Family Records in the possession of immediate members of David's youngest son, David Benson Carlisle, shows David was married to Rebecca Blalock. Rebecca apparently died between 1814 & 1817.
According to Court Records, the family was living in Chatham County, N.C. at the time of David and Rebecca's death and the children were declared orphans. In 1814, their son, William Henry Harrison Carlisle, was apprenticed out to Josua Johnson; in 1817 their son, Terrill, and daughter, Fannie, were apprenticed out to a Quaker named William Lindley.
In 1822, the Court in Chatham County issued a Guardian Bond to John Newlin to "tutor and supervise the estate of William, Terrill, Fannie and David Benson." No records have been found for Guardianship or date of birth for their son, James.
Terrill Carlisle
married Serena Blalock July
10, 1838 in Randolph County, N. C. Serena was the daughter
of Major John Blalock, born 1762. A Deed recorded in
Randolph
County, North Carolina on 1783 states John
Blalock was "from the Ninety-Six District of South Carolina."
Kay Sarrett Bordin's Webpage follows the arrival of James Carlile who sailed for America in the fall of 1769 with his family, landing first in Savanah Georgia. Finding conditions failed to live up to its advertising, several families, including the Carlisles, went to Charleston, South Carolina. James Carlisle was granted land in the old "Ninety-Six District of South Carolina" which later became Abbeville.
Since Major John Blalock and the James Carlile family were in the same district in S. C., there is the possibility there may be a connection between my Carlisle line and James Carlile in S. C., but I have not been able to connect them.
Terrill and Serena later settled in the part of Surry County, N. C. that became Stokes County. They remained there until shortly after 1870.
Following the Civil War, some of the Carlisles in North Carolina went to Tennessee and stayed about four years and came back to North Carolina.
Terrill's oldest
brother, William Henry Harrison
Carlisle and his family left North Carolina in 1833 and
went
to Morgan County, Indiana. He encouraged his brother, Terrill, to
join him. Between 1870 and 1880, Terrill and most of his family
joined
William in Indiana. Terrill's son, James Madison, my great
grandfather,
and two of his sisters remained in North Carolina. David Benson
Carlisle
went to Virginia; some of his
children settled in Tennessee.
