The Bliss Carman - Eliza Perley Connection

(from http://www.carman.net/english.htm)

Bliss Carman was one of the Canadian Confederation poets.  He has been called Canada’s Poet Laureate.

There is a line of the Carman family that stretches back to the time of the Domesday (Doomsday) book around 1050 a.d.

John Carman (1606 probably in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire,  England  & died in Hempstead, Long Island before 15 October 1653). He married Florence Fordham, born about 1610 and died 7 Feb 1660/61.                                                                                          

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John2 Carman ( John1) ( ? - 1684) married about 1656 in Hempstead to Hannah _____ (The Seaman Genealogy states she was Hannah Seaman. Seaman Genealogy also contends it is from the line of the 6th daughter of Captain John Seaman 'that Great Adam Carman was born'.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     arrow
 Caleb3 Carman (John2, John1) was born in 1655 at Hempstead, Long Island and died there about 1729. He married Hannah Seaman (yes another one!, named in her father's will) about 1681, born about 1663 and died after her husband, daughter of John Seaman, Jr. and Hannah Williams

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Benjamin4 Carman (Caleb3, John2, John1) was born about 1688 in Hempstead, Queens, New York died probably before 1735.  He married Anne Mott, daughter of Adam and Mary (Stillwell) Mott.
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Benjamin5 Carman (Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1) was born 23 January 1713/14 in Hempstead, Queens, New York, and died there 16 October 1795. He is buried in the St George's Church Cemetery in Hempstead. He married in June 1740 at St George's Church, Mary Bedell, born June 1710 in Hempstead, daughter of Richard Bedell and his wife Phoebe.
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Richard6 Carman (Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1) (aka "Richard the Loyalist") was born 11 November 1757 at Hempstead, Queens, New York. He died 7 July 1817 in Manawagonish, Saint John, New Brunswick (Canada) and is buried in Lower Saint Mary, York, New Brunswick. He married Sarah Hewlett Horsfield on 25 February 1779 at St George's Church in Hempstead, Queens County, New York. She was born 5 November 1762 in Hempstead and died 3 November 1835  in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, daughter of William Horsfield and Mary Hewlett (Mary Hewlett being the sister of Lt. Col. Richard Hewlett of the 2nd Batttalion, Third Delancy Regiment).
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William Samuel7 Carman (Richard6, Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1), eldest son of Richard Carman, the Loyalist, was born 11 January 1780 in Hempstead, Queens County, New York and was christened on 2 October 1780 at St. George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead, Queens, New York. He left for Canada with his father and mother and younger brother Samuel at the end of the American Revolution and the relocation of Loyalist families.  From 1828 thru 1837 William was High Sheriff of Gloucester County, New Brunswick, after which he lost the position to the son-in-law of a County politician.  He married 27 October 1803 to Ann Sharman, born 7 February 1779 at Sunbury, New Brunswick, died 4 February 1854 at Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, daughter of Ambrose and Ellis (Lane) Sharman also American Loyalists, Ambrose having been a Lieutenant in the "Royal Fencible Americans" as a surgeon's mate.

 Maria7 Carman (Richard6, Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1) was born 02 January 1788 in Lancaster, St Johns, New Brunswick, Canada, and died 05 November 1828 in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.  She married (1) Archibald Shields.    She married (2) Amos Perley 10 October 1815 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, son of Asa Perley.  He was born 24 May 1777 in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, and died 30 August 1822 in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.


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William Bliss Carman9,(William Weymouth8, William7, Richard6, Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1)

It is hard to find a public library that does not contain at least one volume of poetry written by Bliss Carman, the 'unofficial poet laureate of Canada', although few have ever heard of him.  His proper name is William Bliss Carman, his mother being Sophia Bliss. The Canadian's can thank the American Revolution for him. Bliss is a descendent of Richard Carman "The Loyalist" who left Long Island at the end of the war with the British.

"Born April 15, 1861 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Son of William Carman and Sophia Mary Bliss (Sophia Mary Bliss was a descendent of Daniel Bliss of Concord, Massachusetts, the great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and was the aunt of Charles G. D. Roberts). William Bliss Carman died 8 June 1929 at his home in New Canaan, Connecticut from a cerebral hemorrhage when he fell in his bath.  He is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Eliza9 Annette Perley, (Thomas8 Horsfield Perley, Maria7 Perley, Richard6, Benjamin5, Benjamin4, Caleb3, John2, John1)  (1855-1945)  m James Martin Eldridge (1855- Dec,1918)