Charles Augustus Carpenter

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1796 to Joseph Carpenter in Norwich CT ¹

• He was a partner c 1800 with Joseph Carpenter in Norwich CT based on pieces bearing marks of both father and son. ⁴

• Sugar bowl, c 1800
Private Collection ¹¹
h: 9 ½"
Engraved KE for Katherine Ensworth of Norwich. Marked by both Joseph and Charles Carpenter

• Norwich CT, 1807: sold to Rufus Farnum and Henry Farnum, Boston jewelers, his one sixth share of the Norwich house, shop, store and land lately occupied by his father. ³

• He worked after 1810 as a silversmith in Boston MA and listed in 1810 Directory there. ⁴