Joseph Carpenter

Joseph Carpenter, son of Benjamin, was born at Musketa Cove, September 15, 1705, and the marriage record of St. George’s Church of Hempstead shows that he was married on May 20, 1728, to Sarah Latting. She was the daughter of Richard and Mary (Wright) Latting of Lattingtown (near Musketa Cove). By inheritance and purchase he had a large landed interest at “Red Springs” and “Oak Neck,” which property he sold in 1753, and in company with his brother-in-law, John Latting, his son-in-law, John Caverly, and Benjamin Stanton, purchased, through Lewis Morris, from Euphemia Norris of Bucks, England, a very large tract of land in Ulster County (new Newburgh), which they settled, naming it “Lattingtown” after their Long Island home. He died there in 1766; his widow died in 1790. On the farm of Joseph Carpenter, in a part set off for a burial spot, there is to be seen the following on a memorial stone:

Joseph Carpenter THE FIRST SETTLER IN THIS PLACE, AND THE PLANTER OF THIS ORCHARD, DIED JULY 1ST, 1766 AGED 61 YRS, 3 MO & 6 DAYS.

Cited from: Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland. History and genealogy of the Carpenter family in America, from the settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901,. Jamaica, N.Y: Marion Press, 1901.

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