Group 3 - Descendants of William Carpenter-98-
Father of William Carpenter-584 (b. abt 1605)

Notes

7. John Carpenter

INTRO:
John Carpenter (William ) was christened on 8 Oct 1626 in the parish of Shalbourne, Berkshire, (that part now in Wiltshire), England. He died between 10 Nov 1694 and 23 May 1695 in Jamaica, Queens Co., Long Island, NY.
John married Hannah Smith, by 1655 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, or on Long Island. Hannah, daughter of William1 and Magdalen (______) Smith, was born say 1635 and was living in 1704.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[These notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. They appear in fully formatted form in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.)  **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

JOHN3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was baptized in Shalbourne, Berk shire, England, on 8 October 1626 and died in Jamaica, Long Island, between 10 November 1694 (date of will) and 23 May 1695 (date of probate). He married by 1655 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, or Huntington, Long Island, HANNAH SMITH, baptized in South Cadbury, Somerset, England, 6 April 1632 and living in 1704, daughter of William1 and Magdalen (Crane) Smith of Weston Bampfylde, Somerset; Weymouth, Massachusetts; Rehoboth; and Huntington and Jamaica, Long Island (TAG 25:70–71, 70:194, 203; Zubrinsky, “The English Origin (and Parentage?) of William1 Smith of Massachusetts and New York: With the Identity, Father, and Probable Mother of His Wife, Magdalen,” TAG [forthcoming]; QCoWills [abstr] 29–29B; JTR 1:86, 2:66; Colonial Fams 2:536, 545, 549–50, 1012; GM 6:408–12; Carpenter [1898] 44; Keeler–Wood 69–70; see also DEATH and MARRIAGE sections, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in Register style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCE NOTES, at the end of this sketch. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series.]

DEATH: Seversmith states that John3 Carpenter's will was proved the day after it was written, "showing that he had died quite suddenly." This, however, appears to represent momentary confusion with John's namesake son, John4, whom Seversmith describes as apparently having "met with some accident[,] for he died suddenly, 10 June 1732; his will was made the same day" (see Colonial Fams 2:536, 545).

MARRIAGE: That John Carpenter’s marriage occurred by 1655 is inferred from the fact that his eldest son, John “Junior,” was a freeholder (and thus an adult) by 1676 (see JTR 1:86). ! On 2 February 1699/1700, Nehemiah Smith of Jamaica, Long Island, deeded land there to “my loving cousin John Carpenter of the same town” (GM 6:410, citing JTR 2:66–67).  In part because cousin was often used to mean nephew, authorities accept that the grantor was Hannah (Smith) Carpenter’s brother and the grantee her eldest son (see GM 6:410). For the complete argument that Hannah (Mrs. John) Carpenter was the daughter of
!2
William1 Smith, see Herbert F. Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, 5 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1939–1958), 2:549–50. For the most reliable information about William1 Smith and his family, see GM 6:408–12; Seversmith Papers, William Smith File (with Carpenter connections) [FHL film #569,824]; TAG 25(1949): 70–89, 144; Zubrinsky, “William1 Smith,” TAG (forthcoming; see par. 1, above). ! A couple of sources have John marrying second, on 9 February 1680, Dorothy ______ (see Savage 1:336; Attleborough Settlers 48, 50). There is no record of such a marriage, however (if there were, it would almost certainly include the bride’s surname), and the children these sources attribute to John3 belong to John4 (William3–1) and Rebecca (Redway) Carpenter of Rehoboth and of Woodstock, Connecticut (RVR 1:35; Early Rehoboth 1:129, 136–37). Based on the will of John1 Rhodes, which names son-in-law John Carpenter, Clarence Torrey tentatively identifies Dorothy as Rhodes’s daughter (NYGBR 65: 115; Torrey [CD]). That John Carpenter, however, was John3’s son, who married Rhodes’s daughter Mary on Long Island about 1680 (see CHILDREN, below). John3, moreover, had long since migrated to Long Island, and his will, dated in 1694, names wife Hannah, who was still living in 1704, when she sold dower rights to her son William (Carpenter [1898] 44; WILL/ESTATE, below).

IMMIGRATION: John was the eldest of four Carpenter children who accompanied their parents and paternal grandfather to Massachusetts on the _Bevis_ in 1638 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, IMMIGRATION).

RESIDENCES: Shalbourne; Weymouth (probably 1638); Rehoboth (1644); Long Island (mid-1650s [see below]).

John may have departed Rehoboth by 28 June 1653, for his name fails to appear among those of forty-one signatories, including his father and brother William Jr., who on that date authorized four others to settle a land-rights issue with a group of Plymouth men (Early Rehoboth 1:30-31). He is also omitted from a December 1657 rate list naming his brothers William Jr. and Joseph among fifty-five Rehoboth men and from a list of those, including William Jr., who drew meadow lots on Rehoboth's north side in June 1658 (TAG 70:197n27). Undated Rehoboth proprietors' records (ca. 1662) indicate that he had sold his land holdings there to James Redway, father-in-law of John's brothers Samuel and Abiah and of their brother William's son John (TAG 70:197n27).

Dated 7 December 1660, the deed by which he purchased a dwelling house, home lot, and eleven acres of meadow at then Dutch-controlled Hempstead, Long Island, calls him "John Carpendar of Hontinton [colony not stated]" (HTR.2:97). Amos B. Carpenter assumes (as, initially, does Herbert Seversmith) that this was the southwestern Connecticut town of Huntington (now Shelton) (Carpenter [1898] 43, 50; Colonial Fams 536, 544, 545, 1012); that town was not established until 1789, however (TAG 70:197n27). The Huntington to which the deed refers, although under Connecticut authority from 1660 to 1664, was separated from Hempstead only by the town of Oyster Bay, on Long Island; it was first settled in the early 1650s. Confirming that John Carpenter had been living at Huntington, Long Island, is his having witnessed on 25 September 1660 Ann Crocker's sale of her Oyster Bay house and land to Richard Lattin of "hunting Towne" (OBTR 5).

On 14 February 1663/4, a meadow lot was laid out to him at Jamaica, Long Island (JTR 1:21). He was nevertheless living at Hempstead on 12 May 1664, and when on 8 November 1665 he bought a dwelling house and home lot at Jamaica, he was still "of Hempstead" (CCCR 1:425, 429; JTR 2:331-32). He clearly did not settle at Jamaica until after this purchase.

OCCUPATION: Yeoman and carpenter. John left carpenter-shop tools to his sons (QCoWills [abstr] 29-29A). He is said to have been an itinerant carpenter as a young man (Carpenter [1898] 43; Colonial Fams 2:544). This, however, appears to be an assumption based on dubious claims of his presence in Connecticut in the mid-1640s and the mistaken notion that he had migrated there from Rehoboth in the mid-1650s (see RESIDENCES, par. 2, above; Carpenter [1898] 43-44).

FREEMAN: He was one of fifteen Hempstead men accepted as freemen by the Connecticut General Court on 12 May 1664 (CCCR 1:425, 429).

EDUCATION: He signed his will (and various other documents) and left "my books to be equally divided amongst all my children" (QCoWills [abstr] 29A-B).

OFFICES: Hempstead: selectman, 1663/4 (HTR 1:148-49). Jamaica: captain of fusilier company by 1670 (see COMMENTS, below); overseer of poor, 1670; committee to settle minister, 1676; delegate to choose county treasurer, 1683[/4]; in delegation to meet with governor, 1685; commissioner, 1686; delegate to choose county representatives to Provincial Assembly, 1689/90 (JTR 44, 45-46, 65, 138, 143, 161; DHNY 3:64[4to ed.]/98-99[8vo ed.], 123/197; Colonial Fams 2:544).

A New York history names John Carpenter eleventh on a list of twelve Rutsdorp (Jamaica) magistrates for the period 1659-1673, suggesting that he held the office toward the end of that period (see NY Hist [online] 5:n.p.).

WILL/ESTATE: The will of John Carpenter, dated 10 November 1694 and proved 23 May 1695, names sons John (eldest), Hope (second), Samuel (third), and William (co-executor); daughter Ruth Ludlam; grandchildren Hannah and Abigail Rhodes and [John4's son] Solomon Carpenter; wife Hannah (co-executor); and overseers Joseph and Nehemiah Smith. Real estate, in addition to parcels of specified size totaling 171 acres, includes several of unspecified area: home lot and adjoining pasture; "addition" of fresh meadow; and "lotted land within fence and without." Son John had previously received property "out of my stock and estate as a part of his portion." Household goods include items of pewter and brass (QCoWills [abstr] 29-29A). For additional bequests, see OCCUPATION and EDUCATION, above.

The probate clerk's copy of the will is filed in Queens County Deeds, A:98 [FHL film #1,414,477]. For a virtually complete transcription, see QCoWills [abstr], 29-29B.

CHILDREN: Herbert F. Seversmith, one of the most respected genealogists of his time, researched this family. Explicitly correcting the work of Amos Carpenter (see Carpenter [1898] 50), Seversmith presents the children of John3 and Hannah (Smith?) Carpenter as below (bracketed data added) (see Colonial Fams 2:536, 540, 543n, 545-49).

i. CAPT. JOHN4 CARPENTER, b. [probably Huntington, L.I.] ca. 1655 (adult by 1676 [see MARRIAGE, par. 1, above]), d. Jamaica, L.I., 10 June 1732; m. [probably Jamaica] ca. 1680 MARY RHODES, d. after 10 June 1732, dau. of John Rhodes.
ii. DINAH CARPENTER, b. [probably Huntington] ca. 1657 [d. probably by 10 Nov. 1694 (see WILL/ESTATE, above)]; m. [probably Jamaica] ca. 1676 JOHN RHODES, son of John1 Rhodes.
      iii. HOPE CARPENTER, b. probably Hempstead, L.I., ca. 1662, d. Jamaica ca. 1713; m. [probably Jamaica, by ca. 1685] MARY ASHMAN, dau. of Robert Ashman.
      iv. RUTH CARPENTER, b. Jamaica ca. 1664; m. [probably Jamaica] JOHN LUDLAM, son of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Ludlam.
       v. SAMUEL CARPENTER, b. Jamaica ca. 1666, d. there probably soon after 25 May 1720; wife's name not found. [Claims that he m. ca. 1691 Sarah ______ and afterward Patience ______ and Rebecca ______ are unsubstantiated.]
      vi. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. Jamaica ca. 1668, d. Hempstead 21 Feb. 1748/9; m. (1?) ELIZABETH _______ (his wife in 1707) and (2?) SARAH _______ (his wife in 1715).
     vii. SOLOMON CARPENTER, b. Jamaica ca. 1671, d. "before his father, unmarried, without issue." [Seversmith fails to present evidence of this Solomon's existence.]

There is no evidence to support the attribution to this couple of either a daughter Abigail or Temperance (as found occasionally online).

COMMENTS: On 29 July 1673, Capt. John Carpenter and his company of fusiliers (light infantry) were ordered to Fort James, in Lower Manhattan, which was under attack by the Dutch fleet (DHNY 3:64/98-99). It was not he, however, but his nephew John4 Carpenter of Rehoboth (William3-1) who in late 1675 participated (as did the latter's brother-in-law John2 Redway) in the Narragansett Expedition of King Philip's War (Rehoboth Hist 117).

