Capt. Eliphalet Carpenter

This is the 8th child of Benjamin & Hannah (Strong) Carpenter.

   BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH

   BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA.  Also known as the CARPENTER

   MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA

   !Number 125 on page 65.  His family (#66) is listed on page 97.

   His father soon after his birth in 1703, removed to Coventry, CT.

   Eliphalet's residence was Coventry, CT. where he died on 22 Feb 1792.

   His will was dated 1 Dec 1775 and probated 3 April 1792.  He was called by the

   commisioners, Captain Eliphalet Carpenter, which title justly belonged to him

   as he held a captain's commission under the King.

   His name is on the muster roll of a large MA Company under the command of

   Capt. Thomas Cheney in Gen. Dwight's Regiment, which was raised in 1746 for the

   expedition to Canada and dismissed from service 31 Oct 1747.

   Eliphalet was called a very old man at his death.  He married twice, his second

   wife surviving him and he mentions in his will his children and grandchildren.

   He speaks in his will of his granddaughter Anne, daughter of Eliphalet and

   gives her a gold necklace that belonged to his former wife.

   He renewed his baptismal faith at West Hartford, CT on 17 March 1728.  His

   daughter, Hannah was baptized at West Harford, CT on 27 March 1728.

   The inscription on his tombstone in an old burying ground in Coventry, CT,

   reads as follows: "This monument is sacred to the memory of Captain Eliphat

   Carpenter who died February 22nd, 1792, after 10 weeks illness, with great

   composure of mind, in full hope of a glorious resurrection and in the 89th year

   of his age.  /An honest man, rare to be found/ Lies buried here beneath this

   ground:/ Whose soul we trust is now above/ Where all is joy, where all is

   love./"      On the same stone is inscribed the following: "Here lies interred

   the body of Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Captain Eliphalet Carpenter, who departed

   this life May 6th, A.D., 1773, in the sixty-eighth year of her age: the first

   one buried in this ground."

   Many of his children died of "Black throat distemper" which is the highly contagious diptheria.  Every child in the USA is now required to have the diptheria vaccine.  Spelling is correct for either diptheria or diphtheria.

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