> From: Terry Carpenter <[email protected]> > Date: July 14, 2005 7:56:04 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fw: Bostian/Boston Carpenter and John Ulrich (William) > Carpenter > > Hello Robert, > > I can add a little information for these two > Zimmermann/Carpenters. > > I haven’t found William or Ulrich “VZ” Carpenter > for certain after he sold his land on the south > side of the Saluda River in Greenville Co. SC to > William Acker on 27 Oct 1788. A William Acre who > served in the NC State Line during the American > Revolution was a pensioner in Wayne Co. KY in > 1833. In nearby Adair Co. KY, which adjoined > Wayne Co. before Russell Co. was formed in 1826, > there is a tombstone for a William Carpenter with > the following inscription: “William Carpenter, > 17 May 1746 - 24 Oct 1834” -- this William has > not been placed in another family, to my > knowledge. Just an FYI for early Germans and Swiss Germans in SC from www.palmettoroots.org/Auswanderer.html: "Between the years 1730 and 1766 the Colonial government of South Carolina actively encouraged immigration of foreign Protestants to the Province.  Appreciable numbers of immigrants from Germany began to arrive in the 1740s.  The year 1752 represented the peak of the migration with an estimated 1800 German settlers who arrived on several ships in the fall of that year.  Saxe-Gotha, Amelia, Salkehatchie, and the fork of the Broad and Saluda (Dutch Fork) became largely German settlements.  The Dutch Fork was the most densely settled, becoming home to 483 settler families by 1760, almost all of whom were of German origin (E. B. Hallman, “Early Settlers in the Carolina Dutch Fork 1744-1760”, Master’s Thesis, Wofford College).   It has been estimated that by the year 1765 there were 7500-8000 Germans and German-Swiss who had come to the province of South Carolina (R. L. Meriwether, “Expansion of South Carolina, 1730-1765”)." I grew up in the St. Andrews area of the Dutch Fork. Many of my childhood friends' surnames can be found in the list of settlers found at this website. Unfortunately, I found no Carpenters/Zimmermans there... however, it does not appear to be a complete list of German and Swiss German settlers in the Dutch Fork. NC had its own German and Swiss German colony, Christopher (von or de) Graffenreid's New Bern Colony, along with natural migration southward of the PA Germans and Swiss Germans to VA and then to NC. I know that some PA Germans and Swiss Germans made it to SC. My PA Swiss German Surbers moved to VA by the late 1750s, but my branch went west to KY then TX. My Carpenters were once from SC in the early 1800s, then to AL in the early 1820s, then to TX in the 1850s?, then to SC in 1966, then me back in TX in 1978. Rick