Descendants of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, now part of Bristol County, MA

Notes

740. Jabez Carpenter

Number 511 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 105.
Family on page 196 (# 204).
A farmer.  He married twice.  He moved to Moriah, NY.  Possibly died in MI?

Jabez was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  He was also a soldier in the
French and Indian War.  He served as a private in Capt. nathaniel Carpenter's
Company in Col. Carpenter's Regiment in the Rhode Island Alarm and enlisted
Dec. 8, 1776 and served eight days.  He marched from Rehoboth to Bristol.
He served also in Capt. Brown's Company, Col. Carpenter's Regiment in the Rhode
Island Alarm,  Enlisted Aug. 1, 1780 and served eight days and marched from
Rehoboth to Tiverton.

Abigail Dyer

She died age 37 years.

2076. William Carpenter

It was probably this William Carpenter who was born in 1754 of
Rehoboth, ,MA, enlisted as private in the Lexington massacre
in Capt. John Perry's company and served ten days.  Probably the
same William appears on the list of men in Capt. John Paine's
company at Winter Hill;  served two months;  dismissed April 1,
1776.  Probably the same William enlisted as private in Capt.
Nathaniel Carpenter's company, Col. Simeon Carey's regiment,
Gen. Fellow's brigade;  served five months at New York and White
Plains;  dismissed Dec 1, 1776.  Again as private in Nathaniel
Carpenter's company, Col. Whiting's regiment in the Rhode Island
alarm enlisted May 13, 1777;   served one month and twenty-five
days;  marched from Rehoboth to Point Judith.  We find him again
as private in Nathaniel Carpenter's company, Colonel Hathaway's
regiment in the Rhode Island alarm; enlisted April 21, 1777 and
served 23 days stationed at Tiverton.  William Carpenter of
Rehoboth enlisted in the Continental army, Col. William R. Lee's
regiment for three years;  enlisted Sept. 11, 1777.

Nathan Collins

Resided in Ira,,VT

2083. Simeon Carpenter

Simeon went to sea and was never heard from.

2084. Gideon Carpenter

He was drowned in Lake Champlain;  two teams had been across on
the ice with grain and on their return, Gideon being ahead with
his team, went into an air hole and went down;  being so bundled
in blankets he could not help himself but screamed, "O, brother
save me" as he went down.  The team and load went under the ice.
His body was recovered.  He was the youngest son of the first
wife.

Mary or Molly Lawrence

Molly's father is believed to be David Lawrence of Bristol county, MA.

742. Keziah Carpenter

Number 513 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 105.

James Shorey

Probably the brother of Molly Shorey.  See CM No. 504.

2100. Sally Shorey

She married Noah Perry per the Carpenter Memorial.

743. Lucy Carpenter

Number 514 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 106.

2104. Lucy Cooper

She married an Atherton per the Carpenter memorial.

745. Bethiah Carpenter

Number 516 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 106.

Aaron Lyon

His father is believed to be Daniel Lyon of Windham, CT.

747. Elizabeth Carpenter

Number 518 in the CARPENTER MEMORIAL on page 106.
Her first marriage was published 7 April 1744.  No date on second marriage.
!This Elizabeth Carpenter is Elizabeth in the AF.

749. Rachael Carpenter

Number 520 in the CARPENTER MEMORIAL on page 106.

E-MAIL:
From: LEGEND396@aol.com
To: jrcrin001@cox.net
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: Carpenter's
I am a decendent of Stephen Franklin Revoutionary Solder and Rachael  Warfield Carpenter.  (Franklin )  ... Enjoyed your web sight.
Sincerly, Lynne

Stephen Franklin

A farmer.

