Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2008Amos Carpenter presents correct birth data for Benjamin and Hannah's son Jedediah (Northampton, 1 Oct. 1697) but otherwise confuses him with another Jedediah Carpenter, a blacksmith, born at Rehoboth 15 Dec. 1696 and died there 15 Dec. 1731, son of Samuel4 and Patience (Ide) Carpenter; the latter married 24 May 1725 Mercy Brown of Barrington, Mass. (now in R.I.) (Carpenter [1898] 65, 96-97; CVR 19; BrCoPR 7:313-14; RVR 1:48, 56, 2:144, 241; RI Cems 69; see also Samuel3 sketch, CHILDREN, no. i). Benjamin and Hannah's son Jedediah, of Coventry and Stafford, Conn., died at the latter place on 2 March 1781; the otherwise unidentified "widow Carpenter" died there on 9 Jan. 1784, aged 84 (StVR [Barbour] 2:177; StChR 69). They had seven known children, 2-7 baptized at Bolton (adjacent to Coventry): 1. Daniel, b. Coventry or Bolton by 1725; 2. Joel, bp. 10 Dec. 1727; 3. Ruth, bp. 4 Jan. 1730; 4. Nathan, bp. 2 April 1732; 5. Samuel, bp. 28 July 1734; 6. Dorcas, bp. 22 Feb. 1736; 7. Ezekiel, bp. 25 June 1738 (CLR 4:470; NEHGR 52:180-85).
(end note extract) - See father's notes.
More from Gene Zubrinsky on this person and the confusion with another Jedediah;
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carpenter/messages/7687.html
Two Jedediah Carpenters: One of Coventry, Conn., the Other of Rehoboth, Mass.
Posted by: Gene Zubrinsky (ID *****9842) Date: April 15, 2005 at 15:53:20I recently found in Amos B. Carpenter (hereafter ABC), _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ (1898), another cluster of errors that have been uncritically accepted and repeated by virtually everyone who has posted anything online about the family in question.
...
The Jedediah Carpenter who married Mercy/Marcy/Mary Brown (of Barrington, Mass. [now R.I.]); had children Amy, Rebecca, Caleb, and Patience; and died at Rehoboth in 1731 is a different man. Jedediah Carpenter of Rehoboth never lived anywhere else: he was born there on 15 December 1696, the son of Samuel and Patience (Ide) Carpenter (see Rehoboth Vital Records, 1:48, 56, 2:65, 144, 241). ABC lists him among Samuel and Patience Carpenter's children but gives no information about him except his birth date (see _Rehoboth Carpenter Family_, 78).
...
The data and sources cited above are sufficient to validate the distinction between Benjamin and Hannah (Strong) Carpenter's son Jedediah, on the one hand, and Samuel and Patience (Ide) Carpenter's son Jedediah, on the other. They do not, however, represent thorough research of land, probate, church, cemetery, and other records of Coventry and vicinity or Stafford. Such research (which I do not plan to undertake) will undoubtedly add precision and breadth to the former Jedediah's biography and perhaps identify his wife and provide direct, documentary evidence of more children (including Daniel) than the six baptized at Bolton.That the Jedediah Carpenter born at Northampton and the one (Jedediah) who died at Rehoboth were the same man was unlikely on its face: What are the odds that a young man born in western Massachusetts, who had moved with his family to central Connecticut, would migrate northeastward, back to the town of his father's birth--the son had no direct connection to Rehoboth and no inheritance there--when population pressures, soil depletion, and primogeniture were pushing people westward? But even if the online repeaters of ABC's inaccuracies failed to see that this scenario deserved further investigation, one would have thought that at least a few might observe standard principles of genealogical research and, as a matter of course, check secondary-source data (particularly that from a nineteenth-century genealogy such as ABC's) against primary sources; lamentably, none did. If anyone had bothered, he or she would have found the whole thing to be a "no-brainer." How many times does the lesson have to be repeated before it is learned? There are no shortcuts to reliable genealogical data!
Gene Z.
Certain of the corrections above have since been confirmed by Ann S. Lainhart and Neil D. Thompson in their "Mercy Brown's Husband Jedediah Carpenter," _The Mayflower Quarterly_ 73 (2007):289-91. And as recently discovered, the remaining corrections had been published previously by Kendall P. Hayward in his "Jedidiah [sic] Carpenter of Coventry, Conn.," _The American Genealogist_ 53 (1977):116-18. See them for additional information.
