Jim D. wrote:
Hi, Carpenters, here is immediate children of Thomas Skinner,
and Hannah Carpenter, my ancestors, with a few descendants
Jim D
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860 861
Thomas Skinner_____________________Hannah Carpenter
b.3 Nov 1668, Malden,Middlesex,MA b.21Jan1672,Swansea,Bristol, MA
married: 16 May 1694, Malden, Middlesex, MA
d. about 1750, Norton, Bristol,MA d.aft 1710,P,Norton,Bristol, MA
Thomas SKINNER
? Birth: 3 NOV 1668, Malden,Middlesex,MA
? Death: ABT 1750, Norton,Bristol,MA
? Reference: 10135
Father: Thomas SKINNER
Mother: Mary PRATT
Family 1: Hannah CARPENTER
? Marriage: 16 MAY 1694, Malden,Middlesex,MA
1. Thomas SKINNER
2. Solomon SKINNER
3. Joseph SKINNER
4. Hannah SKINNER
5. Esther SKINNER
6. Mary SKINNER
7. Samuel SKINNER
8. Benjamin SKINNER
Hannah CARPENTER
? Birth: 21 JAN 1672, Swansea,Bristol,MA
? Death: AFT 1710, P,Norton,Bristol,MA
? Reference: 10144
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Jim, I hope you won't mind my correcting some of the foregoing data (the
question marks preceding several of the items suggest appropriate tentativeness
on your part):
Although some but not all secondary sources have Thomas Skinner's birth date
as 3 November 1668, the published volume of Malden vital records presents
only the month and year, with a blank space where the day would ordinarily be.
The day is therefore uncertain and should be accompanied by a question mark.
No record has been found of Thomas Skinner and Hannah Carpenter's marriage
or intentions, at Malden or elsewhere. The 16 May 1694 marriage date appears
occasionally online but is never accompanied by a source citation or any kind
of support. The most responsible approximation is "by 1695," based on the
birth date, 30 May 1695, of their first child, Thomas. There is, moreover, no
reason to think that they married at Malden, where Thomas was born and
raised. He had probably moved to Wrentham or Norton by the time of his marriage.
(Clark's history of Norton says he never lived at Wrentham but simply
attended church there while living at Norton [the part in present-day Mansfield],
then adjacent to Wrentham.) If their marriage was true to custom, it
probably occurred at the bride's home of Swansea, where Hannah's sister Esther
had
married in 1687. Their parents had died at Swansea when Hannah and Esther
were quite young, but their elder brothers, Joseph and Benjamin, had married
and established themselves there by the time their sisters married.
Thomas Skinner died between 29 June 1757 (will, in 89th yr.) and 19 May 1758
(probate). The year 1750 originated as a probate-date misprint in Clark's
history of Norton.
Hannah Carpenter's original Swansea birth record appears with the date 21
1st month 1671. The first month of the year prior to 1752 was not January but
March. But since the first day of the year was typically 25 March, it is
uncertain whether 1671 should be interpreted as 1670/1 or 1671/2. It is
therefore best to present the date as it appears in its original form, with the
correct, named month in brackets: 21 1st mo. [March] 1671.
In that Hannah is named in her husband's will (her care is left to their son
Benjamin), she died after 29 June 1757, probably at Norton.
For source citations and more details, see page 4 of my revised sketch of
Hannah's father, Joseph3 Carpenter, and his family, online at
<
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/Joseph3-Rehoboth&Swansea.pdf>. If you are
revisiting this or
any related Carpenter sketch (links online at
<
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/carplink.htm>) after an interval of less than a
few weeks, you should
click on your browser's Refresh button to be certain that you're viewing the
current version, rather than an obsolete one, which may be stored in a local
cache. AOL users should also depress the Ctrl key when clicking on the Refresh
button. Updated sketches have a revision date near the top of the first
page.
Gene Z.
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