Zophar Carpenter's Fort
Carpenter's Fort on McKenzie's Fork of Paint Lick Creek in Kentucky was established by Zophar Carpenter, a native of New York colony who migrated to western Virginia in the 1750s and to Kentucky about 1788.[1] The fort is also referred to as Zophar Carpenter's Station, and placed "near Suck Fork Creek".[2] Zophar Carpenter served as a drummer in Captain Dickenson's Company of Virginia Rangers in the French & Indian War.[3] He appeared on a 1792 tax list in Madison Co. KY with Edward Carpenter and John Carpenter.[4] He died on February 6, 1798, at age 65 and is interred in the Carpenter Graveyard near Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Forrest Calico: History of Garrard County, Kentucky, and Its Churches, The Hobson Book Press, New York, N.Y., 1947, pp. 36, 114, 118, 129, 140, 141, 178, 200, 373, 376, and appended map.
- ^ John E. Kleber, ed.-in-chief: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1992, p. 365.
- ^ Lewis Preston Summers: Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769–1800, Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tenn., 1929, p. 312.
- ^ Roger Boardman: 1792 List of Taxpayers for Madison County KY, [1] accessed 2010.
- ^ Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 21, No. 61, Frankfort, Ky., January 1923, reprinted with new material by the Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., 1981, pp. 68, 109.