In the late 1780s, Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847) moved to Carpenter's Landing and established a store and lumber business.[2] 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 Methodistchurch".[3] 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,[4] or Edward Carpenter, son of Thomas Carpenter and descendant of Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who owned the Heston & Carpenter Glass Works in nearby Glassboro, New Jersey, in 1786[5][6] in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.[7]
^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.
^Kephart, Bill; and Kephart, Mary. "The Kepharts: Thomas Carpenter in the Revolutionary War", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 11, 2011, updated January 18, 2019. Accessed December 21, 2021. "Carpenter purchased 50 acres on Mantua Creek. Here he also lived, maintained a store and shipped glass up Mantua Creek to Philadelphia. The area became known as Carpenter's Bridge, later as Carpenter's Landing and now Mantua. Thomas Carpenter died on July 7, 1847 at almost 95 years old.... The Carpenter home is still standing in Mantua."
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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia has Carpenter Family Papers related to Thomas Carpenter. This records include, "Property records include deeds (Box 3, folders 1-4); surveys, agreements and transfers (Box 4, folders 7-8); a plan of Carpenter's Landing (Flat File 1); and documents describing the 1807 division of Glassborough, N.J., real estate owned by Thomas Carpenter and Thomas Heston, including maps of the lots (Box 1, Folder 1; Box 5, Folder 3)."