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: See, for example, David Yehling Allen, _Long Island History on the World Wide Web_ (2001; updated, revised 2004), online at ; Peter Ross, _A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time_, vol. 1 of 3 (New York, 1902).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Attleborough Settlers: David Jillson (b. 1824), "Genealogy of Some of the First Settlers in Attleborough" (n.p., n.d., manuscript [C 4961] at New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

CCCR: _The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut_, 15 vols. (Hartford, 1850-1890)

Colonial Fams: Herbert F. Seversmith, _Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut_, 5 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1939-1958)

DHNY: Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., _The Documentary History of the State of New-York_, 4 vols. (Albany, 1849-1851; quarto and octavo editions)

Early Rehoboth: Richard LeBaron Bowen, _Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township_, 4 vols. (Rehoboth, Mass., 1945-1950)

FHL: Family History Library, Salt Lake City

HTR: _Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, New York [1654-1880]_, ed. Benjamin D. Hicks, 8 vols. (Jamaica, N.Y., 1896-1904)

IGI: International Genealogical Index, online at

JTR: _Records of the Town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1656-1751_, ed. Josephine C. Frost, 3 vols. (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1914)

Keeler-Wood: Josephine C. Frost, _Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler, Wife of Willard Underhill Taylor_ (Brooklyn, 1939)

NYGBR: _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, vol. 1 (1869) through present

NY Hist [online]: James Sullivan, et al., eds., _History of New York State, 1523-1927_, 6 vols. (New York, 1927), online version of vol. 5, ch. 12, note 38, at

OBTR: _Oyster Bay Town Records, Volume I--1653-1690_ (New York, 1916)

QCoWills [abstr]: "Abstracts of Early Wills of Queens County, New York, Recorded in Libers A and C of Deeds, Now in the Register's Office at Jamaica, New York" (Jamaica, N.Y., 1938; typescript [929.3NY24Q] in Long Island Collection, Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, N.Y.); also available on FHL film #17,872, item 1

Rehoboth Hist: Leonard Bliss Jr., _The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts_ (Boston, 1836)

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records (orig.) [FHL film #562,559 (restricted, item 3)]

Savage: James Savage, _A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England_, 4 vols. (Boston, 1860-1862)

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

Torrey [CD]: Clarence Almon Torrey, _New England Marriages Prior to 1700_ [CD-ROM] (Boston, c2001); source notes included

William Smith: Leslie Budd Carpenter, "The Descendants of William Smith of Jamaica, New York, 1598-1668" (1965; typescript at New York Public Library; also in Long Island Collection, Queens Borough Public Library), not paginated; almost identical is Raymond George Carpenter, "The Ancestry and Descendants of Magistrate William Smith 1598-1668 of Jamaica, Queens County, Long Island, New York" (1965; typescript at Idaho State Historical Society and Archives, Boise), not paginated

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

UPDATE:
BOOK:  The American Genealogist, October 2017, page 306. ...
Page 197, note 27, relates that John3 Carpenter “had sold his Rehoboth holdings
and migrated to Huntington, L.I., probably before 22 Dec. 1657.” It is evident,
however, that he had left Rehoboth probably by 28 June 1653, when fortyone
adult male inhabitants affixed their signatures to a document authorizing
four among them to represent the town in resolving boundary, fence, and landuse
issues, all but the last involving the recent Sowams purchase.1 The threecolumn
list of subscribers includes John3’s father, William Carpenter [Sr.], and
younger brother William Carpenter Junior, but not John himself.
Ojai, California (GeneZub@aol.com).
1 Plymouth Colony Deeds, 2:1:78–80, at 79; Richard LeBaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth:
Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township, 4 vols.
(Concord, N.H., 1945–50), 1:30–31.
See: 305-ADDITIONS-CORRECTIONS

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 17 in the Carpenter Memorial.  Family on page 50.
Extensive notes on page 43 and 44.  Captain of a Military Company.

MARRIAGE2: Marriage to Dorothy Rhodes removed - she did not marry John and is a duplicate of RIN 13553.

MILITARY:   1675-1676
1675-1676 - “Phillip's War” - Garrison houses in Rehoboth North Purchase (now Attleborough) - “Woodcock's Garrison” ; The South end of Seekonk Plain (Sekonk Common); Northern part of Swansey near Mile's Bridge - “Mille's Garrison”. Bliss (pp 117-118)
The names of the Rehoboth soldiers who served in Philip's war have been preserved, and are as follows: Those engaged in the Narraganset expedition, were:  ... John Carpenter
Following are the names of those who made advances of money to support the war:
John Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, William Carpenter and Wid. Carpenter.

WILL: Will dated 10 Nov 1694 reads "Now ancient, crazy in body, but sound in mind."  His will mentions Hanna, his wife; John, Hope, Samuel and William his sons.  He appears to be a man of superior judgement who did much to assist in building up the community.

BAPTISM: Per the : American Genealogist, whole number 280, Vol. 70, No. 4 October 1995, page 2 gives baptism dates. (chr. 8 Oct 1626 Shalbourne, Berkshire, now in, Wiltshire, England)
SEE ALSO:   Thomas below and John above!
Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886 Transcription
First name(s) THOMAS <------------ image clearly has John !
Last name CARPENTER
Birth year 1626
Birth date ? ? 1626
Baptism year 1626
Baptism date 08 Oct 1626
Place SHALBOURNE
Father's first name(s) William
Mother's first name(s) Abigall
County Wiltshire
Country England
Record set Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Births & baptisms
Collections from United Kingdom
Wiltshire Family History Society
Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society

CHILD:  Dinah and Abigail listed in the CM but not Temperance.  The former children mentioned are dropped in later records and Temperance added.

SEE: Jamaica, New York, Wills, Liber A, p. 98.

PER NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700:
M#1: JOHN (?1628-1695?) & HANNAH [SMITH?]/[HOPE?]; B 1658, HUNTINGTON, LI/HEMPSTEAD, LI/JAMACIA, LI.
***FIRST MARRIAGE DATE 9 FEB 1680 IS INCORRECT.  IT BELONGS TO JOHN'S SECOND WIFE WHO WAS DOROTHY RHODES MARRIED ON THAT DATE.
M#2: JOHN (-1695) & DOROTHY [?RHODES], DAU JOHN; 9 FEB 1680; JAMAICA, LI/WEYMOUTH?/ATTLEBORO. - THIS is in error wrong John. 12/2008 JRC

CARPENTER BY TRADE.  CAPTAIN IN 1673 WHO HELPED DEFEND FORT JAMES, NEW YORK.  OFFSPRING LISTED PAGE 1253 OF LEWIS 1912 BOOK.
MORE INFO IN 1898 BOOK.
26 JAN 1703 DEATH DATE IS THE ONLY CONFLICT WITH IGI RECORDS.

According to information from the Carpenter Chronicles, Vol 23, July 1995, a query from Margaret Cass, 920 Andorra Road, Lafayette Hill, PA, 19444 She is working on the Carpenter family of Goshen Co. NY.

John Carpenter particapated in the Narragansett Expedition in 1675, he resided in Jamaica LI, NY later in life. He may have been the John Carpenter who was in CT abt 1646 (age 17).**  He was probably the John Carpenter in 1660 who bought land in Hempstead, Long Island and in 1665 bought land in Jamacia, Long Island.
He was one of the potentates of Jamacia under the Dragon Patent of 1680.

** The ABC 1898 book (Carpenter Memorial) has the following notes:
"He came from England with his father and when young went to Connecticut: was there previous to 1646, when he must have been about 17 years old. It appears that he drifted about in Connecticut several years working at the trade of a carpenter.  He had some difficulty with one Gibbons and was assisted by Thomas Osborn.  His brother Joseph appeared as plaintiff at Hartford (CT) June , 1648."
On the following web page is the PUBLIC RECORD of his misdeed:
http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/ViewPageByIndex.cfm?ID=149&Volume=1&Master=107&Letter=C&v=01&p=079&Page=140
See page 140 (dated 5 June 1646) and 141. This is the Colonial Connecuticut Records 1636-1776.
Copyright 2000-2001 University of Connecticut.
"He broke into Gybbins and stole some wyne!" Phoebe Cortez (MzCortez@aol.com) found this PUBLIC RECORD page and submitted it on 23 March 2002.  See MISC PICs under RIN 587 for copy of page.

SEE: The History of Queens County (New York, NY, 1882) which indicates John C. was a freeholder of Long Island as early as 1660.  He owned land in neighboring Huntington prior to his Feb. 14, 1663/1664 purchase of in East Neck, between the property of Mr. Haulet and Henry Townsend.  SEE: Josephine C. Frost (Ed.)
Records of the Town of Jamacia, Long Island, 1656-1751, 3 Vols. (Brooklyn, NY, 1914), Vol. 1, p. 21.

SEE: Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut (Los Angeles, CA, 1944) by Herbert Furman Seversmith which indicates that John C. bought the dwelling house and barn lot of John Strickland of Jamaica on Nov. 8, 1665.
The homestead there served as a family residence.  The same source also notes that John C. and his brother-in-law Nehemiah Smith were overseers of the poor in Jamaica.

SEE: Documentry History of the State of New York, 4 Vols. (Albany, NY, 1849-1851) by Edmund Billy O'Callaghan which documents the 1664 take over of New Amsterdam which the Dutch surrendered without a fight and the 1673 battle in which a Dutch fleet attacked Fort James where the English were compelled to surrender the city.  John C. was a Captain of the Jamacia Fusileers in 1673.
SEE: Ancestry and Descendants of Colonel Solomon Carpenter of Goshen, New York (Machias, ME, 1974, pp. 20-25).

RECORDS: All the following from Hempstead Town Records of LI, NY.
Vol I - John Carpenter references:
Feb 28 1661 town grants 2 more acres to homelot he bought from John Carman
Feb 3 1663 elected townsman
Dec 14 1663  town grants 5 or 6 acres  on Strickland Neck
Jan 24 1665 grantor on deed to Abraham Smith; Adam Mott and Eadman Titus witness
Jun 9 1665 sold horses to Thomas Hicks
1665 (no date) sold cattle to Mr ffordham and Samuel Wheller
May 5 1667 bought horses from?
Dec 3 1679 defendant in an unspecified action, John Roads plaintiff
Vol II I do not have acces too unfortunatly
Vol III - John Carpenter references:
Nov 14 1738 Earmarks
Apr 7 1741 granted permission to build a mill
May 3 1749 Grantor on deed to Stephen Chappell 56 acres and 97 rods, mentions
his wife Rachel, witnesses Abraham Southard,Joseph Kissam,Joseph Carman
Some of these references would apply to his son and grandson named John.
Submitted by Phoebe Cortesis of CA via forwarded E-Mail on 6-8-98.

WILL:  More will data:
from "Abstracts of Early Wills of Queens County..."
Carpenter, John, Sr., of Jamaica, 10 Nov., 1694. "Being now ancient and crazy in body but sound in mind." Disposes of many tracts of land. To oldest son, John, ten acres east of the town beyond John Hansons lot, 13 acres of upland, etc. Sons Hope, Samuel & William have already had portions. Furniture to Daughter Ruth Ludlam and to grandaughters Hannah and Abigail Rodes. Ten acres to grandson Solomon Carpenter if he remains with my wife until he is of age, To son William half the homestead. Son John exr. Overseers Joseph and Nehemiah
Smith. Wits. Andrew Alexander,Samuel Higeby, Samule Smith. Proved 23 May 1695.

E-MAIL:
... one of the sons of William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter, (left New England)...
Eldest son John3 (bap. Shalbourne, 8 Oct. 1626) was the only one of their
children to leave New England, probably before 28 June 1653--but not for
Pennsylvania (see Plymouth Colony Deeds, 2:1:79; also Rehoboth Town Meetings, 1:231
[1657], 1:74 [1658]; these are lists of Rehoboth inhabitants or [in the last
case] proprietors that almost certainly would have included John3 if he had still
been living there).  Undated proprietors' records (ca. 1662) indicate that he
had sold his Rehoboth holdings to James Redway (Rehoboth Proprietors' Records,
1:1, 12-13).  John was of Huntington, Long Island, when on 7 December 1660 he
bought John Carman's dwelling house and home lot at nearby Hempstead
(Benjamin Hicks, ed., RECORDS OF THE TOWNS OF NORTH AND SOUTH HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND,
N.Y., 1654-1880, 8 vols. [Jamaica, N.Y., 1869-1904], 2:97).  By early 1664 he
had settled at Jamaica, L.I., where he remained until his death, on 10 (will)
or 11 (probate) November 1694 (Herbert F. Seversmith, COLONIAL FAMILIES OF
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT, 5 vols. [Washington, D.C., 1939-58],
2:544-45, citing printed Jamaica Town Records, 1:21, and Jamaica, New York, Wills,
A:98).
Gene Z.

