Nicholas L. Carpenter was born on Dec 9, 1803...
He was the son of Reverand John Carpenter.Most likely in W. Virginia, or
Virginia..He married in 1829, Elizabeth Jackson, The daughter of Edward Jackson,
who was the grandfather of General Stonewall Jackson .... They raised a family
in Marshall County, Indiana...My line is thru his son Albert Carpenter, who
fought with the North in the civil war ... His family was in St. Joseph County,
Indiana..I have a lot of info on this line..Be glad to share with any
interested ....
Here is something on Nicholas's grandfather also named Nicholas ......-
Nickolas Carpenter (1743-1791) Nickolas resided in hi Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Viginia, and finally in Ohio,. He was a patriot during the American Revolutionary
war and served as a Private in Capt William McClelland's rifleman from
Frederick county,MD. in 1764.Nickolas served as a member of Wesmoreland County
Rangers which was comprised of men from Monongahala Valley. John Harding was captain
of his company. In April of 1763 Nickolas Carpenter's name was placed on
Capt. Harding's claim sheet asking pay for services rendered for the army. He was
paid for his services as a blacksmith. At this time he was resided in
Monongalia County,Virginia (now Harrison County,West Virginia.
Nickolas was a very prominent man and very wealthy for the Clarksburg section
of VA (now W. VA) From H.P.Hildreth's History of Early Times: Nickolas died
by Indians led by a Shawnee brave named Tecumseh. Carpenter had fixed a young
Indian's gun some years previous and he had not charged the young Indian
anything. Carpenter was not scalped or his body mutilated when found and a good
blanket was wrapped around his body and a new pair of moccasins was on his feet.
Tecumseh was the young brave Indian for whom Carpenter had fixed his gun some
years before. When Tecumseh recognized the man they had killed as the white
man who had fixed his gun,he repaid in the only way he knew. One man a old
Indian scout, escaped. Years later Christopher Carpenter while in
Urbana,Ohio,talked to one of with his 10 year old son, Nicholas, and eight drovers taking
a
drove of cattle to Marrietta, Ohio, and also to the army at Fort Harmer.He had
been a Judge of the Court in Harrison County for fifteen years. He had on his
farm in Ohio a gun and blacksmith shop, a store and a schoolhouse. He owned
2,000 acres of land and had an orchard of 400 apple -bearing trees at the time of
his death. He carried his produce over the mountains on mules. His death was
very much lamented by the people. Had he not met an early death he would have
been one of the great and rich men of this country. He died at the early age of
48. The minute book of Harrison County vol. I states that Nicholas Carpenter
was in Harrison County, VA (now W. VA.) in the year 1772 as in that year he
bought of John Simpson 400 acres of land. Carpenter built a two-story log house
on this land in 1786 that stood more than 100 years.
Nickolas Carpenter was born 9 Dec 1803 in Harrison County,W.VA. and died 5
Feb 1872 In Green Twp, Marshall County, IN. He married 3 times. Eliza Jackson,
Abigail Stoops, Frances Rugg.