BROWN

CARPENTER

CHOQUE

Rose Marie
Andre

PENNOCK

Descendants of
Ira & Freelove Pennock

JACKSON

James and Mary

 

Our New England Families

Our earliest ancestors to arrive in the new world came in 1638. All were Puritans.

Puritans were a very conservative splinter group of the Church of England who were trying to persuade the Church to divest itself of what they considered Catholic vestments, symbols, and liturgy. As a result they were persecuted in England and many of them fled England for a new start in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They applied for and were given land grants by the crown. During the period 1620 to 1640 about 20, 000 people arrived in the Colony, after that, migration slowed right down. They set up towns similar to the ones they left in England but created a new type of governance which they customized to their new circumstances.

The William Carpenter family arrived on the ship “Bevis” from Wiltshire. They settled near Weymouth and were involved in the founding of Rehoboth Massachusetts.

“The third son of William Carpenter, born 1576, was a Carpenter by trade and resided in London.  He rented tenements and gardens in Houndsditch. Being a Dissenter, he was driven to Wherwell to escape persecution, and took the opportunity to join his sons in emigrating to America. 

 Marden and Cheriton Parishes, Wherwell in Wiltshire were Puritan strongholds.  Rev. Stephen Bachiler and Richard Dummer (who was on the Bevis in 1638) were actively engaged in persuading religious dissenters to join them in New England with their Plough Company.”

The Thomas Brown family came from Suffolk England. They settled on land near Sudbury Massachusetts. Within 3 years Thomas moved to Concord about 10 miles from Sudbury where our 7/8 times Grandfather Boaz Brown was born in 1641.

Boaz Brown sr (1641-1724) had 3 wives. Mary Winship his first wife was the mother of all his children including our ancestor Edward (1672-1711).

Boston Draper married Tryphena Brown, the daughter of Boaz Brown (1705-1772). Tryphena was a descendant of Thomas and Bridget Brown who arrived in New England from “Bury St. Edmund” England in 1638. Their descendants lived in and around Concord and Stow Massachusetts.

Boston and Tryphena settled just a few miles from Stow in Boxborough, MA. Their tombstone still stands in the Old North cemetery in Boxborough.

They had five children. One of their sons was born in 1775 and they named him after Tryphena's father. He was called “Boaz Brown” Draper.

Boaz moved his family to Herkimer, New York settling in the German Flats area between 1810 and 1815. He is known to have had three wives. They were  Sarah White, Sally Lowell, and Alice Olive Meyers. We believe that Sally Lowell was the mother of our ancestor, Ari Draper, who was born in Herkimer in 1815.  Alice is believed to be the mother of Elizabeth born in 1832.

Ari married Cynthia Bender in 1840. His older half sister, Olive (born:1809) had previously married Daniel Bender in 1830.  Daniel was Cynthia's uncle. Cynthia was the daughter of George and Christina Bender. Her ancestors were part of the Palentine immigration, which started in about 1720. Some of them settled in the Herkimer, New York area.

Ari’s brother, Franklin (born:1822) married Catherine Eliza Weber and moved to Iowa. Daniel and Olive settled in the Town of Sullivan, Madison County, NY. 

Ari and Cynthia settled in Chittenango, Town of Sullivan, Madison County, New York. Their children were: William (b:1842); David (b:1844); Hortence (b:1848); Charles (b:1851); Mary Elizabeth (b:1852); Lillian Josephine (b:1857); Ida Mae (b: 1861); and twins, Francis Elgin and Franklin (b:1864).

After serving in the civil war, William Draper moved west and eventually wound up in Oconto, Nebraska. It is possible he was the first of the Draper family to head west. He was living in Iowa in 1869. At this time there is no record of his date of arrival in Oconto. His wife Nettie died there Mar 11, 1886. He had moved to Ohio by 1898.

David married Harriet (Hattie) Francelia Carpenter, the daughter of Reuben and Hannah (Pennock) Carpenter about 1865. They had three children, Elwin, Flora, and Cynthia. Charles married Mary Trumble. Their children were, Lydia Mae, Albert Clinton, Charles, and Edwin Ward.

Harriet’s father, Reuben Carpenter, the son of Robert N. Carpenter, is believed to be the descendant of Capt William Carpenter who came to Massachusetts in 1638 on the ship “Bevis” and founded the town of Rehoboth. Nearly three hundred of his descendants fought in the Revolutionary war. Reuben's grandmother Hannah (Thayer) Carpenter is the descendant of Ferdinando Thayer, one of the founders of Mendon MA. Reuben’s wife Hannah Pennock, was born in Hebron, Washington County, New York. Her parents came from Connecticut. Hannah’s brother, Ebenezer, became one of the largest landholders in New York around 1865. He moved into a new mansion in Chittenango in 1865. The house still stands at 120 Madison, Chittenango NY.

David and Charles and their families moved to New Haven, Oswego County, New York, about 1870. New Haven is north of Syracuse on Lake Ontario, less than 50 miles from Chittenango.

At some point around 1878, Charles and Harriet decided to leave their respective spouses and children. They headed north to Canada where their oldest son Bert was born on July 2, 1879. They headed west in about 1882 eventually arriving in Toledo Ohio where their second son Elmer was born. They next moved to Phillips, Wisconsin and about 1892 moved to Oconto, Nebraska. In 1902 they traveled by wagon train to Battleford Saskatchewan.

In the meanwhile their families in New York lost track of Charles and Harriet. David and Harriet’s children were raised in New York as were Charles and Mary’s.  In 1910 David Draper married Charlotte Fellows. They lived in Rome, New York.

Mary Elizabeth married James Jackson and they lived in Oconto until moving to Battleford in 1902. Francis married Jesse Estelle Ingram and joined the trek to Battleford. Franklin who also lived in Oconto stayed in Nebraska. James and Mary returned to the US in 1914 when James became ill. Their oldest son, Walter had not joined the trek north and took care of his father until his death in 1914. Their two daughters Mabel and Agnes stayed in Battleford and married the Hennessy brothers.

Ida Mae married Henry Camp and continued living in the Chittenango area. Their daughter, Mabel married Norris Jacquay and moved to Phoenix, Arizona.

Francis Elgin Draper stayed in the Battleford area for a while. He separated from his wife and eventually both returned to the US. Francis eventually went to live near his son Alphonse in Oregon. Part of his family remained in Canada. Others went to the US.

Charles and Harriet’s children were Bert (b:1879); Elmer (b:1882 died as infant); Edna (b:1887); Ernest (b:1891); Cloyde (b:1895). Bert married Laura Wood and they remained in the US and eventually moving to southern California. Edna married Andy Delong who she met on the trek to Battleford. Ernest married Lillian Maude Liggins. Cloyde married Rose Choque.

The Pennocks of Madison County - Ira and Freelove Pennock came to Madison County, New York in the early 1800s. They were born in Washington County NY. Their son Ebenezer, became one of the largest property holders in central New York State. Their daughter Hannah, married Reuben S. Carpenter.

Our Madison County Families - The Bender, Carpenter, Draper, and Pennock families started moving to Madison County, New York in the 1830's. Many of their descendants still live there.

In 1999 with the assistance of James Draper descendant, Dan Draper jr, the grandchildren of Charles and his first wife Mary, in New York, were connected with their cousins the grandchildren of Charles and Harriet.

 In 2000 through the internet and this website the grandchildren of David and Harriet contacted the descendants of Charles and Harriet and a family secret that had remained hidden for over one hundred years was revealed.

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