 acres, south side of the Altamaha River, February 3, 1767
500 acres, St. Patrick Parish, June 7, 1774
300 acres, St. Thomas Parish, November 1, 1774
150 acres, St. David Parish, November 1, 1774
300 acres, St. Patrick Parish, December 6, 1774
P 119 ARTHUR CARNEY of St. David's Parish, palnter, to JAMES BUTLEr ST Patrick's Parish, planter. Deed dated Dec #, 1773. Conveys 300 acres in St Patrick's Parish granted Feb. 3, 1767, to John, William and Jane Carney; thereafter said John CARNEY by his Power of Attorney dated May 15, 1773, appointed said Arthur to sell his undivided interest in said lands: and William and Jane Carney had also granted the grantor Arthur their Power of Attorney to do the same. Witnesses Robert Andrew, Andrew Cunningham. Probated by Andrew before James Spauling. JP
P122 ARTHUR CARNEY and Elizabeth his wife, of ST. David's Parish, James Butler of same place. Deed dated Dec 3, 1773, conveying 250 acres in St Patrick's Parish deeded by John Duncan and Catherine his wife to said Arthur Carney on Jan 2, 1772, same lying on south side of a branch of Turtle River. Witnesses: Andrew Cunningham, Robert Andrews. Probated by Andrews before James Spaulding J. P. Siad land having bene granted said John Duncan July 2, 1771

Additional Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/jim March 2010

Family/Spouse: Indian Woman CHOCTAW. Indian was born about 1740 in Indian Territory; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Iklannabee (Ikenaby, Iklanby) John CARNEY was born about 1758 in East Choctaw Indian Territory; died about 1855 in Choctaw Indian Territory, Mississippi.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth ADERTON. Elizabeth (daughter of Jeremia Ira ADERTON and Ann Price LUCKETT) was born about 1733 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died about 1769 in Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John CARNEY was born in 1748-1752 in North Carolina; died in 1838 in Davidson County, Tennessee.
2. Trader Arthur CARNEY (KEARNEY) was born about 1750-1760 in North Carolina; died on 6 Jul 1804 in Mississippi.
3. Jeremiah CARNEY (KEARNEY) was born in 1767; and died.
4. Margaret CARNEY (KEARNEY) was born in 1769 in North Carolina; died before 23 May 1793 in Midway, Liberty, Georgia.

Thomas married Matilda about 1775. Matilda and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William CARNEY (KEARNEY) was born on 28 Feb 1779; and died.

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Arhur Carney Sr. and Arthur Carney Jr. owned land in east Florida/Mississippi near each other at same time his son is recorded, thus the evidence of name.

This Arthur Carney/Kearney, who probably entered the country from Ireland around 1731, arriving in all probability in either eastern Florida (later state of Mississippi), or colonial Georgia. First port of call may have been Savanna, Charleston where it is documented many other Irish-Scots arrived as Soldier Farmers of the French, such as Lachlan McGillivray who joined his clan in the Indian Trade.

Some evidence points to Arthur Carney/Kearney being a Flax Linen Spinner/Trader from Northern Ireland who took up Trading in the new land, and some evidence points to his coming in as an Irish-Scott brigade soldier/farmer given land and passage by the French Military in exchange for service, and may indeed be the same former Flax Spinner. We do not know if this was a trader or soldier for certain.

No firm details are known as to his birth or death dates and are projections only.

In 1717, The Irish (later termed Scotch-Irish in 1970's), begin deserting Ireland in great numbers, following 100 years of leasing land with oppressive rents by absentee Anglo landlords and a crumbling linen trade, famine and droughts. The Presbyterians who predominated the Irish were disadvantaged by the Penal laws of the Church of England, but were just a likely to become Methodists and Baptists upon settlement in America. It is estimated over 200,000 Ulster Irish-Scotts relocated to America, followed by more when the potato famines later occurred. Most of the earlier settlers found their independent and clan ways were unwelcome in Boston, Philadelphia, etc (unlike the potato famine refugees in later years), and found themselves traveling to the backwoods of America and the Appalachian region, settled almost exclusively by these Irish. The typical migration involved small networks of related families/clans that settled together, intermarried and avoided outsiders. After many years of English oppression in Ireland, these Irish were ardent patriots of their new land America.

Additional Sources: Over 500 pages of Notes, Records and Files at the Carney DNA Project Jim Carney www.avocadoridge.com/carney March 2010

Arthur married Sarah Ann ALSTON about 1730 in Chowan County, North Carolina. Sarah (daughter of Col. John ALSTON and Mary BAKER) was born on 11 Sep 1713 in Chowan County, North Carolina, British Colonial America; died on 16 Aug 1764 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Laurence married Margaret BOYLE, Collins. Margaret was born in 1700 in Ireland; died in 1740 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Mary BAKER. Mary was born about 1679 in Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America; died after 1758 in North Carolina, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Connal married Margaret BOYD. Margaret was born in 1660 in Moynalty, County Meath, Ireland; died in 1736 in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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