Eleazer Cary ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 1728, Bonds Bridge, Dutchess, New York, USA. ¹

• Residence, 1769, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, United States. ⁵ He went with the first Forty Connectiucut Pioneersto the Wyoming Valley, moving his family three years later, and settled in what ws then Known as Putnam township, Westmoreland County, Conneticut. thisa was afterwards known as Carytown, now Cary Avenue, Wilkes-Parre, Pennsylvania.

• Military Service: Volunteer Soldier; American Revoltion, 1779. ^{6 7} In 1779 General Sullivan with his army, crossed the Tuscarora at this point. Soldiers fell wounded or death without knowing from what particular quarter bullets issued. At length Eleazer Cary, who saw his fellow soldiers fall one after another simultaneously with the crack of the rifle near by where he was standing, espied the dusky form of a warrior cautiously peering out from behind a tree not fifty yards from where he was standing, with his well-aimed gun in his hand, bring down a soldier at each discharged of his weapon. After the Indian had reloaded, Cary, who had resovled to kill him if possible when he should attempt to shoot again, watched with intense solicitude the warrior's rifle as it was again brought beside the tree. No sooner had the light projecting cheek and eye of the Indian come out so as to be discerned by Cary, when the avenging bullet was sent forthwith into his brain. He gave one high leap, uttered on deep yell, and fell to rise no more. The Indians ran, caught up his body and fled into the forest.
(From Hollister's History of Lackawanna County, page 69)

Eleazer married Charity Sturdevant in 1750 in Bonds Bridge, Dutchess, New York, USA.¹ (Charity Sturdevant was born in 1723 in Bond's Bridge, Dutchess, New York, United States and died in 1799 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.)