Does anyone on list relate to the following Jesse Carpenter? (I'm beginning
to suspect that I may .... or I may not. Sigh.)
Our County and Its People A History of the Valley and County of Chemung From
the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century, 1892, by Ausburn Towner
page 507
Jesse Carpenter, Chemung, New York
"In 1804 came Jesse Carpenter, a lineal descendant of William Carpenter who
came from Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, with Roger Williams and settled at
Providence, R. I., in 1636. Jesse settled on what is now the Jacob Lowman
estate half a mile west of Baldwin Creek. He had two sons, Jesse, Jr., and
Joseph. The latter never married. The living descendants of Jesse Carpenter,
Jr., are Edward S., George e., James, and William S. Edward S. and William
s. are well known and prominent residents in the town of Big Flats. George
E. is a retired merchant and resides in Elmira. James Carpenter still
remains on the old homestead, and the house in which he dwells occupies a
site only a few rods to the west of the spot on which his grandfather
erected his primitive abode more that fourscore years ago. His father, Jesse
Carpenter, Jr., invented and constructed the first horse-power churn in
1832. The indenture in the ground made for the purpose of erecting this
machinery is still to be seen near the present farm-house, although the
apparatus itself was discontinued in 1876."
Connie