History of the Carpenter family in America : ... , 1901, Daniel Hoogland Carpenter. page 194. 397 Thomas Carpenter, son of Lewis 142, was born in New York City, January 5, 1780. After the death of his father in 1785 and the remarriage of his mother to Robert Little in 1786, the family removed to Orange County, NY. In 1818, with his brothers he removed to Chemung County, settling in Horseheads, where he died after 1860. His wife Katherine died 1830, and for second wife he married widow Amy Turner. Dennis F. Carpenter