Elisha Carpenter

GEDCOM Note

He was Ensign, gunsmith and a farmer. The following is a correct copy of the commission of Elisha Carpenter now in the possession of Byron R. Carpenter and copied by Minnie Hurlbut of Groton, NY, July 21, 1879. PROVICE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY. THOMAS POWNALL ESQ., CAPTAIN GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN CHIEF IN AND OVER HIS MAJESTY'S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND, AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, ETC. To Elisha Carpenter, Gentlemen, Greeting: By virtue of the Power and Authority in and by his Majesty's Royal Commission to me, granted to be Captain General, etc., over this, his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay aforesaid, I do by these presents (reposing especial Truth and Confidence in you Layalty's Courage and good Conduct) constitute and appoint you, the said Elisha Carpenter- to be an Ensign in that Company whereof Phillip Walker Esq.-is Captain in a Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel Thomas Doty-raised by me for a general invasion of Canada. You are therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign-in leading, ordering and exercising said Company-in Arms both inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good order and discipline and they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Ensign-and you are yourself to observe and follow such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from your Colonel, Captain or any other of your superior officers according to the rules and discipline of War in Pursuance of the Trust hereby reposed in you. Given under my hand and seal at Army, Boston, the thirteenth day of March in the thirty first year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the second, Anno Domini, 1758. By His Excellency's Command, A. OLIVER SEC. A letter from Miss Elizabeth Perry of Savoy, MA, a daughter of Isaac Perry who married Nancy Carpenter, daughter of Benjamin Carpenter, and grand-daughter of Elisha Carpenter, she has rendered much assistance to the compiler in this genealogy, and is deserving the gratitude of the family:- "I know that the father {it should have been grandfather} of Elisha was in the old French and Indian war; I have heard my mother speak of it, and knew that he went to Quebec. Grandfather Elisha was in the Revolutionary war, which accounts for the family coming to Savoy. He had a tract of land given him for his services in the war; it was what was originally the farm of William and Esther Ingraham; and also the farm of Cynthia Braley and Benjamin Carpenter, my father. It was divided between the three. Benjamin Carpenter, son of Elisha was 14 years of age when he went to Savoy, MA, with William Ingraham and he lived with him until he was 21 years of age. Elisha built the first saw-mill in Savoy." In another letter she says:- "A part of Savoy is a part of a tract of land granted by the General Court to Col. William Bullock of Rehoboth as agent for the heirs of Capt. Samuel Gallup and his company or men, in consideration of services rendered by them during the French and Indian war. This grant was made April 25, 1771. This war was sometimes called The Old French War. It was the war that England had with the French to subdue and take Canada when we were colonists subject to England. Deacon William Engraham moved from Rehoboth to Adams, MA, in 1783, and I think they moved the next year to Savoy, MA. They came by marked trees from Adams to Savoy." (Signed) Elizabeth Perry Elisha was appointed Ensign in that Company where Phillip Walker, Esq. was Captain in a Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. Thomas Doty for a general invasion of Canada in 1758. It is liely that he (Elisha) went to Savoy to accept a tract of land that came to his grandfather, Daniel Carpenter, for his services in the French and Indian War or it might have been for his services in the Revolutionary war. He was one of the early settlers of Savoy where he and his wife died; their graves are not marked by any monument to show their resting-place. It is supposed that he (Elisha) was a party to the Norwich, Vermont land grant, and if so he was likely one of the grantees who did not settle there, as many of the grantees did not become actual settlers. It is presumed that he was worth considerable money in real estate. [The Governor of New Hampshire gave the Norwich grant.]

Elisha Carpenter, family # 201 in Book by Amos Carpenter.

His line: Daniel, Daniel, William, William