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Died between Apr and Oct 1632.
Was a rich clothier of Cranbrook and Biddenden, Kent. WILL of 8 Oct 1632, mentioned many relatives, including land for his grand nephew Francis Borden,BIOGRAPHY-WILL: Thomas Allen Glenn, PEDIGREE OF RICHARD BORDEN Who removed from the country Kent Old Eng. 1637- 1638 and settled at Portsmouth, R.I ; 1901; 617 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Penn. Printed for Private Distribution; ; LDS Family History library Film 0990349, 15 p.; NOTE: WILL Consistory Court of Canterbury, Bk. 50, Folio 74. 8 Oct 1632 - I, Francis Fowle, of Cranbrooke in Co. Kent, Clothier. The rest of my goods to my cousing Richard Borden of Cranbrooke, whom I make executor. Item - I give to my wife Elizabeth all my messuages, lands, &c., in Goudherst in Co. Kent for her life; after her decease I give the same to Joane Borden my kinswoman, the wife of Richard Borden, for her life; after her decease I give the same to Francis Borden, son of the said Joane; to hold to him and his heirs for ever. Proved 3 Apr. 1633. Dispute of will by Elizabeth - widow, Clemence Fitch & __ Payne, sister of deceased on the one part & the said Richard Borden. Judgement given in favor of Richard. Relative: Emma M. W. RITENBURGH
WILL-BIOGRAPHY: Family History Records; ; compiled by Michael S. Cole; ; copy dated 26 Jan 1994 sent to T Mason; NOTES: lists husband to Clemence as William Fitche.
BIRTH: said to have been Bef 6 Jun 1633
EMIGRATION: "A Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants Who Came to New England from 1620 to 1650." p 71.
Judge Emanuel Carpenter or Zimmerman
OCCUPATION: Constable and Assessor of Cocalico Twp., Legislator.
Information taken from pages 176 through 179 (Genealogical notes of the Carpenter Family) printed at Springfield, Illinois, Illinois State Journal Co, Printers. Copyright, 1907. Will probated 8 May 1780.
First Naturalization List in Lancaster County (Some men from Philadelphia County). The following list includes those who became citizens in 1729....Section I. - Be it enacted by the Honorable Patrick Gordeon Esquire, Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, etc., by and with the advice of the freeman of the said Province, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That .....Henry Carpenter, Emanuel Carpenter, Gabriel Carpenter..... be and shall be to all intents and purposes deemed, taken and esteemed His Majesty's natural-born subjects of this province of Pennsylvania as if they and each of them had born within said province.... (Passed February 14, 1729. Apparently never considered by the Crown but allowed to become law by lapse of time, in accordance with the Proprietary Charter.
List of legislators who will be included in volume three of Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary along with their years of legislative service and county representation ..... Carpenter, Emanuel, Lancaster County (1755-71), Carpenter, Jacob, Lancaster County (1765-69, 1772).
Historical Sketch of Upper Leacock Township: Among some of the early pioneers to the Township were the ...Carpenters, Weidlers, ...... One of the earliest settlers of the Township was Emanuel Carpenter who moved into the region in 1723 and settled along the boundaries between West Earl and Upper Leacock Townships. He became one of the areas leading citizens and was a member of the Provincial Assembly starting in 1756.
Research notes and hunches by Catharine F. Borden Mason in file.
RELATIONSHIPS: History of Yeiser family of Danville, Ky; 1900; ; paper of Sallie Hunter Borden passed to her daughter Elsie; Copy sent to T. Mason by Dori Shaffer, Hot Springs, AK.
TOMBSTONE: Inscription from The Carpenter Church Graveyard on Route 772 between Talmadge and Leola, PA.: "Here, entombed, lie the remains of Emanuel Carpenter, Esquire, late Presiding Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. If true piety, benevolence, Christian Charity, an unsullied reputation, and an entire devotion to the rights of man, at the most gloomy period of our national struggle, are commendable, the example of the deceased is worthy of imitation. He closed his useful and well spent life in April, 1780, in the 78th year of his age, regretted by all who knew him."
