Dear Linda, Congratulations on your rewarding trip! Have you ever thought of writing it up (with a map and directions) and sending it to Bette Butcher < Topptoppline@cet.com >? This way, others can share it (hard copy) it the future. A thought, John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA USA Linda Hannah wrote: > > >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.