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Carpenter's Landing in Gloucester County, New Jersey, is a 17th-century mercantile settlement located at the head of sloop navigation on Mantua Creek.[1] In the 1860s, it was described as "a place of considerable trade in lumber, cordwood, etc., and contains one tavern, two stores, 30 dwellings and a Methodist church".[2] The landing is said to have been named either for a man named Carpenter who built boats at the site during its mercantile boom days[3], or Edward Carpenter (a descendant of Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) who owned the Heston-Carpenter Glass Works at nearby Glassboro, New Jersey in 1786[4][5] in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.[6]

References

  1. ^ Henry Charlton Beck: More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1963, pp. 299-301.
  2. ^ Beck, p. 299.
  3. ^ Beck, p. 300.
  4. ^ Charles S. Boyer: Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey, Camden County Historical Society, Camden, N.J., 1962, pp. 158-159.
  5. ^ Borough of Glassboro: History - The Past, http://www.glassboroonline.com/history_glassboro.html, retrieved 1 Aug 2010.
  6. ^ Arthur Adams: "Memoirs of the Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society" in The Northeast Historic and Genealogical Register, Vol. CVII, Whole Number 425, January 1953, p. 70.
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