Some notes I have gathered about Daniel Carpenter and his family, including the will abstract first found at the Chemung County NYGebWeb Dennis F. Carpenter ***** note: Carpenter, Joshua, grandfather of Benjamin C., came to Newtown (now Elmira) in [1788], and located permanently the following year upon the homestead on which his grandson still owns. At this date Elmira had but one house. His son Daniel, born near Newburgh, Orange County, NY in 1776, came here in 1788 with his parents and about 1798 married Rebecca Dunn, who was born in New Jersey. They had ten children viz.: Sarah, James D., Burt, John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Catherine, Rebecca, William, and Benjamin C. The latter, born March 16, 1825, has always been a farmer and a bachelor, the town line runs through his house. (Our county and its people: a history of the valley and county of Chemung from the closing years of the eighteenth century. Part VII, p.32, Ausburn Towner 1892) note: the above list of children of Daniel appear to be in birth order. note: Will dated 17 Apr 1848, probated 31 MAY 1849 giving Daniel's age as 71y and upwards. Mentions wife Rebecca; sons Benjamin, James, Daniel B., John, William; daughters Sarah VanSickle, Elizabeth Cook, Rebecca Campbell. Executors: sons John Carpenter, William Carpenter Witnesses: Almon Cook of Elmira, Marilla Chapman of Elmira. note: The Whitney Family of Connecticut by Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1878 [p. 491] 2509 X. Sally Maria Truesdell, b. at Warwick, N. Y., 13 June 1813; married, 22 Feb. 1843, at her father's house in Elmira, N. Y., by Elder P. D. Gillett, pastor of the First Baptist Church, to John Carpenter; a farmer and hotel-keeper, son of Daniel and Rebecca (Dunn) Carpenter, of Elmira, where he was born 22 Aug. 1807. They, settled at Horseheads, N. Y., and were living there in Jan. 1886. note: Carpenter, Daniel, born April 7, 1845, is the proprietor of the Half-way Hotel, which has been in existance since soon after the Sullivan campaign. He married, April 13, 1868, Phebe J., oldest daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Sample, of Horseheads, and they have one daughter, Lizzie, born August 8, 1876. His father, John, was the third son of Daniel, who married, first, August 16, 1831, Nancy Beckwith, by whom he had five children, viz.: Eliza A., Mary E., Thomas D., John, and Nancy. For his second wife he married Phoebe Tubbs, April 6, 1842, and February 22, 1843, he marrie, third, Sally M., daughter of John and Esther Trusdal, of Horseheads. Their children were Daniel and Esther. (Our county and its people : a history of the valley and county of Chemung form the closing years of the eighteenth century, Part VII, page 32, Ausburn Towner, 1892)