Born in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Walter Carpenter
and Maria (Huyck) Carpenter
Sister of
Sarah (Carpenter) Ostrander, Charity (Carpenter) Schermerhorn, John Carpenter, Elizabeth (Carpenter) Schermerhorn, Mary (Carpenter) Hitchcock and Isaac Carpenter
Wife of
Henry H. Shiffer
— married
about 1800 [location unknown]
Mother of
Henry Shiffer and Maria Shiffer
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Gerretje Carpenter was born 30 September 1777 and baptized on 25 January 1778 in the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack, New York. The Holland Society handwritten transcript of baptism record names her parents as Walter Carpenter and Maria Huick. The witnesses were Johannes Huick and Feitje Van der Kar.[1] The version of the baptism record published in the NYGBR in names her parents as Walter Carpenter and Maria Huyck and the witnesses as Johannes Huyck and Feitje Van der Kar.[2]
She was married to Henry Shiffer.
Maria, daughter of Henry H. Shiffer and Garritie Carpenter, was baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church of Schodack, New York, on 14 December 1800; she was born on 24 October 1800.[3]
The will of Walter Carpenter, created August 5, 1815 and proved March 27, 1816, provided a legacy to his daughter Gerritie Shiffer.[4][5]
Church Records
- Baptism
- 1778. Jan. 25, bo. Sep. 30. Walter Carpenter, Maria Huick. Gerretje. Witnesses: Johannes Huick, Feitje Van der Kar.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Claverack, Vol I, box 1. Handwritten transcript of church register. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6961/images/42037_2421401574_0606-00117.
- ↑ "Baptisms of the Dutch Reformed Church of Claverack, Columbia County, New York" (continued). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 81 (1950), page 82.
- ↑ Holland Society of New York, Schodack Book 46. Accessed at Ancestry.com.
- ↑ Abstracts Of Wills Of Rensselaer County, New York
- ↑ Will of Walter Carpenter, Rensselaer County Probate Records, accessed at Ancestry.com
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