. 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 .. . e woman, and old Mr. Kreidersaid she could stand on the rim of a half bushel measure andshoulder a three-bushel sack of wheat. In proof of heredity,it may be added that nearly all the descendants of Daniel Car-l^enter are large people, some even as tall as their other lands he inherited the tract bought from Fran-ciscus, and on the very spot where the girl
. 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 .. . e woman, and old Mr. Kreidersaid she could stand on the rim of a half bushel measure andshoulder a three-bushel sack of wheat. In proof of heredity,it may be added that nearly all the descendants of Daniel Car-l^enter are large people, some even as tall as their other lands he inherited the tract bought from Fran-ciscus, and on the very spot where the girl slew the wolf erecteda fine stone house in 1750, which is standing today, almost asgood as new. When first built it was the pride of the settle-ment, and was the scene of unbounded hospitality, for Danielwas a Colonel of the Militia and a man of convivial dressed in his regimentals, mounted on his steed, and atthe head of his Battalion, he made a profound impression uponhis German neighbors. He, however, confined his militarymovements to his own county, for I do not find that he went tothe French and Indian wars, and he died in 1766, before thewar of the Eevolution. But if he did not go to war, he did the. STORE AND DWELLING and Store, erected about 1800. by Christian Carpenter,son of Christian, and grand-son of Gabriel 2d.—son of the immi-grant. Earlville, near the Conestoga. Lancaster Penna. THE CARPENTER FAMILY. 41 next best thing; he helped the commander of the British forcesto reach the front. From 1756 to 1763 a great many troopswere stationed about Lancaster, which was a supply station forall the expeditions west of the Allegheny Mountains. ColonelHenry Boquet, a Swiss officer in the British service, was incommand there. Several times in 1763 he marched with thecolumn that met, and after a desperate fight defeated theIndians at Bushy Eun. While in Lancaster County he spent agreat deal of time with Daniel Carpenter; they were about thesam
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