| SAMUEL CARPENTER, REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER | Samuel Carpenter was the son of John Carpenter and grandson of John Christian Carpenter, who was a German-born son of the immigrant Hans Michael Zimmerman. This Zimmerman family anglicized its name to Carpenter and had joined the Second Colony immigrants in 1721. Samuel's mother was Dorothy Cook, whose father was the immigrant Michael Cook from Schwaigern. Samuel was born in about 1761 and died in 1825. Samuel's wife was Elizabeth "Peggy" Blankenbaker, who died in 1860 at the age of 91. Their children were Lovell, Abel, Sarah and Rhoda Carpenter. |
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Pension file of Peggy Carpenter, W 6631, Case Files of Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service compiled c. 1800 - c. 1912 Documenting the Period c. 1775 – c. 1900, RG 15, M804, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, accessed at www.footnote.com.
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