John M Carnes
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Dec 1816 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1 Aug 1911 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Boston, Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: David G Carnes (Est 1780-Abt 1820)
Mother: Betsey Rice (Est 1783-Abt 1825)
Spouses and Children
1. *Eunice Collins Doane (29 Dec 1818 - 14 Apr 1898)
Marriage: 1840
Status:
Notes
General:
Boston Daily Globe, Jan 1, 1905; pg. SM11
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Mr Carnes' Boots Were Ripped .
Nonagenarian of Provincetown, Born in Boston Has Had Much Hard Luck, But His Charity to the Needy of Earth Has Never Ceased All His Long Life.
[photo of John M. Carnes and his lightning-struck boots]
SELF-SUPPORTING since the tender age of 6 1/2 years; for 84 1/2 years a citizen of one town, not one of whose people has been known to speak aught but words of praise concerning him; 91 years old, but still hale and hearty, and still in harness\emdash such is the life record of big-framed, big-hearted John M. Carnes of Provincetown.
He has not endowed colleges, nor bestowed free libraries upon numberless towns, but after hearing the neighbors tell of his charity to the poor of earth, the listener decides that, in his own way, this man has done more for mankind than some who are scattering millions.
John M., son of David G. and Betsey Rice Carnes, was born on Leverett st, Boston. Dec 22, 1813. His father died when the lad was 4 years old, leaving the mother in needy circumstances. At the age of 6 1/2 the boy left the home roof to dwell among strangers. Two years later his mother died. There were other children, but they were scattered long ago. Perhaps none of them survives.
A few days ago the aged philanthropist spoke of some of his experiences.
"I was down on the docks," he said, "when Capt Freeman Smith of the pink-stern schooner Hero (Quincy owned, but having a Provincetown crew) asked me If I would like to go cook on his craft. I told him I would go if my mother was willing. He saw my mother, who gave her consent, after the captain told her he would treat me kindly and give me a place in his home after the voyage.
"So, at the age of six years and six months. I became a cook on a mackerel catcher, six men in tho crew, for a six-month season. The cooking was done with a fireplace and Dutch oven. Of course, it was hard work for me, I being so young and small. I was obliged to defer the filling of the heavy pots and kettles until after I had lifted them upon the swinging crane. Then having put in the water and food for cooking. I would swing the crane inward over the fire. But I succeeded in doing my duty."
Think of the hardships of such a life, ye 7-year-old motherlings!
"I have made my home in Provincetown ever since," he continued. "I married in 1840, Eunice Collins Doane, Eastham born. We lived together 58 years. She died April 14, 1898. We had no children.
"I kept at sea, on mackerel catchers, grand bankers, coasters and whalers, sailing as boatsteerer on my last whaling voyage in the bark Samuel and Thomas. That cruise ended in April, 1848.
"On January 7, 1849, I sailed from Boston for the California gold fields on the ship Capitol, Capt Theodore Proctor, with a crew of 18, eight cabin passengers and 256 of us miners stowed 'tween decks. The bill of fare agreed upon before leaving port promised first-rate feeding, out the reverse was experienced after getting to sea, the beef furnished us being cooked without soaking and white with salt when placed before us, while the hard bread, of English bake, was so hard we could neither break it nor soak it soft. The food was poor, but as we had paid for good victuals and an abundant store of such food was kept under our berth deck for the use of the cabin dwellers some of us did not go hungry altogether.
"In the middle watch, under cover of darkness, pillow cases full of brown sugar, good bread, etc, made their way up through the lower hatchway and found safe quarters in certain sea chests, the contents of which had been surreptitiously removed to hiding places beneath bunk matresses.
"The voyage lasted 180 days. Two bad gales were encountered\emdash one off cape Horn, when we passengers aided the crew in shortening sail, and drifted so far off shore under single part of the goosewinged maintopsail that we were six days making up leeway, the other when well up the Pacific coast. In that last gale we lay with lower yardarms under water for six hours. Only for the 100,000 brick carried deep in hold the craft would have capsized.
"I spent two years in California. Riches did not come to me there. After my return home I took up small boat fishing.
"On June 2, 1862, I had the worst experience of my life. We went out in my seven-ton schooner Midas mackerel dragging. Russell Atkins was my partner. We had shared $300 apiece at the work up to that date, were the high-liners of the local fleet, and looked for good hauls the ensuing night.
"The weather began to look squally. After standing toward Plymouth a spell, we tacked and jogged to the eastward, being then about five miles west-sou'-west from Wood End, waiting to see what the weather would be.
"I stood with my back resting against the mainboom arms stretched full length upon it, and Atkins was at the tiller, the end of which was just clear of my knees.
"We have done well this spring," I said, and Russell assented.
"Just as he spoke there came a blinding lightning flash, and I fell, unconscious to the deck. Lightning had struck the mainsail above my head and descended upon me.
[The following 5 paragraphs had their edge torn away, so some words are missing.]
