NOTE:
Of Swiss ancestry. He may have been a physician and of a Swis Zimmerman line. Died during the Revolutionary War.
SEE: http://home.att.net/~mount.p/carpenter.htmlNOTICE:
Group 11 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
http://www.carpentercousins.com/generallineage.htm#sws2
BUT ...
A son named John Carpenter-11689, via his grandson Edward has descendants who are part of Group 6 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.
AND to make things more interesting yet, one other son of the claimed descendant of Edward is part of Group 98.
YES - John Carpenter-11689 is cited as C#11689 in both Groups 6 and 11.
COMMENT:
We suspect a non-paternal event or non-paterinty event (NPE) has created the Group 6 lineage. And an unknown NPE that resulted in a descendant being part of Group 98.
The most common NPE I have found is a young widow with a male child who remarries. Her son bonds with the step-father and assumes his surname.
In other cases, I have seen a daughter who divorces and resumes her maiden name forherself and her children.
What happened with the NPEs in this descendant line have yet to be determined.HISTORY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.
NOTE: This article has maps that include where each unit/state was assigned.MUSTER ROLL:
Valley Forge Muster Roll
http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/muster.asp
ID Last Name First Name Rank State Regiment
RI12548 Carpenter Abel 2nd Lieutenant Rhode Island 2nd Rhode Island
CT00436 Carpenter Allen Private Connecticut 2nd Connecticut
PA01154 Carpenter Benjamin Ensign Pennsylvania 10th Pennsylvania
CT15865 Carpenter Benjamin Private Connecticut 8th Connecticut
CT32657 Carpenter Clark Private Connecticut 2nd Dragoons
VA29279 Carpenter George Private Virginia 1st Virginia State ********
RI01465 Carpenter James Private Rhode Island 1st Rhode Island
MD30403 Carpenter John Private Maryland 3rd Maryland
VA33295 Carpenter John Private Virginia 7th Virginia
VA09419 Carpenter John Private Virginia 1st Virginia
CT00425 Carpenter Nathan Private Connecticut 2nd Connecticut
PA24399 Carpenter Samuel Ensign Pennsylvania 4th Pennsylvania
NH05195 Carpentery Uriah Private New Hampshire 3rd New Hampshire******
ID: VA29279
Private George Carpenter Rank and File
State: Virginia
Ethnicity:
Division: 5th
Brigade: Muhlenberg's
Regiment: 1st Virginia State
Company: Capt Thomas Hamilton
DEC 1777 Present
JAN 1778 Present
FEB 1778 Present
MAR 1778 Died
APR 1778
MAY 1778
JUN 1778SEE ALSO:
Terry Mason's Family History Site
http://www.tmason1.com/pafg15.htm#536
Dr. George Zimmerman Or Carpenter 1 was born in 1720 in ,, Switzerland. He died in Mar 1778 in , Augusta, Virginia.
Other marriages:
Schulteli, Anna
He had the following children.
M i George Zimmerman or Carpenter Jr. was born about 1751. He died about 1779.
M ii John Carpenter was born in 1752. He died on 15 Feb 1785.
NOTE:
AF has birth as abt 1741, but this is not correct. He was supposedly the second son of Lord George putting his birth about 1726. DISPROVEN.
****Conflicting Ancestry - Line in error. This is a Swiss Zimmerman line - not an English line!
Y-DNA testing has confirmed the ancestry on this line as a Zimmerman from Switerland of which several angelcized their surnames to Carpenter. See Group 11 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project.BIRTH:
Supposedly born in Ireland, but this is obviously incorrect. He was born in Switzerland or Pennsylvania or some point inbetween.DEATH:
Died supposedly before his father became Lord George 2nd per various genealogies on line without any documentation. No further detailsSEE ALSO:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/manuscript.html
... CARPENTER’S STATION
Established near this site, 1780, by the brothers Adam, Conrad and John Carpenter. All
were American Revolutionary soldiers, sons of George Carpenter, Sr. who died while
serving with the First Virginia Regiment. One of early stations through which the settlement
of Kentucky was achieved. Carpenters once owned 3,000 acres in vicinity of this station.
Adam married twice, Catharine was his second spouse. Name of first is unknown.
She was a widow. AF birth date of 1737 seems incorrect. One record indicates
Adam was significantly older than she.NOTE: She brother John's notes about conflicting hertitage!
