Robin Carpenter wrote: > > >Dear Ernest and Donny: > > Are you guys reacting to each other, or are your recent queries > coincidental? Some months ago I posted queries for any connection between > Carpenter and Yelverton famiilies. Rod Carpenter provide a clue in citing > Yelverton Carpenter in NC, who he said was said to have been maybe a son of > Stephen and brother of Fielding (or maybe the other way around?), perhaps > from Pennsylvania. (Are on on line, Rod? Am I getting this right?) I made > a couple of inquiries in PA, to no avail. > > So Ernest, if you find anything on Yelverton Carpenter's parents I'd > sure like to know it. Donny, are you only looking in TN? Maybe NC, or even > PA are possibilities. > > My own interest in this is that way up in Orange Cty NY there were two > marriages--a Carpenter-Yelverton and a Carman-Yelverton (Eager's History of > Orange County) that may or may not have produced a Yelverton Carpenter, and > may or may not have produced a Carman Carpenter. Various Orange County > Carpenters (including my own) moved to PA, so if some then moved to NC and > thence TN there may be connection. Or, maybe just similar names. This gets > pretty tenuous...but I've tracked down more than one relative on tenuous > coincidence. > > Robin > > I have considered for sometime whether Yelverton Carpenter belonged to my Carpenters who were originally Zimmerman and settled in the Lincoln Co. area of NC. I even did some supposing in my book CARPENTERS A PLENTY. Yet proof has eluded us. The main clue which has arisen deals with his marriage in Pendleton District, South Carolina. I have found three Carpenter families living there in the middle 1790's: William Carpenter -- also named Woolrick, Ulrich, Wabrig, etc and signed his name with a "VZ" mark. He was in Tryon Co. (parent of Lincoln) in the 1760's and 70's. He left Pendleton District by the 1800 census and I have not located him. Boston Carpenter -- also named Bastian. He was also presumably German. I located him with a NC Revolutionary claim in the 1780's. I never found him in the Lincoln Co., NC area. He may be related to the above mentioned William Carpenter. Boston was in Logan Co., Ky. by 1800 and then I have lost him again. Burwell Carpenter -- migrated to Pendleton District in 1796 from Wake County, NC. He was not related to the above two Carpenters. His parents are also unknown. I have also seen the mention that Yelverton was somehow related to the Stephen and Fielding Carpenter families. These Carpenters seem to arise out of the mountains of NC, Tenn. and VA. without any clues as to where they came from. I did locate and trace a Matthias Zimmerman (Carpenter) who was in the mountains of NC, first Stokes County then Yancey County. His parentage has also not been found. Many of the families of Pendleton District, SC had migrated from the Wilkes, Stokes, Surry County, NC area to SC prior to and just after the American Revolution. It is possible that Yelverton was part of that migration which could tie him to the Stephen and Fielding families. Unfortunately not many original records from these mountain NC counties exist which can help our search. I am very interested in proving how all these Carpenters fit even if they do not fit into my families. Please keep me informed about discoveries. Sincerely, Robert Carpenter