. 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 .. . now-Lamcaster Pa- — Ibfrib A J^f. Mr»h# A^tf^ .S^ r%i I /tyr THE NEW YORKPUBLIC UBRARY ASro-. L NOX ANDTILD M FOUNDATIONS. THE CARPENTER FAMILY. 19 rich, for they had in abundance all that their simple wantsreq-uired. Out of wool and fiax they manufactured their clothes;they planted orchards and vineyards, and had fruit, cider andwine. They brought with them all the habits
. 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 .. . now-Lamcaster Pa- — Ibfrib A J^f. Mr»h# A^tf^ .S^ r%i I /tyr THE NEW YORKPUBLIC UBRARY ASro-. L NOX ANDTILD M FOUNDATIONS. THE CARPENTER FAMILY. 19 rich, for they had in abundance all that their simple wantsreq-uired. Out of wool and fiax they manufactured their clothes;they planted orchards and vineyards, and had fruit, cider andwine. They brought with them all the habits and customs of thefatherland, its religion and its amusements, and, taken alto-gether, might be considered a prosperous and happy Pequea settlement was early considered the most thrifty inthe colony, and Governor Pownell, who traveled there in 1754,said it reminded him of the best cultivated portions of even practiced irrigation, a custom which they had broughtwith them from Switzerland, but which has long since beenabandoned. A good wagon road was soon constructed to Phila-delphia, and they were thus brought in connection with theprincipal town of the colony; in fact, the only one of anyimportance. The town of Lancas
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