Descendants of Charles Carpenter-1776144 are documented to the present day. The first couple of generations the documentation is a little light. His ancestry is of conjercture but is to believed of English ancestry and may have been part of the It is highly likely that they were indentured servants via the headright system.
The headright system began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1618 as an attempt to solve labor shortages due to the advent of the tobacco economy, which required large plots of land with many workers. The disproportion that existed between the amount of land available and the population created a situation with a low supply of labor, resulting in the growth of indentured servitude and slavery. The headright system was also a way to attract new colonists. See more under the Descendants section for "SEE NOTES Carpenter."
Group 41 had two male Carpenter descendants of James Stewart Carpenter-177663 (b. 23 Nov 1800 VA) who have Y-DNA tested and matched each other genetically and genealogically. Each of the Y-DNA testers, who are 2nd Cousins twice removed (2C2R), on this Carpenter line came from different mothers who both married the said James.
These Carpenter lineages include male descendants who have been Y-DNA tested and are part of Group 41 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. Group 41 is genetically distinct from other Carpenter/Zimmerman groups within the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
There are about 768 descendants listed in this report. Please see the index in the Table of Contents below.
The number after the surname is a record information number (RIN) from the Carpenter Cousins Project master genealogical database. See: The Carpenter Cousins Project
It has not yet been determined if there have been some formal and informal adoptions in this descendant line. Sometimes a young widow with a son would remarry and the young lad would bond with his step-father then assume his surname. Before bigger and moreformalized governments, this was not uncommon. On occasion some children were given up for adoption or farmed out to relatives..
We call these type of events Non-Paternity Events or NPEs. This means that sometimes a Carpenter descendant may occasionally have a different genetic profile from what is expected. Or conversely, a Carpenter descendant who was adopted has a different surname, but the genetic profile of this Carpenter line.
See much more at the Carpenter Cousins web page at: https://carpentercousins.com aka The Carpenter Cousins Project. The Carpenter Cousins Project is part of the Guild of OneName Studies
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