{"id":18429,"date":"2016-12-14T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:06:44","slug":"christmas-karma-200-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/christmas-karma-200-years-ago.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Karma \u2013 200 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know why, but at age 10 my 3rd Great-Grandfather \u2013 Isaac Carson (1808-1870) \u2013 ran away from Isaac See\u2019s farm in Greenburgh, where he was serving as \u201can indented apprentice.\u201d That Christmas See was still looking for him and taking out ads in the local newspaper to find him.<\/p>\n<p>See was offering a $2 \u201creward and all reasonable charges\u201d and threatening anyone \u201charbouring or trusting said boy.\u201d He ran the ad multiple times throughout the month of December 1818.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18433\" style=\"width: 561px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10CCB28D5616E070%40GB3NEWS-10D02E15D2EBCBB8%402385426-10D02E16664EFDD8%403-10D02E17DEA04178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/westchester-herald-newspaper-1222-1818-isaac-carson-runaway-ad.png\" alt=\"An article about Isaac Carson, Westchester Herald newspaper article 22 December 1818\" width=\"561\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/westchester-herald-newspaper-1222-1818-isaac-carson-runaway-ad.png 561w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/westchester-herald-newspaper-1222-1818-isaac-carson-runaway-ad-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/westchester-herald-newspaper-1222-1818-isaac-carson-runaway-ad-400x237.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank.com, Westchester Herald (Ossining, New York), 22 December 1818, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ad stated that Isaac Carson was \u201caged about 13 years\u201d but he was actually 10 years old. I can only imagine that it was a brutal, likely terrifying Christmas that year as he tried to elude Isaac See.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than a decade later, Isaac Carson married and lived out his days there in Greenburgh, New York.<\/p>\n<p>It was a small town.<br \/>\nDid they reconcile? Was there more to that story?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know the details of what happened in 1818, but at Christmas in 1844 Isaac See was in trouble again \u2013 this time with the law. In fact, not only was he in trouble \u2013 but so was his brother Peter See. Their property was being seized and sold at public auction in a sheriff\u2019s sale.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18435\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10DBDB164C232D80%40GB3NEWS-10DAA44F799C1F88%402394932-10DAA450054C00B8%402-10DAA4521110F908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hudson-river-chronicle-newspaper-1231-1844-isaac-see.png\" alt=\"An article about Isaac See, Hudson River Chronicle newspaper article 31 December 1844\" width=\"427\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hudson-river-chronicle-newspaper-1231-1844-isaac-see.png 427w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hudson-river-chronicle-newspaper-1231-1844-isaac-see-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hudson-river-chronicle-newspaper-1231-1844-isaac-see-344x250.png 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Hudson River Chronicle (Ossining, New York), 31 December 1844, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Coincidence?<br \/>\nOr, was it Christmas Karma?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about a genealogist finding the story of his 3rd Great-Grandfather, who ran away as a 10-year-old indentured farmworker in 1818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,12553,12555,2020],"class_list":["post-18429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-isaac-carson","tag-isaac-see","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/photo-1214-2016-featured-graphic-mule-drawn-wagon.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}