Hello Carpenters: I've ben watching this conversation about descendants of Yelverton Carpenter, and it seemed to me the issue was focused on determining who were his descendants. Now I see reference to his ancestry (below)...but I missed that part. I wonder whether it is established that this Yelverton Carpenter was clearly of southern descent through prior generations. In Eager's History of Orange County (NY), page 487, says of John Yelverton (1693-1767, of Chester NY in 1751): "One daughter married Mr. Carpenter of Goshen." Is it possible this unspecified Mr. Carpenter and his unspecified Miss Yelverton named a son Yelverton Carpenter who moved south? >Dear List, > >I am one of the people who confused everyone about the ancestry of Yelverton >Carpenter. When I did my book, Carpenters A Plenty, in the 1980's I >corresponded with a number of descendants of Yelverton. All thought he was >German. His movement from NC to SC and then to Tennessee seemed to mirror >other Carpenters I was tracing.