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Descendants of Samuel Carpenter

Generation No. 3

4. HANNAH⁴ CARPENTER (PRESTON³, SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)¹⁸ was born October 4, 1743¹⁸, and died August 31, 1820¹⁸. She married (1) JEDIDIAH ALLEN¹⁸. She married (2) CHARLES ELLET¹⁸ 1768¹⁸.

Notes for CHARLES ELLET:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

CHARLES ELLETT was a widower when he married HANNAH CARPENTER. His first wife was Sarah Austin, who left one child, Elizabeth, who married Brazilla Lippincott and removed with him to Alton, Ill. Their son, Brig.-Genl. Charles Lippincott, distinguished himself in the Union army during the war. Subsequently he was auditor of the State of Illinois, member of Congress.

Child of HANNAH CARPENTER and JEDIDIAH ALLEN is:

11.

HANNAH⁵ ALLEN.

Children of HANNAH CARPENTER and CHARLES ELLET are:

12.	ii.	JOHN⁵ ELLET, b. February 3, 1769, Salem, New Jersey; d. May 10, 1824.
	iii.	SARAH ELLET¹⁸, b. November 15, 1770¹⁸; d. 1824¹⁸; m. JOSEPH REEVE¹⁸.
13.	iv.	WILLIAM ELLET, b. July 3, 1775; d. July 12, 1836, New York.
14.	v.	CHARLES ELLET, b. March 4, 1777; d. 1847.
	vi.	THOMAS ELLET¹⁸, b. March 2, 1772¹⁸.
	vii.	SAMUEL ELLET¹⁸, b. January 16, 1774¹⁸; d. July 15, 1774¹⁸.
	viii.	HANNAH ELLET¹⁸, b. March 4, 1777¹⁸; d. March 4, 1777¹⁸.
	ix.	HANNAH ELLET¹⁸, b. January 3, 1779¹⁸; d. September 12, 1779¹⁸.
15.	x.	RACHEL CARPENTER ELLET, b. September 12, 1780; d. 1855.
	xi.	MARY ELLET¹⁸, b. October 23, 1782¹⁸; d. 1821¹⁸.

5. ELIZABETH⁴ CARPENTER (PRESTON³, SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)¹⁸ was born December 18, 1748¹⁸, and died November 16, 1779¹⁸. She married EZRA FIRTH¹⁸ November 9, 1768¹⁸, son of JOHN FIRTH. He was born March 28, 1744¹⁸, and died April 7, 1779¹⁸.

Children of ELIZABETH CARPENTER and EZRA FIRTH are:

16.	i.	PRESTON CARPENTER⁵ FIRTH, b. October 25, 1769; d. October 4, 1835.
17.	ii.	JOHN FIRTH, b. October 28, 1771; d. June 28, 1819.
18.	iii.	SAMUEL FIRTH, b. October 14, 1773.
	iv.	THOMAS FIRTH¹⁸, b. February 14, 1776¹⁸; d. April 13, 1861, unmarried¹⁸.

Notes for THOMAS FIRTH:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

He was a member of the firm of Jones, Oakford & Co., a large East India importing house in Philadelphia, from which he retired with a handsome fortune. He was a director of the Schuylkill Navigation Co. and closely identified with the early history and development of that corporation. Upon his final resignation, the directors presented him with a beautiful silver vase with an appropriate inscription in testimony of their appreciation of his long and valuable services. He resided during the latter years of his life with his niece Mrs. Hannah Reynolds, on Walnut below Sixth Street, Philadelphia. He was distinguished for his extensive and varied information, pleasing address, genial manners, and extraordinary conversational gifts. A faithful friend and a frequent visitor among the members of his family, by whom he was greatly beloved and lamented.

19.

HANNAH FIRTH, b. September 26, 1778; d. January 24, 1854.

6. THOMAS⁴ CARPENTER (PRESTON³, SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)¹⁸ was born November 2, 1752¹⁸, and died July 7, 1847¹⁸. He married MARY TONKIN¹⁸ April 13, 1774¹⁸, daughter of EDWARD TONKIN and MARY COLE. She was born September 8, 1748¹⁸, and died August 5, 1822¹⁸.