The land for the Grave-Yard was given by two Carpenters, in 1750. Lancaster County, PA
From The Pennsylvania-German Vol. XI, No. 2 February, 1910 "A CARPENTER FAMILY OF LANCASTER" by A.Y. Casanova, Philipsburg, PA.
Emanuel Carpenter of Earl Township, born in the year 1702, the eldest son of the pioneer Heinrich, married Catherin Line, (1705-1785), a Swabian girl, and they resided in a log cabin located where Carpenter's Run empties into the Conestoga. He became in time the most prominent member of the Carpenter family in those early days, and was nicknamed "Manny the Lawgiver." The records show his naturalization in the year 1729 and that shortly thereafter he was appointed Constable and Assessor of Cocalico township. He appears to have been the sole referee in the controversial questions, which arose among the German and Swiss residents of the locality, and such was the unbounded confidence reposed in his judgement by his neighbors, that his decision upon a given controversy was always accepted and never appealed from. His services as Justice of the Peace began in 1735; in 1747 he was appointed Overseer of the Poor, and held the position for many years, and in 1756 he was elected a member of the Provincial Assembly holding the office about 16 years. The Crown appointed him Presiding Judge of the Common Pleas in 1759, and he continued as Judge until his death in 1780, having been re-appointed to the office by the Supreme Executive Council of the State when the Crown officers were superceded.On his trips to the city to hold court, he was wont to ride upon his old horse "Baldface," and was ever accompanied by his dog, "Penny." The three were very familiar figures on the road in those days, and his passing by was a signal to the residents that a session of court was to be held.
In the year 1772, on his voluntary retirement from the Assembly, the Burgesses, Assistants, etc..., of the Borough of Lancaster, tendered him a testimonial made at the request of a number of reputable inhabitants of the same, conveying to him the thanks of the Corporation and evidencing their earnest wish that he might be continued in the commission of the Peace and as a Judge in the county where he had so long presided and deservedly acquitted and supported the character of an upright and impartial magistrate.
Emanuel Carpenter was a great friend of Benjamin Franklin and they mutually assisted each other in colonial and Revolutionary matters. When the spirit of the Revolution began to agitate the colonist, Emanuel became devoted to the cause of Liberty and Independence. In 1775 he became one of the Associates and a member of the Committee of Safety, and he exerted all his influence, and that of his large connection of relatives and friends for freedom. The record of their services shows the success of his efforts as a zealous co-laborer with the Continental Congress.
This prominent figure of colonial Pennsylvania died in the year 1780 and was lamented by all who knew him. His funeral was the largest which had been held in the county to that day. He is buried in Carpenter's Cemetery near Earlville, and a monument was there erected years afterward to his memory by his grandson Emanuel Carpenter Reigart. Part of the inscription on the monument reads: "If true piety, benevolence and Christian Charity and unsullied reputation, and an entire devotion to therights of man, at the most gloomy period of our national struggle are commendable, the example of the deceased in worthy of imitation."
The will of Emanuel Carpenter was probated in Lancaster County on May 8,1780. The document shows that he was the owner of about 500 acres of land, which he subdivided into two farms and devised the same to his two sons Jacob and Emanuel Carpenter Jr., after making suitable provision forh is wife, daughters, and grandchildren. Catherine Line, his widow, died in the year 1785; her will was proved the same year in said county and is written in German.
From AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY, by T.I. Momfert
Emanuel Carpenter represented Cocalico Township at the Grand Inquest of 1729. He represented Lancaster County at the Provincial Meeting of Deputies in Philadelphia on July 15, 1774. He represented Earl township on the Committee of Safety December 15, 1774. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania from 1756-1771.
Caroline or Catharine Lein or Line
Information copied by T.Mason on 12May2003 from [HYPERLINK http://genealogy.jefflaplante.com ]
CEMETERY: LDS film # 0383297 - pgs. 60-61
RESEARCHER: AN INDEX TO THE WILL BOOKS AND INTESTATE RECORDS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 1729-1850
page 7
Name: Carpenter, Catherine
Year: 1785
Book: Y
Volume: 2
Page: 88Widow of Emanuel Carpenter. Children: Jacob, Emanuel, Catharine, Elizabeth, Ferris; Adam Reigert (son-in-law). Grandchild: Susan (child of Emanuel). Ex. Adam Reigart. Earl Twp
CONFLICT: Birthplace listed as: Obergimpern, Kraichgau, Baden, Germany
Dr. Heinrich or Henry Zimmerman
NAME: Zimmermann is a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) occupational name for a carpenter -- Zimbermann in Middle High German. Sometimes our ancestors used the English-version of their surnames after they immigrated.