The same confusion leading Amos Carpenter to attribute the marriage and death data of Jedediah Carpenter of Rehoboth to the Coventry and Stafford man of that name (see above) also causes him to ascribe to the latter the occupation of the former (see _Rehoboth Carpenter Family_, 65). Jedediah Carpenter of Rehoboth was a blacksmith (Bristol Co. Probate, 7:313-14); there is no evidence that Jedediah Carpenter of Coventry and Stafford was anything other than a yeoman farmer.
Old notes follow.
BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. Also known as the CARPENTER MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA. Jedediah is listed as number 122 on page 65. His family (#65) is listed on pages 96 and 97. A blacksmith.
Compare to:
BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. Also known as the CARPENTER MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA.
Number 241 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 78. No family listed. He is believed to have died young.
NAME: Unknown - "Widow" used as a place marker for death date until further info comes forward.
This from the husband's notes ...
It was probably about this time that Jedediah moved to Stafford, Conn., where he died on 2 March 1781 (Barbour Collection, citing Stafford VR, 2:177); the otherwise unidentified "widow Carpenter" died there on 9 January 1784, aged 84 (Stafford Church Records, 69).
DEATH: image - same person?
Name: Ezekiel Carpenter
Residence Date: 11 Jan 1806 <--- death date
Residence Place: Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
Volume Title: Volume 133 Woodstock
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013.
Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
NOTE:
This is from the North Woodstock Congregational Church (3 volumes), Woodstock Third Society, organized in 1760, covering the period of 1727-1900. Page 28
Ezekiel,d.Jan.11,1806 Vol. 1 Page 146
BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH
BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. Also known as the CARPENTER
MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA
Number 125 on page 65. His family (#66) is listed on page 97.His father soon after his birth in 1703, removed to Coventry, CT.
Eliphalet's residence was Coventry, CT. where he died on 22 Feb 1792.
His will was dated 1 Dec 1775 and probated 3 April 1792. He was called by the
commisioners, Captain Eliphalet Carpenter, which title justly belonged to him
as he held a captain's commission under the King.
His name is on the muster roll of a large MA Company under the command of
Capt. Thomas Cheney in Gen. Dwight's Regiment, which was raised in 1746 for the
expedition to Canada and dismissed from service 31 Oct 1747.
Eliphalet was called a very old man at his death. He married twice, his second
wife surviving him and he mentions in his will his children and grandchildren.
He speaks in his will of his granddaughter Anne, daughter of Eliphalet and
gives her a gold necklace that belonged to his former wife.
He renewed his baptismal faith at West Hartford, CT on 17 March 1728. His
daughter, Hannah was baptized at West Harford, CT on 27 March 1728.
The inscription on his tombstone in an old burying ground in Coventry, CT,
reads as follows: "This monument is sacred to the memory of Captain Eliphat
Carpenter who died February 22nd, 1792, after 10 weeks illness, with great
composure of mind, in full hope of a glorious resurrection and in the 89th year
of his age. /An honest man, rare to be found/ Lies buried here beneath this
ground:/ Whose soul we trust is now above/ Where all is joy, where all is
love./" On the same stone is inscribed the following: "Here lies interred
the body of Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Captain Eliphalet Carpenter, who departed
this life May 6th, A.D., 1773, in the sixty-eighth year of her age: the first
one buried in this ground."Many of his children died of "Black throat distemper" which is the highly contagious diptheria. Every child in the USA is now required to have the diptheria vaccine. Spelling is correct for either diptheria or diphtheria.
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Capt Eliphalet Carpenter
Birth: Nov. 29, 1703
Death: Feb. 22, 1792
Family links:
Parents:
Benjamin Carpenter (1663 - 1738)
Hannah Strong Carpenter (1671 - 1762)
Spouse:
Elizabeth Andrus Carpenter (1706 - 1773)
Children:
Eliphalet Carpenter (____ - 1820)*
Sibling:
Benjamin Carpenter (____ - 1785)*
Eliphalet Carpenter (1703 - 1792)
*Calculated relationship
Note: age 88 years
Burial:
North Coventry Cemetery
Coventry
Tolland County
Connecticut, USA
Created by: Judith
Record added: Aug 05, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 11483180
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Elizabeth Andrus Carpenter
Birth: Feb. 17, 1706
Death: May 6, 1773
Family links:
Spouse:
Eliphalet Carpenter (1703 - 1792)*
Children:
Eliphalet Carpenter (____ - 1820)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
North Coventry Cemetery
Coventry
Tolland County
Connecticut, USA
Created by: Anonymous
Record added: May 18, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 8797124
Number 436 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Died of "Black throat distemper", a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT about June 1740.