2113. Thankful Franklin

>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:11:21 -0500
>From: Ronald Humphrey
>Subject: Thankful (Franklin) Ames
>John:
>Thanks for responding to my question about Thankful (b. 1 Nov 1770),
>daughter of Stephen and Rachel (Carpenter) Franklin. I know from the New
>England Historical and Genealogical Register that she married John
>Eames (m. 9 Feb 1790) in Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. The
>major question are these the John and Thankful Ames found in Whitestown,
>Oneida County, New York in 1800? There are two John Ames in the
>Oneida Co, NY 1800 census and a John and Thankful Ames buying property
>in Oneida County in 1812. I believe that their son Allen is my
>g-g-grandfather (at least he named his second son John, and his second
>daugher Thankful).
>Are there any of the Cheshire Co., NH group that went to Oneida Co., NY
>in the late 1700's? What church might have they attended? Were they
>farmers or trades people? Almost any information is more that what I
>have now!
>Thanks: Ron

751. Abishai or Abishal Carpenter

Number 522 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 106.
Family on page 198 (# 205)
He died at Ticonderoga in the service of the revolutionary war.  A farmer.

Resided in Rehoboth, ,MA.1  MILI Died at Ticonderoga in the service of the Revolutionary War.
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2  SOUR S203

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga is a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York, USA. The fort controlled both commonly used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley. The name "Ticonderoga" comes from an Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".[3] Fort Ticonderoga was the site of four battles over the course of 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ticonderoga_%281777%29
The Battle of Ticonderoga occurred on July 5 and July 6, 1777 was more a battle of maneuver than a direct conflict in the American Revolutionary War. The British Army, led by John Burgoyne, occupied the fort after forcing American General Arthur St. Clair to withdraw the defenders.
...
The guns at Ticonderoga, most remaining supplies, and some men too ill and wounded to move were left to the British.

Nathaniel Keyes

They moved to Shrewsbury, VT

2116. Thomas Carpenter

He moved to Mount Holly, VT

2117. Moses Carpenter

Did this Moses go to VA then KY?
See: PRF
Moses Carpenter     Disc #113     Pin #707167
Anna Souther     Disc #113     Pin #707168

753. Elihu or Elihue Carpenter

Number 524 in the Carpenter memorial on page 106.
Family on page 199 (# 206)
He was a deacon of the church.  A farmer.

He did not attend school until he was 16 years of age.  He was then a tall
boy, and had to go into a class of small children, which was very humiliating
to him.  He made good progress and soon mastered the common branches and became
a teacher.  His success as a taecher was remarkable-one of the best.  Many of
the liberally educated men of the town owe their success to him.
It was a credit to a student to state that he had obtained his early education
under the tutorship of Elihu Carpenter.
He also taught singing school and as the old lady, Mrs. Perry said in her 92nd
year of her age, "that he taught singing school for nothing and found candles."
He used to sing when about the house and his work.  Someone asked his mother
one day what made him sing so much, when she replied: "To plague the devil."
He sang pious hymns.

He enlisted and served as corporal in the Lexington scare in Nathaniel
Carpenter's No. 607 Company and served eight days.  He enlisted again in
Nathaniel Carpenter's Company, Col. Cary's Regiment at New York and White
Plains for five months and was dismissed on Dec. 1, 1776.
He enlisted for a third time and served as Quartermaster-sergeant in Col.
Hathaway's Regiment on April 21, 1777 and served 24 days in Rhode Island.
He enlisted a fourth time as a Sergeant in Capt. Nathaniel Carpenter's Company,
Col. Whitney's Regiment in the Rhode Island Alarm on May 13, 1777 and served
one month and twenty five days where he marched from Rehoboth to Point Judith.

He did not attend school until he was 16 years of age.  He was
then a tall boy, and had to go into a class of small children,
which was very humiliating to him.  He made good progress, and
soon mastered the common branches and became a teacher; his
success as teacher was remarkable - one of the best.  Many of
the liberally educated men of the town owe their success to him.
It was a credit to a student to state that he had obtained his
early education under the tutorship of Elihu Carpenter.  He also
taught singing school, and as the old lady, Mrs. Perry, said in
the 92d year of her age, "that he taught singing school for
nothing and found candles."  He used to sing when about the
house and his work.  Some one asked his mother one day what made
him sing so much, when she replied: "To plague the devil."  He
sang pious hymns.  He was also a deacon of the church.

