Descendants of the William Carpenters of the Bevis (1638)
Carpenter Cousins Encyclopedia of Carpenters - 2024 Update

Descendants of William Carpenter-98 & his son William Carpenter-584, both who immigrated in 1638 on the Bevis from England to America. William Carpenter-584 settled in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts in 1640.

There are about 101,000 descendants listed in this report (Build 8 Dec 2024). Please see the indexes.

The number after the surname is a record information number (RIN) from the Carpenter Cousins Project master genealogical database. See: The Carpenter Cousins Project

For the most up-to-date information on the THREE DIFFERENT ADULT William Carpenters of which one (the eldest) may have died after Jan 1640/1641 (of Group 3 who arrived in 1638), one which settled in Rehoboth, MA (of Group 3) & the one who settled in Providence, RI (aka Group 2 who arrived in 1635), please see Carpenter Sketches by Gene Zubrinsky. 

By the way - Please be advised there was a FOURTH William Carpenter who was a  seven year old child when he came to America in 1638 (of Group 3) with his father and grandfather both named William Carpenter.

These Carpenter lineages include those male descendants who have been Y-DNA tested and are part of Group 3 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. This Project is part of the Guild of One Name Studies on the surname Carpenter.

The Group 3 descendants are in two categories.

1) Those both genetically and genealogically connected. This includes those who are reasonably believed to be related but are not proved. Read the NOTES.

2) Those that match genetically but are NOT connected genealogically. See the marriage listed as "UNATTACHED LINEAGES" on the first page of the Descendant Report. This technique to provides those detached or unconnected descent lineages and to recognize them for their genetic connectiveness to Group 3.

PLEASE be aware that there is a separate genetic family referenced as Group 2. They are descendants of William Carpenter b. about 1610 in England who came to America in 1635 and who settled in the area of Providence, Rhode Island. They are NOT the same person nor are they first cousins.

Y-DNA testing allows the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project to tell the genetic difference (three (3) Y-DNA genetic marker discriminators!) between these Groups 2 and 3. Unique genetic fingerprints or genetic profiles allow us to tell these two groups apart as many other Carpenter/Zimmerman and related lines.

Again, Group 3 is genetically distinct having an unique genetic profile from other Carpenter/Zimmerman groups within the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. Even Group 2 the descendants of William Carpenter of Providence, Rhode Island who came to America in 1635 has a different genetic profile. The difference between Group 2 and 3 genetically is three (3) discriminators out of 111 markers. Two of those different marker values are on the first 37 Y-DNA markers given at Family Tree DNA (FTDNA.com).

Some descendants of this Carpenter line married into other Carpenter and Zimmerman lines. In addition, there have been some formal and informal adoptions in this descendant line. Sometimes a young widow with a son would remarry and the young lad would bond with his step-father then assume his surname. Before bigger and more formalized governments, this was not uncommon. On occasion some children were given up for adoption or farmed out to relatives..

We call these type of events Non-Paternity Events or NPEs. This means that sometimes a Carpenter descendant may occasionally have a different genetic profile from what is expected. Or conversely, a Carpenter descendant who was adopted has a different surname, but the genetic profile of this Carpenter line. Such individuals often wind up in either Group 98 or Group 99 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. Groups 98 & 99 are similar to a catch all group until someone matches other Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA tester and they are placed in an organized group. On occasion, there is enough Y-DNA testers on that NPE line to create a new group immediately. We have made a great effort to explain such differences - like NPE events - within the notes of the individual or individuals involved. See also the 3 part briefs (below) for more details.

See much more at the Carpenter Cousins web page at: https://carpentercousins.com aka The Carpenter Cousins Project.

Do you want to help, update or add your line? Use the email link below to contact me. GEDCOM is ideal!

PLEASE NOTE: This is a working research file and contains emails, notes and comments by researchers on this line.
This file also contains both internal sources within the notes and external sources cited by numbers with links. Check both!

This file does and will contain mistakes. Verification is always needed of any data.
Generally speaking, the better the documentation, the better the data is.
 

Table of Contents

• Descendants
  Go to the William Carpenter & Alice Swithen Photo page
  Go to the William Carpenter & Abigail Briant Photo page
  
  We provide a series of briefs on the following subjects that includes information on this line.
  Part 1 - An introduction to the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
  Part 2 - Basic Carpenter Cousins Project Genetic Genealogy
  Part 3 - Genetic Genealogy – Y-DNA testing & examples
   
• Indexes:
• Carpenter Surname Only
• Surname List
• Name Index
• The Carpenter Cousins Project main web page

Prepared by:

John R Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
The Carpenter Cousins Project

Send email to: jrcrin001@gmail.com

This web site produced 9 Dec 2024 by Ancestral Quest, a product of Incline Software, LC.
Data last updated 08 Dec 2024.