John,
Thanks for the info. The date of the sale of land in 1715 by Hope Jr. & his wife
indicates they were married much earlier than the family listing in JRC's email
implies, where the oldest child was born in 1726. From Hope Jr.'s will (which I found
on the internet) Edward and Hope were already 21 in 1739.
From the New Jersey Abstract of Wills
Name: Hope Carpenter
Date: 24 May 1739
Location: Elizabeth Town, Essex Co.
yeoman; will of. Children--Edward, Hope, James (at 21 years), Phebe
Ross, Jane, Mary, Rachel and Hanah Carpenter. Land joining lands of
Samuel Lum, deceased, and John Porter. Executors--wife, Mary, and
friend, James Crane. Witnesses--Jeremiah Crane, Jno. Osborn, Susanah
Crane. Proved April 24, 1740.
1740, April 24. Inventory of personal estate, £100.04.06; sworn to by
executors.
Hope Jr.'s daughter, Hannah (or Nancy), is said to have married William Opdyck/Updike.
She must have been born before 1739 and possibly much earlier. That fits much better
with the Opdyck information which shows William and Nancy Carpenter's oldest child
being born in 1740 (though possibly as late as 1752).
Thanks for your help.
Mike Morrissey
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!Number 82 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 61
Family is number 45 on page 85.
It appears that the family left Jamacia about the time or soon after the father
died as land was sold there in Jamacia, that fomerly belonged to Hope Carpenter deceased
in 1721. And Joseph Carpenter bought land that formerly belonged to Capt. John Carpenter
(the 1st), which he gave by will to his son Hope in 1718. Hope or his father, sold land at
12 different times from 1699 to 1712.
From 1681 to 1688 there was one birth and one burial in the family of Hope
Carpenter. Hope, Sr. and Hope, Jr. bought land at White Plains, NY July 5,
1700. Hope, Jr. and Elizabeth his wife sold this land April 8, 1715.
It appears that he had his portion of his father's estate as he went along, as
the will states: "I give my son Hope, 5 shillings, because I have done so much
for him already."
His residence was in Elizabethtown, NJ, in 1720: he probably moved there about
1712. The rest of the family went to Hopewell, near Burlington, NJ.
!SOURCES: Page 86, New Jersey, Wilk, Calendar of Wills, New Jersey Archives,
First Series, Vol. 30, and the Carpenter Memorial by Amos Bugbee Carpenter.
John L. Carpenter
Walpole,NH
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