WARKENTIN
Jacob (1906-1996)
Johann (1760-1825)
Jacob (1857-1885)
Jacob (1836-1899)
Abraham (1880-1949)
Abraham (1832)
Abraham (1792)

DRAPER
Reverend Thomas
Captain Samuel - the Pirate
Boston (1719-1784)
James (b:1730)
Boaz Brown (b:1775)
Franklin (1822-1880)
Ari (1815-1884)
Charles Jerome (1849-1933)

Family Recollections of David Draper (1844-1934) and John Wesley (1875-1954) and Cynthia Draper Northrup (1876-1967)

David(1844-1934)
Mary Elizabeth 1852- 1941
General Alonzo Granville

BENDER 
Cynthia(1822-1898)
Daniel(1808-1879)
Lucy (1842-1916)

BRAUN
Bishop Jacob(1791-1868)
Susanna(b:1828)

BROWN
Tryphena(1746-1829)
Boaz(1705-1772)
Thomas(1609-1688)

CARPENTER
Reuben S. (1821-1898)
William Elwin (1854-1925)
Harriet Francelia (1852-1936)
Robert Nelson (1786-1876)
Captain William (1605-1659)

DOERKSEN
Helena
Bishop Abraham
Bishop David
Abraham (1827- 1916)
Reverend Heinrich 

FRIESEN
Reverend Abraham
Abraham (1839-1909)
Sarah (1881-1943)

JACKSON
James 1847- 1914 

HIEBERT
Heinrich(1791-1851) 
Maria(1844-1934)

PENNOCK
Ira & Freelove
Ebenezer
Hannah

THIESSEN
Margaretha(b:1767)

PEDIGREE CHARTS
Jacob Warkentin
Ari Draper
Robert N. Carpenter

OBITS
Reuben Carpenter
Leroy Carpenter
William R. Carpenter
Ari Draper
Charles J. Draper
Ebenezer Pennock

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Associated Family Names

WARKENTIN
Braun
Doerksen
Friesen
Hiebert
Thiessen

DRAPER
Bender
Brown
Carpenter
Choque
Crouch
Horton
Jackson
Kelleran
Pennock
Worster

The  WARKENTIN and the  DRAPER families left the same area of western Europe centuries ago  and took very different routes to eventually come together in the New World. 

The DRAPER family was originally from the Netherlands. John  le Drapour and his brothers, William and Henry were cloth weavers by trade.  They moved to England six hundred years ago and established their weaving business in Yorkshire.

Three Hundred years later, in the late17th century, Samuel Draper ran away from the home of his father, Thomas Draper, an English Clergyman. He became a Pirate, who sailed the "Seven Seas", eventually settling his family near Boston, Massachusetts.  

The WARKENTIN family were of the Mennonite faith. They moved from the Netherlands in the 16th century to Western Prussia where Johann was born in the village of Blumenort in 1760. In 1782 Catherine the Great of Russia invited the Mennonite people to settle on land that was being opened up in the southern Ukraine. In 1804 while Napoleon's Armies were rampaging across Europe, Johann and his family started the long trek to their new home in the Ukraine.

Just seventy one years later in 1875, Jacob Warkentin, Johann's great grandson along his foster parents and thousands of other Mennonites migrated to North America and settled in Manitoba, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska. Jacob settled in Manitoba. The migration saved thousands of families from the horrors of the Russian revolution and its aftermath forty two years later. 

The WARKENTIN Page

This section includes the Warkentin and all related families including, Braun, Doerksen, Friesen, Hiebert, Thiessen.

The DRAPER Page

This section includes the Draper and all related families including, Bender, Brown, Camp, Carpenter, Choque, Crouch, Jackson, Pennock, Worster

This site is organized through family links. There are five main sections. Click on the links below to go directly to the table of contents and index pages for those sections. They are organized so that you can follow a path through our family history, and perhaps even find connections to your own family. The links to the left will take you directly to individual family members. 

If you get lost, the button at the bottom of each page will take you to the nearest  table of contents. There are about 200 pages. 

"Good Hunting" 

Please visit The Preachers and the Pirate Site II for more Warkentin and Draper Family History

	The Warkentin Page - Our Warkentin ancestors were Mennonites. They came to Canada in 1875 from the Mennonite colonies of the southern Ukraine. They were originally from a village near Elbing, Prussia (Poland) and prior to that, northern Germany or the Netherlands. The ancestors also include the following families: Braun, Doerksen, Friesen, Hiebert and Thiessen.
	The Draper Page - Our Draper ancestor Samuel, came to America  from England in the early 1700's. He left his home as a youth, ran away to sea and became a Buccaneer. He eventually settled his family in Massachusetts. There are two main components to this part of the site: Descendants of Samuel's son, Boston and  Samuel's ancestors.
	The Ancestors of Tryphena Brown - The Thomas Brown family came to Concord, Massachusetts in about 1638 from England. Eventually their Great Great Granddaughter Tryphena, married Boston Draper and they raised their family in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
	The Carpenter pages have two main sections. The Descendants of Reuben S. Carpenter and the Ancestors of Robert N. Carpenter, Reuben's father. Robert's ancestor, Captain William Carpenter, came to America in the ship "Bevis" in 1638, and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Nearly three hundred of his descendants fought in the Revolutionary war.
	The Pennocks of Madison County - The Pennock family came to America in about 1714 settling in Connecticut. Samuel Pennock who was born in 1741 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut had moved with his family to Strafford, Vermont by 1771. His grandson Ira R. and and Ira's wife Freelove  were born in Washington County, NY. Ira and Freelove eventually settled in  Madison County, New York by 1850. 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.
	The Preachers and the Pirate - Web Site # 2