Hi Pamela,
Could the Carpenter's you mentioned be connected to the Carpenter's of
Herkimer CO. NY.?
Iris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Berger" <berger(a)netstream.net>
To: <CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Benjamin Carpenter, Orange Co. NY
It appears there was Gordian knot of Carpenters in Orange Co.
NY,
and
mindboggling loops of Benjamins, Williams, and Johns everywhere in
every
generation. I have yet another Benjamin Carpenter, was born 13 Sept. 1794
in Middletown according to his 1884 death record in Wis. I had been
researching my grandfather Carpenter's antecedent, Horace Carpenter, in
Washington Co., NY.and in NH, only to discover that his family are distant
cousins to my grandmother's Carpenter antecedents in Orange Co. This fact
would have completely astonished them both and I wish they were still
around
to tell. Both evidently descend from William of Rehoboth, if one
accepts
a
couple of probable but still unproven links.
I believe this is the same Benjamin who is mentioned as #910 in the
Carpenter Memorial, though the birth year is given only as "about 1790"
and
the birthplace is given as Walkill or Pine Swamp, NY, not Middletown.
There
is a notation that he "went to Wisconsin," and the
daughter Matilda and
husband Augustus Coleman who are mentioned were the names of my
great-great-great grandparents. There were also other children mentioned,
who are otherwise unknown to me. Benjamin #910 was the son of William
#306,
son of Solomon #75.
My research shows Benjamin "fought the English" (presumably in the
War
of 1812), married 1st in 1815 to Jane Keene, daughter of "Capt.
Keene. "
They went west about 1845 and Jane died in 1966 in Waukesha Co.,
Wisconsin.
Benjamin married 2nd to a Mrs. Naomi Barnes. He married 3rd at the
age of
80 (!) to M. G. McCurdy, and then at the age of almost 87 married yet a
4th
time (!!) to Helen Adamson, a woman less than half his age, which
occasioned
an amusing mention in the newspaper wishing him vigorous good health
and
much marital happiness. If someone else is working on these Carpenter
families I would be interested in tips on additional sources that may not
be
obvious to me or any information one desires to share. Thank
. --Pam
Berger