Increase Carpenter, the namesake of our chapter, was Quartermaster for the Continental Army, earned the rank of 1st Lieutenant in the Jamaica Militia, wore the uniform of the Jamaica Minuteman, served on the Committee of Correspondence, and served time as a prisoner of war.  The family of Increase Carpenter owned the inn located in nearby Hollis, Queens, where a protest meeting of the Patriots of the American Revolution was held.  General Nathaniel Woodhull was ultimately captured there.  Increase Carpenter is buried in Prospect Cemetery, on the campus of York College, in Jamaica, Queens.  The cemetery is also the final resting place for more than fifty Revolutionary War patriots.

Increase Carpenter Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, was organized 25 June 2012 by thirteen women in an effort to fulfill the mission of the National Society with a commitment to historic preservation, education, and patriotism.

Organizing Chapter Members
Collette A. Cousins
Olivia Cousins
Jane Ferrone
Janet Louise Ferrone
Melanie Jones
Wilhelmina Rhodes Kelly
Miriam Lowenstein
Mary Catherine Perry "Cate" Ludlam
Catherine D. Ludlum
Lynn Luehrs
Cornelia Read
Michelle Cousins Wherry

Image: The seat of action, between the British and American forces; or, An authentic plan of the western part of Long Island, with the engagement of the 27th August 1776 between the King's forces and the Americans: containing also Staten Island, and the environs of Amboy and New York, with the course of Hudsons River, from Courtland, the great magazine of the American Army, to Sandy Hook, from the surveys of Major Holland.  Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C.

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