Ref: Red notebook of Catharine F. Borden Mason in possession.
RELATIONSHIPS: History of Yeiser family of Danville, Ky; 1900; ; paper of Sallie Hunter Borden passed to her daughter Elsie; Copy sent to T. Mason by Dori Shaffer, Hot Springs, AK.
Found a paragraph from "Ship Passenger List's", Pennsylvania and Delaware 1641-1825. The following is a rough translation from the original passage written in German: Immigrant in Pennsylvania before 1700. Almanac on behalf of Auslanddeutsche clan (1736), 53-54 [lancour No. 116]
Zimmerman, Heinrich a doctor from Switzerland 1698, son Emanuel, leader of the group to Pennsylvania. He had seven sons whose families consisted of six people. They changed their name to Carpenter. Maria Margareta Zimmerman, a widow was with Magester Johann Jakob who was the arranger of the group of immigrants to Pennsylvania with four children, 1694 immigrants.Per Greg Shively post in FTM forum: Heinrich came to America twice. Once to the new land and second to stay. Tombstone Inscription from the Carpenter Church Graveyard on Route 772 between Talmadge and Leola, PA reads: " 'Heir Ruht Doctor Heinrich Zimmerman' Starborn AprilXVII-MDCCL-XXIII Alt. LIXIAHR VIHMY IIIT."
From The Pennsylvania-German Vol. XI, No.2 February 1910, "A CARPENTER FAMILY OF LANCASTER", by A.Y. Casanova, Phillipsburg, PA.
"This son Heinrich only will occupy our attention for he became the American pioneer ancestor of the Lancaster family of Zimmerman that later bore on the name of Carpenter.
As a youth, Heinrich the younger, seems to have chafed at being confined within the limits of his commune in Switzerland, and, after a not over peaceful course of study in the village school, he obtained the parental consent and enlisted as a soldier in the armies of Louis XIV of France, in whose armies he appears to have served for some time.
Heinrich is described at that time as being a splendid specimen of hardy and daring manhood. An expert with the sword and pike and fond of adventure. He fretted under discipline, and being dark featured, black hair and black eyed, was called the 'Black Henry.' After his term of military service had expired, he returned to his home studied medicine, and during the stay won the affections of his future wife, Salome Ruffner, or Ruffener, born December 28, 1765 in the neighboring village of Blumenstein, who was the widowed daughter of the Marquise deFontenoy. His financial resources did not permit him to marry then; the New World offered at the time great opportunities to thrifty young men in the Province of Pennsylvania, the advantages of which colony had been well advertised by William Penn throughout the districts of the Upper Rhine, and the glowing reports having reached Heinrich, he became restive to sail for America to better his fortunes. In pursuance of this desire,he traveled to London, via Rotterdam, and visited Penn's London Offices to obtain detailed information about Pennsylvania and to ascertain what inducements were offered to prospective settlers. Later, passage was taken in a vessel, and he arrived in Germantown in the new colony in 1698 where he was welcomed by the Swiss residents who had preceded him. Exploring trips were undertaken by our young pioneer in order to acquire a better knowledge of the new country, and about the year 1700 he returned to his native land full of enthusiasm to bring his relatives and some of his neighbors to Pennsylvania.
The proverbial conservatism of the Swiss tried to chill Heinrich's immigration scheme, but did not cool his love for Salome. He married her in the year 1701. His neighbors, however, looked with favor on his plans, but before taking any decisive steps resolved to send an agent to America to verify the traveller's alluring narratives. This delay annoyed Heinrich, and his restless spirit drove him to become identified with an armed rebellion which took place against the established government. The attempt, though unsuccessful, earned for him the title of the 'Swiss Patriot' given to him by the early historians of the Province.
