Person:Abraham Carpenter (8)

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m. Bef 5 Sep 1757
  1. Abraham Carpenter, M.D.1757 - 1815
  2. Mary CarpenterAbt 1758 - Bef 1830
  • HAbraham Carpenter, M.D.1757 - 1815
  • WSalome Smith1762 - 1827
m. Bef 1783
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4] Abraham Carpenter, M.D.
Gender Male
Birth[5][6][4] 5 Sep 1757 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Marriage Bef 1783 to Salome Smith
Other[9] 27 Mar 1798 Beneficiary of his father's will
Will[8][10] 28 Feb 1815 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesWill Book - L - 1 - 310 - see notes
Military[4] See Notes Section
Residence[4] Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesParadise and Lancaste
Death[1][7][4] 4 Mar 1815 Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Burial[1][4] Paradise, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesFerree Graveyard (Carpenter's Cemetery)
Probate[10] 11 Mar 1815 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
  2. Edwin S. Walker. Genealogy Notes of the Carpenter Family. (Illinois State Journal County, Springfield, 1907)
    174, 195.
  3. kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..

    1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D. Annotated Landis Ferree Tree. (30 April 2004).

    Heisterkamp's Annotated Landis Ferree Tree (as of 30 April 2004)

    He practiced medicine in Lancaster County from 1780 to 1830. (page 174 - Genealogy Notes of the Carpenter Family)

    He was the builder of "Carpenter Hall." (page 196 - ibid)

  5. Edwin S. Walker. Genealogy Notes of the Carpenter Family. (Illinois State Journal County, Springfield, 1907)
    195.

    Edwin S. Walker, Genealogy Notes of the Carpenter Family, (Illinois State Journal County, Springfield, 1907), page 195. state 1759

  6. Janice Frey. Wistar-Frey-Line. (wistar-frey-line@@earthlink.net - 2 July 2004)
    Gedcom.
  7. Notes. (See Notes Section for this information).

    "Notes," See Notes Section for this Person. for Month, Day.

  8. Eleanor Jane Fulton and Barbara Kendig Mylin. An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - 1729-1850. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1994)
    7.
  9. F. Edward Wright, Editor. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1786-1820. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland 2001)
    36.
  10. 10.0 10.1 F. Edward Wright, Editor. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1786-1820. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland 2001)
    41.

    From Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1786-1820, page 41.

    His will names his wife Salome Carpenter and children: Henry, John, Mary, Harriet, Matilda, and Susanna wife of William C. Frazer.

    Executors are John and Henry Carpenter. Strasburg Township.

  11.   Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..

    1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 17601-5529, kamp3genealogy@netscape.net

  12.   .

    From History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Chapter XXII. By Dr. H. B. Stehman

    Dr. Abraham Carpenter was a descendant of Heinrich Zimmerman, and practiced medicine in Lancaster during the first quarter of t he present century (1800). He acquired considerable reputation from being the only surgeon of his day who had successfully performed the supra-pubic or high operation for stone in the bladder. He was the father-in-law of David G. Eshleman, Esq., of this city.

  13.   .

    From An Outline Reconstructing George Ferree's Book of Charts (refers to P.A. Ser. 5, Vol. 7, pages 57 and 619.)

    1777 - Pvt. 1st Class under Capt. John Slaymaker, 7th Battalion, L.C.M.; commanded by Col. John Boyd:

    1782 - Pvt. 1st Class under Capt. Mathias Slaymaker, 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, L.C.M.:

    1786 - Pvt. under Capt. Robt. McIlvain 17th Battalion, L.C.M .: 1

    2790 - 6th Company, 3rd Battalion L.C.M. under Capt. Jacob Forney and Major Henry Hambright:

  14.   .

    From Biographical History of Lancaster County, 1872, by Alex. Harris, page 129

    Abraham Carpenter, was a citizen of Strasburg township, and an influential and leading man of his time. He was a farmer. He was a member of the Legislature in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796 and 1797. He was elected a member of the State Senate in the year 1798. He died March 4, 1815, in the 57th year of his age.