I am interested in any information on Horace CARPENTER and his extended family. I am especially looking to find proof of a connection to his supposed parents, Ezra CARPENTER and Anne FULLER. Ezra owned a canal boat company and is believed to have died in Whitehall in 1812 at age 55, but we have found no information about him or Anne there or any grave or will, so far. He is not in the 1810 census. Horace may have been born in Stafford Twp. Tolland, NH on 3 Jan. 1791, but some sources show his birth as late as 1810, and later census records and his grave marker give various ages. Canada is also listed as a birthplace in some references, and I suspect that some family members moved or lived there. Amos Carpenter's "Carpenter Memorial" book lists a Horace as #5759, and this may well be our man, but we have found nothing that conclusively shows our Horace to be this son of Ezra and Ann. Horace is believed to have been in Whitehall by 1818 or earlier. He worked on the canal boats with his friend, Clark LOCKWOOD, who died in 1832. A daughter of Ezra, Belary, is listed as having married an Augustine LOCKWOOD in Whitehall in 1824, which suggests but does not prove we have the right families. Probably before 1818 Horace married first a Betsey LAWRENCE. In 1818 one child, Eleanor CARPENTER, was born, and the girl eventually married a BREWSTER from Mass. Betsey died in 1822 and is believed to be buried in William St. Cemetery in Whitehall, though we could not find this grave or any family grave on a too-brief visit as we passed through in the area last year. (The cemetery was in poor condition, had been mowed like a hayfield, and many of the stones were broken and had been stacked in a pile rather than repaired or laid on the matching grave. It is a real shame more is not done to preserve this historic cemetery while it is still possible to match the broken stones with the pieces still standing.) According to transcriptions of records of the Presbyterian church posted on the internet, Horace (unless there were two men by this name, and there is some suggestion there were) married second in 1830 to an Elenour Bostwick. She must have died before long and as far as we know there were no children. Our Horace married again in 1833 to Abigail Maria Lockwood LOOMIS, the widow of his friend. Several children were born of this union (Clark, Rollin, Edward, Franklin, William, Charles and my gg grandfather, Isaac) and there were also two Lockwood stepchildren in the household, George and Sabrina, and probably Eleanor from the first marriage. One would think a large family who spent several decades in Whitehall would have left more traces! The family moved on to Ohio about 1836-8 and on to Waterford, Wisconsin in 1846-8. Any further information or suggestions would be welcomed. I am sure we have not exhausted all resources, but have been unable to get past this break for a while. --Pam Berger, Milwaukee, WI --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

> -----Original Message----- > From: Pamela Berger [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 04:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NYWASHIN] CARPENTER, LOOMIS, LOCKWOOD, LAWRENCE, BOSTWICK > I have a small amount of information on LOOMIS that was in the northern counties of NY, married into SCHOOLCRAFT who came into northern NY from Quebec and then went west into Michigan. Most of what I have either comes from or merely confirms what is stated in: BIOGRAPHIES OF VAN BUREN CO., MICHIGAN RESIDENTS in 1912 From A HISTORY OF VAN BUREN COUNTY MICHIGAN By Captain O. W. Rowland Volume II That document is online, although I do not have the URL handy. It should show up in a search.