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Subject: Re: CARPENTER-D Digest V97 #35
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
Bob--I just returned from Salt lake City wehre I spent the better part of a
day using your book, Carpenters A'Plenty. I just wanted to say how impressed
I was with your vast undertaking! It was very well done! Unfortunately, as
you know from my son-in-law's cousin, Ken, better known as BULLDOG, it didn't
help us a whole lot on that line, (Owen, NC>GA>MS>TX>) but I am also a PA
Carpenter /Zimmerman by birth, something I just found out. I thought you
might be interested in the story.
Four TOTTEN cousins and I have been trying to find Esther Carpenter for four
years. She married John JACK(s) (Maj) in 1776 and their daughter was born in
Morristown, NJ. Apparently he was with Washington's Army there. John
subsequently died and Esther married a Daniel BURNETT from Orange County. As
I am sure you know from working with the OC Carpenters, there are a-plenty,
and we spent many hours and dollars up there* trying to find Esther's maiden
name and parents. (We finally got her maiden name from the Jacks Family
Newsletter.)
Well, one day I was "taking a break" at the PA Hist. Soc. and decided to read
up on a little Lancaster Co., PA history as I had heard John Jacks was from
there. Much to my amazement, there was Zimmerman/Carpenter! And I should have
known that, having living a few years in Germany!
I have found four Esthers in that family, two married, two not. One of the
nots left a will. I believe that my Esther was the other "not", disowned by
her pacifist family for running away and marrying a military man. I have no
documentation as yet, just theory, but am following up at the Lancaster
County Courthouse.
I heard that someone was putting together a book on this Lancaster Co.
(Heinrich's family) family. Do you know who it might be? I would like to
contribute what I have found to it.
I just wanted to say, again, how I impressed I am with your book
M. Toole
(ZIMMERMAN/CARPENTER>JACKS>TOTTEN>LINSENBIGLER (3 gen) >BIGLER>HUNT>TOOLE)
(PA)
OWEN CARPENTER, RAY, SMITH, SHARP, MILLER. (SOUTH)
*Did you know that the entire "C" section is missing from the index of the
Goshen, NY Presbyterian Church Records? :(
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