WEB PAGE:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/
Established on March 16, 2001
Steve and Virginia Tyler Carpenter
To The Reader:
Most of the material used in this story came from a collection of old Carpenter
family papers given to Stephen Joseph Carpenter in 1971. These papers had
passed into the possession of Elizabeth Carpenter Guerrant (1893-1977) from her
father, Adam Wilson Carpenter (1852-1928) of Danville, KY, who was a grandson
of Adam and Catherine Spears Frye Carpenter, early Kentucky pioneers. The
papers consisted of personal letters, deeds, wills, land surveys, business records,
and receipts of the pioneer Carpenter families, some dating back into the late
1700’s, as well as correspondence between Adam Wilson Carpenter and other
descendants tracing Carpenter history and ancestry.
My purpose in writing this narrative was to acquaint Carpenter descendants
with their ancestors, as their character and personalities seemed to develop through
the reading of the old records, and also with some of the circumstances which
shaped their lives.
In copying excerpts from the old letters and documents, I have retained the
original spelling wherever possible, but I did change the spelling of the old English
double consonant for which there is no modern equivalent on the typewriter.
Periods and paragraphs were rarely used in the old letters, so occasionally it was
necessary to insert a period here and there for clarity.
Copies of this history were placed in the Kentucky Historical Society in
Frankfort, KY, the Filson Club in Louisville, KY, and the University of Kentucky
Library in Lexington, KY. Copies have also been distributed to various
descendants. The history was completed in 1976. All of the original papers and the
Adam Carpenter family Bible are preserved at the Kentucky Historical Society,
Frankfort, KY.
I wish to acknowledge the valued assistance of Mary Kirtley McCormick (Mrs.
James ) of Lexington, KY, in the preservation and continuation of the Carpenter
family history.
Virginia T. Carpenter
1294 Medinah Drive
Ft. Myers, FL 33919-7311
SEE ALSO:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/manuscript.html
... CARPENTER’S STATION
Established near this site, 1780, by the brothers Adam, Conrad and John Carpenter. All
were American Revolutionary soldiers, sons of George Carpenter, Sr. who died while
serving with the First Virginia Regiment. One of early stations through which the settlement
of Kentucky was achieved. Carpenters once owned 3,000 acres in vicinity of this station.GEORGE ZIMMERMAN
In the middle 1700’s, there lived in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a family of Swiss descent by the name of Zimmerman. George, the father, had emigrated from Switzerland (so stated in the Adam Carpenter family Bible) around 1740. One George Zimmerman arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Neptune and signed the oath of importation on October 25, 1746. This may have been our George. He moved westward from Georgetown, the present Washington, DC area, and into Pennsylvania, then down into the southern Shenandoah Valley near McGaheysville, Stonewall District, Peaked Mountain area. This is in the vicinity of the southern tip of Massanutten Mountain. This section was originally in Orange County, Virginia. In 1738, it was placed in Augusta County, and in 1777, it was made a part of Rockingham County as it is today. George Zimmerman was a well-to-do planter and also a surveyor. Family tradition indicates he may also have been a physician.
BURIAL: PLACE Carpenter'S Fort Cem. Near Houstonville Lincoln Co Ky.
Lincoln county, KY used to be Kentucky county, VA before 1780.AFN 5952-QC (b. 6 Sep 1760 w/ Husband FRY) and PD2Q-9B (b. 1760 w/ Husband
Carpenter) appear to be the same person in the same family.
Children seem to be duplicates of Adam Carpenter/Zimmerman family.
1. Sex Name
F Mary CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QT4)
Born: Abt 1782 Place: , Rockingham, Va
Died: Abt 1800 Place:
2. Sex Name
F Margaret CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QVB)
Born: Abt. 1784 Place: <, Rockingham, Va>
3. Sex Name
M George (Red Face) CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QWJ)
Born: Abt. 1786 Place: , Lincoln, Ky
4. Sex Name
M Conrad CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QXQ)
Born: Abt. 1788 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
5. Sex Name
F Sarah CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QSW)
Born: Abt. 1789 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
6. Sex Name
M Henry CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QZX)
Born: Abt. 1790 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
7. Sex Name
F Catherine CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-R04)
Born: Abt. 1792 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
8. Sex Name
M Adam CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-R1B)
Born: Abt. 1794 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
Died: Place: Knob Noster, Johnson, Mo
9. Sex Name
M William CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-QQH)
Born: 19 Dec 1785 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>
10. Sex Name
F Christina CARPENTER (AFN:14QV-SG6)
Born: 30 Dec 1787 Place: <, Lincoln, Ky>