December 14, 2016
I don’t know why, but at age 10 my 3rd Great-Grandfather – Isaac Carson (1808-1870) – ran away from Isaac See’s farm in Greenburgh, where he was serving as “an indented apprentice.” That Christmas See was still looking for him and taking out ads in the local newspaper to find him.
See was offering a $2 “reward and all reasonable charges” and threatening anyone “harbouring or trusting said boy.” He ran the ad multiple times throughout the month of December 1818.
The ad stated that Isaac Carson was “aged about 13 years” 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.
A little more than a decade later, Isaac Carson married and lived out his days there in Greenburgh, New York.
It was a small town.
Did they reconcile? Was there more to that story?
I don’t know the details of what happened in 1818, but at Christmas in 1844 Isaac See was in trouble again – this time with the law. In fact, not only was he in trouble – but so was his brother Peter See. Their property was being seized and sold at public auction in a sheriff’s sale.
Coincidence?
Or, was it Christmas Karma?
