SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS The Carpenter Family The Mary Ann Wier Family | Reunion in Gonzales County From North Carolina to Kentucky to Mississippi to Texas Origin of the line is unknown before North Carolina. Carpenter is a common anglicization of the German surname Zimmer. The German given names of Owen Carpenter Sr.'s wife and daughters suggest they may have been of German origin. The family moved to Tennessee before the War of 1812, then briefly to Kentucky and on to Mississippi about 1830. Origins of Margaret A.
(Martha) Carpenter 1. Owen Carpenter Sr.
b. bef 1741; d. abt 1781 MooreCo, NC Children: Catheson, Catrine, John, Owen Jr. (m. 1. Sarah Anderson; 2. Martha) North Carolina 1762: First appears in MooreCo, NC records buying land in a part of CumberlandCo that became part of MooreCo in 1784. CumberlandCo was established from the northern part of BladenCo in 1754. MontgomeryCo to the west was established from the northern part of adjacent AnsonCo in 1778. Triangular MooreCo was established from the northwest part of CumberlandCo in 1784. Owen, Jonathan and John may have lived within a three mile radius of each other. John is thought by some to be the oldest and father of the other two who are brothers since John does not appear with the other two on the 1790 NC census. It is thought that Owen must have been at least 21 years of age at the time to make legal transactions. He may have been married at the time and could have been the father of children born as early as 1762. 1762: On 19 Oct, Owen Carpenter Sr. entered patent on a plantation of 150 acres on Falling Creek, a tributary of the Deep River above the High Falls, in CumberlandCo, NC, "including his improvements," which indicated that he had been living on the land for some time. 1765: On 24 Oct, he entered a plantation of 200 acres of land adjoining John Sheffield in CumberlandCo on Wolf Creek, a tributary of Bear Creek, which was a tributary of the Deep River. John Shuffle (Sheffield) bought 200 acres in Cumberland on Bear Creek joining Wolf Creek a little below the mouth and Owen Carpenter. 1765: 28 Oct 1765. 250 acres in Cumberland on Falling Creek joining Earl Graveilles line. 1767: Listing of settlers of MooreCo, NC: Deep River above High Falls on Wolf Creek of Bear Creek: Entry date 1767, last record 1795: Owen Carpenter 1771; Caterin 1785; Catheson 1785; Katrine 1789; Owen Jr. 1795: John 1795; Sarah 1794. Last two were orphans, not children of Owen. 1767: 27 Apr Transferred 200 acres in Cumberland on Wolf Creek joining John Shuffle. 1773: On 24 May, he was granted 100 acres in CumberlandCo on Williams Creek on the lower side of Bear Creek joining the hill north of Bear Creek SW of the Yadkin Road. This land was in the general vicinity of the land owned by the John Carpenter who bought land on the south side of Cabin Creek in 1763. 1781-1783: Owen Carpenter Sr. appears to have died c1781-1783. There was a grave monument to "Owen Carpenter and son, killed by Cornwallis's men" in MooreCo, NC in the Shamburger Cemetery located about one-half mile off of County Road 1403, approximately one-half mile north of the community of Dover in MooreCo, NC, but apparently has been destroyed by vandals. The story of Owen's murder as told in a newspaper article says that he was home on furlough during the Revolution when Tory soldiers began looting the area. He was carrying his newborn son when he went to the door and the Tories gunned them down with a single bullet. 1783: Owen Carpenter Sr. received payment certificates for military service in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War. The payment may have been made to Catherine as Owen's widow. 1785: Owen Sr.'s wife Catherine appears alone in the MooreCo records in 1785 and 1789, indicating that she was a widow at that time. Owen Carpenter Sr. appears to have had at least four sons. Owen Carpenter Jr. is the only one who is proved. Researchers believe four others, Adam Carpenter of EdgefieldCo, SC, Solomon Carpenter of BedfordCo,TN, Dennis Carpenter of MontgomeryCo, AL, and John Carpenter of TishomingoCo, MS may have been sons of Owen Carpenter Sr. 1790: MooreCo, NC Census: Carpenter, Owen, 3 males 0-16; 1 male 16+; 3 females; 4 others.
