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In a message dated 97-05-27 19:19:45 EDT, you write:
<< First a special thank you to Anne for the information I just received in
the
mail.
Next, I'd like to share this letter with everyone (This letter was
written
in 1962 by Joseph A. Carpenter of Rehoboth, Mass., to Lewis N. Carpenter,
compiler of "Samuel Carpenter & His Descendants, by Edward & Gen. Louis
Carpenter, pub 1912".) It comes from the first issue of TheCarpenter Family
News-Journal:
Dear Cousin...
Since you wrote me, I had another cousin George Carpenter of Murphysboro,
Ill. visit me. It seems when one reaches a certain age we try and look up
our ancestors.
Well, mine landed in Rehoboth in the year 1644 and he was yours also.
"William Carpenter" he had 7 children, the 3rd child "Joseph" was your
ancestor and the 7th was mine "Samuel". Now Samuel's family still live in
Rehoboth but your ancestor Joseph's got out as soon as he could. According
to the book, he first went to Providence, R.I., where he helped found the
first Baptist Church in America. My line has always been the Old
Congregational and we still go to the 3rd Church in Rehoboth built in 1839.
My great-grandfather was born Nov.5, 1765, and when he got married his
father gave him the farm where I now live on a part of it. The house was
built in 1790. My oldest brother who is 86 still lives in the old
homestead.
I called on him today. I built my house on the end of the farm in 1932 and
between us are 5 other houses, all Carpenter descendents. So you see we
have
stuck together. There were 14 of us but now there are only 3 left. I am 82
and my brother Enoch is 76.
How time changes and what changes have taken place in my day and yours.
The old horse and buggy days were a good day to remember. We got along and
my father did not have much troucle as he never had to correct us much as I
remember my childhood days. We were 10 miles from the city on either side
of
us. I remember when the only thing we had to go to was church in the
village
about a mile away.
I have one son, Joseph A. Jr., and he has one daughter, Polly, who is
only 7. He lives about a mile away from me and he is a commercial artist
and
works for the Fram Corporation in East Providence, R.I. He went to the
School of Design in Providence for nearly 5 years, and he is doing quite
well
in his line. I don't know where he got his talent but I am sure he didn't
get it from me.
Our first ancestors were buried in what is now East Providence, R.I., in
the Carpenter cemetery. This George Carpenter of Illinois who called on me
took me over to the old cemetery and we found the grave of Daniel Carpenter
and William Carpenter is buried near it.
You asked me in your letter how many of my brothers and sisters were born
in Rehoboth and I will say we all were. My mother, when she died in 1919,
had over 90 descendents living.
The electric cars came to Rehoboth in 1898, thus opened up the town.
Before that there were people living in the town who never had been out of
it. We lived near the "Old Anawon Rock" which was the scene of the last
battle of King Phillip's War in 1675. King Phillip's Chief Captain was
Anawon. This rock is on the road to Taunton (Mass) and we still have the
Anawon Road and we used to have the Anawon School which is now a Fire
Station
called Anawon. This is where I first went to school in 1885. I only had a
high school education as I graduated in 1900 from the Taunton High School.
I
went to work as a bookkeeper in 1901 and I worked 28 years for the old
Narragansett Grain Co., when they sold out to the General Mills, Inc. of
Minneapolis, Minn. I worked for them until 1946 when I was retired. Since
then I worked for my nephew at the Francis Farm. He made Clam Bakes from
May
to October where he had special party Bakes from 50 to 700 people each day.
It was very easy work and it gave me something to take up my time.
On January 27, 1962, I had to go to the Rhode Island hospital where I was
a patient for seven weeks and I came out partly an invalid. I have been
going and I feel pretty good now although I haven't done anything but sit
around and eat and sleep since. I guess at 82 I am lucky to be alive.
My oldest brother Frank is the only one to carry along the Carpenter
name,
but my sister Alice married a Carpenter and she alone has 70 in her family
and a lot of them are Carpenters. . . The Carpenter family is all over the
United States now.
"Amos Carpenter" who wrote the Carpenter Genealogical History visited my
father's house 1890 and stayed a couple of weeks and took my father's horse
nad buggy and drove around to all the cemeteries. I remember it now as you
get old you remember your you days and all that happened.
Your
cousin about 10 times removed,
Joseph
A.
Carpenter >>
>Chuck, Thank you for taking over the list. Now that I know it is up and
>running I will recruit more CARPENTERs.
>
>Carolyn
>
Hi Carolyn,
Glad to see you made it over to Rootsweb!
It would be great if we could increase the membership thanks for the offer!
It may take a little while for all the bugs to get worked out but so far
things seem to be working without to many hang-ups.
I just sent a message concerning replies to the group, I think that when
AOL members reply to a post it automatically posts to the whole group
unlike most other mailers, right?
It's been a while since I have been on AOL .... I remember being on them
years ago when they were called "Apple Link" :) I have been a member off
and on through the years. Having moved to a small town in FL from New
England means there no local access number for AOL, and not much of
anything else!
Amazing as it seems Prodigy.net and IBM.net have local numbers and there
are even 2 local ISP's now!
Chuck
When you reply to a post on carpenter-L it is automatically sent privately
to the person who posted the message rather than the whole group.
