Ludretia Quintard

     Ludretia was born on Sunday, 10 February 1760 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Isaac and Lucretia Quintard. Ludretia married Thomas Carpenter, son of Joseph Carpenter III and Mary Willett, on 20 August 1781 in Queens County, Long Island, New York, at St. George's Anglician Church in the Town of Hempstead. Thomas enlisted as an ensign in Delancey's Third Battalion and an adjutant of the corps. He went to St. John's, Nova Scotia after the war, became a grantee of that city, and received half pay. On 30 September 1797, he was at Saratoga Springs where he sold land he owned in Stamford. At this point he disappears from public record. Lucretia's parents were loyalist and were forced to move from Stamford, CT., to Hemptead for protection, and after the war, as was Thomas, was forced to emigrate to Nova Scotia. Later Thomas and his wife returned to the states, if for no other reason then to settle real estate matters. He must have been a rebel and a black sheep of his family as the rest of his family were true to the Friend's Society and loyal to the colonist. Ludretia departed this life after 30 September 1797 in Hempstead Town, Queens County, Long Island, New York.