Origins of Carpenter,  Zimmerman, and Line families and Surname translation information.

Note Naturalization:
Province of Pennsylvania, etc., by and with the advice of the freeman of the said Province, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That .....Henry Carpenter, Emanuel Carpenter, Gabriel Carpenter..... be and shall be to all intents and purposes deemed, taken and esteemed His Majesty's natural-born subjects of this province of Pennsylvania as if they and each of them had born within said province.... (Passed February 14, 1729. Apparently never considered by the Crown but allowed to become law by lapse of time, in accordance with the Proprietary Charter.

Note 1759-1780:
He became in time the most prominent member of the Carpenter family in those early days, and was nicknamed 'Mammy, the Lawgiver." On his trips to the city to hold court, he was wont to ride upon his old horse "Baldface" and was ever accompanied by his dog "Penny." The three were very familiar figures on the road in those days, and his passing by was the signal to the residents that a session on court was to be held.

Note 1772:
Upon his voluntary retirement from the Assembly, the Burgesses, Assistants,etc., of the Borough of Lancaster, tendered him a testimonial, made at the request of a number of reputable inhabitants of the same, conveying to him the thanks of the Corporation, and evidencing their earnest wish that he might be continued in the commission of the Peace and as a Judge in the county where he had so long presided and deservedly acquitted and supported the character of an upright and impartial magistrate. The testimonial read as follows:

“To Emanuel Carpenter, esq., late one of the Representatives of the Assembly for the County of Lancaster: Sir: The burgesses, assistants, &c., of the borough of Lancaster met this day, at the request of a number of the reputable inhabitants of the borough, and being sensible of your services as one of the Representatives for the county of Lancaster in the General Assembly of the Province, these seventeen years past, have directed that the thanks of the corporation be offered to you, with the assurance of their approbation of your steady and uniform conduct in that station. And, as you have declined serving your country in that capacity, I am charged to mention, that it is the earnest wish of the inhabitants of Lancaster that you may be continued in the commission of the peace and a judge in our county, where you have so long presided, and deservedly acquired and supported the character of an upright and impartial magistrate, &c.”

By order of the Burgesses and Assistants.
[Signed] Casper Shaffner, Town Clerk
Lancaster, October 3, 1772.
Biographical History of Lancaster County, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1974

Note 1775:
Emanuel Carpenter was a great friend of Benjamin Franklin, and they mutually assisted each other in colonial and Revolutionary matters. When the spirit of the Revolution began to agitate the colonists, Emanuel became devoted to the cause of Liberty and Independence. In 1775, he became one of the Associators and a member of the Committee of Safety, and he exerted all his influence, and that of his large collection of relatives and friends for freedom. The record of their services shows the success of his efforts as a zealous co-laborer with the Continental Congress. When he died in the year 1780, he was lamented by all who knew him; his funeral was the largest which had been held in the county to that day.

Note Monument:
Tombstone Inscription from the Carpenter Church Graveyard, near Earlville on Rt. 772, between Talmadge and Leola, Pa.

"Here entombed, lies the remains of Emanuel Carpenter. Esquire, late Presiding Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. If true piety, benevolence, Christian Charity, and an unsullied reputation, and an entire devotion to the rights of man, at the most gloomy period of our national struggle, are commendable, the example of the deceased is worthy of imitation. He closed his useful and well spent life in April, 1780, in the 78th year of his age, regretted by all who knew him."

Note Frederick C. Yeiser (Jayser):
MILITARY: County and Family Histories - PA, 1740-1900, Disk 2; Pennsylvania Archives, Vol.II, Page 593 (Fti.ftw-Family Archive Viewer) Papers Relating to the Province of Pennsylvania Prior to the Revolution; EXTRACT: Friday, 6 Jun 1765. The Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor. To the Sheriffs, Justices, Constables and others, his Majesties Leige subjects within this Province: These are to certify that the Bearer, Frederick Yeiser, is employed to, and to take care of, & carry a large Quantity of Cattle & Sheep for his Majesty's Service, to His Excellency General Braddock, at Fort Cumberland; and I do strictly charge and require you, each & every one of you, to be aiding & assisting to him in his journey, and that he may with all proper Expedition deliver the Cattle & Sheep at ye Camp where they are wanted.
·  ®2: "The earliest record so far found of the Yeiser Family in the New World appears in Pennsylvania German Pioneers, published by the Pennsylvania German Society, under the heading: "A publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808."
·  Four: brothers of this family, Germans of the Palatinate, arrived at Philadelphia, qualified, and took the Oath, chronologically as follows:
·  1736: - Jacob Jayser, the olderst; Qualified 1 September 1736, having arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "St. Andrew" (Robert Brown, Captin)

Note John Adam Reigert:
Patriotic: proprietor of the "Grape Hotel" and the "Black Bear" of Lancaster city, which became historic as the meeting-places of the Committee of Observation and of the Supreme Executive Committee, and in the later hotel General Washington was given a dinner by the citizens in 1777. Reigart was ever an active partisan of the Independence of the Colonies, and became lieutenant colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Lancaster County Militia, and later, was a member of the Legislature.

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