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Descendants of Samuel Carpenter

Generation No. 2

2. PRESTON³ CARPENTER (SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)^5,⁶ was born October 28, 1721 ⁷, and died October 20, 1785⁷. He married (1) HANNAH CRIPPS⁸, daughter of BENJAMIN CRIPPS and MARY HOUGH. He married (2) HANNAH SMITH^9,¹⁰ October 17, 1742 ^11,¹², daughter of SAMUEL SMITH and HANNAH PILE. She was born 1723 ¹³.

Notes for PRESTON CARPENTER:
[shoemaker.FTW]

OCCU Judge, of Salem, NJ
SOUR Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning
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Hannah was his 1st wife - Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning,p127
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

PRESTON CARPENTER settled upon the farm situated in Mannington Township which he acquired by his wife. Samuel Smith, his wife's father, owned and lived upon a large farm near the Salem County almshouse, formerly called the Smith place, on which Thomas Carpenter of Carpenter's Landing resided during the Revolutionary War. He also purchased a tract containing seven hundred acres, a part of which constitutes the present farm owned by the Carpenters of Mannington. Samuel Smith had one son, Pile Smith, to whom he left the home farm called the Smith place, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah. Elizabeth married Isaac Sharp, and received for her portion one half of this tract of seven hundred acres afterwards called the Josiah Miller farm and which belonged to their heirs.

PRESTON CARPENTER, in right of his wife Hannah, received the other half, on which he resided during the remainder of his life. After his death it was sold, when his brother-in-law Joseph Reeve purchased one half and lived upon it the remainder of his life. Henry Firth purchased the other half and occupied it for several years, until, being at length obliged to sell it, it was purchased back again into the family by William Carpenter, who lived there the remainder of his days and by will devised it to his son Samuel Preston Carpenter, the present owner. PRESTON CARPENTER was held in high respect and esteem by all who knew him. With unusual intelligence and judgment he managed his large farm, and at different times held the office of commissioner of the Loan Office, judge, and justice of the peace. His docket containing the original entries is still preserved, in which he entered with great particularity the births of his children. For example, "Thomas Carpenter, sixth child of PRESTON and HANNAH CARPENTER his wife, was born Nov. 2, N. S., on fifth day about 8 minutes after nine in the evening and twenty-seventh day of the moon's age, at Salem, 1752." An original warrant containing his autograph has been preserved, and also several autograph letters.--J. E. C.

Notes for HANNAH CRIPPS:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

HANNAH MASON, the second wife of PRESTON CARPENTER, was the widow of Samuel Mason of Mannington Township, Salem County, N. J., son of Thomas Mason, of the same place, whom she married in 1756. She was a daughter of Ben. Cripps and Mary Hough. Benjamin Cripps was the son of Nathaniel and Grace Cripps, who came to America in 1678 and settled at Burlington N. J. Nathaniel Cripps is said to have been the founder of Mount Holly, N. J.

Notes for HANNAH SMITH:
[shoemaker.FTW]

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Marriage Notes for PRESTON CARPENTER and HANNAH SMITH:
[shoemaker.FTW]

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Children of PRESTON CARPENTER and HANNAH SMITH are:

4.	i.	HANNAH⁴ CARPENTER, b. October 4, 1743; d. August 31, 1820.
	ii.	SAMUEL PRESTON CARPENTER¹⁴, b. November 1, 1745¹⁴.
5.	iii.	ELIZABETH CARPENTER, b. December 18, 1748; d. November 16, 1779.
	iv.	RACHEL CARPENTER¹⁴, b. August 26, 1749¹⁴; d. November 26, 1749¹⁴.
	v.	MARY CARPENTER¹⁴, b. November 18, 1750¹⁴; d. October 30, 1821¹⁴; m. SAMUEL TONKIN¹⁴, 1777¹⁴; d. October 30, 1821¹⁴.

Notes for SAMUEL TONKIN:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

SAMUEL TONKIN was a lieutenant-colonel in the War of the Revolution; resided on a farm near the mouth of Oldman's Creek, Clossmell, Gloucester Co., N. J., the same occupied by Thomas Darrach in 1837. This farm was the scene of an execution in colonial times under the provincial laws then in force. A young man convicted of stealing was hanged upon a tree still standing in 1837.