Notes for THOMAS CARPENTER:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

THOMAS CARPENTER4 (of Carpenter's Landing) (Preston Carpenter3, Samuel Carpenter, 2d2, Samuel Carpenter1), born Nov. 2, 1752; died July 7, 1847; married April 13, 1774, by Rev. Jonathan Odell, rector of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J., MARY TONKIN, daughter of Edward Tonkin, 2d, and Mary Cole. Before the ceremony, he was required, under the colonial law then in force, to execute a bond with security that no impediment existed, which bond still remains on file in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton. THOMAS CARPENTER served an apprenticeship in an auction store at the corner of Front and South Streets, Philadelphia. Auctions, being prohibited within the jurisdiction of the City Councils, were conducted outside the southern boundary of the city. He formed an early attachment to MARY TONKIN and was but twenty-one years and five months old when they were married. He commenced life upon a farm belonging to his grandfather, called the Smith farm, near the Salem County almshouse, in Salem County. In the early stages of the War of the Revolution he was commissioned paymaster of the militia of the counties of Salem and Gloucester. His commission bears date March 19, 1777. He was also quartermaster of the first battalion of Salem troops, commanded by his friend Col. Samuel Dick, M.D., a prominent and patriotic citizen of Salem, where he had a large and lucrative practice as a physician. Being one of the staff of Colonel Dick, THOMAS CARPENTER was present at the successful retreat of the American army from the banks of the Assanpink around the flank of the British army, on the night of January 3, 1777. This movement so successfully accomplished, whereby General Washington withdrew his undisciplined troops from the front of a powerful British army, to a position in the rear, where he threatened its communications and stores, and finally placed them in secure winter quarters near Morristown, without serious loss, has received the commendation of the best historians and military critics. The chagrin of the enterprising British general, upon finding he had been outgeneraled by the enemy he professed to despise, may be imagined.

The personal recollections of these events by THOMAS CARPENTER, as he used to relate them, were substantially as follows: The American army, commanded by General Washington, was encamped on the south side of the Assanpink Creek, a narrow stream fordable in many places within the limits of the City of Trenton. Lord Cornwallis, intent upon the destruction of his adversary, arrived and encamped on the opposite bank late in the afternoon prepared to give battle the next morning. All the available detachments in South Jersey had been hurried up to reinforce General Washington. The weather was warm and rainy, and the roads almost impassable. Colonel Dick's battalion marched from Salem through Woodbury, Haddonfield, Mount Holly, and Recklestown to join the army; but, delayed by the bad roads and the breaking of an axle of a field gun, did not arrive in camp until late in the evening. About the time of their arrival, the wind changed and it soon became intensely cold. Having secured comfortable quarters with other officers in a neighboring house, CARPENTER loaned his overcoat to one of his less fortunate companions who had left his own with the baggage in the rear. At midnight an officer detailed to look up stragglers entered the apartments and informed them that the army was no longer there, had been gone an hour, and they must immediately mount and follow. Washington, afraid to risk a battle with his army, composed largely of raw, undisciplined troops, had taken advantage of the darkness and frozen roads to break up his encampment, leaving his camp fires burning to deceive the enemy, and marched, by a by-road called the "Old Quaker Road," around the flank of the British army, on Princeton. In this emergency THOMAS CARPENTER had nothing but a blanket which he tied around his neck and waist with handkerchiefs,--a poor defence against the piercing cold, from which he suffered greatly. His party overtook the army near Princeton, where a sharp engagement took place between the head of the column and two regiments of Hessians that were marching to reinforce the British army at Trenton. The noise of the firing was the first notice to Lord Cornwallis that the Revolutionary army had left its position on the Assanpink, and was then twelve miles in his rear directly on the line of his communications. After the action was over Mr. CARPENTER, in company with Colonel Dick, called upon General Mercer, who had received a mortal wound and was lying pale and suffering in his tent. It was the intention of General Washington to seize the stores of the British army at New Brunswick, but the accidental encounter at Princeton disconcerted his plans. Unable to cope with the British forces in hot pursuit, he continued his retreat and established himself in secure winter quarters in the vicinity of Morristown.

