Carey Family
For the history of the ancestry of this pioneer family of Shelby County we go to the Carey Memorials, published by General S. F. Carey. From this we learn that John Carey, the first of the name to come to America, was born in Somersetshire, England. He joined the Plymouth Colony, about 1634. Also one James Carey joined the Massachusetts Colony about 1635, and settled on a farm near where Boston now is located. It is still known as the Carey farm.
We will not attempt to trace the genealogy of this large family name in a chronological order, but will skip to the fifth generation from John Carey, and come down to Ezra Carey, who was born in Morris County, N. J., 1735; he married Lydia Thompson, and removed to Western Pennsylvania. in 1777; from thence to Western Virginia, and from there to the territory of Ohio about 1795; crossing the river near Marietta; he remained here until 1810, when he came to the present limits of Shelby County, where he died in 1828, at the age of 93 years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883