This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carpenter, Firth Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oRB.2ACI/359.2.1 Message Board Post: Here are the notes I have on Ezra Gibbs FIRTH: Philadelphia, PA General & Business Directory for 1830. Philadelphia: Robert DeSilver, 1830: FIRTH, Lucas and Ezra carpenters 26 Ann Ezra, son of Preston Carpenter FIRTH and Hannah Gibbs, died unmarried according to "Samuel Carpenter and his Descendants" by Edward Carpenter and his son, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1912. Note: Books have been known to have wrong information. I have not examined the actual book. I have copies of a couple of pages and I think I found some of the text on the Internet. I have not seen a death date for Ezra Gibbs but the authors of the book thought he died before they had it published in 1912. Note 2: Preston Carpenter FIRTH was a Quaker. He was a member of the Salem Monthly Meeting in 1793 and later transferred to the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.