MISC entry with errors:
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0014390
Carpenter, John
Released 19 July 2003
Genealogy and Biography of Ontario County, New York
(XI) John (5), son of William (4) Carpenter, was born in England about 1628, died May 23, 1695. He came from England with his father, and when about seventeen went to Connecticut. For several years he lived in different towns in the latter state, and worked at his trade as carpenter. He was in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1646, and in 1660 bought land in Hempstead, Long Island. He was chosen townsman of Hempstead in 1663, and was made freeman of the state of Connecticut, May, 1664. He bought land in Jamaica, Long Island, in 1665. In 1673 he was made captain of a company of fusileers in Jamaica, and that same year was ordered with his company to defend Fort James, New York, against the fleet of the Prince of Orange. This was at the time of the recapture of New York by the Dutch. He was a patentee of the town of Jamaica tinder the "Dongan Patent" of 1680, and the tract bought by him there was occupied by three generations after him. He married (probably) Hannah Hope. Children, born in Jamaica: John. 1658, mentioned elsewhere; Hope, married Mary ; William, 1662; Samuel, 1666; Solomon, 1670: Ruth, married Rhodes; Ludman; daughter, name not known, married Rhodes.
Source: Genealogy and Biography of Ontario County, New York

PROPERTY bought in 1665. (end of page and first of next)
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/database_search/TAG.asp?f=F:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nehgs/TAG/1934/TAG_V11_086.gif&cnt=&ffile=TAG_V11_087.gif&page=1&anchor=#image

Hannah Smith

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual. Gene also adds the following comment.

HANNAH SMITH, baptized in South Cadbury, Somerset, England, 6 April 1632 and living in 1704, daughter of William1 and Magdalen (Crane) Smith of Weston Bampfylde, Somerset; Weymouth, Massachusetts; Rehoboth; and Huntington and Jamaica, Long Island (TAG 25:70–71, 70:194, 203; Zubrinsky, “The English Origin (and Parentage?) of William1 Smith of Massachusetts and New York: With the Identity, Father, and Probable Mother of His Wife, Magdalen,” TAG [forthcoming]; QCoWills [abstr] 29–29B; JTR 1:86, 2:66; Colonial Fams 2:536, 545, 549–50, 1012; GM 6:408–12; Carpenter [1898] 44; Keeler–Wood 69–70; see also DEATH and MARRIAGE sections ...
Updated Nov 2016.

ARTICLE:
Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. “The English Origin and Parentage of William1 and Magdalen (Crane) Smith of Massachusetts and New York,” The American Genealogist 90(2018):209-14. This will be of particular interest to descendants of John3 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Long Island, New York, and his wife, Hannah (Smith).
See page 210 at:  https://carpentercousins.com/Smith-Crane(TAG2018).pdf
The above article describes Hannah Smith chr date and her parents William Smith and Magalen ____ and her siblings.

Old notes follow.

MARRIAGE: PER NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES: HANNAH [SMITH?]/[HOPE?]; B 1658, HUNTINGTON, LI/HEMPSTEAD, LI/JAMACIA, LI.
BOOK:  New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Be aware there are several additions and supplements making corrections. Reprints are notorious for not telling you which one is best. Always check to get the Third Supplement version. It is the most complete version.

Hannah's father was a close friend to Capt. William Carpenter. SEE: "The Ancestry and Descendants of Magistrate William Smith of Jamaica, New York"
(manuscript copy in the Long Island Room, Jamaica Public Library, Jamacia, NY.
SEE also Seversmith in Colonial Families (2:544, 549-50).

AFN NTQ5-GR and BVZK-2G are the same person.
AFN QCZ1-35 Hannah Hope) is also the same person.  Records indicate Joseph was only married twice.
AFN BVZK-ZG (1628) AND ID # 8MJ2-SM (1630) ARE THE SAME PERSON WITH GJ4N-7X (1629).  AFN NTQ5-GR also appears to be the same person but with a spouse named Joseph Carpenter instead of John Carpenter.  Is it possible that she married one, had a child (John) then divorced or left for the other?  No.

19. Dinah Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Not in the Carpenter Memorial.  Probable twin to Abigail or another name for Abigail?

25. Temperance Carpenter See Notes

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
There is no evidence to support the attribution to this couple of either a daughter Abigail or Temperance (as found occasionally online).

SEE: Father's notes.  She married John Rhodes, son of John Rhodes of Jamacia.

8. Abigail Carpenter

INTRO:
Abigail Carpenter (William ) was christened on 31 May 1629 in the parish of Shalbourne, Berkshire (that part now in Wiltshire), England. She died on 5 Mar 1709/10 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA.
Abigail married John Titus, by 1650 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. John was born about 1627 probably in a rural parish in England, the son of Robert1 and Hannah (Carter?) Titus. He was buried on 16 Apr 1689 in Rehoboth.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[These notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. They appear in fully formatted form in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **IN ALL CASES IN WHICH THIS INFORMATION CONFLICTS WITH THAT PRESENTED ELSEWHERE IN THIS MAIN DATA FILE OF THE CE 2009, THE FORMER SUPERSEDES THE LATTER.**]

ABIGAIL3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was baptized at Shalbourne, Berkshire, England, on 31 May 1629 and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, on 5 March 1709/10. She married first probably at Rehoboth, by 1650, JOHN TITUS, born about 1627 (aged 8 in April 1635) and buried at Rehoboth on 16 April 1689, son of Robert1 and Hannah (Carter?) Titus. Abigail married second at Rehoboth on 9 November 1692, as his second wife, JONAH PALMER, son of Walter1 Palmer (TAG 70:194, 203-4; RVR 1:44, 87 [not 89], 185 [not 181]; Hotten 46; NYGBR 12:94; NEHGR 122:251; BrCoPR 1:17-18; see also BIRTH, MARRIAGE, and COMMENTS sections, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his _Great Migration_ series.]

BIRTH: Amos B. Carpenter identifies Abigail as her brother Abiah's twin, born at Weymouth on 9 April 1643 (see Carpenter [1898] 47). This, however, is the result of his misinterpretation of their father's will and of Weymouth vital records (TAG 70:200-3; see also William2 of Rehoboth notes, COMMENTS).

MARRIAGE: Amos Carpenter asserts (and others repeat) that Abigail married John Titus about 1659, after the death of a first wife Rachel (see Carpenter [1898] 47). There was no such woman, however. Abigail is recorded as the mother of all John2 Titus's children, the eldest born on 18 December 1650 (TAG 70:198-200).

IMMIGRATION: Abigail was the second eldest of four Carpenter children who accompanied their parents and paternal grandfather to Massachusetts on the _Bevis_ in 1638 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, IMMIGRATION).

RESIDENCES: Shalbourne; Weymouth, Massachusetts (probably 1638); and Rehoboth (1644).

CHILDREN: All born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:19).

    With first husband:

i. JOHN TITUS, b. 18 Dec. 1650, d. Rehoboth 2 Dec. 1697; m. (1) Rehoboth 17 July 1673, LYDIA REDWAY, b. Rehoboth 30 May 1652, bur. there 25 Nov. 1676, dau. of James1 Redway and unknown wife (not Mary Whipple [2nd wife of James3 Redway]); m. (2) Rehoboth 3 July 1678, SARAH MILLER(D), b. there 15 Oct. 1655, d. probably Rehoboth, perhaps before 31 March 1722 (on 10 March 1731/2? after 4 April 1736?), dau. of John1 and Elizabeth? (______) Miller(d) [subsequently Millard]. A Sarah Titus m. Rehoboth 16 Aug. 1716, as his third wife, John Garnsey Sr. In 1717, his daughter Waitstill and son John married John and Sarah (Millard) Titus's son Timothy and daughter Elizabeth, respectively; another of Garnsey's sons, Seth, married a Millard. A Bristol Co. probate record dated 22 June 1723 indicates another Titus-Garnsey connection: Sarah Titus, widow, declares herself "fully Satisfied [with unspecified compensation from Seth Garnsey, administrator of the estate of his father, John Sr.] for Taking Care of my mother [presumably mother-in-law] Sarah Garnsey the Last year of her Life." (The subscriber of this statement [also signed by David and Martha Chaffee] was perhaps the widow Sarah Titus who died at Rehoboth on 10 March 1731/2.) Sarah (Millard) Titus thus appears to have taken John Garnsey as her second husband and to have died by 1723. Additional evidence implies that she predeceased Garnsey, who died on 31 March 1722: his widow, also named Sarah, received a series of forty-shilling payments from Seth Garnsey "for my yearly Rent for my Dower in the Real Estate of my Late Husband John Garnsey Deceased"; the last recorded of these is dated 4 April 1736 (RVR 1:30, 38, 45, 46, 54a, 55a, 90 [not 91], 159, 161 [not 167], 167 [not 163], 2:133, 234, 241, 266; MilVR 27; SwVR A:27, 62, B:99/217; NEHGR 64:27-28; MD 21:110; BrCoPR 8:432-34; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:85, 307).
ii. ABIGAIL TITUS, b. 18 Feb. 1652[/3?], d. Attleborough, Mass., 31 May 1734, in 82nd yr.; m. (1) Rehoboth 25 April 1673, JOHN FULLER, b. probably Rehoboth ca. 1647, bur. there 23 Aug. 1676, son of Robert1 and Sarah (Bowen) Fuller; m. (2) Rehoboth 16 Oct. 1679, as his second wife, THOMAS CUSHMAN, b. Plymouth, Mass., 16 Sept. 1637, d. Plympton, Mass., 23 Aug. 1726, aged almost 89, son of Thomas2 and Mary (Allerton) Cushman (AVR 656; RVR 1:45, 47, 54a; NEHGR 122:249-54).
iii. SILAS TITUS, b. 18 May 1656, d. Rehoboth before 15 Dec. 1741 (will proved); m. (1) Dedham, Norfolk Co., Mass., 23 8th mo. [Oct.] 1679, SARAH BATTLE/BATTELLE, b. Dedham 8 6th mo. [Aug.] 1654, bur. Rehoboth 8 April 1689, dau. of Thomas1 and Mary (Fisher) Battell(e); m. (2) Rehoboth 4 July 1689, HANNAH (MILLER[D]) THURSTON (widow of Daniel of Medfield), b. Rehoboth 23 Dec. 1653, d. before 24 Jan. 1716/7, dau. of John1 and Elizabeth? (______) Miller(d) [subsequently Millard]; m. (3) Rehoboth 24 Jan. 1716/7, MEHITABEL (BOYDEN) ORMSBEE (widow of Joshua of Rehoboth), b. Medfield 31 Jan. 1679/80, living 21 Oct. 1729 (Joshua Ormsbee estate settlement), dau. of Jonathan and Mary (Clark) Boyden (BrCoPR [abstr] 174, 177, 314-15; DVR 1:6, 17, 126; RVR 1:30, 47, 49, 55a, 87 [not 89], 166 [not 162], 2:133; MVR 22, 120, 161, 237; MD 21:110.
iv. HANNAH TITUS, b. 28 Nov. 1658, bur. Rehoboth 13 Nov. 1673 (RVR 1:52a).
v. SAMUEL TITUS, b. 1 June 1661, d. Attleborough 12 July 1726, aged 65; m. Rehoboth 21 or 27 Nov. 1693, ELIZABETH JOHNSON, b. Rehoboth 19 May 1673, bap. there (as adult) 11 June 1699, d. Attleborough 5 Sept. 1726, dau. of John and Mary (Ammidown) Worrell/Johnson (AVR 732; RVR 1:39, 163 [not 95]; NEHGR 15:68; WVR 1:2:2, John Worrell, alias Johnson, m. Mary "Anna Downe," 15 Dec. 1668; PCR 5:138-39, John Johnson named in Roger1 Amnadowne/Annadowne estate distribution).
vi. JOSEPH TITUS (twin), b. 17 March 1665, living Rehoboth 16 June 1741, aged 76; m. Rehoboth 19 Jan. 1687/8, MARTHA PALMER, b. Rehoboth 6 July 1666, dau. of Jonah2 and Elizabeth (Grissell/Griswold) Palmer [Martha's death data unknown; not Rehoboth 18 Sept. 1762: that Martha Titus b. 1 April 1689, d. in 74th year, unmar. dau. of Silas and Sarah (Battle/Battelle) Titus (no. iii above)] (Early Rehoboth 2:13-14; NEHGR 114:169; RVR 1:13, 44, 49, 51, 3:362; GMB 3:1382).
vii. MARY/MERCY TITUS (twin), b. 17 March 1665, d. Rehoboth 27 Jan. 1747, in 83rd yr.; m. there 9 Jan. 1683[/4], RICHARD BOWEN, b. probably New London, Conn., __ Aug. 16-- [1660 (calc.)], d. Rehoboth 12 Feb. 1736/7, in 77th yr., son of Thomas2 and Elizabeth (Nichols) Bowen (Old Rehoboth Cem 8; RVR 1:2, 48, 57, 2:245; MD 16:128, 39:85-87).
viii. EXPERIENCE TITUS, b. 29 Oct. 1669, d. after 14 Sept. 1723 (husband's will); m. Rehoboth 12 June 1692 or 18 July 1693, LEONARD NEWSOME, d. there (by 25 Aug.) 1724 (RVR 1:162 [not 94], 163 [not 95], 2:235; BrCoPR [abstr] 105, 106).