"When I regained consciousness I was lying at the taffrail. One of my partner's hands was benumbed by the electric discharge, but he dipped up a bucket of sea water with the other hand and plunged the stricken member within it. The numbness left the hand almost immediately, and. finding the water had benefited him, he drew and threw two buckets of water as I lay, with smoking garments [and ap]parently dead, along the deck.
"I was well and heavily clad, [with] oilskins over my regular attire [when] struck down. That fiery bolt in [an in]stant burned every stitch I had [on] to the semblance of charred [p-] spider webs. My stout boots were [torn] apart at all the seams and the [soles] were nearly torn away from the uppers. I know little of what transpired on board subsequently.
"Archie McCurdy came aboard [from] another boat and helped sail the [way] back to Provincetown, we arriving at 5 p m. in a northeast gale. I [was un]conscious when they conveyed [me over] the flats and home in a cart, [and re]gained my senses upon being laid [in] my bed.
"One burn extended from near [the] elbow nearly to the wrist. A g[ood] bit of flesh was missing there. [A] bad burn extended from my [] down my back, and a third w[as] on my right leg, where the lightning entered at the lower part of [] and emerged from the middle [of the] heel, leaving a hole, a blee[] could insert a silver quarter in was still flowing freely from that when I was placed on my bed."
"I was six weeks in the Boston hospital in consequence. The doctors marvelled at my endurance. My hospital bill amounted to $90. The doctors offered to cancel the bill if I would consent to leave my boots with them as [a] memento, but I paid the bill and [kept] the boots.
"Since that experience I have been a farmer. At one time I had six gardens under cultivation. I have had as many as nine cows at a time. Gardening, haymaking, milking, etc, have kept me employed pretty well.
"Unknown persons have fired my buildings three times, causing a net lost of $1800; horses, that I paid $1100 for have died on my hands, and frost spoiled 75 barrels of cranberries for me last September."
Lucy May Carnes
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1925 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Douglas Harold Shepherd (Est 1925 - )
Marriage: 12 Oct 1950 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
Status:
Martha Carnes
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1850
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Wiley (Est 1850 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Joseph Edward Wiley (Est 1880- )
Benjamin B Carney
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1790 - (Boston, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia C Lilly (Est 1795 - )
Marriage: 23 Feb 1817 - Dresden, Maine 2
Status:
Esther Angeline Carney
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Oct 1833 - Centerville (Barnstable), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 25 Jun 1907 - Somerville, Massachusetts 3
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Albert Pinkham Baker (12 Dec 1826 - 18 Feb 1888)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Abner W Baker (1857- )
2. Grace P Baker (1861- )
3. Hattie A Baker (1865- )
Notes
General:
parents:Marriage Notes (Albert Pinkham Baker)Patrick A Carney, Deborah D Hamblin
1900 US census, Hyannis
Esther A Baker, widow, b oct 1833, 4/3 children, Mass, Va, Mass
(living on her own)
Carpenter
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1650
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Susannah England (Est 1650 - ) 4
Marriage:
Status:
Agnes Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1585 - Wrington, Somerset 5
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1617 - Leyden, Zuid-Holland
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Alexander Carpenter (Cir 1550-1612)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Fuller (20 Jan 1580 - Between Aug and Sep 1633)
Marriage: 24 Apr 1613 - Leyden, Zuid-Holland
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Samuel Fuller)
Agnes was Samuel's second wife.
Alexander Carpenter
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1550 - Wrington, Somerset
Baptism:
Death: 1612
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Juliann Carpenter (1584-1664) 5
2. Agnes Carpenter (Abt 1585-Bef 1617)
3. Alice Carpenter (Cir 1590-1670) 5
4. Mary Carpenter (Abt 1596-1687) 5
5. Priscilla Carpenter (Abt 1598-1689) 6
Alice Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1590 - Wrington, Somerset
Baptism:
Death: 26 Mar 1670 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Burial: in Burial Hill, Plymouth
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 7, , Wrington, Somerset in Wrington, Somerset
Parents
Father: Alexander Carpenter (Cir 1550-1612)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. Governor William Bradford (19 Mar 1590 - 9 May 1657)
Marriage: 14 Aug 1623 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 8
Status:
Children:
1. Major William Bradford (1624-1704)
2. Mercy Bradford (Bef 1627-Bef 1657)
3. Joseph Bradford (After 1630-1715)
2. *Edward Southworth (Abt 1590 - 1621)
Marriage: 1613 - Holland
Status:
Children:
1. Constant Southworth (Est 1614-1679) 9
2. Thomas Southworth (Abt 1616-1669) 10
Elizabeth Carpenter
Sex: F
AKA: Elizabeth Chase
Elizabeth Clare
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1674 - Jamaica, Queens, New York
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Benjamin Wiggins (Abt 1665 - 9 Dec 1735) 11
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Elizabeth Wiggins (Est 1700-Bef 1735)
2. Benjamin Wiggins (1702-1776) 12
3. Richard Wiggins (Cir 1706-1750) 11
4. John Wiggins (1710-1789)
5. Thomas Wiggins (Abt 1700-Abt 1767)
Filiman Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1840 - Nova Scotia
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Frederic Coste (Est 1840 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Agnes Marie Decoste (1863-1918)
Juliann Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 17 Mar 1584 - Wrington, Somerset
Death: 19 Feb 1664 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Alexander Carpenter (Cir 1550-1612)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *George Morton (1585 - 12 Aug 1625)
Marriage: 23 Jul 1612 - Leyden, Zuid-Holland
Status:
Children:
1. Nathaniel Morton (1613-1685)
2. John Morton (Abt 1615-1673)
3. Patience Morton (1615-1691)
4. Sarah Morton (Abt 1618-1691)
5. Ephraim Morton (1623-1693)
2. Manasseh Kempton (Est 1580 - )
Marriage: Bef 22 May 1627 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 13
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (George Morton)
From the City Records At Leyden, NEHGR, 1861, Vol 15 , pg 30:
12. GEORGE MORTON, of York, Eng., m. Julia Ann Carpenter. Her Father Alexander C. and sister Alice C. were witnesses with Anna Robinson and Thomas Morton, brother of the groom.
