Bios: Emanuel Zimmerman/Carpenter - 1780 : Lancaster Co, PA
 
Submitted courtesy of Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, 
P.O. Box 33, Quarryville, Pa, 17566 or e-mail to SLCHS@aol.com
Typed by Marie Malark

USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial
               individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all
               notices and submitter information is included. Any other
               use, including copying files to other sites requires
               permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to
               any other sites. We encourage links to the state and
               county table of contents.

EMANUEL ZIMMERMAN or CARPENTER
was a son of Henry Carpenter, and he was born in Switzerland in the year
1702.  Henry Carpenter had arrived in Philadelphia in 1698, but afterward
returned to Europe, coming back to America in 1706, bringing his family with
him.  He settled first in Germantown, but removed to within the present bounds
of Lancaster county, then Chester, in 1717.  Emanuel Carpenter was a member of
the Assembly from Lancaster county from 1768.  In 1760 he was appointed a
presiding Justice of the Common Pleas court of Lancaster county, and held
that position until his death in 1780.  He died "beloved and lamented by all"
He is buried in Zimmerman's or Carpenter's graveyard near Earlville.