ASENATH TARBOX

This third great grandmother was born on the third of January in 1763 in Hebron Township, Tolland County in Connecticut. She married Aldrich Carver on the twelfth of September in 1782 when she was 19 years old.  They had the following children:

1782 Joseph
1785 John
1787 Asenath
1789 Jared
1791 Anne
1793 Aldrick, our ancestor

This family remained in Hebron throughout their lives.
Asenath died on the 8th of December in 1822 in Hebron.

ASENATH TARBOX
BORN: 03 Jan 1763 in Hebron Twp., Tolland, CT
MARRIED: 12 Sep 1782 in Hebron
DIED:   08 Dec 1822 in Hebron
SOURCES:  Connecticut births and christenings 1640 to 1906;
Connecticut marriages 1646 to 1939; Federal censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810 and1820 at Hebron, Tolland, CT.

ALDRICK CARVER

Aldrick didn't always play by the rules. He joined the Continental Army in January 1778  at age 16 as an artificer (definition: a craftsman in the armed forces). He was assigned to a post at New Windsor, NY, where he worked as a harness maker, and later he worked on building the fort at West Point.

In 1779, at West Point, he came down with a fever (about 18% of the army was constantly ill) and was furloughed from the army to relieve the burden on the army hospital staff, and sent home. 

While at home, he was busy romancing both Lucy Taylor and Asenath Tarbox. Lucy decided to give birth to her son even though Aldrick had already married Asenath in September 1782. Lucy's son, David Carver, married Aldrick's niece, Shirley Tarbox.

Aldrick was placed on the pension roll on 14 Jul 1819, listed as a Private, Massachusetts line. He died in 1822 and is buried at the Old Cemetery in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. A Revolutionary marker is on his grave.

ALDRICK CARVER
BORN: 04 Jul 1761 in Hebron Twp., Tolland, CT
MARRIED: 12 Sep 1782 in Hebron, Tolland, CT
DIED: 08 Dec 1822 in Hebron, Tolland, CT
SOURCES: Connecticut births and christenings 1649-1906, microfilm at FamilySearch.org; Second Book of Marriages, Hebron, Tolland, CT; on Fiche #0896863=12 Sep 1782 Corver, Alarick and Arjenath Tarbox on page 13; Connecticut Pensioners, 1835

SUSANNAH PERRIN

Like her husband, Abraham Cuppy, Susannah was born in Mill Creek, Hampshire County, Virginia, three years later than Abraham's birth, on the third of March in 1766. She and Abraham had thirteen children, as follows:

1787 Elizabeth in Virginia
1789 Margaret VA, our ancestor
1791 Sarah VA
1793 Anne VA
1797 John Perrin in Ohio
1797 Mary   OH
1799 William OH
1802 Abraham P. OH
1804 Rachel OH
1804 Perrin OH
1810 Sarah  OH
1818 Perrin OH
unknown date and place Abraham

Susannah died on the 8th of September in 1841 in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio and she is buried next to her husband at the Mount Pleasant M.E. Cemetery.

SUSANNAH PERRIN
BORN: 3 Mar 1766 in Mill Creek, Hampshire, VA
Died: 8 Sep 1841 in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, OH
SOURCES: Will Book 3-199, proof of marriage; Alice Chilcote, researcher, death record information

ABRAHAM CUPPY

Last week, I gave you some information about John Cuppy, Abraham's father, by mistake. John Cuppy is a fourth great grandfather. Abraham is our third great grandfather who was born on the 12th of December in 1763 in Mill Creek, Hampshire County, Virginia. Mill Creek is a 14 mile-long tributary stream of the South Branch Potomac River, belonging to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. The stream is located in Hampshire County in today's West Virginian Eastern Panhandle. Mill Creek flows into the South Branch west of Romney Bridge near Vanderlip along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50).

Abraham and his brother John were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, who served as spies and scouts on the Ohio River. Abraham is listed on a DAR plaque in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio. I hired a researcher in April 2003, named Reva Ashcroft of Steubenville, and she is the person who told me about the plaque.

Abraham married Susannah Perrin in Antietam, Washington County, in Maryland in 1786 and they resided in Virginia until about 1797 when they migrated to Smithfield Township in Jefferson, Ohio. Abraham was on a tax list there in 1806 which means that he was a land owner. In the 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840 Federal Censuses, Abraham and his family are listed in Mt. Pleasant, which is in Smithfield Township. Susannah and Abraham had a large family of thirteen children.

Abraham died on the third day of November in 1840 in Mt. Pleasant. He is buried at the Highland M.E. Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant. His will was probated on the 23rd of November in 1840.

ABRAHAM CUPPY
BORN: 12 Dec 1763 in Mill Creek, Hampshire, VA
MARRIED:     1786 in Antietam, Washington, MD
DIED: 3 Nov 1840 in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson, OH
BURIED: Highland M. E. Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant
SOURCES:Find a Grave Index online #64459185; Will Book 3-199, Last will of Abraham Cuppy. See Will Book 3-199, Last will of Abraham Cuppy...born 12 Dec 1763 
in<BR>Hampshire County, VA; 1806 Tax List of Smithfield Twp., Jefferson, OH; Federal Censuses 1810-1840 of Smithfield Twp., Jefferson, OH; Abraham's Will examined and copies sent to Marjorie Shepard by Reva Ashcroft, researcher; Ohio marriages 1800-1958.