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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1735 Death: 04 Nov 1791 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private: CAPT Ebenezer Jenkins, LT Ebenezer Baker; COL Nathaniel Freeman
Additional References:
MA Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 3, pg 116
Muster/Payrolls of the Rev War (MA and Rhode Island) Volume 36, pg 129 (image 181)
Muster/Payrolls of the Rev War (MA and Rhode Island) Volume 35, pg 226 (image 543)
Spouse: Temperance Crocker Children: Abigail;
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Photo displayed courtesy of David C. Schafer, MASSAR
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
From the Route 149, the entrance to the cemetery, travel 83 yards beside the stone wall adjacent to Route 149. The gravesite of Daniel Carpenter is 18 feet in from the stone wall
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Author: David Crandall Schafer
Daniel Carpenter was born about 1735. He married to Temperance Crocker, a daughter of Walley Crocker and Abigail Annable, April 5, 1759, at West Barnstable, Massachusetts. They were the parents of at least one child, Abigail, born February 17, 1760, at Barnstable.
Coastal raids by the British Fleet were an ongoing occurrence along the coastal waters of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They were necessary to provide supplies for British Garrisons at Newport and New York. Additionally, they achieved the objective of disrupting the needed commerce of American colonists and destruction of American privateering of British vessels. British commander Henry Clinton ordered Major-General Charles Grey to sail a fleet of 32 vessels from Newport to (New) Bedford, Massachusetts, with the objective of destroying vessels, wharves, and warehouses used by American privateers along the western coast of Buzzard’s Bay.
British troops arrived at Clark’s Cove at Bedford’s southern coast. They set fire to over one hundred vessels, forty storehouses, and naval supplies. In response, Brigadier General Joseph Otis of Barnstable called an alarm of militia companies from Cape Cod, Bristol, and Plymouth Counties to the defense of Falmouth and Dartmouth. The British sailed easter to the Elizabeth Islands, passing through Quick’s Hole. They sailed into Vineyard Sound and skirted the coastal waters of Falmouth before sailing to Martha’s Vineyard. The British demanded of the Vineyard’s leaders that they be supplied with livestock and feed, arms, military supplies, and the public treasury. Departing with more than 10,000 sheep, 300 oxen, and 50 tons of hay, the British returned to their Newport and New York Garrisons.1 With the threat to the seacoast past, General Otis discharged the numerous militia companies to their home towns. The Pay Roll of wages due Captain Ebenezer Jenkins 47-man militia company of Barnstable on the alarm to Dartmouth and Falmouth in September 1778 lists Daniel Carpenter, with two days of service and wages of ten shillings and eight pence.2
In September 1779, British Commander George Leonard led an attack at Tarpaulin Cove of Naushon Island (of the Elizabeth Islands) destroying American vessels, killing sailors and citizens. Brigadier Joseph Otis responded with an alarm at Falmouth for militia companies from Barnstable County to repel the British forces and build breastworks along the Falmouth coast. The British maneuvered near Falmouth Harbor causing fear of attack but which never came.3 With the British threat passed, General Otis dismissed the militia companies to their homes. The Pay Roll of Continental wages and mileage due to Lieutenant Ebenezer Baker’s 16-man militia company of Barnstable in on alarm at Falmouth in September 1779 includes Daniel Carpenter, three days of service and total wages of seven shillings and four pence.4
Daniel Carpenter died November 4, 1791, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, aged 56 years. Temperance Crocker Carpenter died December 13, 1817, and was buried beside her husband, at the cemetery of West Barnstable.
References:
1. Lawrence, Frederick V., Jr.: A Journal of Occurrences along the Rebel Coast. Chapter 8.
2. Muster/payrolls of the Revolutionary War (Massachusetts and Rhode Island) Vol. 36, Pg. 129 (image 181).
3. Rago, Joseph: An Alarm at Falmouth, 1779.
4. Muster/payrolls of the Revolutionary War (Massachusetts and Rhode Island), Vol. 35, Pg. 226 (image 543).
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