Number 437 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
He was a member of the General Court in the state of NY and lived in
Troy, NY.
Number 438 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Died of "Black throat distemper", a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT about June 1740.
Number 439 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Died of "Black throat distemper", a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT about June 1740.
Number 440 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Died of "Black throat distemper", a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT about June 1740.
Number 441 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Died of "Black throat distemper", a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT about June 1740.
Number 442 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
Number 443 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97 Died age 95.
Submit was named undoubtedly from the great affliction which her parents had
just experienced. Five of her sisters all died within a few days of each other
of the "black throat distemper" a fearful scourge that carried death and
consternation to so many families in CT in June of 1740. In addition
the second child named Hannah died about three months prior to
Submit's birth.Submit married Reuben Stiles in November 1764. He was born 25 Mar 1737
and was the son of Ebenezer Stiles. The next paragraph in the Carpenter
Memorial states he was married at Coventry, CT on 12 Dec 1769.Reuben Stiles was in the Havana expedition in 1762 as a assistant commissary.
He served at the siege of Boston in 1775; at NY City in 1776; magazine
keeper in 1777 and 1779: was at Danbury, CT and White Plains, NY in 1776 and in
the service after 1779. He was married at Coventry, CT on Dec 12, 1769,
removed to NJ in 1789 and taught school. He died about 1836 and she
died Dec. 26, 1837; aged 95.
Submit married Reuben Stiles in November 1764. He was born 25 Mar 1737
and was the son of Ebenezer Stiles. The next paragraph in the Carpenter
Memorial states he was married at Coventry, CT on 12 Dec 1769.Reuben Stiles was in the Havana expedition in 1762 as a assistant commissary.
He served at the siege of Boston in 1775; at NY City in 1776; magazine
keeper in 1777 and 1779: was at Danbury, CT and White Plains, NY in 1776 and in
the service after 1779. He was married at Coventry, CT on Dec 12, 1769,
removed to NJ in 1789 and taught school. He died about 1836 and she
died Dec. 26, 1837; aged 95.
Number 444 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 97
She married Isaiah Porter who died 14 April 1766 or as "Roberts" has it
4 April 1766. He is probably correct. He was a farmer.
BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH
BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. Also known as the CARPENTER
MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA
Number 126 on page 66. His family (#67) is listed on page 98.
FROM:
ANCESTORS OF PAMELA JEAN ROBINSON
Robinson Line Christopher Robinson from Sturton Le Steeple, England (1515) thur Charles Edward Robinson from Steuben and Erie Co., NY. (1950) Some Bio information
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamrob/dat370.html
Carpenter, Noah
Birth : 4 DEC 1705 Coventry, Tolland, CT
Death : BEF. 1779 Coventry, Tolland, CT
Gender: Male
Family:
Marriage: 27 JUL 1758 in Windham, Windham, CT
Spouse:
Robinson, Rhoda
Birth : 1702 Norwich, CT
Death : 1779 Coventry, Tolland, CT
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: ROBINSON, Peter
Mother: Manter, Experience
Number 446 on page 98. Probably a farmer. No Family listed.
Number 447 on page 98. Married an ORMSBEE.
A widow?
Number 448 on page 98. Married a RUSS or ROSS.
Number 450 on page 98. She married a Porter.
Number 452 on page 98. No Family listed, probably died before age 20?
Number 454 on page 98. No Family listed. Birth "in January 175_"
Number 453 on page 98. No Family listed
Number 456 on page 98.
No birth or other information given. Possibly a twin who died early or a late
child who might have died young. NFD
BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH
BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. Also known as the CARPENTER
MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA
Number 128 on page 66. His family (#68) is listed on page 98.BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 23"He was the first white child born in Coventry". He was a farmer and was a
constable and held other town offices. He also traded conciderably in real
estate.
