Carpenters Island was an island located at the head of St. Clement's Bay in St. Mary's County, Maryland, patented in 1847 to Susan E. Carpenter, Amanda Carpenter, Rebecca Carpenter, and Matilda Carpenter and certified in the name of William Carpenter. The land patented included surrounding waters and measured one and three quarter acres.Linda Davis Reno: St. Mary's County Patent Records 1635-1946, St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, Md., c2002, p. 17. In 2005, the island was included in a list of "lost islands" of the Chesapeake Bay,William B. Cronin: The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2005, p. 165. which is situated between Maryland and Virginia in the United States.
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