COMMENTS: The passenger list of the _Hopewell_, which departed London for Massachusetts in April 1635, describes Robert Titus as a husbandman "of St. Katherins" (Hotten 46). The absence of further information implies that St. Katherine's was a London parish or precinct (see Hotten 50, 70). It is often said online that Robert's son John, eventual husband of Abigail Carpenter, was baptized at St. Katherine's, London, on 18 December 1627. There is no basis for this, however: three London churches were dedicated to St. Katherine, and documentation is not found in the records of any of them. The earliest extant baptismal records of St. Katherine Cree are bishops' transcripts beginning in 1639. A Guildhall Library (London) archivist's check of the relevant St. Katherine Coleman parish register (containing baptismal records between 1559 and 1659) found no Titus entry for the period searched (1 January 1625/6 to 1 January 1628/9). And from 1584 to 1695, at least, the surname Titus does not appear in the records of St. Katherine by the Tower. His father's having been a farmer, John was probably baptized in a rural church (see below). It is likely that the _Hopewell_ list's mention of St. Katherine's refers not to the Titus's residence but to the parish or precinct from whose church Robert obtained the minister's certificate needed for emigration (NEHGR 132:22-23; see Hotten 46, 50, 70).

It is possible (though not proved) that Robert Titus and Hannah Carter, whose 24 June 1624 marriage is recorded in the parish register of Watford, Herefordshire, are the eventual Robert and Hannah Titus of Rehoboth (NEHGR 132:22-23; Hotten 46). The confusing organization of Drake's and Hotten's respective transcriptions of 1635 lists of passengers embarking at London have misled some to conclude that the Titus family came from a parish near Stanstead Abbots, Herefordshire (NEGHR 132:22-23).

Repeating a Titus source, Amos Carpenter asserts that John2 Titus and his namesake son were "engaged" in King Phillip's War (1675-1676) (see NYGBR 12:94; Carpenter [1898] 47). Actually, both were among many Rehoboth inhabitants who advanced money to the town to defray the expenses of the war, but neither is named as having fought in it (NEHGR 99:93-109).

KEY TO SOURCES:

AVR: _Vital Records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849_ (Salem, Mass., 1934)

BrCoPR: Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, vols. 1-4 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #461,882], vols. 8-9 [FHL #461,884]

BrCoPR [abstr]: H. L. Peter Rounds, _Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1687-1745 _ (Baltimore, 1988)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

DVR: _The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths . . . in the Town of Dedham, Volumes 1 & 2 . . ._ , ed. Don Gleason Hill (Dedham, Mass., 1886)

Early Rehoboth: Richard LeBaron Bowen, _Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township_, 4 vols. (Rehoboth, Mass., 1945-1950)

GMB: Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins_, 3 vols. (Boston, 1995)

Hotten: John C. Hotten, ed., _The Original Lists of Persons of Quality . . ._ (London, 1874)

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

MilVR: _Milton Records: Birth, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1843_ (Boston, 1900)

MVR: _Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_ (Boston, 1903)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NYGBR: _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, vol. 1 (1869) through present

Old Rehoboth Cem: Marion Pearce Carter, "Old Rehoboth Cemetery . . . Near Newman's Church" (Attleborough, Mass., 1932; typescript) [FHL film #22,366, item 16]

PCR: _Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England_, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-1861)

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, vol. 1 [FHL film #562,559 (restricted), item 3], vols. 2-3 [FHL #562,558 (uncatalogued), items 5-6]; citations of vol. 1 in text, above, include any necessary corrections to page numbers cited in James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896_ (Providence, 1897)

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, items 5, 7]

WVR: Warwick, Rhode Island, Vital Records [FHL film #925,490, item 2]

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 22 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 47.

BAPTISM: Per the American Genealogist, whole number 280, Vol. 70, No. 4
October 1995, page 194 which gives baptism date as 31 May 1629, per Bishop's
Transcripts in Shalbourne.  This indicates that the date of 9 April 1643 is in error.
Per Gene Zubrinsky, "Abigail was baptized only once: at Shalbourne, on 31 May 1629.  Her two youngest siblings, Hannah and Abiah, were born, not baptized, at Weymouth, on 3 April 1640 and 9 April 1643, respectively.  Weymouth church records for this period are not extant.  ABC tried to explain a Weymouth record of the birth on the latter date of so-called Abraham Carpenter by saying that it indicated that Abiah had a twin--not Abraham but Abigail.  His assumption that Abigail had been intended stemmed in part from the absence of any subsequent record of an Abraham and in part from his mistakenly assuming that the order of her appearance in her father's will (after Abiah) indicated that she was younger than we now know (from her baptismal record) to be the case.  Abiah had no twin, Abraham or otherwise; the record containing the latter name appears in a source separate from that of Abiah's birth record and almost certainly reflects an inaccurate transcription of it (for the details, see TAG 70[1995]:200-02).  There was only one Carpenter birth at Weymouth on 9 April 1643--that of Abiah--and no baptism whatsoever."
SEE ALSO:
Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886 Transcription
First name(s) ABIGALL
Last name CARPENTER
Birth year 1629
Birth date ? ? 1629
Baptism year 1629
Baptism date 31 May 1629
Place SHALBOURNE
Father's first name(s) William
Mother's first name(s) Abigall
County Wiltshire
Country England
Record set Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Births & baptisms
Collections from United Kingdom
Wiltshire Family History Society
Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fb%2f204331481%2f1

NOTE: In the 1600's Shalbourne was part of the Sarum (Salisbury)
parish and administered by Wiltshire even though it is in Berkshire.

E-MAIL:  From:         Sharilyn Whitaker
11/29/2001   Thu 10:26 AM
Subject:       [CARPENTER] Abigail d/o Joseph and Margaret Sutton
    To:         CARPENTER-L@rootsweb.com
Jonah Palmer, SR. married Abigail Carpenter TITUS, born 1629, in
Rehoboth 9 November 1692. (See the TAG article by Gene
Zubrinsky, quoting the James S. Elston book for documentation,
also Rehoboth VR 1:95). This Abigail is called "my mother
Abigail Palmer" in the will of her son John Titus, Jr.
Amos B. Carpenter has Jonah Palmer, Jr. marrying Abigail d/o
Joseph and Margaret Sutton on this date, which I discounted as
simply confusion for the above marriage.
Jonah Palmer, Jun'r married Elizabeth Kendrick 28 MAY 1689 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. Record #: 1:49
          Name: Elizabeth Kendrick
          Spouse: Jonah Palmer
          Marriage Date: 28 May 1689
A member of this list has told me that this Jonah Palmer, JR
married (2) Abigail d/o Joseph and Margaret Sutton. He so far
has provided no documentation, and no date, and it is not in
Rehoboth VRs that I can see using the on-line version.  He also
confirms that Jonah Palmer, SR married Abigail Carpenter Titus
born 1629.
I had hoped that Elizabeth Kendrick was alive and well beyond
the date of the supposed marriage to Abigail d/o Joseph and
Margaret Sutton, but unfortunately it appears that she was not.
Elizabeth Kendrick, the wife of Jonah Palmer, JR. is said to
have died 11 FEB 1691/92 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA 2
2.Abbrev: Rehoboth VR
         Title: Vital Record of Rehoboth, Bristol Co.,
Massachusetts, 1642-1896
         Author: James N. Arnold
         Publication: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co.
         Providence, RI; 1897
         Images from Search & Research Publishing Corp CD
"Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts
         to about 1850"; Wheat Ridge, CO; 1998.
         Page: p. 858, VR 1-90, Rehoboth Deaths
So, it is possible that Jonah Palmer, JR. could have remarried
someone by the approximate date in question.
I have absolutely nothing on Abigail d/o Joseph and Margaret
Sutton beyond her date of birth. Does anyone else have
documented information about her?
Sharilyn

John Titus

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

MARRIAGE: The American Genealogist , whole number 280, Vol. 70, No. 4 October 1995, indicates that Abigail was John Titus's only wife having married him about 1649/50.
The Amos B. Carpenter book of 1898 has a wife named Rachel for John Titus with children John, Abigail, Silias and Hannah.  Other researchers (like Gene Zubrinsky) have found no proof of  such marriage.  Thus the children are transferred and the marriage to Rachel is challenged and likely in error. This information left here for clairification. JRC

BOOK: A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.  BY JAMES SAVAGE; TITUS, ABIEL, Newtown, L. I. was s. of Robert.  JOHN, Rehoboth, s. of
Robert, b. in Eng. came with his f. perhaps m. a d. of William Carpenter
of the same, wh. in his will of Dec. 1659, makes bequest to his s.
But JOHN, Rehoboth, wh. m. 17 July 1673, Lydia Redway, had Lydia,
b. 1674, may be s. of preced. and his w. was bur. at R. 25 Nov. 1676.
He m. sec. w. 3 July foll. Sarah Miller, had John, b. 12 Mar. 1678;
Hannah, 10 Nov. 1682.  JONATHAN, Rehoboth, had Samuel, b. 29 July
1680.  * ROBERT, Weymouth, came in the Hopewell, capt. Bundock, in
the spr. of 1635, from London, aged 35, with w. Hannah, 31; ch. John,
8; and Edmund, 5; freem. 13 May 1640; at W. had s. Abiel, b. 17
Mar. 1641; and d. Content, 28 Mar. 1643; rem. to Rehoboth next yr.
[[309]]
may have had other ch. aft. or bef. was rep. 1648, 9, and 50.  SAMUEL,
Newtown, L. I. 1644, favor, Conn. jurisdict. and the name is much diffus.
SILAS, Rehoboth, had Silas, b. 12 Aug. perhaps 1679; Mary, 30 Mar.
1681.  Sometimes it is writ. Tytus.

Mayflower Families: Isaac Allerton, Wakefield, Robert S., FASG, (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996), page 11.

COMMENT:
Both he and his son John were involved in King Phillip's war in 1675.
John was age 8 when he emigrated to New England with his family on the
"Hopewell" in April of 1635 (See: Founders of New England, 17).

