Cotleb (Zimmerman) Carpenter (bef. 1540 - aft. 1601)

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Biography

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"About the year 1540, one Cotleb Zimmerman emigrated from Prussia to England, where he married and settled. The name changed into English is Caleb Carpenter. He had a family of children, one of whom was named Ezra, who also married and had issue; among others, Elihu, who married young, and reared a large family. When he was quite advanced in years, the Society of Friends or Quakers arose, with whom he joined, and in consequence he was greatly persecuted and maltreated. He finally fled with his family, children, and grandchildren, taking refuge in Holland, where he remained a considerable time, until the persecution abated, when most of them returned to England.

From the above circumstances, it was supposed that the Carpenter family originated in Holland, and it is believed that some of them remained in Holland, and they, with other English exiles, established Quakerism there."

Sources

• Usher, James. Genealogical and Historical Record of the Carpenter Family: With a Brief Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of William Carpenter, of Weymouth, and Rehoboth, Mass., William Carpenter, of Providence, R.I., Samuel Carpenter, of Penn., and Ephraim, Timothy. New York, 1883. 30. Print.