Re: Peter Carrico of 1713
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Re: Peter Carrico of 1713
Donald Carrico 1/11/10
Mrs Russell (Carrico) Kaiser Sr., "The Carrico Family," Florissant Valley Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 14 April 1972 #1:
These traditions have been handed down through the family "The first record found in Maryland shows transportation of one Peter Currico to Maryland 1657. This Peter, possibly the father of the others, may have obtained a land grant in Charles Co., Maryland and then returned to France for his family. The second trip was made in their own ship called "La Voyage". It was manned by a group of brothers, among them were a pair of twins Peter & Paul, believed to have been the oldest and a sister Jane. They began a settlement in Charles Co. at Bryantown, Maryland. Then they decided to return to France to sell all property there, purchase stock and seeds and equipment and furnishings, also to bring members of the family who had remained at home in France. Peter had married and begun a family, so he was left behind to take care of the new settlement. Possibly some of the other brothes left wifes and family in charge of Peter. The ship was loaded and they set sail again from a port in France (it is claimed that they lived in France near the Spanish border, maybe port of Bordeau, on the North or Marsailles on the South). They did not make it to Maryland. Were shipwrecked and lost at sea in a storm, or were captured and killed by pirates. Only Peter and his family & possibly a wife & family of one or so of the brothers remained form whom the Carrico family descends in the United States. Peter had two sons Peter and Abel, from whom we can tract most of the Carricos, but a few who we can not connect, leading to the beliefe that another brother may have left a wife & children. In France the name may have been Carriceau, or if they lived near Spain, Basques accounting for the Spanish spelling Carrico. Tradition also says that a serious rift between the brothers Peter & Abel due to religion. They were originally a Catholic family and Peter & most of his descendents at least for the first few generations remaind Catholic. Abel married Elizabeth Sims, a Huguenot, and moved with them to Fairfax Co., Virginia, where his family was raised Protestantca. Hereinafter cited as "Carrico Family".
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Re: Peter Carrico of 1713
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