Carpenters Bayou

Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County 29°51′N 95°10′W / 29.850°N 95.167°W / 29.850; -95.167, Texas, USA, and runs southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site 29°45′N 95°06′W / 29.750°N 95.100°W / 29.750; -95.100.

The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, born ca. 1800, who was a partner of William Harris as one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" families of Austin's Colony in what later became Texas.[1] Carpenter and Harris received a sitio of land in present Harris County, Texas on August 16, 1824, which fronted on Carpenter's Bayou in southeastern Harris County, near San Felipe de Austin.[2] He was a blacksmith, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the apparent year that Noah Smithwick bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.[3]

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  1. ↑ Noah Smithwick: The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days, University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex., 1983, pp. 21, 23; and Texas State Historical Association: The New Handbook of Texas, Austin, Tex., 1996, Vol. 1, p. 983.
  2. ↑ Smithwick...
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