Jerry,
I have a Daniel Carpenter that ended up in Cattaragus Co. Ny. He is buried in the Main
Settlement Cemetery at Portville. His wife was Mary Thompson, and I am trying to connect
him to my GG grandmother, Theda C. Carpenter that married Milton Maxson Main. They had 10
children and lived in Main Settlement from 1820 or 30's and are buried at Main
Settlement also. My G grandfather was Dewey Main, who married and came by wagon train to
Saline co., Ks and is buried there. Maybe we connect. Who know?
Meralyn
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Brick wall - Henry B. Carpenter
Thank You for the reply, My earliest Carpenter is Capt William Carpenter
born 1605 in England and came to Mass in early 1600's on the ship The
Bevios,(spelling may be wrong) He came to Mass with his father and some
other family,He helped to establish Rehoboth Massachusetts. Through his
children's children, Richard Carpenter was born in the mid 1700's, he
traveled some how to Fleming Ky in 1793 and built his log cabin and started
a very big Carpenter family that still to this day many of his descendents
are still there, I have hit my brick wall trying to find the route Richard
took traveling to Ky. Somewhere along the way my GGGreat Grandpa Daniel
Carpenter was born,We think in Virginia, census records say this?? But
anyway , I have everything I need except documentation on Richards trip to
Ky from Massachusetts, We also have found some evidence of his being in the
Revolutionary War, I am almost positive they moved to New York at one point,
and then on down through the Eastern States to Ky. Every once in a while I
throw this question out in hopes of finding a connection to a sibling of his
or something that will help find his route to Ky. Thanks again for the info.
Happy Hunting !!
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darkwing" <darkwing(a)shaw.ca>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Brick wall - Henry B. Carpenter
Hi Gerald,
If Henry B. Carpenter turns out to have the connections that I believe
(at this point) are his, then the earliest I will have is Abner Carpenter
born 1787. Abner married some
time between 1805 and 1811 to Hannah Hawes in Vermont. This line is
Vermont to New York, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Arkansas and Minnesota.
Gail
gerald wrote:
> Hi Gail, I am a Carpenter researcher also, I was wondering who is the
> earliest Carpenter you have, I am trying to track one of the Rehoboth
> Carpenters and his journey to Ky, He was suppose to have been born in
> Mass
> and some how he made his way to Ky in 1793, Through DNA testing he is
> connected too the Rehoboth branch. So back to my question of the earliest
> Carpenter you have , Thanks for any information.
>
> Jerry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darkwing" <darkwing(a)shaw.ca>
> To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Brick wall - Henry B. Carpenter
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for your response.
> >
> > Up until this past week I was working on the thought that my Henry B.
> > Carpenter had served for the state of Wisconsin. I had a major
> > breakthrough on him earlier this week in the most
> > round a bout way and have now discovered that he served for the state
> > of
> > New York and I have documentation for that.
> >
> > I got the Homestead papers for a Henry B. Carpenter who had a homestead
> > in
> > Arkansas. My Henry B . and his wife Ann had their last child in
> > Arkansas
> > so I thought it might be a good
> > lead. The papers showed no connection between Henry and Ann but they
> > did
> > have a lot of military information in them. One of the affidavits
> > originally made me think that the papers
> > were not for the right Henry as it stated that he was a Sergeant but
> > reading through all of the military information I found no record of
> > him
> > being anything other than a Private. The
> > next step for me was to have someone check on the sale of the property.
> > I
> > was so fortunate that I found a fellow through the History Society and
> > he
> > got the sale papers and there was
> > my Henry and his wife Ann S.'s names together on the paperwork so now I
> > knew I finally had the CORRECT Henry B. Carpenter. I read through
> > every
> > bit of the military information and
> > all of the affidavits and discovered that Henry swore that there had
> > been
> > an error on his Veterans Certificate and it read that he was in Company
> > F
> > and should have read that he was in
> > Company H and it also said that his discharge date was in 1866 and it
> > should have read 1865. I now know the correct unit and I have already
> > ordered the military records and the
> > pension records from the National Archives. I enclosed a copy of the
> > affidavit and I also typed out the bit about the errors so that it was
> > readable. I hope that they read it and
> > know what to do with that information. I strongly suspect that I will
> > get
> > the information for Company F even though I wrote in Company H on the
> > order form but that remains to be seen.
> >
> > I wrote to the address about the picture and they sent me a photo copy
> > and
> > all of the information I needed to order the actual photo. The
> > information that they have given on the side
> > of the photo copy shows it to be the correct Henry B. Carpenter
> > according
> > to the information about the errors that he himself gave.
> >
> > Henry's affidavit also showed that he served in the 21st New York, did
> > his
> > time and then re enlisted in the 26th New York so both of those entries
> > were for the same man. He served
> > from 1861 till 1865.
> >
> > Henry B. has been a brick wall for me for some time but I am sure that
> > it
> > is falling down now. I am counting on the pension papers and the
> > military
> > papers to give me the next bit of
> > information I need to go on with this line. Now that I know that I am
> > on
> > the right track it should get easier.
> >
> > I have been doing genealogy research for about 40 years now and the
> > Carpenter line has been most difficult. It took me nearly 35 years to
> > break down the brick wall around the very
> > first member of the Carpenter line that I started to research so it
> > doesn't really surprise me that Henry has been so difficult.
> >
> > Thank you so much for the help you have given me re the picture. I
> > would
> > not have known a thing about it had you not told me. I do have a
> > picture
> > of his wife and their son so this
> > will be fantastic to have one of him as well.
> >
> > Regards
> > Gail
> > Sidney by the Sea
> > B.C. Canada
> >
> >
> >
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