Brief Life History of Coles
When Coles Carpenter was born on 23 May 1761, in North Castle, Westchester, New York, United States, his father, Archelaus Carpenter, was 28 and his mother, Rebecca Golding, was 24. He married Elizabeth Birdsall on 20 July 1788, in Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died about 1808, in Waterborough, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 48.
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- U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
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.
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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