Rick,
Don't know if this helps but here are some land purchases by Benjamin
CARPENTERS from the BLM:
4-20-1824 Greene Co AL (Benjamin is assignee of David SCOTT)
6-20-1827 Greene Co AL
9-28-1835 Greene Co AL
8-14-1837 Crenshaw Co. AL
10-10-1840 Colbert/Lawrence AL
2-27-1841 Lauderdale, MISS
Good Luck!
Donna
8-14-1837 Crenshaw Co AL
-----Original Message-----
From: J. R. Carpenter, Jr. <gra_jrc(a)shsu.edu>
To: CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com <CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 5:08 PM
Subject: NC Carpenter book lookup
> I also have a book on NC Carpenters and will do lookups...Thanks
Pat in
OK
Pat,
I am searching for a Benjamin Carpenter (born ca 1770-1780 or so, died
after 1836 in Alabama). Most records indicate he was born in SC (with one
note that he was born in NC), but I really think a NC origin is more
likely. In corresponding with other Carpenter researchers, some have
indicated that he may have been from the Nash/Edgecombe Cos area of NC and
from the Southside area of VA before that, but they and I have not been
able to come up with any solid proof. He and wife Millie and family were in
SC by early 1800s where most of their children were born, and then to
southeastern Alabama by the 1820s. Benjamin's son Sampson A. Carpenter
married Nancy Mayberry. Some Mabrys from Union Co SC went to Alabama with
the Carpenters, but I haven't been able to prove a connection between the
Union Co Mabrys and my Nancy Mayberry. I do know that the Mabrys were from
Southside Virginia (Surry Co), and went through Warren Co NC (which is near
Nash Co NC) and Old Rowan Co NC ( a huge old county covering all of
northwestern NC) before settling in Union Co SC. I suspect the same
migration path for my Carpenters. I have all but given up on a Pennsylvania
Swiss German Zimmerman/Carpenter origin for my line, though there are some
of these people buried in the York/Cherokee Cos area of SC, which is also
near Union Co SC. But the possible Mabry connection for my Nancy Mayberry
makes a Southside VA to Nash/Edgecombe Cos NC origin more likely.
Anything at all would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick
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