--- On Mon, 9/29/08, 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: Monday, September 29, 2008, 9:16 AM
Jim D. wrote:
> RE: 7. HANNAH CARPENTER, b. 21 of 1st mo 1671.
> I have her as an ancestor, born 21 Jan 1671, Rehoboth,
Bristol, Mass.,
> d.1750, married 1694, Thomas Skinner, b. 3 Nov 1668,
Malden, Mass.,
> d. 9 Jun 1740?/57, Norton, Bristol, Mass.
> The source I have is LDS IGI, Family Search,
ancestral File v.4.19
> Is it accurate?
I don't believe so. I have been unable to confirm any
of the vital-event
data you present. There is no known record of Hannah
following that of her
birth, at Swansea, Mass., on 21 1st mo. [March] 1671.
(March was the first
month of the Old Style [pre-1752] year.)
The Ancestral File is one of the least-reliable databases
available.
Gene Z.
Hi, Gene Z.
Thanks for your candor.
I came to Carpenter via my primarary Skinner line, from
Bristol, Mass., and the Skinner line seems for a couple
generations quite viable, from a Skinner group and research
at NEHGS.
They seem convinced that Thomas Skinner, who married Abigail Day,
5 Jan 1720, in Wrentham, Mass., was the son of Thomas Skinner,
who married Hannah Carpenter, as stated. Is it possible there
was another Hannah Carpenter? I note there were several at earlier
generations in that area of Mass. One was a wife of a Carpenter
who remarried and supposedly his Hannah (unknown maiden name)
Carpenter had died and left him a widow. Could it be that his
wife left him, and/or divorced him, and thus it was that Hannah
Carpenter who married Thomas Skinner, b. 3 Nov 1668, Malden,
Mass.?
I am aware that almost all those early NE ancestors are researched
and recorded, as can be done by this date. So, it seem strange to
me that the Skinner line accepted for three or four generations,
including gateway ancestor Thomas Skinner, b. 2 Jul 1645, Chichester,
England, d. 26 Mar 1704, Colchester, New London, CT, who married
Mary Pratt, is not accurate.
I guess my point is, that in the Carpenters there was a history of
many Hannah Carpenters prior to the period in question, and many
in that particular NE family, Mass., RI, CT and NY. So, perhaps,
they have not clearly isolated and detailed them all? If it is not
that Hannah Carpenter, are there others who might be the wife in
question?
Jim D