Person talk:Joseph Carpenter (4)

Incorrect information in this Joseph Carpenter page [28 May 2012]

The quoted passage from Morton's history of Alleghany County does not include the phrase, "on the Cowpasture" in the book -- the inserted mention of the Cowpasture River is apparently drawn from the preceding paragraph on the page [p. 13] which discusses the 1745 listing of "all the Inhabitants of the Cow and Calf Pastures and the Settlers back of all the same". Joseph Carpenter was "back of all the same" -- on Jacksons River where Potts Creek joins it, above the Cowpasture River. Easily available maps show this -- I'm providing a URL below for one from the USGS -- a US government map and therefore free and available to all -- showing the Cowpasture River below Jacksons River -- look near the 80˚ longitude corner in the middle of the second map down the page.

http://md.water.usgs.gov/publications/wsp-2375/va/index.html

Other maps are accessible from the USGS:

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=132:3:4427722478301473::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1482763%2CCowpasture%20River

The "Parents and Siblings" section of this page is riddled with additional errors, most apparently uploaded from a GEDCOM derived from internet family trees that themselves are riddled with the same errors. It mixes at least three families and two generations together as one. Research in the original records would correct the data and provide a reliable genealogy that would be of actual benefit to people who connect to this Carpenter family instead of obfuscating the family history with non-factual information.--TLCarpenter 07:48, 28 May 2012 (EDT)