Dear Linda,
Thank you for this story! I have added it to Increase Carpenter's data.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
INDIVIDUAL DATA RIN:4010
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Name:Increase CARPENTER Sex:M ID No:FN2L-B7
Birth:20 Aug 1736 Place:Jamaica,Queens,LI,NY
Chr: Apr 1743 Place:Jamaica,Queens,LI,NY
Marr:Bef 1780 Spouse:Mary BAILEY a widow-12754
Marr: Spouse:
Marr: Spouse:
Death:20 Apr 1807 Place:Jamacia,Queens,LI,NY
Burial: Place:
Father:Increase CARPENTER-21879 Mother:
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!Number 310 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 84.
Family on page 156 (#135)
He served through the Revolutionary war. A Butcher and Innkeeper.
!BIRTH: The Carpenter Memorial has April 1743 as birth date but the DAR
records has birth date as 20 August 1736. Per DAR he participated in the
Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant from New York. Wife listed as died 23
January 1823.
!His name is frequently mentioned in the records. He was an Elder in
the church. On 27 March 1776 a company of Militia was formed at Jamaica
of 40 persons: Ephraim Baylis, captain and Increase Carpenter, first
lieutenant. On 24 Aug 1776, in a list of staff officers in Queens
county, we find Increase Carpenter as Quartermaster, and Nehemiah
Carpenter as a private in the same comapny.
"Captain Carpenter, at the battle of Long Island, did splendid service
in resisting the advance of the Britsh Army near what is now Third Ave
and 23th St. (The compiler of the Carpenter Memorial thinks this
probably refers to Captain Nathaniel Carpenter of Rehoboth who was
stationed at NY about that time.)
Increase Carpenter kept an Inn a mile east of Jamacia. A meeting was
held at his house in 1774 to protest against the tax of tea et cetera.
He was first lieutenant in defense of our liberties, March 27, 1776.
After the battle of Long Island he and Nehemiah Carpenter fled to the
mainland and up the Hudson and their property was confiscated. He was
at one time a Commissary of the Army. Increase had certificates notes
of about $2,000, which became mutilated and worn and he applied for new
ones. Application was referred to the Treasury department.
On page 157 is an abstract of the will of Increase Carpenter. He
mentions his wife Mary, daughter Mary, wife of Peter Baker, daughter
Jane, wife of Zophar Wicks, and Nancy, wife of Selah Smith: and his four
sons, namely Samuel, James, George, and David. Dated June 14, 1805.
Jamacia, Long Island.
!E-MAIL: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 From: Linda Hannah <Jamila(a)thuntek.net>
I was substituting in a middle school library last week and the
librarian said I could take any book I wanted to check out. I found a
book called "A Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman" by Judith E.
Greenberg and Helen Cary McKeever, Franklin Watts, a div. of Grolier
Pub. NY 1996.
I read along and took some notes to give color to my book whenever I
get it written. Then I came to the entry on page 74:
(I'm paraphrasing) INCREASE CARPENTER ran a well known tavern on
Long Island. Monday March 1777- A runaway team of horses arrived at the
tavern where they stopped under a shed. In the morning it was discovered
that James Parker, a farmer, had been shot by a robber who proposed to
take his wagonfull of goods. They were found untouched. "The people in
the area were indignate and talked of taking active measures for their
defense." This little book is written from a woman's point of view for
her husband who is at war. It shows what the women had to put up with
from the quartered British and Hussian soldiers. But also that they were
protected by them from the "Runners"/robbers who would not attack if the
soldiers were there. The terrorism of the time: homes burned not by the
British but the looters, children stabbed, husband's heads cracked open
in front of them was horrible. Although the Brits did try to make
common citizens unload wagons for them and do other menial work, the
Quaker and others would go report them to the British Commmander who
knew better. A most interesting little book that really shows what it
was like during those horrible eight years of gaining our freedom from
the English.
I thought the descendants of the Long Island Increase Carpenter would
like this for their family stories!!!
Linda Hannah in Albuq. NM.
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Linda Hannah wrote:
Dear Cousins,
I was substituting in a middle school library last week and the
librarian said I could take any book I wanted to check out. I found a book
called "A Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman" by Judith E. Greenberg and
Helen Cary McKeever, Franklin Watts, a div. of Grolier Pub. NY 1996.
I read along and took some notes to give color to my book whenever I
get it written. Then I came to the entry on page 74:
(I'm paraphrasing) INCREASE CARPENTER ran a well known tavern on
Long Island. Monday March 1777- A runaway team of horses arrived at the
tavern where they stopped under a shed. In the morning it was discovered
that James Parker, a farmer, had been shot by a robber who proposed to take
his wagonfull of goods. They were found untouched. "The people in the area
were indignate and talked of taking active measures for their defense."
This little book is written from a woman's point of view for her
husband who is at war. It shows what the women had to put up with from the
quartered British and Hussian soldiers. But also that they were protected by
them from the "Runners"/robbers who would not attack if the soldiers were
there. The terrorism of the time: homes burned not by the British but the
looters, children stabbed, husband's heads cracked open in front of them was
horrible. Although the Brits did try to make common citizens unload wagons
for them and do other menial work, the Quaker and others would go report
them to the British Commmander who knew better. A most interesting little
book that really shows what it was like during those horrible eight years of
gaining our freedom from the English.
I thought the descendants of the Long Island Increase Carpenter
would like this for their family stories!!!
Linda in Albuq.
Searching for: Acton, Bailey, Bartle, Carpenter, Hannah, Hertzog, Hillary,
Holland, Mackay, Matheson, Page, Reynolds, Ridenour/Reitenaurer, Shadwick,
Stoner, Wollet.