Also Known As:<_AKA> Tavern Owner
Name Prefix:<NPFX> Mr.
. In 1801 Edward took a gov. contract to cut a road from Stillwater Cree,. he received $300 or $20 a mile, for many years it was known
as the Steubenville road. After clearing 2 acres of ground, he sowed the first wheat in Londonderry twsp. the mainstayof the large familys
diet was wild turkeys, corn bread, mush and hominy and now they could have white bread. The first cabin was built of round logs with the
bark still on, and covered with a clapboard roof weighted with poles, and was floored with timber, the first night the snow blew in through
the cracks and covered the bed to a depth of 2 inches, a year or so later they built on to their home and opened a tavern. In 1812 the
Carpenters killed 145 deer in the woods near their home, wild turkeys were so plentiful that as many as 2 dozenwould be shot from their
roosts in a single night, bears prowled around the cabin after dark, and wolves destroyed the pigs and sheep, a horst of theirs died, he used
the carcass to bait traps which he set near Skull Fork Creek and caught 16 wolves, as a bounty of $4 was paid for each wolf scalp, he made
enoughto buy 2 horses. There were so many squirrels they were pests, sometimes a whole army would raid and destroy a cornfield, in the
fall of 1818 a big squirrel hunt was held, in a contest the losers would pay the expenses of a supper, and the one killing the most was to
receive a powder horn and bullet pouch, theysquirrels were loaded in wagons taking only the tails and leaving the bodies in the woods of
about 2000 squirrels, in a shooting match to determine the bestmarksman John Carpenter was the winner, by shooting a squirrel 150 ft.
from the ground, the other hunters who failed to shoot it gave the old man a hearty cheer. Edward and Catherine had 10 children:
(Edward, George, John, Thomas, Samuel, Nora, William, Nancy, Robert and Joseph Carpenter),

1. George CARPENTER
2. Thomas CARPENTER
3. Samuel CARPENTER
4. Nora CARPENTER
5. Nancy CARPENTER
6. Robert CARPENTER
7. Joseph CARPENTER
8. John CARPENTER b: 10 DEC 1792 in Ohio
9. William A. CARPENTER b: 1796 in Ohio
10. Edward CARPENTER b: 1802 in Piedmont, Harrison Co. Ohio