Hello Carpenters:
I've posted queries from time to time about Samuel and Clarissa Carpenter
in early 1800s Minisink NY, and now I am delighted to report I have found
them. Indeed, I found more than I had ever hoped. And it turns out I had
the info right under my nose for at least several years. (I was installing
a new bookcase and moving some books. I never just "move" things of course;
I browse them as I go.)
In a wonderful work titled "Descendants of John Stewart" by Ronald Lee
Stewart, PhD, I find Clarissa Stewart (of Silas-3, James-2, John-1) married
Samuel Carpenter, both of Minisink, "circa 1819." This Samuel is brother of
my ggg-grandfather Jonathan Carpenter, both sons of Carman Carpenter. The
last I knew of Samuel was that he and Clarissa sold land in Minisink in 1817.
The Stewart book adds lots of info: Samuel's birth date (31 July 1780);
that they moved to Lumberland in Sullivan County NY; that he died 26 April
1856; that Clarissa died 26 March 1873 and is buried in the Decker Family
Buriel Ground. Their children were Silas S., Margaret, Sarah, Moses W.,
Emily and Temperence S. Carpenter. (Anyone here have any leads on these
offspring?)
Clarissa's mother was Margaret Webb, daughter of Jonathan Webb and Mary
Knapp and a first cousin of her husband Silas Stewart. (Apparently
unbeknownst to the author, it turns out Clarissa and Samuel were also first
cousins; Another of Jonathan Webb's daughters, Mary Webb, married Carman
Carpenter, and they are the parents of Samuel Carpenter who married Clarissa
Stewart.)
Best of all, the Stewart book provides a 2+ page typescript about Samuel
and his family, written by John Willard Johnston and published in
"Reminiscences" by the Town of Highland Cultural Resources Commission.
Samual was a wheelwright, farmer, and rum dealer (of which the writer
Johnston sternly disapproves).
Needless to say, I hope to pursue Samuel's family. Can anyone here tell
me where are the locations in Sullivan County that used to be known as
"Lumberland" and "Pond Eddy" on the Delaware River?
Robin C.