SEE ALSO:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jbbullock&id=I8322
Updated: 2015-11-08 06:33:08 UTC (Sun)    Contact: Jim Bullock
ID: I8322
•Name: John TITUS
•Given Name: John
•Surname: Titus
•Sex: M
•_FSFTID: MFVF-P4S
•Change Date: 19 JAN 2012
•Birth: ABT 1626 in ,, England
•Note: Age given as 9 in 1635 passenger list of the "Hopewell". [Banks] 1 2 3
•Will: 21 FEB 1688/9 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
•Note: "Will of John Titus, Sr. of Rehoboth, dtd. 21 Feb. 1688/9, prob. 20 Nov. 1689. Wife Abigail. Sons: Joseph (eldest[sic]), Silas & Samuel Titus. Daus: Abigail, Mercy & Experience. Cousin Samuel Carpenter. Brother William Carpenter. grchldn.: John Fuller, Abiall Fuller, John Titus, Silas Titus & Abigail [sic, probably Abijah] Bowen. Witns.: John Peck, Gilbert Brooks & William Carpenter [1:17/8]." 4
•Death: BEF 16 APR 1689 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA 5
•Burial: 16 APR 1689 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA 6

Father: Robert TITUS b: ABT 1600 in ,, England
Mother: Hannah CARTER b: ABT 1604 in ,, England

Marriage 1 Abigail CARPENTER b: BEF 31 MAY 1629 in Shalbourne, Berkshire, England•Married: BY 1650 in Rehoboth,, Plymouth Colony
•Note: Probably married at Rehoboth. 7 8
Children
1.Has Children John TITUS b: 18 DEC 1650 in Rehoboth,, Plymouth Colony
2.Has Children Abigail TITUS b: 18 FEB 1652/3 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
3.Has Children Silas TITUS b: 18 MAY 1656 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
4.Has No Children Hannah TITUS b: 28 NOV 1658 in Rehoboth,, Plymouth Colony
5.Has Children Samuel TITUS b: 1 JUN 1661 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
6.Has Children Mercy TITUS b: 17 MAR 1665 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
7.Has Children Joseph TITUS b: 17 MAR 1665 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
8.Has Children Experience TITUS b: 29 OCT 1669 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

Sources:

1.Abbrev: Torrey
Title: Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985)
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: p. 745
Quality: 2

2.Abbrev: Planters/Emigrants
Title: Charles Edward Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth, a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times, 1620-1640 (Originally published: Boston, 1930
Reprinted: Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997)
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: p. 159
Quality: 2

3.Abbrev: Ancestral Lines
Title: Carl Boyer, 3rd, Ancestral Lines, 3rd Edition (Carl Boyer, 3rd; Santa Clarita, CA; 1998)
Note:
Not always reliable, nevertheless is useful in directing one to other sources.
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: p. 636
Quality: 2

4.Abbrev: Bristol Abstracts-1
Title: H. L. Peter Rounds, C.G., Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1687-1745 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore, MD; 1988)
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: p. 2
Quality: 2

5.Abbrev: NEHGR
Title: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Page: vol. 123, p. 251, Oct 1968, "Abigail Fuller . . . "
Quality: 2

6.Abbrev: Rehoboth VR (Arnold)
Title: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, 1642-1896 (Narragansett Historical Publishing Co.; Providence, RI; 1897.)
Images from Search & Research Publishing Corp CD "Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850"; Wheat Ridge, CO; 1998.
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: p. 881, VR 1-89, Rehoboth Deaths
Quality: 2

7.Abbrev: TAG
Title: Donald Lines Jacobus, editor, The American Genealogist, bound volumes 9-41 (Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, CT, 1932-1965
Reprinted by Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1989)
Repository: Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock
Littleton, CO 80120
USA
Page: vol. 70, p. 203

8.Abbrev: Carpenter, Abigail3
Title: Abigail3 Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG
Revised 16 October 2011
http://carpentercousins.com/Abigail3_Rehoboth.pdf
Page: p. 1

28. Abigail Titus

NOTE: See Gene Zubrinsky's data (immediately below) on this individual.
Children of John and Abigail3 (Carpenter) Titus, all born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:19):
ii. ABIGAIL TITUS, b. 18 Feb. 1652[/3?], d. Attleborough, Mass., 31 May 1734, in 82nd yr.; m. (1) Rehoboth 25 April 1673, JOHN FULLER, b. probably Rehoboth ca. 1647, bur. there 23 Aug. 1676, son of Robert1 and Sarah (Bowen) Fuller; m. (2) Rehoboth 16 Oct. 1679, as his second wife, THOMAS CUSHMAN, b. Plymouth, Mass., 16 Sept. 1637, d. Plympton, Mass., 23 Aug. 1726, aged almost 89, son of Thomas2 and Mary (Allerton) Cushman (AVR 656; RVR 1:45, 47, 54a; NEHGR 122:249-54).

30. Hannah Titus

NOTE: See notes (immediately below) for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Children of John and Abigail3 (Carpenter) Titus, all born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:19):
iv. HANNAH TITUS, b. 28 Nov. 1658, bur. Rehoboth 13 Nov. 1673 (RVR 1:52a).

33. Mary or Mercy Titus

NOTE: See notes (immediately below) for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Children of John and Abigail3 (Carpenter) Titus, all born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:19):
vii. MARY/MERCY TITUS (twin), b. 17 March 1665, d. Rehoboth 27 Jan. 1747, in 83rd yr.; m. there 9 Jan. 1683[/4], RICHARD BOWEN, b. probably New London, Conn., __ Aug. 16-- [1660 (calc.)], d. Rehoboth 12 Feb. 1736/7, in 77th yr., son of Thomas2 and Elizabeth (Nichols) Bowen (Old Rehoboth Cem 8; RVR 1:2, 48, 57, 2:245; MD 16:128, 39:85-87).

Richard Bowen

BIRTH:  Probably New London,, CT.

Jonah or Jonas Palmer

Robert Charles Anderson estimates Jonah's birth year as 1621 but acknowledges that it might have been up to ten years later (see Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins_, 3 vols. [Boston, 1995], 3:1382-83). Since his father, Walter Palmer, immigrated in 1629, Jonah's place of birth is also uncertain (ibid., 1379, 1383). [Gene Zubrinsky, Jan. 2009]

Gene later writes;
Jonah2 Palmer, son of Walter1 Palmer, was born say 1621; neither father or son's origin is known. "Jona" Palmer married Elizabeth _______, 3 May 1655 (not 1659) (Rehoboth VR, 1:44). A deed of Charlestown land from "Jonas" and Elizabeth Palmer to William Bullard [he had married Elizabeth's widowed mother], dated 9 November 1655, identifies Elizabeth's father as Francis Grissell of Charlestown (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 1:152-53). Francis Grissell, who died at Charlestown in 1652, is not to be confused with Francis Griswold of Norwich, Conn. (d. 1671), son of Edward Griswold, formerly of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.

On Oct 15, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Gene Zubrinsky wrote:
> << "Jona" Palmer married Elizabeth _______, 3 May 1655 (not 1659) (Rehoboth VR, 1:44). >>
Sorry, that should read as follows: "Jona" Palmer married _______, . . ."
Gene Z.

Married twice per Carpenter Memorial.  First to Elizabeth Grissill in 1657 (Should be 1655) when
he moved to Rehoboth from Charlestown. He had 6 kids.
He came to America in 1629 with his father (of his father's first wife) to Charlestown.

AFN 8KDK-NG, 99H2-X9 and GG6B-VW (Jonas or Jonah) are the same person.
Married twice per Carpenter Memorial.  First to Elizabeth Grissill in 1657 when
he moved to Rehoboth from Charlestown. He had 6 kids.
He came to America in 1629 with his father (of his father's first wife) to
Charlestown.  Was his father William Palmer? SEE Father's notes.

This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
   Walter /PALMER/ (AFN:7TW0-7X) and Ann /(NICKNAMED)/ (AFN:7TW0-84)
AFN 8KDK-NG, 99H2-X9 and GG6B-VW (Jonas or Jonah) are the same person.

NOTE:
John Palmer-107413 and Jonah or Jonas Palmer-643 are often confused with each other.  Both claim the death date of 22 Jun 1709 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. ...
Gene Zubrinsky writes:
That date of death properly belongs to Jonah; John died in Charlestown 24 August 1677, aged 62 (Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629–1818, 2 vols. [Boston, 1879], 2:725).
...  Both have fathers named Walter Palmer but different mothers. Both have the same great grandfather Thomas Palmer-14936.
Gene Zubrinsky writes:
It's uncertain whether Jonah's mother was Walter's first or second wife. Walter's origin is unknown; there is no basis for attributing to him a father Thomas.
And ...
John Palmer never married (Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 3:1381).

John Palmer-107413 has three spouses listed with no marriage dates:
M1= Mary Southy-107414 with one child John listed. In error per Gene Zubrinsky.
M2= Elizabeth Grissell-107238 - no children listed. - In error and duplicate of RIN 7786.
M3= Abigail Titus-107249 with one child Samuel listed. - In error and duplicate of another Abigail Titus.

Jonah or Jonas Palmer-643 has two spouses listed.
M1= Elizabeth Grissell Griswold-7786 with marriage date of 3 May 1655 and 5 children with one son named Jonah Palmer.
M2= Abigail Carpenter-107 with marriage date of 9 Nov 1692 - no children listed.

9. William Carpenter

INTRO:
William Carpenter (William ) was christened on 25 Dec (not 22 Nov.) 1631 in the parish of Shalbourne, Berkshire (that part now in Wiltshire), England. He died on 26 Jan 1702/3 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA. He was buried in Old Rehoboth (or Newman) Cem., now in East Providence, RI.
William married Priscilla Bennett,on 5 Oct 1651 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Priscilla, probable daughter (widow?) of Edward Bennett, died on 20 Oct 1663 in Rehoboth. She was buried in Old Rehoboth Cem.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

WILLIAM3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was baptized at Shalbourne, Berkshire, England, on 25 December 1631 and died at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, on 26 January 1702/3, aged 72. He married first at Rehoboth on 5 October 1651, PRISCILLA BENNETT, who died there on 20 October 1663, probable daughter (widow?) of Edward Bennett of Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Rehoboth. William married second at Rehoboth on 10 12th month [February] 1663[/4], MIRIAM SALE(S) (not Searle[s]), born perhaps about 1646 (see age at death) or say 1643 (estimated age 20 at marriage), died at Rehoboth on 1 May 1722, aged 76 (not 93), daughter of Edward [and perhaps Margaret (______)] Sale(s) (also Saile/Sails/Seal(l)e/Sall, the last probably comparable to _Abigall_; rarely S[e]arle) of Weymouth and Rehoboth. All are buried in Old Rehoboth (Newman) Cemetery, in that part of Rehoboth now East Providence, Rhode Island (TAG 70:194, 204; RVR 1:50, 178 [not 179], 2:234; Old Rehoboth Cem 14 [William "3rd"]; RI Cems 63, 69; BrCoPR 2:74-76; GM 1:254; Rehoboth Hist 34, 38-39 [widow Bennett, 1646/7]; MBCR 1:98, 202-3, 225; PCR 4:83; NEHGR 65:63-65; Hotten 70; see also COMMENTS, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series.]

IMMIGRATION: William3 was the third eldest of four Carpenter children who accompanied their parents and paternal grandfather to Massachusetts on the _Bevis_ in 1638 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, IMMIGRATION).

RESIDENCES: Shalbourne; Weymouth (probably 1638); and Rehoboth (1644).

OCCUPATION: Yeoman. He owned a "long Cross cutt saw" (willed to son John, a house-carpenter) and other, unspecified tools, suggesting some carpentry skills (see BrCoPR 2:74, 103).

FREEMAN: Propounded 6 June 1660 but not admitted until 1 June 1663 (PCR 3:188, 4:38).

EDUCATION: He was for almost thirty-five years Rehoboth town clerk. His will mentions several volumes (mainly theological), and his estate inventory includes an item for unspecified books valued at £3 10s.