The detachment commanded by Colonel Dick was discharged on the completion of its term of service. Dr. Dick became a member of the New Jersey Assembly. THOMAS CARPENTER, detailed for the duty, was actively engaged in purchasing and forwarding supplies for the use of the army. The winter of 1777 was exceptionally severe. The snow fell at frequent intervals, enabling him to dispatch long trains of sleds laden with provisions and forage from time to time from the lower counties of the State to the encampment at Morristown. Whenever the roads would begin to wear out, a providential fall of snow would make them good.

Here is a copy of a letter from "Light-Horse Harry Lee" to THOMAS CARPENTER, purchasing commissioner.(*)

Burlington, Jan. 17, 1780.

Sir:--

I have written to the Magistrates of Salem County begging them to aid you in the immediate conveyance of the flour to camp. Send on what is already manufactured with hurry, expedite the manufacture of the remainder and then convey it to Mr. Thomas at the "Black Horse." If the river should open send it to Trenton. You must procure drivers to go to camp with your cattle, or at any rate to the "Black Horse" where Mr. Thomas will take charge of them. For God's sake perform this business with all possible despatch.
I am Sir,
Your obedient
(Signed) HENRY LEE, JR.
(Title indistinct)

THOMAS CARPENTER visited Red Bank on the next morning after the battle in which Count Donop and his Hessians were so signally defeated by Colonel Greene, and saw the wounded commander and the dead and wounded Hessians that encumbered the Whitall House, the lawn, and the ground about the fort. The house is still standing and plainly shows the mark of a cannonball which pierced its wall during the action. Many of the dead and wounded were shot in the back in their efforts to escape from the trap in which they had been caught.

In the year 1785 he removed to Cooper's Point and engaged in mercantile business. A curious set of bullet-moulds for casting musket-balls and buckshot has been preserved, which he made use of at that time to supply his customers with buckshot to shoot the deer which were then plenty in the forests of New Jersey. It is now in the possession of General L. H. Carpenter, is in excellent preservation, and bears upon the handles the initials T. C. 1786 E. C. 1834. He remained at Cooper's Point about two years. From thence, having formed a partnership with Colonel Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew by marriage, he removed to Carpenter's Landing (now called Mantua). Heston and Carpenter built and established a large glass manufactory at Glassborough, where they acquired a large landed property. A store and lumber business were also maintained and carried on at Carpenter's Landing. The business was successfully prosecuted until the death of Colonel Heston. The property was then divided, THOMAS CARPENTER retired, (*) The original is in the possession of Miss Susan M. Carpenter, 38 N. 2d Street, Camden, N. J. and was succeeded by his son Edward, by whom it was continued until his death in 1813. Glass-borough is still distinguished for its glass factories, and has become a large and flourishing village under the auspices of the descendants of Colonel Heston.

THOMAS CARPENTER continued to reside at Carpenter's Landing the remainder of his life. He was about five feet ten inches high, with large frame but not corpulent, erect, well-formed, with a fine ruddy complexion. His eyes were blue, hair thin, but not bald, originally brown, and, though tinged with gray, never became white. He was fond of reading, intelligent, and self-possessed. His affable and genial manners, anecdotes, and reminiscences made his society very attractive. He wore a brown cloth coat of Quaker pattern, velvet small clothes (breeches) with silver knee-buckles, black silk stockings gartered above the knees, short quartered shoes with large silver buckles, or fair top-boots, vest with lapels and pockets reaching to the hips, and the Quaker broad-rimmed hat. The buckles, silk stockings, and fair top-boots in later years gave place to plain trousers and boots.

NOTE.--Thomas Carpenter was adjutant of Colonel Dick's battalion in the Princeton and Trenton campaign from November, 1776, to the latter part of January, 1777; afterwards quartermaster. He was for a time ensign of Captain Roanes' company of Dick's battalion. (See petition of THOMAS CARPENTER for a pension.)

