Marilyn wrote:
<< If this is a different Thomas than the one who married Hannah Alsop, can
you tell me which Thomas it was? (Some say it is the same as Thomas with
wife Hannah Alsop.) >>
So far as I'm aware, there was no marriage between a Thomas Carpenter and a
Hannah Alsop. The Thomas Carpenter _said_ to have married Hannah Alsop, was
the father of Hannah5 Carpenter, who married Solomon Haviland (see Daniel
Hoogland Carpenter, _History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America_
[Jamaica, N.Y., 1901], 67; Josephine C. Frost, _The Haviland Genealogy_ [New
York, 1914], 110). These sources identify Hannah Alsop as the daughter of
Thomas and Hannah (Underhill) Alsop. Both assertions are incorrect.
If Hannah Underhill married an Alsop (direct, documentary evidence is
lacking), it was not Thomas but Richard1 Alsop (see Douglas Leffingwell, _Alsop
Genealogy_ [n.p., 1928], 2-4; Joseph C. Frost, ed., _Underhill Genealogy_, 2
vols. [New York?, 1932], 2:65; Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration
Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633_, 3 vols. [Boston, 1995], 3:1862,
1863). "Richard Alsop's widow, Hannah (who, tradition saith, was a Dutch lady,
whom he courted through an interpreter), attained her 91st yr. and d. Aug.
23, 1757" (James Riker, _The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New-York_ [Ne
w York, 1852], 335). Widow Hannah Alsop's age at death matches perfectly
Hannah Underhill's birth date of 2 December 1666; although she was born at
Flushing, Long Island, her father, Capt. John1 Underhill, had married first wife
Helena deHooch at the Hague, Netherlands (12 December 1628) (_The Great
Migration Begins_, 3:1861, 1862). A Thomas Alsop immigrated to New England in
1635 with his brother Joseph and settled in Connecticut (Robert Charles
Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, _The Great Migration:
Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Volume 1 A-B_ [Boston, 1999], 47-52). He died
by 1650/1, however, and there is no indication that he married or had
children (ibid., 52). The Thomas Alsop whose will D. H. Carpenter cites is that of
Richard1 Alsop's son (1687-1743) (see _Carpenter Family in America_, 68n; New
York Wills and Administrations, 15:127-29 [FHL film #497595]; _Alsop Gen_,
4; _Underhill Gen_, 2:65).
Richard Alsop's will, executed at Maspeth Kills (in Newtown [now Elmhurst]),
Queens County, Long Island, on 11 October 1718 and proved the following 8
November, names daughter Hannah Sackett (_Alsop Gen_, 2 [transcr. of will]).
Her husband is identified elsewhere as Joseph Sackett, son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Betts) Sackett (_Annals of Newtown_, 345-46; _Underhill Gen_, 2:66).
An 1859 account by a Haviland descendant based on family records gives the
forename of the wife of Thomas4 Carpenter (Joseph3-2, William1 of Providence)
as Hannah (see _Haviland Gen_, 186). Her maiden name, however, has not been
established.
Gene Z.
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