Our Corrected Carpenter Family History
As stated in the introduction, we descend from Revolutionary War Veteran Jeremiah Carpenter of New York - whose tombstone from Wales, Erie County, New York is shown above. An incorrect version of his family tree exists across the internet. That was addressed in the following article, which ran in the genealogy journal Family Chronicle in the May-June 2014 edition. The article is five pages long, and lays out the problem with incorrect versions of Jeremiah’s family that populate the internet; a brief description of how we got to the correct family; and the struggle to correct the pervasive incorrect facts. The article includes graphic images of early records that include Jeremiah and his family.
Below the article, I have posted a link to a corrected family records file in Public Member Trees on ancestry.com. If you link to that file, it contains a very long note on Jeremiah Carpenter’s history. I will also post a family group sheet for his immediate family - so you can see a briefer version of the correct children for Jeremiah along with their birth and death dates and the names of their spouses. I have also now posted a separate page detailing the research process on getting to Jeremiah’s correct family. I am happy to answer any questions on this research and Jeremiah Carpenter at the contact form for this web page - available by clicking the contact heading on this and every page on this site.
[NOTE: When the article was written, we had identified five of Jeremiah Carpenter’s likely nine children. Cousin Mary Vukman has since identified a sixth child - originally shown as Carpenter Girl Two - as Sarah Carpenter. I will include her in the family group sheet below, even though she was not identified at the time of the article, nor included in the family records file posted a few years ago.]
If you are an ancestry.com subscriber, you can link to the correct public member tree for Jeremiah and his children, “The Correct Jeremiah Carpenter Descendants File:” While that link takes you to the details of Jeremiah, his children, and their families, if you are not an ancestry.com member, shown below is a brief version of the family group sheet of just Jeremiah and his children. The one thing that seems to be missing from this sheet is a reference to the fact that Jeremiah remarried after his first wife Jane Shears’ death - to Mary Harmon, who survived him.
I have now posted another page in the Carpenter section of this website detailing our research and process in determining this actual family of Jeremiah. I am happy to respond to inquiries about the family. and how we got to the correct family for Jeremiah, at the “contact” heading on this page.