CARPENTER, DAVID (?-?). David Carpenter was a partner of William Harrisqv as one of Stephen F. Austin'sqv Old Three Hundredqv families. He and Harris received title to a sitioqv now in Harris County on August 16, 1824. The census of 1826 classified Carpenter as a blacksmith and a single man aged between twenty-five and forty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897).
Clinton P. Hartmann
