"A John Carpenter of Dover was mentioned at a meeting of the Committee of Safety of Livingston Manor on Friday 1 NOV 1776. "Appeared Petrus Coen who says that the pass he had and showed the Committee in Dutchess County Signed by Dirck Jansen was written by John Carpenter in Dover; lives near Hendrick Coen and Bastion Wheeler, and that he signed Jansens name to it and he also asked said Coen to go with him to the regulars saying that it would be best to go there; Jury Johs Wheeler, Johs Jury Wheeler, Richard Gillet & Peter Palmer also said to him that they would go to the regulars. John Carpenter was a customer at the Duncan store in Dover. In 1799 he had no real property and his personal assets were valued at $18. John(s) were in Pawling in 1800 at 0-0-0-1-0 and 4-0-0-1-0. A John Carpenter d. 10 NOV 1819 "aged about 76" in Pittstown, Rens. Co. He was formerly of DC. There were 7 John Carpenters in the 1810 DC Census."