Robert Carroll

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Husband Robert Carroll ¹

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           Born:  - ? Ireland
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         Father: [Father] Carroll (      -      )
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Children

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1 M James Carroll ²

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           Born: Abt 1777
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         Spouse: Margaret Marshall (      -      ) 3

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2 M Robert Carroll ⁴

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         Spouse: Margaret Craig (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Carroll

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He and his wife, accompanied by his two brothers, John and Hamilton, and a sister Jane, emigrated in 1760 from Ireland to America, locating in a place called Mingo, in western Pennsylvania, thence moving in a few years to East Finley township, Washington County, where they settled on one of the headwaters of Wheeling creek, near where the postoffice of Gale was later located, and began cutting down the forest trees until a space was cleared for the log cabin (perhaps the first in that district), which they soon erected. Like all the pioneer settlers, they were in hourly danger from the natives, and endured the inevitable hardships of backwoods life. In 1781 work began in earnest, and Washington county was founded. In the summer of that year, John and Hamilton Carroll, who resided with their brother Robert, went out one morning, and when but a short distance from the cabin both men were shot down by the Indians. Robert's wife (who with her two children was in the cabin) heard the report, and knowing the boys had no firearms with them, immediately grasped the situation; she snatched the infant from his couch and with him in her arms, and her little son of four years clinging to her side, ran to a cornfield near by, where she waited till the Indians reached the cabin. The faithful dog remained on guard at the door, and barked vigorously at the murderers, who were obliged to kill him before they could enter the house. The heroic mother knew when the barking of the dog ceased that the Indians were busy ransacking the house, and immediately taking advantage of the opportunity, ran for her life to the nearest fort, which was five miles distant (at what is now Prosperity), though she had to travel much farther; but she reached it safely at last, the infant in her arms, and little James running by her side. While this was in progress, the husband and father was absent, having left home a day or two before, and gone to a mill on the Monongahela river. On returning home, he was horrified to find the floor stained with blood, and other evidences of the presence of the marauding savages. Almost heart-broken, the poor man hurried to the fort, and was overjoyed to find his wife and children safe within, but heard with anguish of the terrible fate of his brothers. A few days later a party of men left the fort, and finding the dead bodies of John and Hamilton (whose scalps the Indians had taken as trophies), buried them in what became known as the Carroll graveyard; these two victims of Indian fury being the first who were interred there. The burying ground was but a short distance from where the cabin stood. After all traces of the Indians had disappeared, Robert and his wife returned home, and were not again molested.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 546, 1447.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 546, 1448.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1448.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1447.