Lafayette Carpenter
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Dec 1812 - Greenwich, New York
Baptism:
Death: 11 Jan 1873 - Orleans, Massachusetts 14
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery
Cause of Death: heart disease
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Sparrow Higgins (16 Apr 1814 - 23 Jun 1895) 15
Marriage: 26 Nov 1835 - Orleans, Massachusetts 16
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 60-0-11
married
carpenter
b Greenwich NY, res Orleans
s/o George & Olive Carpenter, b NY 17
Mary Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1596 - Wrington, Somerset
Baptism:
Death: 20 Mar 1687 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 7, , Wrington, Somerset in Wrington, Somerset
Parents
Father: Alexander Carpenter (Cir 1550-1612)
Mother:
Notes
General:
"In a letter of 19 August 1644 or 1646 to Mary Carpenter of Wrington, sister of his wife Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Bradford, William Bradford noted that the mother of the Carpenter sisters had recently died, and invited Mary to join them in Plymouth, which she soon did [NEHGR 14:195-96]." 5
Myrtilla Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1795 - Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1850 - Freetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Winslow (1790 - After 1850)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Mary C Winslow (1827- )
2. Joseph W Winslow (1833-1898)
Notes
Marriage Notes (William Winslow)
1850 US census, Freetown Ma
Patience Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Apr 1744 - Hardwick, Massachusetts 18
Baptism:
Death: 27 Nov 1806 - Pittsford, Monroe, New York
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Silas Nye (1744 - )
Marriage: 27 Nov 1766 - Hardwick, Massachusetts 19
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Nye (1769- )
2. Sarah Nye (1768- )
3. Nathan Nye (1772- )
4. Silas Nye (1780- )
Notes
General:
Father: Nathan CARPENTER b: 26 Sep 1700 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Mother: Abigail REED b: 6 May 1704 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Priscilla Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1598 - Wrington, Somerset
Baptism:
Death: 29 Dec 1689 - Barnstable, Plymouth Colony 7
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 7, , Wrington, Somerset in Wrington, Somerset
Parents
Father: Alexander Carpenter (Cir 1550-1612)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *William Wright (Est 1595 - 1633)
Marriage:
Status:
2. John Cooper (Est 1600 - Between 1676 and 1683)
Marriage: 27 Nov 1634 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony 20
Status:
Children:
1. Ann Cooper (Abt 1625-1691)
Notes
Marriage Notes (William Wright)
"WILLIAM WRIGHT arrived in New England in 1621, and before his death in 1633 he had married Priscilla Carpenter. We have no record that William Wright returned to England between those two dates, and if he did not, then Priscilla Carpenter must have come to PlymouthMarriage Notes (John Cooper)
sometime prior to 1633 as a single woman.
COMMENTS: Priscilla Carpenter was born perhaps about 1598, daughter of Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire, and was one of five sisters who came to New England, or married men who came to New England, or both. 6
**Ann's birth c 1625 doesn't gibe with the 1634 marriage date.**
Rachel Elizabeth Carpenter
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1810
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1854
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Rowland Doane (14 Aug 1807 - 9 Apr 1881)
Marriage: 26 Nov 1840 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. William F E Doane (1841-1851) 21
Ann Carr
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1659 - Salem, Massachusetts Bay
Baptism:
Death: 8 Jun 1699 - Salem, Massachusetts 22
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Putnam (12 Mar 1652 - 24 May 1699)
Marriage: 25 Nov 1678 - Salem, Massachusetts Bay 23
Status:
Eunice Carr
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1775
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1807
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Verrill (1773 - 23 Mar 1853)
Marriage: 19 Dec 1795 - Maine 24
Status:
Children:
1. Eunice Verrill (1796-Between 1870/1880) 25
2. Samuel Verrill (1801- )
3. Marcy Verrill (1799- )
4. Thomas Verrill (1804- )
5. Henry Verrill (1806- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Samuel Verrill)
It is not clear when Samuel Verrell married and therefore whose children are whose.
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