Notes for James C. Carnahan

Notes for James C. Carnahan

!Taken from ancestry.com website - entry by Cheralynn Wilson: James C. Carnahan, b. abt 1753. James married Catherine Potter and she is shown in the administration of Eleanor's estate as Catherine McClanahan. James had died in 1800 and Catherine remarried Mathew McClanahan. (See JVT, Vol. 3, page 78, bible records of Mathew McClanahan). James was a surveyor and surveyed with his brother-in-law, Bejamin Lodge, 580,000 acres of Virginia that would become Kentucky. James was a Rev. War Vet and was known as Capt. James Carnahan. He bought property with Benjamin Lodge in Tyrone Township, Franklin County; Westmoreland County and was shown along with Benjamin Lodge as a landowner in Kanawha Co ., Virginia (became West Virginia) in 1791. His wife, Catherine in 1800 in Westmoreland County, administered his estate (See Wills and Adm. Vol. A page 138). In Deed Book C, page 145, Catesy Carnahan and Samuel Potter (her father) sell a piece of property that they acknowledged they got from John Carnahan (See also JVT, vol. 1.)