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Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: CARPENTER-D Digest V01 #143
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:51:58 EDT


Re: Carpenter Lineage by Winifred Lovering Holman

John (and Jack),

Mary Lovering Holman, FASG, was one of the finest genealogists of the first
half of the 20th century. Volume One of THE STEVENS-MILLER ANCESTRY (short
title) was compiled by her and published in 1948; "The Carpenter Line"
chapter is found on pp. 261-68 of this volume. The completion of
STEVENS-MILLER (i.e., Volume Two) was accomplished by Mary's daughter,
Winifred Lovering Holman, and was published in 1952 (after her mother's
death).

In "The Carpenter Line" chapter, Mary Holman excerpts the will of William
Carpenter of Rehoboth, as transcribed by George Ernest Bowman in the
MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT 12(1914):231-33; this is a far more accurate
transcription than that of Amos B. Carpenter.

Without benefit of the Carpenter baptismal records from Shalbourne, England
(see TAG 70[1995]:194-95), Holman nevertheless deduces accurately the proper
birth order of William2's children. (She carried forward only William2's son
Joseph.) She nevertheless falls victim to the same interpretation of the
Weymouth records that first gave rise to the erroneous conclusion that son
Abiah had a twin (nonexistent Abraham).

Carpenter researchers would be best served by obtaining a copy of the
aforementioned TAG article (70:193-204), which represents the most recent and
accurate scholarship on the immigrant Rehoboth Carpenter family. It cites
the Holman pages a few times (not in support of data) but goes well beyond
them as to analysis and data (both new and corrected).

Those whose Carpenter descent is through William2's son Joseph (bap.
Shalbourne, 6 April 1634; m. Rehoboth 25 November [not May] 1655, Margaret
Sutton) will benefit directly from the Holman pages (beginning at 1:265 and
continuing through "The Sutton Line," 1:269-70)--and from Howard Dakin
French, "Sutton Family," NEHGR 91(1937):61-65; they should obtain copies of
both.

John, I'll soon be in touch with you directly.

Gene Zubrinsky

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