The untoward result of his struggle for freedom compelled Heinrich to seek safety in flight. The family tradition, on the other hand, is that being a communicant of the German Reformed Religion, he was desirous of escaping the religious persecutions then prevalent in his country, and that he did not deem it consistent with true religion to persecute persons who professed a different faith from his own. Friends essayed to force him to renounce the doctrines of the Reformation and wanted to retain him Switzerland. In order to hold him at home, they planned to kidnap his wife, thinking he would not leave without her. Salome, however, was bent on going with her husband, and when Heinrich heard of the plot, he secretly obtained a small boat which he tied to a spot on one of the shores of the Lake of the Four Cantons, or Luzerne, to await a favorable opportunity to escape.
Heinrich and his family left their home one day for the lake. He had armed himself, and this precaution was not taken in vain, for they were attacked on the road by hussars who tried to prevent their departure. Dr. Seymour Carpenter in his version of the incident informs us that the hussars were mounted and armed with sabres and spears. As the latter drew near, Heinrich ordered them to halt, and not being heeded, attacked them with stones. The horses became restive, the hussars were compelled to dismount, and Heinrich taking advantage of this delay in the hostilities, ran to the boat. He was fleet of foot, but before reaching the boat one of the hussars who had pursued him seized Heinrich's coat tail and an unhappy ending to the adventure might have resulted had not Salome, who was in the boat, seized an oar and by a well directed blow, felled the hussar. Heinrich sprang aboard, pushed off, and in this dramatic manner escaped from the land of his birth.
More hospitable shores then received them. Tradition further informs us that Heinrich also practiced the trade of carpentry, and on his way to America, he sojourned in England where he was presented with a large auger and other tools by Queen Anne for use in the new country.
The family arrived in Germantown about 1706. A house was purchased. Heinrich practiced the medical profession, acquired money, bought lands and gradually improved them. He was allowed to take possession of several hundred acres of land provided he went sixty miles west of Philadelphia. In 1710 two hundred acres of land in the present limit of Lancaster county were purchased by him, and in 1712, five hundred and seventy-two more acres were registered in his name. In the year 1717, when he already was the owner of about 3,000 acres of fine land on which the pioneer had erected a two storied dwelling house with an out kitchen, the family moved to the new location in this county but the children continued attending school in Germantown.
It should be noted here that William Penn on issuing patents for lands arbitrarily changed foreign names to English equivalents, often translating the patronymics, metamorphosing the early primitive names, and we find Zimmerman anglicized by translation to Carpenter in the deeds and naturalization papers of American pioneers of this family. Dr.Henry, son of the pioneer, however, had his name changed as above noted by a special act of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The correct orthography of a given family name is not always maintained in the records, but this family is one of the few whose patronymic has come down to unchanged after assuming the name of Carpenter.
Heinrich Zimmerman died about the year 1749 and his wife had preceded him to the majority in the year 1742. They had the following children: Emanuel, born 1702, died 1780; Gabriel, born 1704, died 1767; Christian, born 1707; Salome, born 1709, died 1736; Henry, born 1714, died 1773; Daniel, born 1716, died 1764; Jacob born 1717, died 1771; and Mary, born 1722, died 1750. The first two children were born in Europe, and the remainder in Pennsylvania. These children and the descendants united with some of the leading families of Lancaster county, but the limits of this article only permits us to lightly sketch the children of Heinrich making only short references to some of his later descendants, some of whom became prominent in the history of their county and State. The pioneer's descendants are very numerous at present and may be found in every Sate of the Union, but distant though they may reside from the Keystone State, many of them travel back at vacation time or home week celebrations to visit the early home of their forefathers."
Maria Salome Rufener or Ruffaner
EMIGRATED: 3 Jul 1675.
Her signature was on a deed in 1743 and in 1744 there are deeds bearing the name of Heinrich alone.
Record of baptism reads as follows: "1675--Dec. 28th, was christened Salome Rufener. Witnesses: Peter Kuenzi, Magdalene Schwendinnen and Barbli Zherr." [HYPERLINK http://awt.ancestry.com ]