!His will dated Jan. 16, 1777 names 11 children. Both he and his wife died of
"spotted fever" and were buried in one grave.WILL:
Name: Ebenezer Carpenter
Probate Date: 16 Jan 1777
Probate Place: Windham, Connecticut, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1777
Inferred Death Place: Connecticut, USA
Item Description: Probate Records, Vol 9-10, 1775-1782
Source Citation
Probate Records, 1719-1918; Author: Connecticut. Probate Court (Windham District); Probate Place: Windham, Connecticut
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.DEATH:
Name: Ebenezer Carpenter
Birth Date: abt 1710
Age at Death: 67
Death Date: 30 Jan 1777
Death Place: Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 3101
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:
"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
SEE ALSO:
Name: Ebenezer Carpenter
Death Date: 30 Jan 1777
Death Place: Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 599303
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:
"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.OBIT:
Name: Ebenezer Carpenter
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1709
Death Date: 30 Jan 1777
Age at Death: 67
Cemetery: Strong Cemetery
Burial Place: Connecticut
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.GRAVE: images
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Ebenezer Carpenter
Birth: Nov. 2, 1709
Death: Jan. 30, 1777
Note: son of Benjamin and Hannah
Burial:
North Coventry Cemetery
Coventry
Tolland County
Connecticut, USA
Created by: Judith
Record added: Aug 05, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 11483175AGBI:
Name: Ebenezer Carpenter
Birth Date: 1709
Birthplace: Connecticut
Volume: 25
Page Number: 171
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 13 Oct 1913, 3607
Source Information
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
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Eunice Carpenter
Birth: 1723
Death: Jan. 21, 1777
Note: wife of Lt. Ebenezer, age 54 years
Burial:
North Coventry Cemetery
Coventry
Tolland County
Connecticut, USA
Created by: Judith
Record added: Aug 05, 2005
Find A Grave Memorial# 11483185
Number 462 on page 99 in the Carpenter Memorial.
She married Solomon West at Coventry, CT. He was a farmer.
Number 464 on page 99 in the Carpenter Memorial.
She married a Bentley.
Number 467 on page 99 in the Carpenter Memorial.
See sister Bridget's notes.
Number 131 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 66. Family on page 99 (#69).
There were 2 Edwards, one which died as a child the second marrying and having
2 children.
Number 469 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 99.
There is another Mary Carpenter listed in the CM with the same birth date!
SEE: Number 135 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 66.
She is not listed in the AF, nor born in Rehoboth, which might mean she was
adopted. No mention of this in the Carpenter Memorial.
Number 468 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 99.
No family listed.
Number 134 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 66.
Family on page 99 (#70).He graduated Harvard College, Cambridge in 1730. He was Captain in the
Militia, and it is said that he was a lawyer and merchant. Tradition says he
was "killed by the indiains at Charlestown, NH" but his gravestone is in
Rehoboth.From a scrapbook that he used while in college is found a page headed,
"CUSTOMS" and describes the rules or customs freshman should follow. See
page 66 in the Carpenter Memorial.
On the cover of his book is the name of Cyril Carpenter born 1736: the name was
written in Latin. We also find on the same cover the Carpenter Coat of Arms.
"Argent, A Grey Hound, Passant A Chief Sable is borne by the name of
Carpenter."
This appears over 30 years before it was ingraved on Daniel Carpenter's
gravestone.
The Carpenter Memorial has her name Huldah Bowen. The AF has Hannah Bowen.
Number 470 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 99.
DEATH:2 or 5 Nov 1741.
Number 471 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 99.
Married Mayo Reynolds.
Number 474 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
He married a Smith and resided in Kennebeck. No family listed.POMFRET MARRIAGE RECORDS
Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church
Records prior to 1800. New Haven, CT: 1896-1906. See web page at:
http://w3.nai.net/~lmerrell/pomfretm.html
Matthias Smith of Lebanon & Comfort Carpenter, Sept. 29, 1758.
Number 137 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 67.
Family on page 100 (#71).
He was a Captain in the Militia.
Number 476 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
Number 477 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
She married John Blanding, a farmer in 1740.
A farmer.
Number 478 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
Number 479 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
Number 480 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
She married a Dr. Bezacel Mann.BOOK:
History of Bristol County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of...
See page 549 in which she is cited as the wife of Dr. Mann and daughter of Ezekiel Carpenter.
Number 481 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
A child whose name is not known.
Number 482 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
Number 483 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.
Number 484 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 100.