• Born: 4 Jul 1747, Woodstock CT
• Marriage (1): Eunice Fitch on 29 Jun 1775 in Woodstock CT
• Died: 1804, Norwich CT

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

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• He worked in 1768 as a silversmith in Norwich CT in shop belonging to his stepfather, Joseph Peck. ³

• Flynt & Fales: 1772, in Norwich CT. Purchased various construction materials, presumably for building on land rented from church at 71 East Town Street. His shop was said to have occupied one side of building; his brother Gardner's mercantile business the other. The building, now a museum, still houses Carpenter's silversmith shop, one of few surviving. Built a house next to his shop in 1775. ³

• Appointed: Postmaster, in Norwich CT. ³

• Master: Roswell Huntington, about 1776, in Norwich CT. ¹

• Advertised: 1776, in Norwich CT. Offering engravings of "four different views of Battles of Lexington, Concord, &c., copied from original Paintings taken on the Spot . . . six shillings per set for the plain engravings and eight shillings for the colored ones." ³

• Master: Rufus Farnam, about 1779, in Norwich CT. ¹

• Example: Creamer, circa 1780, in Private Collection. H: 4 3/4"
  wt: 3 oz, 12 dwt

• Master: Henry Farnam, about 1786, in Norwich CT. ¹

• Master: Charles Augustus Carpenter, about 1796, in Norwich CT. ¹

• Partnership: Charles Augustus Carpenter, circa 1800, in Norwich CT. Based on pieces bearing marks of both father and son. ⁴

• Example: Sugar bowl, circa 1800, in Private Collection. H: 9 1/2"
  Engraved KE for Katherine Ensworth of Norwich. Marked by both Joseph and Charles Carpenter ¹⁴

Joseph married Eunice Fitch on 29 Jun 1775 in Woodstock CT. (Eunice Fitch was born on 17 Apr 1755 in Norwich CT and died in 1797.)