page_title: Increase Carpenter
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Increase Carpenter / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: Descriptive plaque for Prospect Cemetery, over 50 veterans of the war for independence are buried here, on the campus of York College.
context_page_description: Increase Carpenter was a minuteman and American Revolutionary War veteran who was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He served as a first lieutenant. Carpenter wore the uniform of the Jamaica Minutemen, served on the Committee of Correspondence, and was also a prisoner of war. He was at one time a Commissary of the Army. He was also a church elder, a butcher and an innkeeper.
context_section_description: Increase Carpenter is buried in Prospect Cemetery, on the campus of York College, in Jamaica, Queens.
  His wife Mary (Baylis) died on 23 January 1823. They had three daughters (Mary Baker, Jane Wicks, and Nancy Smith) and four sons (Samuel, James, George, and David).
caption: Descriptive plaque for Prospect Cemetery. Over 50 veterans of the war for independence are buried here, on the campus of York College.
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