>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:01:59 >To: LorenMC1@aol.com >From: Linda Hannah <Jamila@thuntek.net> >Subject: Re: research, findings, conclusions etc. > > >Thank you, Loren, > The way I look at it is that what was done is done, and that's too bad but look at the times it was done in. Put it away and look at the thousands of Carpenters that were good, rightous, God-fearing people who cared for their families, their religion, and their country. > I just got back from Boston visting my daughter and spent a weekend in Williamstown, MA with Ted Atkinson, a half-cousin thru Joseph Ira Carpenter on page 411 in the Memorial. I actually got to meet a Joseph Ira Cousin!!! > He took me around to Bennington and Pownal,Vt. where the gravesites of Jeremiah and Joshua are located along with several other Carpenter cousins! I learned about the Battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary war and that Jeremiah and his three sons were active in it! > I stayed at a little motel called the Apple Valley Inn and was delighted to discover that not a 100 ft south was Carpenter Hill Rd. that went up Carpenter Hill where the little orchard cemetery is located and where Jeremiah is buried! I was so excited to be at another site where my ancesters were. (Last year I visited Rehoboth!) It's called Carpenter Hill because Jeremiah bought 800 acres on the hill with the 120 lbs sterling that was given to Elizabeth by her father. > I learned so much from Ted. It turns out he was a professional genealogist for 15 years. He is descended from Olive Jane Carpenter back to Joseph David the only child of Joseph Ira's first marriage. I am from his second marriage to Flora Bartholmew. > I just got my pictures back. One of these days I will get them on a website for you all to see. To those who wrote me last year about the Rehoboth pictures, I have your email addresses and will let you know when I'm up and running. I haven't forgotten you. > > I have gained so much knowledge about the Carpenter family from these to researchers I hate to see it dissolve in a battle. Let's be polite gentlemen. We can all take what you have given us and go on to accept or reject it on our own terms. > Right now I have a problem with Elizabeth Reynolds who married Jeremiah. One person, a prof. genealogist accepts Frances Reynolds and the Greens on back to Henry the first of England. Another who has just written a Reynolds two vol. book says her father was Joseph son of Frances. Can anyone outthere help? > Concentrate on the Good all this family has done, it outweighs the bad!!! > In Carpenter Loyalty, > Linda in Albuq. > > >>I too am involved in a lengthy "historically important" research debacle. >>Because there is no "conclusive" answer (i.e.: documents such as wills or >>written verbiage to "prove" anything I gather is considered circumstantial >>evidence. Every other researcher can either agree or disagree with my >>findings. >>I base my case on very tangible evidence..but be that as it may...it is NOT >>fact..circumstantial evidence at best. >>To Bruce and John...I respect you both. You are thorough researchers who both >>have the best intentions..HOWEVER...Bruce....I find your arrogance demeaning >>to your research. You almost had me sold until you lambasted John in a very >>vicious way. >>Reaching back to other ancient sayings..."Doth does protest too loudly" and >>with that comes the thought that perhaps you are not an open minded >>researcher but rather a person who must be right at all costs. We are each >>capable of making up our own minds based on evidence presented...just because >>YOU say it is so, does not make it a truth. A fact is a fact, circumstantial >>is still circumstanial. >>Please get back to everyone posting their research findings and let us all >>draw our own conclusions. Name calling, religious slander does not belong in >>true academia nor genealogical research..nor anywhere else for that matter. >> >>Laurie Carpenter >>(a Carpenter thru maternal and paternal and marital.. 6 ways...and if my >>original is found to be a scoundrel......so WHAT?????? I am not...it is >>present action that concerns me most!) >> >> >> > Searching for: Acton, Bailey, Bartle, Carpenter, Hannah, Hertzog, Hillary, Holland, Mackay, Matheson, Page, Reynolds, Ridenour/Reitenaurer, Shadwick, Stoner, Wollet.