OFFICES: Surveying activity for the town, 1659, 1660, 1663, 1663/4, 1666, 1679, 1684, 1685 (probably other years); way warden (surveyor [overseer] of highways), 1659, 1675; constable, 1663; town clerk, 1668-1692, 1694-1702/3; coroner's jury, 1668, 1679; committee to settle bounds between Rehoboth North Purchase and Taunton, 1670; chosen North Purchase "clerk of the community," 1682; rater/assessor, 1679-1686, 1690-1691, 1694, 1696, 1700; juryman at Plymouth, 1682/3; committee to seat the meeting-house, 1683; townsman, 1683-1686, and selectman, 1687-1689, 1691-1693, 1695-1701 (see below); town treasurer, 1694, 1697-1699; "juror for trials," 1694; pound keeper, 1694; committee to engage schoolmaster, 1700 (PCR 4:38, 5:6, 167, 6:8, 24, 28, 143-44, 206, 264, 7:258-60; RTM 1:59r/129, 69r-v/149-50, 72v/156, 2:10-89 passim; Rehoboth Hist 61, 66, 70, 121, 122, 171; Early Rehoboth 1:31, 51).

As terms of elective office in early New England, _townsman_ and _selectman_ are generally regarded as synonymous. There are instances, however, in which treating them as such is inappropriate. In Rehoboth from 1644 through 1686, a townsman was someone elected to a board of usually seven men to manage the town's affairs. From 1666 through 1686, a Rehoboth selectman was someone (usually also a townsman) chosen to sit on a "select court" of three (1666-1684) or five (1685-1686) local magistrates to adjudicate minor civil disputes. The Plymouth Colony General Court had in 1665 expanded the powers of a town's "select men" (town councilmen) to include this judicial function. In contrast to the town of Plymouth, for example, which chose a single set of officers (selectmen) during this period, Rehoboth (and adjacent Swansea) elected its governing board (townsmen) and local magistrates (selectmen) separately. The 1685 edition of colony laws (distributed in mid-1686) reaffirms that both roles belong to the single office of selectman. (The previous edition, published in 1672, does not do so.) Presumably in response to this, Rehoboth in 1687 ceased electing townsmen (as had Swansea in 1686). From 1683 through 1701, William3 was named to Rehoboth's governing board every year but two, first as a townsman, then as a selectman; in the latter post, his duties included those of local magistrate (Rehoboth Hist 29, 62; RTM 1:12r/35, 12v/36-108r/219 passim, 2:10-55 passim; PCR 6:9, 115, 206, 264, 11:213, 227, 238; PTR 82-205 passim; SwTM 9-86 passim; Pilgrim Laws xviii, 18 [1672], 22 [1685]).

Amos B. Carpenter has William3 as deputy to the General Court in 1656 and 1668 and, in the latter year, also as deacon of the Rehoboth church (see Carpenter [1898] 44). The deputy of that name in 1656, however, was his father (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, OFFICES). William3 was ineligible for the office until becoming a freeman, in 1663 (see FREEMAN, above). Leonard Bliss lists Rehoboth's deputies to the General Court at Plymouth (1646-1692) and Boston (from 1693), and, except for 1656, William3 Carpenter is not among them; the deputies in 1668 were Peter Hunt and Henry Smith (Rehoboth Hist 168-69; PCR 4:180).

Neither was William--in 1668 or ever--a deacon. Bliss's history of Rehoboth (almost certainly Amos Carpenter's source for this) quotes a 1668 town record as mentioning a Deacon Carpenter (see Rehoboth Hist 68). The original record, however, shows the surname to be Cooper, which is consistent with many other records, dated between 1650 (at least) and 1690, referring to Deacon [sometimes Thomas] Cooper (see RTM 1:86/179; Rehoboth Hist 62, 67, 69, 70; Early Rehoboth 1:29, 56, 2:42, 44, 3:94n4, 4:13; RVR 1:87 [not 89]).

WILL/ESTATE: William Carpenter's will, dated 10 November 1702 and proved 20 April 1703, names as legatees wife Miriam (executrix); sons John (eldest), William, Benjamin, Josiah, Nathaniel, Daniel, Noah, and Obadiah; and daughters Priscilla, Miriam, Hannah, and Abigail. His estate, inventoried on 5 February 1702/3, was valued at £215 5s. 4d., including housing and lands. Between 25 May 1703 and 15 May 1704, the widow/executrix distributed her husband's bequests to all eight sons and to daughters Priscilla (Mrs. Richard) Sweet, Miriam (Mrs. Jonathan) Bliss, and Hannah Carpenter (her receipt is dated eight weeks before her marriage). That daughter Abigail appears not to have received her share at this time is explainable by her youth and the likelihood that her mother was her guardian (BrCoPR 2:74-76, 103-4; see also OCCUPATION and EDUCATION, above).

CHILDREN: All born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:9).

    With first wife:

i. JOHN4 CARPENTER, b. 19 Oct. 1652, d. Dedham, Mass., after 13 May 1708, probably on 9 April 1713; m. (1) prob. Rehoboth, by 1677 (1st child, Amos [not Aaron], b. 19 Dec. 1677), REBECCA REDWAY, b. Rehoboth mid-Feb. 1654, d. Woodstock, Conn., 29 Dec. 1702, dau. of James1 Redway and unknown wife (_not_ Mary Whipple [2nd wife of James3 Redway]); m. (2) prob. Dedham, between 29 Dec. 1702 and 7 March 1705/6, SARAH (FULLER) DAY, widow of Ralph Day of Dedham. Widow Sarah m. (3) Dedham 27 July 1721, Samuel Ware (not Ward) (WorCoLR 7:355; SufCoPR 16:127-28, 434; DeVR 17, 24, 37, 47; RVR 1:12, 35; WVR 1:11; PCPR 4:2:73).
Eight children are recorded at Rehoboth (eighth is Martha, b. 30 Jan. 1691/2) and two more at Woodstock: _Rebecca_ (b. 4 Nov. 1694, d. Dedham 24 Jan. 1723[/4], aged 29; m. Dorchester, Mass. [also rec. Dedham], 29 Dec. 1715, Benjamin Colburn, b. Dedham 25 May 1689, d. there 15 Aug. 1747, aged 58y 2m 18d, son of Benjamin and Bethia (Bullen) Colburn); and _Anna_ (b. 1 March 1696/7, d. Woodstock 13 Dec. 1717, unm.) (RVR 1:35; WVR 1:4, 5, 27, 3:1; DeVR 23, 37, 49, 50, 78; DVR 107; Dedham 1st Par Cem; Pope 78). Amos Carpenter adds a son John, who he says "m. prob. Ruth Inman, of Cranston, R. I." (Carpenter [1898] 64), but supporting evidence is neither given nor has it been found. (The John Carpenter who on 20 Nov. 1763 married Ruth Inman was probably he, "late of Smithfield," R.I., who died at Providence, 15 April 1806, in his 69th year, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Carpenter of Providence, Cranston, and Smithfield [RIVR 2:2(Cranston):9, 13:250; NEHGR 114:282-84].) John4 Carpenter took his family from Rehoboth to Woodstock about 1692 (not 1690) (RVR 1:35; WVR 1[reverse]:29, 30, 31).
ii. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. 20 June 1659, d. Attleborough, Mass., 10 March 1718/9, in 60th yr.; m. Rehoboth 8 April 1685, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, b. Rehoboth 3 April 1657, living 17 April 1725, dau. of George and Joanna (Ingraham) Robinson (AVR 648; RVR 1:8 [not 88], 44, 48; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:141).
iii. PRISCILLA CARPENTER, b. 24 July 1661, d. East Greenwich, R.I., 1745; m. prob. Rehoboth, say 1681, RICHARD SWEET, b. prob. Warwick, R.I., say 1660, d. East Greenwich (not Westerly), R.I., 1744, son of John2 and Elizabeth (______) Sweet; both bur. Richard Sweet Lot, East Greenwich (RI Cems 313; Austin 110, 121, 194-95; WarTR 105-7). Richard Sweet was elder of North Kingstown Six Principle Baptist Church, 1710-1740 (NKingstown Hist 438).
Electronic databases often identify Richard Sweet's mother, Elizabeth, as the daughter of Robert Jeffreys. This appears to be based solely on the fact that Elizabeth Jeffreys (aged 6 in 1635) and Elizabeth (______) (Sweet) Wilson (aged 55 [not 45] in 1684)--the latter had been the longtime wife of Richard's father, John2 Sweet (d. 1677)--were both born about 1629 (see Hotten 77; Austin 194-95). In his sketch of John1 Sweet, however, Robert Charles Anderson gives no surname for John2 Sweet's wife (GMB 3:1789-90). And in his sketch of Robert Jeffreys, Anderson states that "[n]o record for any member of this family has been found in New England after 1646 [WP 5:118], so they probably returned to England or removed to some other colony outside New England" (GM 4:33 [WP = Winthrop Papers]).
iv. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, b. 20 Oct. 1663, d. Coventry, Conn., 18 April 1738, in 74th yr.; m. Northampton, Mass., probably 1691 [but not 4 or 14 March], HANNAH STRONG, b. Northampton 3 Feb. 1670[/1], d. Coventry 20 March 1762, in 92nd yr., dau. of Jedediah and Freedom (Woodward) Strong (CVR 176; Cov Cem Inscr; NVR 1:15, 95, 102).
Benjamin W. Dwight's 1871 Strong genealogy, repeating published transcriptions of Caleb Strong's 1777 manuscript, gives Benjamin Carpenter and Hannah Strong's marriage date as 4 March 1691 (Strong Gen 1:xxv-xxvii, at xxvi, 2:952; NEHGR 8:180-83, at 182, 23:294-96, at 295; see also Carpenter [1898] 53 [m. 14 March 1691]). The Northampton marriage record of that date (actually 1690/1), however, pertains to Ebenezer Pomeroy and a different Hannah Strong, born 7 Oct. 1669, dau. of Ebenezer and Hannah (Clapp) Strong (NVR 1:12, 95, 102; NEHGR 15:225; Strong Gen 1:xxvii, 2:1120). Immediately below it--undated--is the Carpenter-Strong marriage record, one of seven such entries (another gives only the year) out of the fifteen records on that page (a cluster of three undated marriage records also appears near the bottom of the previous page) (NVR 1:101-2). (Except for those fifteen records--the eight containing at least a partial date have respective years of 1685, 1686 [2], 1690/1, and 1691 [4]--there is a gap in Northampton marriage records from 1684 to 1695 [NVR 1:101-3].) Based on the dated records surrounding Benjamin and Hannah's undated one, and on the 13 July 1692 birth date of their first child (NVR 1:26), it is probable that they did marry in 1691 [New Style, year beginning 1 Jan.]. The day and month, however, are unknown.
Amos Carpenter presents correct birth data for Benjamin and Hannah's son Jedediah (Northampton, 1 Oct. 1697) but otherwise confuses him with another Jedediah Carpenter, a blacksmith, born at Rehoboth 15 Dec. 1696 and died there 15 Dec. 1731, son of Samuel4 and Patience (Ide) Carpenter; the latter married 24 May 1725 Mercy Brown of Barrington, Mass. (now in R.I.) (Carpenter [1898] 65, 96-97; CVR 19; BrCoPR 7:313-14; RVR 1:48, 56, 2:144, 241; RI Cems 69; see also Samuel3 sketch, CHILDREN, no. i). Benjamin and Hannah's son Jedediah, of Coventry and Stafford, Conn., died at the latter place on 2 March 1781; the otherwise unidentified "widow Carpenter" died there on 9 Jan. 1784, aged 84 (StVR [Barbour] 2:177; StChR 69). They had seven known children, 2-7 baptized at Bolton (adjacent to Coventry): 1. Daniel, b. Coventry or Bolton by 1725; 2. Joel, bp. 10 Dec. 1727; 3. Ruth, bp. 4 Jan. 1730; 4. Nathan, bp. 2 April 1732; 5. Samuel, bp. 28 July 1734; 6. Dorcas, bp. 22 Feb. 1736; 7. Ezekiel, bp. 25 June 1738 (CLR 4:470; NEHGR 52:180-85).

