. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . of your mother. Emanuel was elected to the Assembly in1779, and served till 1786. Upon the death of his father in1780 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of CommonPleas, which office he held till his removal to the west in 1798,so that father and son had served in the Commission of thePeace for a period of sixty-three years. His reputation stoodsecond only to that
. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . of your mother. Emanuel was elected to the Assembly in1779, and served till 1786. Upon the death of his father in1780 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of CommonPleas, which office he held till his removal to the west in 1798,so that father and son had served in the Commission of thePeace for a period of sixty-three years. His reputation stoodsecond only to that of his father, and his name figures promi-nently all through the official records of the county. I will now leave Emanuel to take him up again, when I cometc the exodus of the family from Pennsylvania. Gabriel Carpenter, my great great grandfather, was the sec-ond son of Heinrich. He was born in Switzerland in 1704and died in Earl township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,in 1767. His house is still standing at the forks of the Graff, andCarpenters Runs, and in a good state of preservation, althoughbuilt of hewed logs; and the stone Spring house, and the bigspring are still there. Gabriel was by no means as prominent. THE OLD HOMESTEAD. The old homestead of Gabriel Carpenter, built by him, in 1730, Lancaster County. Penna. The lighter portions of the roof show an addition, made in this century. THE CARPENTER FAMILY. 37 a man as his brother EmanueL Still his name occurs quitefrequently in the public records. He practiced surveying, hada saw and grist mill, and owned a large tract of fine land. About1730 he married Appolina Hermann, whose parents were promi-nent Swiss people of the settlement. I find from the recordsthat he furnished a team and flour for the Braddock expedition,and that he had great trouble in getting pay for the same. Hewas a spare man, over six feet tall, with black hair and died several years before the Eevolution, but his wife, Appo-lina, lived till 17
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