Under the subject line "Carpenter Families of Texas," John L. Carpenter
(Johnlsaywhat(a)aol.com) provided us with
The link is to a volume whose only connection to Texas is that this particular copy is
stamped as being a holding of the Texas State Library.
Annie I. Carpenter's _Carpenter and Allied Families_ (N.Y., 1940) is riddled with
errors, many of them repeated from Amos B. Carpenter's highly flawed genealogy of the
Rehoboth Carpenter family. Nothing it contains pertaining to the father, siblings, and
whereabouts in England of so-called William2 Carpenter (b. 1576 [sic]) is accurate. And
enough is incorrect thereafter to justify the recommendation that the entire volume be
regarded with the utmost caution.
For the most authoritative and current scholarship pertaining to the earliest generations
of Rehoboth and Providence Carpenter families—the two are far too remotely related to be
called branches of the same family—see Carpenter Sketches.
Gene Z.