At 09:04 PM 9/1/1999 -0700, Bruce E. Carpenter wrote: >Dearest Carpenters: >As I mentioned previously, the vast, vast majority >of present English Carpenters are dscendants of timber tossing carpenters of >trade. >They surely must be well built. However the Rehoboth >and Providence Carpenters are descendants of landowners >and merchants. These were people who used their brains and >not their brawn. My Carpenters are all tall, thin boned with >fine chisled facial features. They (including myself) were never in >love with physical work, even on the farm. In the Carpenter Memorial, >on p. 376, is a picture of Philo Carpenter. He seems to me to be >the classic Carpenter. Take a look at the two on p. 163. >A classic Carpenter is Frank Carpenter, whose fine photo can >be found at www.geocities.com/fbc.htm. A much more interesting >question would have been, "Were the Carpenter ladies well built"? > >For the record, the reason I don't accept a DeMelun >origin for the Herefordshire Carpenters is not >that I dislike the DeMeluns, but rather the evidence that >supports the connection is a sham. It is the nature >of my profession to assign an "F" for lousy homework and >an "A" for well done homework. Simple as that. > >Sincerely, >Bruce Carpenter > The URL posted above does not work for me but the one below does. http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/fbc.htm From a personal observation. I am descended from the Rehoboth clan. I grew up in Barrington, RI which was once part of Rehoboth. I am more closely related to Bruce Carpenter than any other Carpenter on the list. We follow the same path from William down to Stephen Carpenter and Martha Hunt. The observation is: I am small boned and 5'8" tall but have the 29.5 inseam as Tony mentions.. maybe it's 30". ALL the Carpenters I have ever met were small boned with the exception of my son who is large boned, 6' and 265 lbs. The biggest Carpenter I know :) Frank Carpenter( The Painter ) bears a strong resemblance to my family and a lot of other Carpenters I have known. All of them were very intelligent and worked hard, but not "heavy" laborers. They were all "artistic" in some way and yes a little eccentric :) And they all loved women, "well built" or not :) Chuck Please visit my web site "Chuck's Wood-Knots" at: http://www.evcom.net/~chuck2/index.html Carpenter Genealogy at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6712/index.html