Increase Carpenter

Increase Carpenter (August 20, 1736–April 20, 1807) was a minuteman and American Revolutionary War veteran who was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

On March 27, 1776, a company of colonial militia was formed in Jamaica, consisting of 40 persons, with Ephraim Baylis as captain and Increase Carpenter as his first lieutenant.

[3] General Nathaniel Woodhull was given orders to herd all cattle in the area away from the advancing British forces, a task made difficult by a summer thunderstorm.

[4] He was later incarcerated on one of the notorious prison ships in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn where his condition deteriorated for lack of a surgeon to amputate his mangled arm.

Mrs. Woodhull petitioned to obtain her husband's release so that an operation might be performed, but the late amputation failed to stop the gangrene that had spread, and the 54-year-old general died of his injuries three weeks after the attack.