Does anyone on list relate to the following Jesse Carpenter? (I'm beginning to suspect that I may .... or I may not. Sigh.) Our County and Its People A History of the Valley and County of Chemung From the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century, 1892, by Ausburn Towner page 507 Jesse Carpenter, Chemung, New York "In 1804 came Jesse Carpenter, a lineal descendant of William Carpenter who came from Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, with Roger Williams and settled at Providence, R. I., in 1636. Jesse settled on what is now the Jacob Lowman estate half a mile west of Baldwin Creek. He had two sons, Jesse, Jr., and Joseph. The latter never married. The living descendants of Jesse Carpenter, Jr., are Edward S., George e., James, and William S. Edward S. and William s. are well known and prominent residents in the town of Big Flats. George E. is a retired merchant and resides in Elmira. James Carpenter still remains on the old homestead, and the house in which he dwells occupies a site only a few rods to the west of the spot on which his grandfather erected his primitive abode more that fourscore years ago. His father, Jesse Carpenter, Jr., invented and constructed the first horse-power churn in 1832. The indenture in the ground made for the purpose of erecting this machinery is still to be seen near the present farm-house, although the apparatus itself was discontinued in 1876." Connie