In the funeral sermon of the Rev. Jacob Ide of Medway, ,MA., in
referring to his own conversion I find the following paragraph:

"A great change came over my mind - a delight in the services of
God. To prepare myself to be useful in the world, became now an
object of my most ardent desire. - was greatly encouraged in my
purpose by the district school master, Dea. Elihu Carpenter to
whom I confess myself under greater obligations than to any
other man. The good layman held religious meetings, giving
scripture expositions and exhortations.  I so admired him as to
make him my model of future usefulness. But Dea. Carpenter fired
me with higher ambition and molded me to nobler issues. He urged
upon me a preparation for the ministry.  His words to me were
fuel to the fire already kindling in my heart."2  SOUR S203
3  TEXT pg 837
1  MILI He enlisted and served as corporal in the Lexington scare, in
Nathaniel Carpenter's (No. 607) Company;  served eight days;  he
enlisted again as Corporal in Nathaniel Carpenter's Company,
Col. Cary's Regiment, at NY and White Plains, five months;
dismissed Dec 1, 1776;  he enlisted again and served as
Quartermaster-sergeant in Col. Hathaway's Regiment;  April 21,
1777, and served 24 days in ,RI;  he enlisted again as
Sergeant in Capt. Nathaniel Carpenter's Company, in Col.
Whitney's Regiment in the ,RI Alarm;  May 13, 1777,
served one month and twenty-five days and marched from Rehoboth
to Point Judith.
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2  SOUR S203

Martha Hutchins

Died age 56 years.

2126. Alva Carpenter

Dr. Alva Carpenter was of feeble health from his childhood.  He
graduated from Brown University in September, 1818;  on leaving
college by advise of his physician he went to Camden, S.C., as a
teacher, at the same time pursuing his favorite study, medicine,
under Dr. William Blanding;  and returned home in June, 1821,
and soon after this went to Boston to complete his studies under
Dr. S.C. Shattuck in whose family he was an inmate.  In October,
1822, his health was such that his physician advised him again
to go South;  from this time he was unable to remain but a few
months in a place.  Oct. 8, he went to Mobile;  Dec. 10 to
Blakely;  March 16, 1823 he went to Clinch, Ga.;  in October
back to Blakely;  January, 1824, he went to Matansas, Kan.;  in
April back to Blakely; and Nov. 12 to Mobile, where he died Nov.
30, 1824.2  SOUR S203
3  TEXT pg 200

754. Mary Carpenter

Number 525 in the Carpenter memorial on page 107.
Her family is listed on page 107.

2132. Phillip Whitaker

He drowned.  Never married.

755. Bethia Carpenter

Number 574 in CARPENTER MEMORIAL. page 112.

Peter Thacher Rev.

He was a Congregational minister and was the first minister that settled in
the East Parish at Attleboro.  He graduated Harvard in 1737 and was ordained
at Attleboro on Nov. 30, 1748.
!BIRTH: Born 26 Jan 1716 per the AF and 14 Jan 1715 per the Carpenter Memorial.

There is an extensive history of the Thacher family on pages 112 and 113 in
the Carpenter Memorial.

2139. John Thacher

E-MAIL: Mon, 09 Aug 1999. From: Pam .
I am seeking to confirm my Carpenter connection.
Bethiah Thatcher married Eliphalet Ellsworth
John Thatcher married Sarah Richardson. Pam.
Confirmed.  JRC

2140. Mary Thacher

possibly died in PA.

Betsey Carpenter

Number 1500 in the Carpenter Memorial.

756. Nehemiah or Nahemiah Carpenter

Number 575  on page 114 in the Carpenter Memorial.  His family is #220.
A farmer who settled in Foxboro abt 1750.