In order to reply publicly select "Reply to All" from your mailer menu.
I'm not sure how all mailers work but I use Eudora and that's how that works.
Chuck
In about 1800 William B. Osman and Elizabeth Carpenter of Philadelphia were
married, and by 1820 they were living in Beaver County PA with a bunch of
kids. Does anyone know who this Elizabeth Carpenter was? Thanks.
John Cook
In a message dated 97-05-27 07:53:35 EDT, you write:
<< I just sent a message concerning replies to the group, I think that when
AOL members reply to a post it automatically posts to the whole group
unlike most other mailers, right? >>
You are right. I had to look it up because I though reply to all just meant
reply to the whole message rather than reply to the whole group. Here's what
my book says:
"Reply to all
...there are two reply icons, including one marked Reply To All. Reply To
All allows you to reply to everyone who was sent a message, including any CC:
addressees. In other words, you have your choice of replying only to the
original sender (Reply button) or to everyone who receives a message (Reply
To All button).
Note: Reply To All does not necessarily reply to blind CC: addresses. The
rule here is: Reply To All replies to all whose screen names are visible in
the Mail window. If you don't see a name (which would be the case if someone
received a blind carbon copy), that person will not receive your reply."
This is from AOL's Internet for windows book.
As most of you know, or maybe not. This list has been moved from Maiser
over to Rootsweb. All those that were previously subscribed to the
CARPENTER list at Maiser should have been automatically moved here.
If you are reading this, you are already subscribed to the list.
Welcome to the CARPENTER mailing list! You are currently subscribed in
"mail mode", which means that you will receive every posting made
to CARPENTER as a separate e-mail. The directions on how to change to
digest mode are given below.
1. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to
CARPENTER-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
that contains (in the body of the message) the command
unsubscribe
and no additional text.
2. How to subscribe. Whatever you just did worked, or you'd
not be getting this message. But for future reference (for instance,
if your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you
want to resubscribe), just send the command "subscribe" to
CARPENTER-L-request(a)rootsweb.com.
3. How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and
sent to you together as a single large message). There are two
steps. First, send the command "unsubscribe" to
CARPENTER-L-request(a)rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode. Second,
send the command "subscribe" to CARPENTER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
to start receiving digests.
4. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode.
All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe
when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them
to start again, simply subscribe again.
5. If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing
list receives it, just send it to CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com. It
will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode.
You don't need to send it explicitly to both.
For your verification, a transcript of the original subscription
request is included below.
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"digest mode", which means that several postings made
to CARPENTER will be consolidated together and sent to you as a single
large message. The directions on how to change to mail mode (where
you receive every message as a separate e-mail) are given below.
1. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to
CARPENTER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
that contains (in the body of the message) the command
unsubscribe
and no additional text.
2. How to subscribe. Whatever you just did worked, or you'd
not be getting this message. But for future reference (for instance,
if your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you
want to resubscribe), just send the command "subscribe" to
CARPENTER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com.
3. How to change to mail mode (each posting is sent to you as a
separate e-mail). There are two steps. First, send the command
"unsubscribe" to CARPENTER-D-request(a)rootsweb.com to discontinue digest
mode. Second, send the command "subscribe" to
CARPENTER-L-request(a)rootsweb.com to start receiving individual messages.
4. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode.
All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe
when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them
to start again, simply subscribe again.
5. If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing
list receives it, just send it to CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com. It
will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode.
You don't need to send it explicitly to both.
The person who owned this list did not wish to continue. So, thinking that
having a CARPENTER list is a good idea, I volunteered.
This is the first time I have "owned" a list so I don't have any
experiance, but I'll try to help in any way I can.
I do have a database with about 20,500 Carpenter and allied families.
Ok, let's get rollin!
Thanks,
Chuck Carpenter
In a message dated 97-05-26 19:53:03 EDT, you write:
<< This is the first time I have "owned" a list so I don't have any
experiance, but I'll try to help in any way I can.
I do have a database with about 20,500 Carpenter and allied families.
Ok, let's get rollin!
>>
Chuck, Thank you for taking over the list. Now that I know it is up and
running I will recruit more CARPENTERs.
Carolyn
Thanks Chuck!
Your willingness to take on the task is greatly appreciated. I hope all of
us are able to fill in some gaps in our trees as a result of your efforts.
- Another Chuck Carpenter (Oregon out of Nebraska)
I need to have help with a Wiliam Penn Carpenter b 22 mar 1874 w Virginia
City, NV
m 25 dec 1897 d 21 apr 1951. Williams wife was Catherine Elizabeth Whittle
b 1 apr 1878 w Angels Camp, Ca. d 11 apr 1921 w Angels Camp, Ca.
Williams father was John C. Carpenter b 10 dec 1843 w cornwall England, wife
Mary Pearce.
John C Carpenters father was John Carpenter b 1812 w Cornwall, Iloogan, England
m 1842 Iloogan d Cornwall wife Ann Prideaux.
If there is anyone with this line please help me.
Clarissa Carpenter Parry
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This is the Carpenter Cousins Rootsweb. Since many Zimmermans became Carpenters, Both are discussed here along with related DNA information.