In response to the excerpt from the original posting provided below, I am interested in more information on the Carpenters of Dutchess County, New York. For more details on my line of research, please see my recent posting to this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CARPENTER/2005-10/1129597176 Thanks for any help, Perry -----Original Message----- From: DCUZZE [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ENGLAND > to AMERICA CARPENTERS CARPENTERS of ENGLAND to AMERICA Listers, Gene was kind enough to help me understand the flaws in the English line of Carpenters that I always took for granted. This REALLY HELPED ME and he has given permission to post it to the list as I thought it may help others too. Below is an outline I made after reading the "Colonial Carpenters" edited by G.N. MacKenzie with added notes by Gene which start with #9 William. Thanks, Gene, for your permission to post this ! >CARPENTERS of ENGLAND TO AMERICA <snip> 13 William CARPENTER b: Abt. 1662 in NY, Long Is.>Dutchess Co. NY d: Aft. 1781 in NY, Dutchess Co. [Seversmith (2:548) gives his birth year as "about 1668" and date of death, at Hempstead (L.I.), N.Y., as 21 February 1749; res. Jamaica in 1707 (had inherited father's homestead there).] ......................................................................... +ELIZABETH b: Aft. 1684 ["She would have to be born "AFTER" 1684 if Daniel is born 1734] [Seversmith (2:548) gives no date of birth for Elizabeth or Daniel but says that the latter bought a farm in Dutchess Co., N.Y., in 1753. This, of course, implies a birth year for him no later than 1732--probably much earlier, if his father was born in the 1660s.] ............................................................................ .................. 14 Daniel CARPENTER b: Abt. 1734 in NY, Hempstead, Long Island >AM REV*VET d: June 13, 1814 in NY, Dutchess Co. [Sorry, can't help (except for previous paragraph).] ............................................................................ ................... +Esther THORNE b: Abt. 1734 d: 1809 [Can't help.] <snip>