Complex sentence: Gardiner Carpenter served as a pay master in the 17th Connecticut Regiment in the American Revolutionary War and he was the postmaster in Norwich from 1799 to 1814, shortly before his death in 1815.
Split into simpler sentences: Gardiner Carpenter served as a pay master in the 17th Connecticut Regiment in the American Revolutionary War. Carpenter was the postmaster in Norwich from 1799 to 1814, shortly before his death in 1815.