2. Owen
Carpenter Jr. b. 1778 MooreCo, NC; d. 1863 TippahCo, MS The surname Anderson of Owen Carpenter's wife Sarah is not certain. It is based on a note in the obituary of James Anderson Booker (son of Sarah Carpenter Booker, daughter of Owen Jr. and Sarah Carpenter) that implied that he was named after his grandfather. Family tradition also says that Sarah Carpenter Booker related to family that her mother was an Anderson. Children: John Marion (m. Mary Morgan), William (m. Ann Jane Nancy Green), Sarah (Benjamin Bendigo Booker), Elias (m. Elizabeth C. Morgan), Mary (John S. Hobson), Owen E. (m. Rebecca W.), Margaret A. (Martha) (m. John Allen Wier). Married abt 1824 2. Martha. Children: Temperance From The History of Tippah County, MS: The First Century, 1976, pg. 19-20:
North Carolina 1785-1787: NC Marriage Records: An Owen Carpenter to Sarah Smith, Nathan Smith was security. Relationship of this Owen Carpenter is unclear. 1790/1800: In MooreCo, NC census as head of a family which included widowed mother Catherine and brothers and sisters. Owen Carpenter Jr. lived on the Old Salem Road north of Bear Creek. Tennessee 1813-1814: Owen Carpenter is listed as a Private in the 1st Regiment (Wynne's) West Tennessee Militia, War of 1812. From the National Archives:
1815: 12 Mar sold 150 acres of land in LincolnCo, TN to Henry Gains. 1816: 2 May purchased 100 acres of land from Nicholas Corriger for $600. 1820: LincolnCo, TN Census: 2 males 0-9; 2 males 10-15; 1 male 16-25; 1 male 26-44; 4 females 0-9; 1 female 26-44. 1829: He and wife Martha were dismissed by letter from membership in the Mount Olivet Primitive Baptist Church, where they had been members since 1825. 1829: Dec 1829 sold 100 acres to William Millard, moved to CallowayCo, KY, where they appeared in the 1830 census. Kentucky 1830: CallowayCo, KY Census: Owen Carpenter 1 male 10-14; 1 male 15-19; 1 male 20-29; 1 male 50-59; 3 females 0-4; 2 females 5-9; 1 female 10-14; 1 female 15-19; 1 female 40-49. Mississippi The Owen Carpenter Family appear to have moved to TippahCo, MS in the 1830s. 1838: Land
transfer 9 Feb. Owen Carpenter and wife Martha to Abel V. Murry BOUNTY LAND CLAIM FORM OF A DECLARATION To be made where the party has had a warrant and
desires another. State of Mississippi, County of Tippah. On this first day May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, Chas. B. Word a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, Owen Carpenter aged Seventy Seven years, a resident of Tippah in the State of Mississippi who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the indentical Owen Carpenter who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain John Porter in the Second Regiment of Tennessee Militia commanded by Col. Higgins in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States 18 June 1812 that he was drafted at Lincoln County Tennessee on or about AD September 1813 for the term of three months and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Huntsville Alabama on about January of AD 1814 that he has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of 28 September 1850 and received a land warrant, No. has not collected for 40 acres, which he has since legally disposed of, and cannot now return. He makes this delcaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under act approved the 3rd day of March, 1855. He also declares, that he has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty-land warrant except the one above mentioned. Owen (hisXmark) Carpenter. We, Jesse Pesley and Thos. J. Hefley, residents of Tippah County, in the State of Mississippi, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed by making his mark and acknowledged by Owen Carpenter, in our presence, and that we believe, for the appeanace and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person that he represents himself to be. Jesse Pesler. Thos. J. (hisXmark) Hefley. The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in his claim. Chas. B. Word. Affidavit TippahCo Archives: The State of Mississippi, Tippah County. On this the 31st day of July AD 1852 personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in the foresaid County and State. Owen Carpenter a resident of Tippah County in the State of Mississippi aged Seventy four years who after having duly sworn deposed and sadi that he is the identical Owen Carpenter who was a private in the company commanded by Captain John Porter in the Second Regiment of Tennessee Militia commanded by Col. Wm. Higgins in the War with the Creek Nation of Indians by the United States in about 1812 or 1813. Affiant does not recollect [???] that he was drafted in Lincoln County Tennessee on or about April or May 1812 or 1813 for the term of three months, but affiant was not called into service until about October 1812. Affiant thinks he was confirmed in actual service in said War for the term of three months and honorably discharged at Fort Deport Alabama on or about January 1813 and will appear by reference to the Muster Rolls of said Company affiant received a certificate of discharge but has lost or mislaid it. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States passed September 28 AD 1850. Owen hisXmark Carpenter. 1852: As a
result of the above petitions, Owen Carpenter received 120 acres bounty for service in
addition to his original 40. Parts of the above was provided by researchers Barbara Andrews, Terry L. Carpenter, Vivian T. Cates and Mildred Carpenter Eason. SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS |