Ken,
Jon Painter posted his original email back in January 2019 on this list
regarding the Hair Book. I repost it here: cmox441(a)gmail.com
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
Carpenter Cousins Project - Our main support page!
https://carpentercousins.com
Hair Book
Hair Book - Moger, Forman, Carpenter History
By Painter Jon cmox441(a)gmail.com
OK Here it is minus my transcript and notes (still working on those).
Part 1 is missing since it seemed like something that was not part of the
original book or relevant to family history. Parts 4 and 5 are the carpenter
section. The two things I find most significant pertaining to Carpenters is
the description of a family burial ground in sec 4 and the mention of a very
large estate case dating back to 1700. I hope some of that trickled down to
you!
I included a small part of the "Book Report" I am doing for the Mogers, a
short description of our lineage and how we appear to be related to the
carpenters. I plan on adding the typed transcript and notes to this album
shortly.
Hope you find all this useful and interesting.
Please let me know if you have any trouble viewing this album.
JCM
Part 1
Missing
Part 2
Family Record of the Moger Family
John Moger left Mass in the year 1655 …
Part 3
Family Record of the Forman Family
Aaron Forman of Matanacock Town of Oyster Bay Long Island State of New York.
He was born Jan 1st 1657 ...
Part 4
Family record of the Carpenter Family
William Carpenter we find at Rhode Island about the year 1660 …
Note: Page 3 has the family of Jotham and Susannah Carpenter …
Descendants of Jotham Carpenter-26066 b. 26 Aug 1763 North Castle,
Westchester, New York and who died 27 Mar 1852 in Westchester County, New
York. He is buried in the Carpenter Cemetery, North Castle, Westchester, New
York.
His notes include the following:
Number 242 in the book, The Carpenter Family in America, 1901.
Family on page 155 &156. He was a farmer at North Castle.
Part 5
This is a copy of James Usher & William Barker material and from the 1883
book.
CAUTION
The BOOK "Genealogical and Historical Record of the Carpenter Family" by
James Usher in 1883 needs to be used with great caution.
For example: Starting about page 30 is the Cotleb Zimmerman line. This is
blatantly wrong on parentage of The Carpenter Family of Long Island and NY.
Mr. W. C. Barker, who sent the material to Usher seems to have reversed dobs
and children in his record. It appears consistent in several families. The
1901 book has been used as a guide, with explanation, for corrections.
James Usher was also a lawyer who made a lot of money adjusting genealogies
and de-frauding many who sought their rightful monies from deceased estates
in England. For example: He bilked the Carpenter Family Association out of
thousands of dollars during the mid to late 1800s. At the end of the 1882
book, careful reading will show the sequence of such fraud and a statement
by Usher stating there was no monies to be had in England for the rightful
heirs. Yet, documents show that Usher still was making contacts for people
for heir estates into the 1890s.
Many many corrections have been made on the lines described in Usher's book.
To be generous ... many Carpenter lines in the Southern states and those
with Loyalists from the Revolution in the Northeast had their genealogy
modified to deny them the claim to money being held by the Crown in England.
What is ironic is that there was no money to be had - it was all a fraud.
The winners? The lawyers liked Usher.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Painter Jon cmox441(a)gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 4:37 PM
To: Carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARPENTER] Hi from a descendant of Jonathan Carpenter
Hi, my name is Cortlandt Moger. I am currently the steward of our old
family record book (we call it the Hair Book) written by Carpenter Moger,
my Great Great Grandfather. Apparently, he is the Grandson of Jonathan
Carpenter (b. Aug. 26th 1763)
My book pre dates the civil War and has six pages on the Carpenter Family
history from 1593 to 1808.
Probably doesn't have anything new to you in it but I thought you might be
interested in a digital copy for comparison.
Please let me know if you would like me to send you a link to it when I get
it uploaded to the cloud.
JCM
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Carpenter via CARPENTER
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2019 8:59 AM
To: Carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: kingkkcarp(a)icloud.com
Subject: [CARPENTER] Courtlandt Moger’s Jan 3, 2019 e-mail
John, I would like to have Courtlandt Moger’s e-mail address, as the book
he refers to may provide a clue to my Cyrus’s ancestors. I could not find it
on the original e-mail.
Thanks,
Ken Carpenter
Mountain a Home, AR.
Sent from my iPad