    With second wife:

v. JOSIAH CARPENTER, b. 18 Dec. 1664, d. Rehoboth 28 or 29 Feb. 1727/8 [leap year], in 64th yr.; m. Rehoboth 24 Nov. 1692, ELIZABETH READ, b. Rehoboth 25 Jan. 1668, d. there 8 Oct. 1739, aged 72, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Read (RVR 1:24, 44, 162 [not 94], 163 [not 95], 2:238, 247; Early Rehoboth 2:89; Old Rehoboth Cem 18; RI Cems 68, 69).
vi. NATHANIEL CARPENTER, b. 12 May 1667, d. prob. Rehoboth or Attleborough, date unknown (not 28 Feb. 1727 [see bro. Josiah, above]), living 1740/1 (will); m. (1) Rehoboth 19 Sept. 1692 or 18 Sept. 1693, RACHEL COOPER, b. Rehoboth 6 Aug. 1671, d. or bur. there 9 July 1694, aged 23, dau. of Thomas Jr. and Mary (Kingsbury) Cooper; of Attleborough when he m. (2) Dorchester 13 10th mo. [Dec.] 1695, MARY PRESTON, b. Dorchester 1 Sept. 1675, d. Rehoboth 26 (not 25) May 1706, in 31st yr., dau. of Daniel and Abigail (Jackson) Preston; m. (3) Rehoboth 18 (not 8) July 1707, MARY (SABIN) COOPER (widow of Nathaniel), b. Rehoboth 8 Sept. 1675, d. there 9 April 1712, aged 36, dau. of William and Martha (Allen) Sabin; of Attleborough when he m. (4) Roxbury, Mass., 13 Nov. 1716, MARY (DAVIS) BACON (widow of George), bp. Roxbury 14 1st or 2nd mo. [March or April] 1675 (Mary, dau. of John) or b. there 6 or 16 April 1676 (Marie, dau. of John), dau. of John and Mary/Marie (Devotion) Davis (Carpenter [1898] 53 [unrecorded will]; RVR 1:7, 10, 89 [not 91], 93a, 162 [not 94], 163 [not 95], 164 [not 96], 160, 175 [not 171], 178 [not 179], 181 [not 173]; NEHGR 5:255, 14:26, 16:338, 36:52; DVR 14, 102; Old Rehoboth Cem 16, 18; RI Cems 69; RVR [pub] 5, 331; RoVR 1:96, 2:17, 62, 108, 459; Davis Fams 43-46; Woodstock Hist 2:281).
vii. DANIEL CARPENTER, b. 8 Oct. 1669, d. Rehoboth 14 Sept. 1721; m. (1) Rehoboth 15 April 1695, BETHIAH BLISS, b. Rehoboth __ Aug. 1671, d. there 27 Feb. 1702/3, aged 31, dau. of Jonathan Bliss and probable wife Rachel Puffer (not Miriam Harmon/Wilmarth); m. (2) Rehoboth 30 March 1704, ELIZABETH BUTTERWORTH, b. Rehoboth 15 Jan. 1682[/3?], d. there 13 June 1708, aged 25, dau. of John and Hannah (Wheaton) Butterworth; m. (3) Rehoboth 12 Dec. (intentions 28 Oct.) 1710, MARGARET THURSTON, b. Medfield, Mass., 30 March 1677/8 [sic], d. Rehoboth 19 March 1717/8, in 40th yr., dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Thaxter) Thurston; m. (4) Rehoboth 15 Oct. 1718, MARY (HYDE) HUNT (widow of Lt. John), b. Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1678, living 16 Sept. 1726 (father's will), dau. of Jonathan and Dorothy (Kidder) Hyde of Cambridge. Widow Mary prob. m. (3) Rehoboth 4 Jan. 1727/8, as his 2nd wife, Joseph2 Kent and d. Rehoboth after 5 June 1735 (RVR 1:5, 31, 46, 163 [not 95], 173 [not 169], 177, 178 [not 179], 182 [not 174], 2:134, 141, 230, 231, 234; NEHGR 71:261-62, 151:31-37, 159:361-62; MVR 96, 177; RVR [pub] 464; Old Rehoboth Cem 14, 17, 18; RI Cems 63, 68, 69, 185; CaVR 1:350; BVR 268; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:72, 247).
viii. NOAH CARPENTER, b. 28 March 1672, d. Attleborough between 1 Feb. 1749/50 (will) and 6 April 1756 (probate); m. (1) Dorchester (also rec. Attleborough and Rehoboth) 3 Dec. 1700, SARAH JOHNSON, b. Lynn, Mass., 15 June 1680, d. Attleborough 29 Sept. 1726, aged 46, dau. of Daniel and Martha (Tarbox) Johnson (not Matthew Johnson; his dau. Sarah b. Woburn 14 Apr 1677, d. there 1703; m. there 17 Jan. 1699/1700, Daniel Reed); m. (2) Rehoboth (also rec. Attleborough) 22 May 1727, RUTH (FOSTER) FOLLETT (widow [not daughter] of Abraham Follett of Salem, Mass., and Attleborough), b. prob. Salem 18 Oct. 1684, d. before 9 Nov. 174_ (see below) [d. Rehoboth 10 June 1745, as per Carpenter [1898] 55, but rec. not found there or Attleborough], prob. dau. of Joseph and Anna (Trask) (Wilson) Foster; m. (3) (intentions) Attleborough 9 Nov. 174_ (mar. rec. not found), TABITHA (HADLEY) BISHOP (widow of William), d. aft. 1 Feb. 1749/50 (Noah's will) [d. 7 June 1753, as per Carpenter [1898] 55, but rec. not found] (BrCoPR [abstr] 1:249, 2:181-82; DVR 103; AVR 67, 364, 423, 447, 648, 670; LVR 1:223, 224, 2:209; RVR 1:104, 174 [not 168], 2:141; WoVR 1:128, 2:153, 3:142; SVR 1:311, 319, 3:372, 377; NEHGR 56:73).
ix. MIRIAM CARPENTER, b. 26 Oct. 1674, d. Rehoboth 21 May 1706, aged 32; m. Rehoboth 23 June 1691, JONATHAN BLISS, b. Rehoboth 17 Sept. 1666, d. there 16 Oct 1719, son of Jonathan Bliss and probable wife Rachel Puffer (not Miriam Harmon/Wilmarth). Jonathan m. (2) Rehoboth 10 April 1711, MARY FRENCH, dau. of John and Hannah (Palmer) French (RVR 1:5, 37, 46, 86, 162 [not 94], 177, 181 [not 173], 2:232; Old Rehoboth Cem 4; RI Cems 39; NEHGR 151:31-37, 159:361-62).
x. OBADIAH CARPENTER, b. 12 March 1677/8, d. Rehoboth 25 Oct. 1749, in 73rd yr.; m. prob. Dorchester, intentions Rehoboth 6 Nov. 1703, DELIVERANCE PRESTON, b. Dorchester 14 July 1683, d. Rehoboth 12 June 1767, in 85th yr., dau. of Daniel and Abigail (Jackson) Preston of Dorchester (RVR 2:257; RVR [pub] 436; DVR 19; Old Rehoboth Cem 15; RI Cems 68, 69; NEHGR 5:255, 14:26). Although the dates of Obadiah's probate records begin in 1739, the items predating his recorded date of death are receipts from a couple of his children for goods received from his estate undoubtedly while he was living. His estate inventory was taken on 18 Nov. 1749, and son Edward was appointed administrator of the estate on 5 Dec. 1749 (BrCoPR [abstr] 2:71, 81, 88).
xi. LT. EPHRAIM CARPENTER, b. 25 April 1681, d. Rehoboth 30 April 1743, aged 62; m. (1) Rehoboth 14 Aug. 1705 (also rec. 1704, but intentions dated 5 May 1705), HANNAH READ, b. Rehoboth 12 April 1682, d. there 13 or 30 Aug. 1717, in 36th yr., dau. of Thomas and Hannah/Anna (Perrin) Read; m. (2) Rehoboth 24 March 1718/9, MARTHA (IDE) CARPENTER (widow of Zachariah [Samuel3]), b. Rehoboth 18 March 1682/3, d. there (as Martha Walker) 22 Aug. 1756 (not 17 June 1727, death date of Zachariah and Martha (Ide) Carpenter's dau. Martha), dau. of Nicholas and Mary (Perrin) (Ormsby) Ide. Widow Martha m. (3) Rehoboth 8 Dec. 1748, as his 3rd wife, Peter Walker (his 2nd wife was widow Martha Read [d. 1647/8]), b. Rehoboth 18 Sept. 1689, d. there 24 March 1760, in 7[4?]th [sic; probably 71st] yr. (RVR 1:24, 43, 45, 46, 53, 54, 173 [not 169], 174 [not 170], 2:8, 145, 134, 230, 231, 238, 250, 256, 264, 3:359, 361; RVR [pub] 78 [mar. int.], 507; Early Rehoboth 1:112; Old Rehoboth Cem 14, 18, 53, 54; RI Cems 68, 69, 372; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:157, 340, 2:263, 265).
xii. HANNAH CARPENTER, b. 10 April 1684, d. prob. Rehoboth, after 19 Jan. 1767 (probate-court order); m. Rehoboth 23 Nov. 1703, JONATHAN CHAFFEE, b. there 7 April 1678, d. there 31 Dec. 1766, in 89th yr., son of Nathaniel and Experience (Bliss) Chaffee (MD 49:125; RVR 1:42, 173 [not 169], 364; SwVR A:107; Old Rehoboth Cem 19; RI Cems 73).
xiii. ABIGAIL CARPENTER, b. 15 April 1687, d. Rehoboth 15 Jan. 1781, in 94th yr.; m. Rehoboth 12 Nov. 1706, DANIEL PERRIN, b. Rehoboth 18 March 1682[/3?], d. there 29 March 1754, in 71st yr., son of John and Mary (Polley) Perrin (Early Rehoboth, 1:112-13, 115; Old Rehoboth Cem 43; RI Cems 281; RVR 1:33, 175 [not 171], 3:358).

COMMENTS: Priscilla Bennett is often said in electronic databases to have been born at Weymouth, England, on 5 October 1631, and her mother's name is sometimes given as Elizabeth/Alice Egington; never, however, do primary-source citations accompany these claims. That the date is exactly twenty years before that of Priscilla's marriage to William Carpenter raises suspicion that it originated from an estimate of her age on the latter date. It is not certain, moreover, what Priscilla's relationship to Edward Bennett was (see first paragraph, above). And in any case, his origin and the identity of his wife are unknown. But even if, for example, a baptismal record (parish registers do not record births) of a Priscilla, daughter of Edward Bennett, were found, it would not by itself be sufficient to conclude that such a pair were Carpenter's eventual wife and father-in-law.

Edward Sale's first wife, Margaret, was in 1637 convicted of adultery with two men (MBCR 1:98, 202-3; GMB 1:31). In 1637/8 the three adulterers were sentenced to be whipped and banished, "never to return again, on pain of death" (MBCR 1:225; GMB 1:31). Margaret is often assumed to have been Miriam Sale's mother, but this has not been established and, in light of the aforementioned circumstances, is open to doubt. By 1664 Edward Sale's wife was Rebecca ______, who in that year hanged herself at Rehoboth (PCR 4:83; RVR 1:50). In a letter dated at Weymouth in 1690, William3 Carpenter's son Daniel conveys greetings to him from "Grandfather [Edward Sale] and Grandmother and unkell Natthanell [Nathaniel Sale]," all then living at Weymouth (Carpenter [1898] 54; NEHGR 65:65, 151:77n98). From this, we conclude that Edward had again remarried.

