Hi, All Carpenter descendants, once again.
Gene, I clicked on your .PDF enclosure and loved it, and thanks.
I assume I will find most of what I seek there, but do not mind
you illuminating in brief direct ancestors of Carpenter, as far
as is known. There is so much online which is suspect in IGI
files that a lot of us have no way of separating truth from
that which is suspect.
I also might add I have my ancestral AT as a work in progress,
and can provide here the line of Skinner-Hannah Carpenter with
some descendants which this Carpenter list might like to have.
Gene, if you want I could send it to you/and or post it here.
What I can give as descendant lines from Skinner-Hannah Carpenter
leads into many collateral lines, obviously. Such might be
sought by many. What I have developed is documented and I
can provide sources, either books, NEHGR, census records for
later generations. I would not want to provide my full AT,
as you all can guess, like anyone's it is extensive and not
pertinent. I am in contact with NEHGS in Boston and my work
once done, and supporting papers, will be donated to them.
But if I can assist, let me know by questions, and I will
attempt to provide. As a benefit to myself, I am sure some
will find even further evidence I might have overlooked.
Again, thanks much to all.
Jim D
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, GeneZub(a)aol.com <GeneZub(a)aol.com> wrote:
From: GeneZub(a)aol.com <GeneZub(a)aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Hannah Carpenter, b. 21 Jan 1671, dau. of Joseph3
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 12:54 AM
Jim D.,
I'm so glad you persisted in your inquiry about Hannah
Carpenter and Thomas
Skinner. It caused me to take another, more thorough,
look into the matter.
Cutter is in the same category as the Ancestral File and is
of virtually no
value. But Clark, _A History of the Town of Norton . . ._
(1859), seemed
deserving of more-serious consideration--also Fernald,
_The Skinner Kinsmen:
Descendants of Thomas Skinner of Malden . . ._ , (1939).
That neither author
was certain as to Hannah (Mrs. Thomas) Skinner's
maiden name is evident from
the question mark after the name of Hannah Carpenter in
Clark's account of
Thomas Skinner (p. 89) and from the word
"perhaps" between Hannah's first and
last names in the Fernald volume (p. 14). Chances are
that Fernald's source was
Clark. But who or what was Clark's source? The
tentative statement/notes
of a Skinner descendant perhaps? If the source had been
documentary in
nature--a marriage record, for example--the question mark
wouldn't have been
inserted.
In any case, this tentative identification of Hannah
Carpenter (parents not
given) as Thomas Skinner's wife warranted further
investigation. The vital
records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, contain entries for the
births of six
children to Thomas and Hannah Skinner between 1695 and
1706: Thomas, Solomon,
Joseph, Hannah, Esther, and Mary. The will of Thomas
Skinner, dated in 1757,
includes the names of two additional children: Benjamin and
Samuel (deceased).
Four of these names--Solomon, Joseph, Esther, and
Benjamin--are also those
of four of the siblings (and, in one instance, also the
father) of the Hannah
Carpenter born at Swansea on 21 March 1671, daughter of
Joseph3 and Margaret
(Sutton) Carpenter.
Joseph and Margaret Carpenter's daughter Esther married
at Swansea, Mass.,
in 1687, Samuel Brentnall/Brintnall, who died at Norton,
Mass. (home of Thomas
and Hannah Skinner), in 1735; Esther died there in 1730
(for details, see
Joseph3 Carpenter sketch, p. 3, online at
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/Joseph3-Rehoboth&Swansea.pdf).
Thomas Skinner's will (1757) indicates that his
daughter Esther was the widow of Ebenezer Brintnall; they
had married at
Norton in 1728 (Fernald, 16; Norton VR). Ebenezer
Brintnall, who died at Norton
about 1752, was the son of Samuel and Esther (Carpenter)
Brintnall; he is
named in his father's will (Rounds, _Abstracts of
Bristol Co. Probate Records_,
1:246, 2:116).
Though circumstantial, the evidence is strong enough for us
to say that the
wife of Thomas Skinner was indeed Joseph3 and Margaret
(Sutton) Carpenter's
daughter Hannah; she married Skinner by 1695 (1st known
child b. Wrentham 30
May 1695). A marriage date of 16 May 1694 appears here
and there online, as
do Malden, Mass., and New London, Conn., as the place of
marriage; but I
wouldn't trust any of these items. Considering that
Hannah's sister Esther
married at Swansea (see above), it's highly likely
that she did, too.
Many thanks for providing the impetus I needed to properly
research this
issue and resolve it. I'll be revising the Hannah
Carpenter information in my
Joseph3 Carpenter sketch accordingly.
Gene Z.
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