Carpenter's Landing in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Gloucester County, New Jersey

Gloucester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 288,288. Its county seat is Woodbury....

, is a 17th-century mercantile settlement located at the head of sloop

Sloop

A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....

 navigation on Mantua Creek

Mantua Creek

Mantua Creek is a stream in Mantua Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey with headwaters near Glassboro, which flows northwest for 18.6 miles to the Delaware River at Paulsboro across from present-day Philadelphia International Airport...

. In the 1860s, it was described as "a place of considerable trade in lumber

Lumber

Lumber or timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....

, cordwood, etc., and contains one tavern

Tavern

A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in some cases, where travelers receive lodging....

, two stores, 30 dwellings and a Methodist church". 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, or Edward Carpenter (son of Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847)

Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847)

Thomas Carpenter, born November 2, 1752 at Salem, New Jersey, died July 7, 1847 at Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey, served as an Ensign and Adjutant in Colonel Samuel Dick's Regiment, 1776-1778, and Paymaster for the New Jersey Militia and Quartermaster of the First Battalion of Salem troops, New...

 and descendant of Samuel Carpenter

Samuel Carpenter

Samuel Carpenter was a Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania. He signed the historic document "The Declaration of Fealty, Christian Belief and Test" dated 10 September 1695; the original is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania...

 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

) who owned the Heston & Carpenter Glass Works at nearby Glassboro, New Jersey

Glassboro, New Jersey

Glassboro is a borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 19,068....

in 1786 in partnership with Col. Thomas Heston, his wife's nephew.