He was the first settler of what is now Foxboro Village, buliding a house
there about the year 1750.  He was prominent in the formation of the town, and
was town clerk and treasurer, selectman and constable for a number of years.
He was the first deacon of the first Orthodox church formed in town and he gave
land for a cemetery.  He kept a hotel being the half way house between Boston
and Providence.
Nehemiah took an active part in the formation of the town of Foxboro and
was one of the 29 charter members of the first church which was formed in
1779, of which he was chosen one of the deacons in 1780 and served until
his death in 1799.
His second wife Sarah Day Hartshorn, was the widow of Thomas Hartshorn, who
lived in a small house that stood on the site of David Carpenter's greenhouse.
Sarah died 22 Dec. 1810, aged 81 and is buried beside her husband near where
the monument stood in 1898.
!He appears as sergeant on the Lexington Alarm Roll of the Company of Captain
Israel Smith of Stoughton and served 3 days, date not readable.  However this
must have been in March or April 1775 and could be no other than the Nehemiah
Carpenter of Foxboro.  He was then in the 44th year of his age.  He like
others, left his home at the first alarm to obtain the rights of colonists at
the risk of his life.
Nehemiah Carpenter of Stoughtenbam appears on the pay roll of Capt. Pratt's
Company, Col. Gill's Regiment; enlisted March 4, 1776 and discharged March 11,
1776: marched on Roxbury alarm: served eight days: residence given as
Stoughton.
Nehemiah of Foxboro appears as Lieutenant on the pay roll of Capt. Samuel
Fisher's Company of Wrentham, Col. Jonathan Titcomb's Regiment, for services at
Rhode island: enlisted May 3, 1777; served two months and three days; he also
appears among the list of officers of the Massachusetts Militia as First
Lieutenant of Company 7, of the 3d Suffolk Regiment.  This was probably a
company formed in Foxboro.  He also appears among the list of officers of
Massachusetts Militia as Captain in the 3d Suffolk Regiment and no doubt this
was a Foxboro Company.
On page 114, second paragraph describes a old paper as a will, with seal torn
off and his name erased.

He was the first settler of what is now Foxboro Village,
building a house there about the year 1750. He was prominent in
the formation of the town, and was town clerk and treasurer,
selectman and constable for a number of years.  Was first deacon
of the first Orthodox church formed in town;  he gave the land
for the cemetery.  He kept a hotel being the half-way house
between Boston and Providence.2  SOUR S203
3  TEXT pg 114
1  MILI He appears as sergeant on the Lexington Alarm Roll of the
Company of Capt. Israel Smith of Stoughton.  Served three days
(no date).  This must have been in March or April, 1775, and
could be no other than the Nehemiah Carpenter of Foxboro.  He
was then in the 44th year of his age.  He, like others, left his
home at the first alarm, to obtain the rights of colonists at
the risk of his life.  Nehemiah Carpenter of Stroughtenham
appears as on pay roll of Captain Pratt's Company, Col. Gills
Regiment;  enlisted March 4, 1776 discharged March 11, 1776;
marched on Roxbury alarm;  served eight days;  residence given
as Stoughton.  The same Nehemiah of Foxboro.  Nehemiah appears
as Lieutenant on the pay roll of Capt. Samuel Fisher's Company
of Wrentham, Col. Jonathan Titcomb's Regiment, for service at
,RI;  enlisted May 3, 1777;  served two months and
three days;  he also appears among the list of officers of the
,MA Militia as First Lieutenant of Company 7, of the
3d Suffolk Regiment.  This was probably a company formed in
Foxboro.
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2147. Betsey Carpenter

Submitted by: Phoebe Cortez on Tue, 4 Apr 2000 From: MzCortez@aol.com
John COMEE (b. 28 Sep 1725, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts; d. 8 Feb
1815) m. Abigail SUMNER (b. 22 Oct 1727; d. 19 May 1806), dt. Roger SUMNER,
1751 in Nelton, Norfolk, MA; they had:
John COMEY JR. (b. 14 Jan 1753, Foxboro, Norfolk, Massachusetts; d. 24 May
1830, Foxboro, Norfolk, Massachusetts) m. Betsey CARPENTER, dt. Nehemiah
CARPENTER and Elizabeth SWEET)
http://www.ipns.com/katie/roots/comee.HTML

2154. James Carpenter

BIRTH: 6 or 26 Jul 1768.

Sarah Hartshorn A Widow

Sarah was a widow.  HARTSHORN probably married name.  AF has her listed as
"Hartshorn Sarah WIDOW".

AF has last name as "WIDOW".

Widow

757. Sybil Carpenter

Number 576 on page 114 in the Carpenter Memorial.

Joseph French

His father is believed to be Thomas French.