CARPENTER CONNECTIONS BOOK: Carpenter Connections. By Irma Carpenter Jackson of Annandale, VA published 1992 by Gateway Press, INC., Baltimore, MD. LOC 92-71300. 555 pages. Copyright 1992. This book covers about 10 generations of Carpenters and Related Family names with good source documentation and has a very good index of names. This book is the record of Jonathan Carpenter of Rutherford , North Carolina and His Descendants. See Page 6. William (b. abt 1730) had a son named Jonathan (b. abt 1755) who had the following children: 1) Harbert Carpenter (m. Nancy Hurst - 9 children). 2) Mary Carpenter (m. Andrew Eaves - 5 children). 3) Amelia Carpenter (m. George doggett - 4 children). 4) Kinchen Carpenter (m. Anna Baber - 7 children). 5) Willie Carpenter (Female - probably died young). 6) Fanny Carpenter (m. George McDaniel - 2 children). 7) Sally Carpenter (m. Atkins - at least 1 child). 8) Daughter Carpenter (m. William Sutton - unknown amount of children). Current speculation is that Jonathan Carpenter (b. abt 1755) was the son of William Carpenter later of Westmoreland county, VA, grandson of Nathaniel b. in England and later of King & Queen county, VA.