I have a 45 page .pdf file of the Carpenter portion of Seversmith's book
mentioned below. I can share with anyone who asks me privately (will send by
email).
Connie
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From: <GeneZub(a)aol.com>
To: <CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: expectant child of Hezekiah, 1713, Hopewell, NJ
Mike,
Sorry I can't confirm your hypothesis (message dated 2/2/04), but you may
or
may not be aware that, according to Herbert F. Seversmith, the elder
Hope
Carpenter's will appears in New York Wills, 8:196 (see Seversmith,
COLONIAL
FAMILIES OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT, Volume 2
[Washington,
D.C.,
1939], 545). Seversmith has Hope Sr.'s will as dated 8 January
1712
(rather than
1713) and proved 13 May 1713 (ibid.). He cites the New Jersey
Calendar of
Wills for the will of Hope Jr. (ibid.).
Seversmith identifies Hope Carpenter Sr.'s wife, Mary, as the daughter of
Robert Ashman (ibid.); this, as you know, is the forename of one of Hope's
sons.
Seversmith also concurs with a fellow genealogist's argument (which he
presents) that Hope Sr.'s father John3 Carpenter's widow--though not
necessarily the
mother of some or any of his children--was not Hannah HOPE (as Amos
B.
Carpenter proposes) but Hannah SMITH, daughter of William1 Smith of
Weymouth (and
Rehoboth), Mass. (and Huntington and Jamaica, Long Island) (ibid.,
544,
549-50,
1012). You'll note that one of the witnesses of Hope
Carpenter's will is
Nehemiah Smith; William1 had a son of that name. It was Nehemiah2 Smith
who on 22
February 1699/1700 was grantor to "my Loving cussen [i.e.,
nephew] John
Carpenter." In that John3 Carpenter had died ca. 10 November 1694, this
would
have
been his son John4 (whose wife was Mary Rhodes/Roads) (ibid., 545,
citing
Jamaica, New York, Wills, A:98). Nehemiah2 Smith was thus the
brother-in-law of
John3 Carpenter.
Incidentally, confirming Herbert Seversmith's stature as one of the
outstanding genealogists of the first half of the twentieth century is his
having
been
named a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (FASG) in
1942, two
years after the organization was founded. The society has always limited
the
number of living FASGs to 50.
Gene Z.