Thank you to Jack Frosty! I appreciate the names and dates. I have found my fellow
Carpenter researchers to be the most generously sharing surname group around! That is not
just a hollow compliment, it comes from the bottom of my heart. I am so grateful to this
group. It was another researcher, Penny Carpenter, who found a key bit of information
that she shared with me that allowed me to connect my Amos Franklin Carpenter to the rest
of his family. Without the church records that she so kindly shared with me several
months ago, the two years I had spent trying to identify Amos's parents might have
stretched on indefinitely.
I have a couple more things in my notes on this family that I did not post the first time.
From "Bedford Judicial Records" : Harriet Carpenter, daughter of Harry
Carpenter and Esther Wright of Milton, married 25 Jan 1847 Abraham Boulet
From Barbour Collection, Ashford CT 2:256 Amos Carpenter married Mary
(Polly) Goold 3 April 1746.
Same, Abiel, son of Amos Carpenter and Polly Goold born 2 Aug 1746
From "Headstones and Epitaphs in Westminster VT" compiled by
Bertha Miller Collins and Edited by Alice Caggiano:
East Parish Cemetery
Abel Carpenter b 1749; d 16 Nov 1804, age 55; wife Sarah d 19 Aug 1793 (or 1795), age 42;
son, Samuel d 12 Mar 1840, age 54;
West Parish Cemetery:
Abuel (Buell) Carpenter b 1752; d 15 June 1840, age 88; (1) Hannah b 1754; d 19 Oct 1818;
(2) Lydia b 1777; d 6 Feb 1835;
Buell Carpenter d 20 Nov 1844, age 58; Anna Hitchcock Carpenter d 4 Sept 1884, 89 yrs 7
months, wife of Buell;
Vine Carpenter d 13 Feb 1866, age 76; Dezire, wife of Vine, d 10 Apr 1840, age 51;
Bathsheba Goodell, wife of Vine, d 8 June 1861, age 76
John W. Carpenter d 18 Oct 1822, age 22
Ira Carpenter d 24 Sept 1859, age 82
Phebe Carpenter, wife of Ira, d 28 Jan 1836, age 57
John L. Carpenter, son of Buel and Anna, d 20 May 1850, age 22
Ira S. Carpenter, d 23 Apr 1886, age 49
Maria Carpenter d 17 Aug 1865, age 36
Marcia