The following is from the Oxford English Dictionary tertiary "of" citation.
Dummer was certainly not born in "New England", but the important point his
new home was there
and he had not just stopped there. Likewise "Bishopstoke" was likely his
English home. That Dummer's home was Bishopstoke is suggested in vol. 3 of A
History of Hampshire, p. 310. Richard and family had various land based
charities for the poor in Bishopstoke.
"III. Of origin or source. Indicating the thing or person whence anything
originates, comes, is acquired or sought.
9. a. Expressing racial or local origin, descent, etc.: after the vbs.
arise, be, come, descend, spring, be born, bred, propagated, and the like."
I still have no reason to think that the Carpenters merely stopped off in
Wherwell. A
place to look for records is St. Peter and Holy Cross church. The West
family
controlled it. The West family produced Lord Delaware. The West family also
should
have left tenant names and various records. These are all prime places for
Carpenter research.
Unfortunately records for the church begin from 1634.
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