Richard CARNES
Internet IGI, Dec 2007
Pedigree Resource File
Peter and third wife Elizabeth Wirt moved to Georgia in 1780. Hia occupation was lawyer, farmer and innkeeper at the George Washington House. Hobbies: Ballooning and he launched a balloon carrying a young boy, Jonathan Edwards just a few months after a team in France had made a launch with a human passenger. He owned considerable land: 1150 acres in 1785 Franklin GA1150 acres again listed for 1785 in Franklin GA (this may be a duplicate of the first but may also have been a seperate lot)575 acres are listed three seperate times in 1796 for land purchased in Franklin Co. GA. Living in Bladenburg, Prince George Co. MD in 1784
He married Anna Groome 22 Apr 1732 at Middlesex, New Jersey . Anna Groome was born at of Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey Abt 1710 daughter of Peter J. Groome and Elizabeth Wood .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Thomas Carnes
born 1735.
Richard Carnes
born 1737.
Ann Carnes
born Abt 1746.
Peter Johnston Carnes
born Abt 1749.
Elizabeth Carnes
born 1752.
Richard Carnes died 1764 at Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey .