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From: "Connie" <>
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Re: expectant child of Hezekiah, 1713, Hopewell, NJ
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:29:49 -0800
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I have a 45 page .pdf file of the Carpenter portion of Seversmith's book
mentioned below. I can share with anyone who asks me privately (will send by
email).
Connie
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Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: expectant child of Hezekiah, 1713, Hopewell, NJ
> Mike,
>
> Sorry I can't confirm your hypothesis (message dated 2/2/04), but you may
or
> may not be aware that, according to Herbert F. Seversmith, the elder Hope
> Carpenter's will appears in New York Wills, 8:196 (see Seversmith,
COLONIAL
> FAMILIES OF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT, Volume 2 [Washington,
D.C.,
> 1939], 545). Seversmith has Hope Sr.'s will as dated 8 January 1712
(rather than
> 1713) and proved 13 May 1713 (ibid.). He cites the New Jersey Calendar of
> Wills for the will of Hope Jr. (ibid.).
>
> Seversmith identifies Hope Carpenter Sr.'s wife, Mary, as the daughter of
> Robert Ashman (ibid.); this, as you know, is the forename of one of Hope's
sons.
>
> Seversmith also concurs with a fellow genealogist's argument (which he
> presents) that Hope Sr.'s father John3 Carpenter's widow--though not
necessarily the
> mother of some or any of his children--was not Hannah HOPE (as Amos B.
> Carpenter proposes) but Hannah SMITH, daughter of William1 Smith of
Weymouth (and
> Rehoboth), Mass. (and Huntington and Jamaica, Long Island) (ibid., 544,
549-50,
> 1012). You'll note that one of the witnesses of Hope Carpenter's will is
> Nehemiah Smith; William1 had a son of that name. It was Nehemiah2 Smith
who on 22
> February 1699/1700 was grantor to "my Loving cussen [i.e., nephew] John
> Carpenter." In that John3 Carpenter had died ca. 10 November 1694, this
would have
> been his son John4 (whose wife was Mary Rhodes/Roads) (ibid., 545, citing
> Jamaica, New York, Wills, A:98). Nehemiah2 Smith was thus the
brother-in-law of
> John3 Carpenter.
>
> Incidentally, confirming Herbert Seversmith's stature as one of the
> outstanding genealogists of the first half of the twentieth century is his
having been
> named a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (FASG) in 1942, two
> years after the organization was founded. The society has always limited
the
> number of living FASGs to 50.
>
> Gene Z.
>
>
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