<< I'm trying to find more info. regarding John Carpenter of the Hempstead L.I., NY area. He married Abigail Rhodes. These people would have lived in the mid to late 1600's. I have no dates for them. They had a daughter, Sarah Carpenter who was born around 1693 and died in 1737. She married Joshua Pettit of Newtown, Long Island. >> Herbert F. Seversmith (one of the most respected genealogists of the first half or so of the 20th century) did an extensive revision of Amos B. Carpenter's work on John3 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Mass., and Huntington, Hempstead, and Jamaica, L.I., and some of his descendants (_Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, _ 5 vols. [Washington, D.C., 1939-1958] 2:535-551; see also _The American Genealogist_ [TAG] 70[1995]:197n27, par. 2). John3, incidentally, was baptized in the parish of Shalbourne, Wiltshire/Berkshire, England, 8 Oct. 1626, son of William2 and Abigail (Briant [not Bennett, Searles, etc.]) Carpenter (TAG 70:194, 203). Seversmith presents evidence that John3's widow (and only known wife) Hannah was not a Hope but was the daughter of William1 Smith of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Mass., and Huntington and Jamaica, L.I. (2:549-50). The widow (and only known wife) of John4 Carpenter (b. probably Huntington, L.I. [not Conn.], ca. 1655, son of John3) was not Abigail but Mary (as named in his will), presumably the daughter of John1 Rhodes, "who in his will named his daughter wife of John Carpenter" (Seversmith, 2:536, 550). Seversmith estimates that their daughter Susannah--she is named in her father's will, which fails to mention a daughter Sarah--was born at Jamaica, L.I., about 1699 and says that she "is considered to have married Joshua Pettit of Hempstead" (2:543). << Here is a link to another web site that has some Carpenter info. _http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/carpenter/fam04307.htm_ (http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/carpenter/fam04307.htm) >> The information presented there is so confused and full of demonstrable errors that none of it should be trusted. Gene Z.