Gene,
Thank you for replying. It is greatly appreciated it. I have a copy of the Carpenters in
America book by Daniel Hoogland, but I have only read the pages that pertain to my family
line. I think I might have missed the page about the letter. But thank you for clearing
some of my confusion up.
S R > From: GeneZub(a)aol.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:33:32 -0400> To:
carpenter(a)rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] REQUEST INFO FOR LEWIS CARPENTER>
> > S R writes:> > > << How reliable is the Carpenters in America
book by Daniel Hoogland? > Because I believe it also lists [Lewis Carpenter's]
wife's name as being the same > as his mothers. Has anyone proved any of the
information in that book to be > wrong? >>> > Emphatically, yes. Compare,
for example, Daniel Hoogland Carpenter's > treatment of Joseph2 Carpenter of
Providence and Warwick, R.I., and Oyster Bay, > Long Island, N.Y., and his family to
the Joseph2 Carpenter sketch online via the > hyperlink at
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/carplink.htm. (Joseph > appears on the links webpage
as the husband of Hannah3 Carpenter of Rehoboth.) > Among the things DHC gets wrong:
Joseph2's approximate birth year; his > birthplace; the date of his first marriage
and that it was to his second cousin; the > maiden name of his second wife's
mother; his brother Ephraim's supposed visit > to Rhode Island to convey the news
of Joseph's death; the town in which was > located the corn mill he owned while
living at Warwick; the amount of land he > purchased from the Matinecock Indians in
1668; the number of his children and > the identity of one of them; and the probable
identities of certain of his > children's spouses. A forthcoming sketch of
Joseph2's father, William1 of > Providence, and his family--soon accessible through
the URL cited > above--contains comparable corrections to the DHC volume.> >
Another example: Without informing the reader of his translations, DHC > expresses with
named months many dates that are actually recorded with numbered > ones (including all
those from Quaker records). Because his conversions of > pre-1752 numbered-month dates
are mistakenly based on modern reckoning, they are > consistently off by two months.
(The erroneous dates mentioned in the > previous paragraph are due to other types of
misjudgments.)> > As to the Lewis Carpenter data you present, the only thing that
appears > certain is that he married at Hempstead, Long Island, on 27 August 1775, >
Elizabeth Townsend (DHC, 133, citing St. George's Church [Hempstead] Records). DHC
> identifies Lewis as the son of mariner Joseph Carpenter (b. 1720), implying > that
the will of the latter's childless son Joseph, dated in 1796, names his > siblings,
including Lewis (ibid., 95). But when DHC actually lists the > legatees that the
younger Joseph names in his will, neither Lewis nor his heirs are > mentioned (ibid.,
132). That Lewis doesn't appear is not surprising: he had > died about 10 years
before the will was written (ibid., 133-34). The only > evidence I see that Joseph
might have been Lewis's father--DHC fails to make a > point of it--is that both men
had sons named Henry and Thomas.> > In his account of Lewis's putative father,
Joseph, DHC says that Joseph's > wife was "probably" Elizabeth Townsend;
he gives no parents, no source, and no > explanation (ibid., 94). Perhaps his
conclusion is based on an apparent > misinterpretation of an 1885 letter he had
received from one of Lewis's > grandsons, whom he paraphrases as saying that
"his grandfather was Lewis Carpenter, > and that he (the grandfather [sic]) had
brothers Henry and Townsend and three > sisters" (ibid., 134n). The letter writer,
however, was the son of Lewis's > son Thomas, and everything else DHC says on the
matter indicates that it was > Thomas who had brothers Townsend and Henry and three
sisters (two of them > half-sisters) (ibid., 134, 134n, 135n, 136). The aforementioned
1796 will of > Joseph (Jr.) names his mother as Elizabeth, but I see nothing to
indicate that > her maiden name had been Townsend.> > Apparently you haven't
seen the DHC volume. It's viewable online at >
http://books.google.com and also (by
subscription) at
ancestry.com; it can also be > obtained through Interlibrary Loan and
on FHL film. While caution is called > for, it should be consulted in the _initial
stage_ of researching Rhode Island > and Long Island Carpenters.> > Gene Z.>
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