My thanks to everyone for their help with Nancy Carpenter
and the link with the Opdyke/Updike family.
One futher note on Hope Carpenter, Jr:
It appears his wife was Mary Crane, daughter of Jeremiah
Crane. Her brother, James, was one of the executors of
Hope's estate, and another brother and sister in-law were
witnesses to Hope's will.
From the New Jersey Abstracts of Wills:
Name: Jeremiah Crane, Borough of Elizabeth, Essex Co.
Date: 24 May 1743
yeoman; will of. CHILDREN--JAMES, MARY Carpenter,
REBECCA (wife of Henery Garthwaite), SUSANNA (wife
of Thomas Broadberry), RACHEL Crane, and her son,
Joseph Miller (commonly so called). Grandchildren-
-Timothy Crane, James Carpenter, Mary, Rachel and Hannah
Carpenter, and Abigail, Mary and Joanna Crane, all under age,
daughters of son JEREMIAH [his wife was Susannah],
deceased. Land bought of Henry Tuttle and John Megie;
land given by father, STEPHEN CRANE; land bought of brother,
JOHN CRANE, joining lands of Isaac Schalleux, Nathaniel
Crane, Stephen Crane; land bought of Azariah Crane; land
joining lands of Andrew Craigge, Richard Scuder, Nathaniel
Crane. Executors--son, James, son-in-law Henery Garthwaite,
and Elijah Davis. Witnesses--Thomas Ross, Matthias Crane,
Benjamin Crane. Proved December 8, 1744.
1744, Dec. 25. Elijah Davis sees no occasion for his being
an executor; so declines.
Mike Morrissey