When Enoch Carmack was born on 24 July 1785, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, his father, William Carmack, was 24 and his mother, Mary Catherine Hartsock, was 17.
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Probably a shortened and altered form of Irish McCormack (see McCormick ), or possibly of Carmaig, an unexplained Scottish name, also recorded as Carmag.
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