Person:Stephen Carpenter (2)

From The Carpenter Family in America, p. 144: Although but a lad at the time of the Revolution, he was courageous and brave, helping to protect his fathers house from the "Skinners" and other marauding bands. He and his brother Isaac carried the news to Horse Neck, Conn., of the approach of the British at the battle of White Plains. Part of this battle was fought in a rye field on his father's farm and near the house (about three miles from White Plains), and he and Dorothy Gale (his future wife) helped dress the wounds of the soldiers. He married Dorothy Gale, daughter of Griffen Gale. They were farmers at New Castle, Westchester County. His will was proved October 21, 1843. (Vide Westchester Records, Book Z, p. 440)

1.   Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, Carpenter Family in America (Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1901)
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