Notes for MARY TONKIN:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

MARY CARPENTER, wife of THOMAS CARPENTER, was a little below medium height, with dark hazel eyes, brown hair, and a fine clear brunette complexion. Her figure was good, erect, well-proportioned, inclined to embonpoint, and she was reputed to have been very handsome. Her father's family were Episcopalians, but she with her husband joined the Friends. She was remarkably neat in her personal appearance--wore the Quaker cap and silk bonnet, brown silk dress, and a light silk neckerchief crossed upon the bosom. She had a handsome wedding outfit. The white satin slippers, with pointed toes and heels more than two inches high, worn at her wedding were long preserved as mementos.

Both THOMAS and MARY CARPENTER lie buried in the cemetery adjoining the Friends meeting house at Woodbury, N. J. Their graves adjoin each other on the north side of the enclosure, about midway, and near the boundary fence, each designated by a small marble, with name on its top. Lately a stone retaining wall has been placed there for their protection.

THOMAS CARPENTER left no will. The farm at Carpenter's Landing was divided and sold in parcels after his death. The mansion, garden, orchard, and adjacent grounds, with the buildings, were purchased by Charles Martel, whose family still own and occupy them.

Children of THOMAS CARPENTER and MARY TONKIN are:

	i.	SAMUEL⁵ CARPENTER¹⁸, b. January 6, 1775¹⁸; d. April 16, 1792¹⁸.
20.	ii.	EDWARD CARPENTER, b. June 4, 1777; d. March 13, 1813.
	iii.	RACHEL CARPENTER¹⁸, b. October 23, 1782¹⁸; d. October 7, 1784¹⁸.

7. WILLIAM⁴ CARPENTER (PRESTON³, SAMUEL², SAMUEL¹)¹⁸ was born November 1, 1754¹⁸, and died January 12, 1837¹⁸. He married (1) ELIZABETH WYATT¹⁸ May 29, 1782¹⁸, daughter of BARTHOLOMEW WYATT. She was born November 9, 1764¹⁸, and died January 4, 1790¹⁸. He married (2) MARY REDMAN¹⁸ December 2, 1801¹⁸, daughter of JOHN REDMAN. She was born January 1, 1779¹⁸, and died 1846¹⁸.

Notes for WILLIAM CARPENTER:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

was a prominent and consistent member of the religious Society of Friends, an intelligent and influential citizen, respected and esteemed by the community in which he lived

Children of WILLIAM CARPENTER and ELIZABETH WYATT are:

21.	i.		MARY WYATT⁵ CARPENTER, b. June 3, 1783; d. May 29, 1836.
	ii.		HANNAH CARPENTER¹⁸, b. May 27, 1785¹⁸; d. November 30, 1785¹⁸.

Children of WILLIAM CARPENTER and MARY REDMAN are:

	iii.		WILLIAM⁵ CARPENTER¹⁸, b. October 21, 1802¹⁸; d. April 13, 1889¹⁸; m. (1) PHEBE WARREN¹⁸; m. (2) HANNAH SCULL¹⁸, April 6, 1827¹⁸; d. April 1, 1828¹⁸.
	iv.		JOHN REDMAN CARPENTER¹⁸, b. April 16, 1804¹⁸; d. December 21, 1833, unmarried¹⁸.

Notes for JOHN REDMAN CARPENTER:
[Samuel Carpenter.FTW]

remarkable for his polished manners, agreeable address, and fine conversational powers; cashier of the branch of the Bank of the United States at Buffalo; compiled a manuscript on the Carpenter Family; died unmarried.

22.	v.	RACHEL REDMAN CARPENTER, b. April 30, 1807; d. August 16, 1851.
	vi.	HANNAH CARPENTER¹⁸, b. January 14, 1809¹⁸; d. September 9, 1810¹⁸.
23.	vii.	SAMUEL PRESTON CARPENTER, b. January 26, 1812; d. August 23, 1897.