SAMUEL TONKIN removed to a farm in Upper Greenwich, Gloucester Co., where both he and his wife continued to reside the remainder of their lives. He was an enterprising and successful farmer, and was held in great respect by the community in which he lived.

6.	vi.	THOMAS CARPENTER, b. November 2, 1752; d. July 7, 1847.
7.	vii.	WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. November 1, 1754; d. January 12, 1837.
8.	viii.	MARGARET CARPENTER, b. August 26, 1756; d. October 3, 1821.
	ix.	JOHN CARPENTER¹⁴, b. February 28, 1758¹⁴; d. November 2, 1773¹⁴.
	x.	RACHEL CARPENTER¹⁴, b. June 25, 1759¹⁴.
9.	xi.	MARTHA CARPENTER, b. August 19, 1760; d. July 26, 1844.
	xii.	SAMUEL CARPENTER¹⁴, b. February 17, 1765¹⁴; d. July 12, 1769¹⁴.

3. HANNAH³ CARPENTER (SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)¹⁵ died 1766¹⁵. She married SAMUEL SHOEMAKER^15,¹⁶ April 8, 1746, son of BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER. He was born 1725¹⁶, and died 1800 ¹⁷.

Notes for HANNAH CARPENTER:
[shoemaker.FTW]

SOUR Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning
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Notes for SAMUEL SHOEMAKER:
[shoemaker.FTW]

OCCU Mayor of Philadelphia ...
SOUR Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning
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Mayor of Philadelphia, 1769-71; Hannah was his 1st wife - Americans of Royal
Descent, Charles H. Browning, p. 127
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

SAMUEL SHOEMAKER was born in 1725; died Nov. 10, 1800. He was a member of the Common Council 1755, treasurer of the city 1767-76, mayor 1769-71-73, justice for the county from 1761 to the Revolution, attorney for the Pennsylvania Land Company of London, director of the Philadelphia Contributionship, member of the American Philosophical Society. He was opposed to the war not only from principle, but from a desire to remain under the king. When the British army left Philadelphia he went with them to New York, taking his younger son Edward with him. Being known as a confirmed Tory, a part of his estate was confiscated. Just before the British evacuation of New York, he sailed for England with his son. In England he spent a few days at Windsor, with his friend Benjamin West, who had his studio there. On one occasion he had an opportunity of meeting the king, queen, and some of the princesses, who visited West's studio to see his painting of "The Lord's Supper," which was just completed. They treated MR. SHOEMAKER very kindly, and the king asked him many questions about the colonies and particularly concerning Pennsylvania. SAMUEL SHOEMAKER returned to America in the spring of 1786, and for some time lived at Burlington, N. J. He afterwards removed to Philadelphia, where he died Oct. 10, 1800. After the death of his first wife in 1766, he married (2) Nov. 10, 1767, REBECCA RAWLE, n�e WARNER, daughter of Edward Warner and his wife Anna Coleman. She died Dec. 21, 1819. Issue, one son, EDWARD SHOEMAKER.

It is remarkable that of the eleven children he had by HANNAH CARPENTER, his first wife, all died young, unmarried or without issue, excepting BENJAMIN, who married Elizabeth Warner. Of the four children of BENJAMIN, ANNA alone left issue. The Shoemakers came to America from Krisheim in the Palatinate, where the original name was Schumacher. After a number in this vicinity had joined the Society of Friends, "The Frankfort Company" was organized, Francis Daniel Pastorius being a leader, and the first party came over in 1683. Several members of the Schumacher family emigrated in this movement, Jacob, Peter and the widow Sarah Schumacher, with seven children, the latter arriving in Philadelphia January 20, 1686, in the ship "Jeffries," from London; Thomas Arnold master. The fourth of these seven children was Isaac, who became a tanner and lived in Germantown. He married Sarah Hendricks, born in Krisheim, Germany, Oct. 2, 1678; died in Pennsylvania June 15, 1742; daughter of Gerhard Hendricks. Isaac and Sarah were the parents of Benjamin Shoemaker, the councillor, who was born in Germantown Aug. 3, 1704, and died about June 25, 1767.

Marriage Notes for HANNAH CARPENTER and SAMUEL SHOEMAKER:
[shoemaker.FTW]

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Child of HANNAH CARPENTER and SAMUEL SHOEMAKER is:

10.

BENJAMIN⁴ SHOEMAKER, b. 1746; d. September 4, 1808.