Brief Life History of Abel
When Abel Carpenter was born on 19 December 1782, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Abel Carpenter, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Willmarth, was 22. He died on 18 October 1792, at the age of 9.
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- Abel Carpenter, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Abel Carpenter, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1642-1896, Births.
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World Events (3)
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Name Meaning
English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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