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Source for: Amanda Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Alice Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Andrew Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Grandville Carpenter, BET. 1898
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Source for: Sarah Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Orlow Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Jessie Lee Carpenter, BET. 1898
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Source for: Frank Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Edward Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Wealtha Carpenter, BET. 1898 - 1901
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Source for: Leonard Husted, BET. 1783 - 1871
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Source for: Celestia Hueston, BET. 1828 - 1872
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Source for: Julia Grey, BET. 1793 - 1868 - Index
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Source for: Edward Carpenter, 27 SEP 1761 -
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"Carpenter's Trail: In 1801 Edward Carpenter took a government contract to cut out a road from Stillwater creek, through what is now Guernsey County to Salt Fork creek, seven miles northeast of the Wills creek crossing (Cambridge). For this work he received $300, or less then twenty dollars a mile. Improvements on this same section of road a few years ago (1942) cost more than $20,000 a mile. But a century of progress lay between Carpenter's trail and the William Penn highway. Between 1803 and 1805 Zaccheus Biggs extended the road to the Wills creek crossing connecting it with Zane's Trace. Biggs and Zacceus A. Beatty had just laid out the town of Cadiz and had purchased the land upon which Cambridge was afterwards platted. As there was already a road from Cadiz to Steubenville, one returning from New Orleans by way of the Wilderness Road and Zane's Trace could leave the latter at Wills creek crossing and reach Pittsburgh by a nearer route than through Wheeling. By 1811 Carpenter's trail had become a good wagon road. It was long known as the Steubenville road."
"Carpenter Moves to Londonderry: While cutting the trail Edward Carpenter noticed a good location for a home on a ridge in what was then Belmont county but now Londerry township. Guernsey county, withstanding the fact that the place was in the midst of a unbroken forest far from any white settlement, he entered 160 acres, brought his family there and erected a cabin. The cabin was built of roun