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Mary Chapin Carpenter

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James Stratton Carpenter

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Mary Chapin Carpenter — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Edward Carpenter 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Stratton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Oct 1807 
  • Birth Location:
  • Glassborough, Gloucester, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1872 
  • Death Location:
  • Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
  • 3 Feb 1872 
  • Burial Location:
  • Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Camilla Julia Sanderson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Oct 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  John Thomas Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • James Carpenter's death is found recorded in New Jersey death records, however his obituary makes it clear that he died at his residence in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

    Some sources give 18 OCT 1807 as his date of birth, while his tombstone gives it as 14 OCT 1807.

• Sources for James Stratton Carpenter

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A019530.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Schuylkill County, 1850, Pottsville South Ward, Image 13 of 64.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2016).
  • ⁴ New Jersey, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931, Birth record for son John Thomas Carpenter.
  • ⁵ New Jersey, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, Death record for James S Carpenter.
  • ⁶ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Baptism record for son John Thomas Carpenter.
  • ⁷ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Burial record for James Stratton Carpenter.
  • ⁸ Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania), 02 FEB 1872, p. 4, Obituary for Dr. James S. Carpenter.
  • ⁹ Carpenter, Edward and Gen. Louis Henry Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1912), 68, 97.
  • ¹⁰ Schalck, Adolf W. and D. C. Henning, History of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of . . ., Vol. 2, Unknown: State Historical Association (1907), 86-87.