Hey there John,
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 alot of info on this line..Be glad to share with any
interested....Here is something on Nicholas's grandfather also named
Nicholas......
Nicholas Carpenter (1743-1791)
Nicholas resided in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and finally in Ohio.
He was a patriot during the American Revolution and served as a private in
Capt. William McClelland's riflemen from Frederick County, MD, in 1764.
Nicholas Carpenter served as a member of Wesmoreland County Rangers which
was comprised of men from the Monongahala Valley. John Hardin was captain
of his company. In April of 1763 Nicholas Carpenter's name was placed on
Capt. Hardin's claim sheet asking pay for services rendered for the army.
He was paid for his services as a blacksmith. At this time he resided in
Monongalia County, Virginia (now Harrison County, West Virginia).
Nicholas Carpenter was a very prominent man and very wealthy for the
Clarksburg section of VA (now W.VA). From H.P. Hildreth¹s History of Early
Times: Nicholas Carpenter died by Indians led by a Shawnee brave named
Tecumseh. Carpenter had fixed a young Indian¹s 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 the
body and a new pair of Indian moccasins was on his feet. Tecumseh was the
young Indian for whom carpenter had fixed his gun some years before. When
Tucumseh 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, an old Indian scout,
escaped.
Years later Christopher Carpenter while in Urbana, Ohio, talked to one of
the Indians in the party that had killed his father in 1791. Mr. Carpenter
was 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. 1 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. ®6
Nicholas L. Carpenter was born 9 Dec 1803 in Harrison County, WV and
died 5 Feb 1872 In Green Twp, Marshall County, IN. He married 3 times.
Eliza Jackson, Abigail Stoops, Frances Rugg.]
From: "tommy shaw" <gallileo60(a)hotmail.com>
Tommy Sent this to help him Sounds like the Virginia Branch
John L. Carpenter
Walpole,NH
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