On July 11, 2011, I posted to the Carpenter mailing list a message that is currently the
last of a five-message thread archived with the subject "Greenwood Carpenter
Jr." (see below). I hope this message will be added to that thread, which is the
proper place for it.
This thread:
[CARPENTER] Greenwood Carpenter JR by Johnlsaywhat(a)aol.com
Re: [CARPENTER] Greenwood Carpenter Jr. by Gene Zubrinsky <genezub(a)aol.com>
Re: [CARPENTER] Greenwood Carpenter Jr. by Johnlsaywhat(a)aol.com
Re: [CARPENTER] Greenwood Carpenter Jr. by Gene Zubrinsky <genezub(a)aol.com>
Re: [CARPENTER] Greenwood Carpenter Jr. by Gene Zubrinsky <genezub(a)aol.com>
In the course of a recent exchange of e-mails with Ellen Bisson, I have determined that
the following passage from that July 11 posting is in error: "A deposition of Hannah
(Bishop) (Carpenter) Schenck's dated in 1842 indicates that she was then residing in
Hannibal, Oswego Co., N.Y.; that her husband, Greenwood Carpenter, had first enlisted in
1775 at about age 16; and that he died in Aurelius, Cayuga Co., New York, on or about 10
October 1832 (elsewhere she says middle of October 1831)."
Correction: The deposition was in fact signed by Hannah Carpenter [née Bishop], widow of
Greenwood Carpenter [Jr.], and says that he died in the middle of 1831. A separate
affidavit, also dated in 1842, was filed by Hannah Schenck [wife of John Schenck and
daughter of Christopher Perkins and the aforementioned Hannah (Bishop) Carpenter], saying
that Greenwood Carpenter [Jr.] died on or about 10 October 1832. Both documents, as well
as others in Greenwood Carpenter Jr.'s Revolutionary War pension file (W6630), assert
that Hannah Carpenter remained his widow and never remarried.
Of particular importance in the above correction is that Greenwood Carpenter Jr.'s
widow, Hannah (Bishop) Carpenter, did not subsequently marry John Schenck; Hannah
Carpenter and Hannah Schenck were two different women. The former did, however, live with
Christopher Perkins as his (second) wife from about 1796 until his death, in 1813, and
with him had seven children--Moses, Stephen, Esther, Abraham, Hannah (m. John Schenck),
Amanda, and Martin--between 1797 and about 1811.
Gene Z.