Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John CARPENTER
John Carpenter entered the office of Isaac Norris to learn the mercantile business. In 1706, when a lad of sixteen years, he accompanied the latter to England. Some years later John Carpenter made another voyage, as we learn from a letter written in 1715 by Jonathan Dickinson, Mayor of Philadelphia 1712 and 1717-18, to Collo Somersall in Jamaica, as follows: "Capt. Richard Smith he will take all the care he can. There goes with the ship a person we have great regard for, one John Carpenter, ye son of old Samuel Carpenter. I cannot but recommend him to thy notice, as well as to some others of my friends. His father was an intimate acquaintance in our family before we left England, a person of great esteem in the Province who died last summer." He was engaged in mercantile pursuits on his own account, and attained success, although comparatively young. John Carpenter was a member of the Philadelphia Common Council from October 7, 1718, until his death in 1724. His name appears for the last time, among those present at its meetings, in the minutes of Council for 9th Mo. 13, 1723.
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