Lewis Carpenter1
M, b. 1752, d. 1785
| Father | Joseph Carpenter IV b. 15 Jul 1720, d. b 12 Jun 1777 |
| Mother | Elizabeth Townsend b. c 1720 |
Lewis was born in 1752 in Jericho in the Town of Oyster Bay, Queens County, Long Island, New York. Lewis married Betsey Townsend, daughter of Henry Townsend V and Anne Wright, on 27 August 1775 in Queens County, Long Island, New York, at St. George's Anglician Church in the Town of Hempstead. According to the church records: Lewis Carpenter of New York married Elizabeth Townsend of Oyster Bay.2 Lewis was a grocer. He & his family resided in New York City. Lewis departed this life in 1785 in the City, County & State of New York.
Family | Elizabeth Townsend b. c 1755 |
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Citations
- [S38] Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, History & Genealogy of the Carpenter Family In America From the Settlement at Providence, R. I. 1637 - 1901
, pages 133-135 - no. 142: Lewis Carpenter, son of Joseph,53 was born about 1752. The record of marriages of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., has this entry : Lewis Carpenter of New York married Elizabeth Townsend of Oyster Bay, August 27, 1775; and the record of the First Presbyterian Church, New York city, shows that Elizabeth Carpenter, widow, was married to Robert Little, October 7, 1786. And "The Townsend Memorial" says that Thomas Carpenter was received as a member of Westbury Meeting, 27, 1 t, 1776. (Book C, p. 164.)
Hannah, wife of Thomas Carpenter, was daughter of Richard and Sarah Alsop. She was--born 18, 12, 1757. Her mother was daughter of Thomas Pearsall and was first married to Richard Mott of New York, and had son James Mott, born 8, 8, 1742, who married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Carpenter) Underhill, 5, 9, 1765. (Vide Westbury Minutes.)
yob Webb and his wife Hannah, mother of Alsop Carpenter, were living at De Ruyter near Skaneateles, N. Y., 1 814 to 1827. (Vide Adam and Anne Mott, pp. 90, 107, 135.)
John Alsop, born 1753, brother of Hannah Webb (above), married, about 1780, Mary , and had Robert, 1783, Thomas J., 1787, Sarah, 1792, Hannah, and Mary. For second wife he married Avis Slocum, widow of Sylvanus Folger, and also of Matthew Barnard. John Alsop went to Providence, R. I., and about 1777 came from there to Mamaroneck. In 1783 he went to Hudson and was one of its original proprietors. He afterwards removed across the river to Athens, where he lived many years. In 1827 he removed to his son's house at Scipio, where he died some years later. (Vide same, p. 210.)
... she had three children by her husband Lewis Carpenter, and names them as
396 TOWNSEND, born 1778 (?).
397 THOMAS, born in New York city, January 5, 178o.
398 HENRY, born 1782 (?), died at Horse Heads,
N. Y., 1865. He had son Townsend.
3 99 PHEBE,* probably born about 1784. She mar
ried Nathaniel Wright of Cornwall, N. Y.
"Lewis Carpenter, grocer, of New York. Charles Thorne of Oyster Bay appointed Administrator April 1o, 1786."
Phebe, No. 399, was a daughter of Lewis Carpenter, 142, not of Robert Little. Mrs. Julia A. McKay, daughter of Lewis Carpenter, No. 89o, well remembers her aunt Phebe (the above) and her husband Nathaniel.
Elizabeth Townsend was daughter of Henry and Anne (Wright)
Townsend, and was born about 175o-'6o. By her second husband she had Phebe, Elizabeth, and Martha. Phebe married a Wright. Martha married Henry Titus, and had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Joshua T. Cromwell, and she gives this account of her grandmother. (Vide Townsend Memorial, p. 186.); page 134 - There is no doubt but that Elizabeth (Carpenter) Little removed from New York city to Orange County, somewhere near Cornwall. I have a letter, dated February 1, 1885, from Mr. William T. Carpenter of Horseheads, Chemung County, N. Y. He says his grandfather was Lewis Carpenter, and that he (the grandfather) had brothers Henry and Townsend and three sisters. - [S38] Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, History & Genealogy of the Carpenter Family In America From the Settlement at Providence, R. I. 1637 - 1901
, pages 133-134.