Bennington

CARPENTER, David

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 197

Among the other early settlers in this town [Landgrove, Bennington County, 
Vermont] was David CARPENTER. He was born in Connecticut in 1759, was a 
poor boy; bound out to service at an early age; but as he became older, 
dissatisfied with his usage, and determined to live; stole his indenture 
[papers] from his master's desk and hid them under a stone on the premises 
(where after he became of age he returned and found them safe) and left. He 
soon after joined the Revolutionary army; was present and one of the guard at 
the execution of Maj. ANDRE; and soon after the close of the war settled in 
this town. His first child was born here [Landgrove, Bennington County, 
Vermont], 26 August 1787 (the first birth on record in this town). He never 
had the advantages even of a common school education; but by his own exertion 
learned to read and write sufficient to keep his own accounts. [Excerpt from 
a section on the history of Landgrove, Bennington County, Vermont.]

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