The will of Stephen French of Weymouth, dated in 1678/9, mentions "my sister Mary Randol" and "my brother Searle." Robert Charles Anderson identifies the latter as "almost certainly Edward Sales of Weymouth" and goes on to say that "Edward Sales's [first] wife was Margaret ______. This family strongly resembles that of Richard French of Misterton, Somersetshire, who had (among others) Steven and Margerie with his first wife, and Mary and Joseph with his second. None of these children is mentioned in the 1638 will of their father" (GMB 1:701-2). The reader will note that Anderson stops short of identifying Edward Sale's wife Margaret as Stephen French's sister.

KEY TO SOURCES:

Austin: John Osborne Austin, _The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1969)

AVR: _Vital Records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849_ (Salem, Mass., 1934)

BrCoPR: Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, vols. 1-4 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #461,882]

BrCoPR [abstr]: H. L. Peter Rounds, _Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records_, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 1988)

BVR: _Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_ (Boston, 1908)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

CaVR: _Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1914)

CLR: Coventry, Connecticut, Deeds, vols. 3-4 [FHL film #3,848]

Cov Cem Inscr: Cemetery inscriptions of Coventry, Connecticut [FHL film #3,328, item 2], in Charles R. Hale Collection [of Newspaper Notices and Headstone Inscriptions]

CVR: _Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844_, ed. Susan Whitney Dimock (New York, 1897)

Davis Fams: Samuel Forbes Rockwell, _Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston_ (North Andover, Mass., 1932)

Dedham 1st Par Cem: First Parish Cemetery, Dedham, in Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online at

DeVR: _The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths . . . in the Town of Dedham, Volumes 1 & 2 . . ._ , ed. Don Gleason Hill (Dedham, Mass., 1892)

DVR: _Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825_, Twenty-first Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890)

Early Rehoboth: Richard LeBaron Bowen, _Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township_, 4 vols. (Rehoboth, Mass., 1945-1950)

GM: Robert Charles Anderson, George Freeman Sanborn Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, _The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I A-B_ (Boston, 1999); Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration . . . Volume IV I-L_ (Boston, 2005)

GMB: Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England_, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, 1995)

Hotten: John C. Hotten, ed., _The Original Lists of Persons of Quality . . ._ (London, 1874)

LVR: _Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849_, 2 vols. (Salem, 1905)

MBCR: _Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England_, 1628-1886, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston, 1853-1854)

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

MVR: _Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_ (Boston, 1903)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NKingstown Hist: J[oseph] R. Cole, "Town of North Kingstown," chap. 11 in _History of Washington and Kent Counties, Rhode Island_ (New York, 1889)

NVR: Northampton, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #186,161]

Old Rehoboth Cem: Marion Pearce Carter, "Old Rehoboth Cemetery . . . Near Newman's Church" (Attleborough, Mass., 1932; typescript) [FHL film #22,366, item 16]

PCR: _Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England_, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-1861)

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

Pilgrim Laws: John D. Cushing, ed., _The Laws of the Pilgrims: A Facsimile Edition of The Book of the General Laws of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plymouth. 1672 & 1685_ (Wilmington, Del., 1977)

Pope: Charles Henry Pope, _The Pioneers of Massachusetts_ (Boston, 1900)

PTR: _Records of the Town of Plymouth_, vol. 1 (Plymouth, Mass., 1889)

Rehoboth Hist: Leonard Bliss Jr., _The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts_ (Boston, 1836)

RI Cems: The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Master Index, online at

RIVR: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1891-1912); digital images online at

RoVR: _Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849_, 2 vols. (Salem, 1925-1926)

RTM: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Town Meeting Records, vols. 1 and 2 [FHL films #562,558 (uncatalogued), item 4, and #562,561, item 2, respectively]

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, vol. 1 [FHL film #562,559 (restricted), item 3], vols. 2-3 [FHL #562,558 (uncatalogued), items 5-6]; citations of vol. 1 in text, above, include any necessary corrections to pages cited in RVR [pub]

RVR [pub]: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896_ (Providence, 1897)

StChR: Records of the First Congregational Church, Stafford, Con-necticut, 1757-1817 (transcr.) [FHL film #1,013,276, item 10]

Strong Gen: Benjamin W. Dwight, _The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass._, 2 vols. (Albany, 1871)

StVR [Barbour]: _The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stafford 1719-1850, Tolland 1715-1850_ (Baltimore, 2002)

SufCoPR: Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records [FHL film #584,132, item 2]

SVR: _Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849_, 6 vols. (Salem, 1916-1925)

SwTM: Swansea, Massachusetts, Town Meetings, 1670-1718 [FHL film #903,396, item 5]

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, item 5]

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

WarTR: _More Early Records of the Town of Warwick, Rhode Island_, ed. Cherry Fletcher Bamburg and Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boston, 2001)

Woodstock Hist: Clarence Winthrop Bowen, _The History of Woodstock, Connecticut_, 8 vols. (Norwood, Mass., 1926-1943)

WorCoLR: Worcester County, Massachusetts, Deeds [FHL film #843,214, item 2]

WoVR: Edward F. Johnson, _Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873_, 4 vols. (Woburn, Mass., 1890-1894)

WVR: Woodstock Vital [and Town] Records, vols. 1-4 (Book 1 has early town meeting records at back of volume, upside down; Book 3 includes vital records transcribed from Book 1 and elsewhere by town clerk Elisha Childs [1724/5-1798]) [FHL film # 1,376,372]

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

UPDATE:
BOOK:  The American Genealogist, October 2017, page 306. ...
CORRECTIONS CONCERNING THREE SONS OF
WILLIAM2 CARPENTER OF REHOBOTH
By Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG
Pages 194 and 204 of my article “The Family of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts: With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters”
(TAG 70[1995]:193–204) present the respective baptismal dates of William3
Carpenter and his brother Samuel (the first of two so named) as 22 November
1631 and 1 March 1636[/7]. A tip from John R. Carpenter of La Mesa, California,
led me to reexamine indistinct photocopies of the Bishop’s transcripts in
which the records of those baptisms are entered and to determine (to my great
chagrin) that the correct dates are “xxv December” 1631 and “the ffyft day of
March” 1636[/7]. ...
See: 305-ADDITIONS-CORRECTIONS

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

GRAVE: See image: RIN 103 William Carpenter grave.jpg
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15383213
Birth:  Nov. 22, 1631  <---- Baptism date is 25 Dec 1631
Shalbourne
Wiltshire, England
Death:  Jan. 26, 1703
Rehoboth
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA
He married, first, on Oct 5,1651 at Rehoboth,MA, Priscilla Bennett.
He married, second, on Feb 10,1663/4 at Rehoboth,MA, Miriam Sale.
Children(by first marriage): John Carpenter, William Carpenter, Priscilla Carpenter Sweet, and Benjamin Carpenter.
Children(by second marriage): Josiah Carpenter, Nathaniel Carpenter, Daniel Carpenter, Noah Carpenter, Miriam Carpenter Bliss, Obadiah Carpenter, Ephraim Carpenter, Hannah Carpenter Chaffee, and Abigail Carpenter Perrin.
Family links:
 Parents:
 William Carpenter (1605 - 1659)
 Abigail Briant Carpenter (1604 - 1687)
 Children:
 Benjamin Carpenter (1663 - 1738)*
 Josiah Carpenter (1664 - 1728)*
 Daniel Carpenter (1669 - 1721)*
 Noah Carpenter (1672 - 1756)*
 Miriam Carpenter Bliss (1674 - 1706)*
 Obadiah Carpenter (1678 - 1749)*
 Ephraim Carpenter (1681 - 1743)*
 Hannah Carpenter Chaffee (1684 - 1767)*
 Spouses:
 Priscilla Bennett Carpenter (1632 - 1663)
 Miriam Sale Carpenter (1644 - 1722)*
Burial:
Newman Cemetery
East Providence
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA

Number 18 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 44.  Family is number 9 on page 51.
William married twice 1) 5 Oct 1651 to Priscilla Bennett, 2) 10 Dec 1663 to Miriam Searles (SALE).  See below.
BIRTH: Listed as of Southhamptson in Somersetshire.  However, probably born in Shalbourne.
AFN C333-TL (B. 1631/1632) is the same person as AFN# FKKD-5V (B. Abt 1633).

BAPTISM: Per the American Genealogist, whole number 280, Vol. 70, No. 4 October 1995, page 2 which gives baptism date.
SEE ALSO:  different month!  Gene Zubrinsky confirms 25 Dec 1631 is correct!
Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886 Transcription
First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name CARPENTER
Birth year 1631
Birth date ? ? 1631
Baptism year 1631
Baptism date 25 Dec 1631
Place SHALBOURNE
Father's first name(s) William
Mother's first name(s) Abigall
County Wiltshire
Country England
Record set Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Births & baptisms
Collections from United Kingdom
Wiltshire Family History Society
Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fb%2f204331526%2f1

BOOK:- GENEALOGY:  Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 16-17
Married to Miriam Sale on 10 Feb 1664 per the above record.

LAND:  1658
22 Jun 1658, Meadow on the North Side of town lots were allotted. (This is the first mention of Richard Bowen, Jr. and Obadiah Bowen) (Bliss, pp 48-49) “At a town-meeting lawfully warned, lots were drawn for the meadows that lie on the north side of the town, in order as followeth, according to person and estate:”
Both Will. Carpenter, sen. and Will. Carpenter, jun. are among the 49 people mentioned.  
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

LAND: 1668
1668 -The third and last purchase was the “North Purchase,” forming now Attleborough, Mass. And Cumberland, R.I. The last was formerly called “Attleborough Gore.
May 26, 1668. : Rehoboth – “lots were drawn for the meadow lands in the North Purchase by the following persons:” (Bliss, pp 67-68)
Joseph Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, Widow Carpenter and William Carpenter mentioned.  These are the sons and Abigail the widow of William Carpenter b. abt 1605.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

FREEMAN: 1670
Plymouth Colony Court List of Freemen for Rehoboth and Swansea
29 May 1670 - “ An exact List of all the Names of the Freemen of the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth, transcribed by Nathaniell Morton, Secretary of the Court for the said Jurisdiction, the 29 May, Ann Domini 1670.” (Bowen pp 37)
Rehoboth
William Carpenter and Samuel Carpenter mentioned.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

MILITARY:   1675-1676
1675-1676 - “Phillip's War” - Garrison houses in Rehoboth North Purchase (now Attleborough) - “Woodcock's Garrison” ; The South end of Seekonk Plain (Sekonk Common); Northern part of Swansey near Mile's Bridge - “Mille's Garrison”. Bliss (pp 117-118)
The names of the Rehoboth soldiers who served in Philip's war have been preserved, and are as follows: Those engaged in the Narraganset expedition, were:  ... John Carpenter
Following are the names of those who made advances of money to support the war:
John Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, William Carpenter and Wid. Carpenter.

INHABITANT: Rehoboth Inhabitants in 1689
1689: Rehoboth (Bliss, pg 128)
“A list of the names of the inhabitants and proprietors of the Towne of Rehoboth having Rights and Titles to the Meas uages, Tenements and Lands contained in the above written Instrument hereunto annexed and affixed, which hath been reade and allowed in a full Towne meeting, ffebruary the 7th, 1689.”
Abiah* Carpenter, James Carpenter, John Carpenter, Josiah Carpenter, Sam'l* Carpenter, and William* Carpenter, jr.
* Confirmed son of William Carpenter b. abt 1605 England.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

NOTE: He was deputy to the Plymouth Court in 1656.  He was elected town clerk of Rehoboth, MA on May 13, 1668. and held that office until his death, with the exception of one year, namely 1693.  In 1668 he was chosen DEACON of the church.  He was a man of superior ability, accurate in all his business tranactions, and a reliable councillor in the colony.  He was also noted for his superior penmanship, as his writings attest.  See the above record for more details.  A Farmer.

CHILD: In one record, a Jedediah Carpenter is listed as a child.  Unknown if this is in error.  Listed for now.

SEE: Carpenter Genealogy at:
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/register/default.asp?vol=9&pg=52
and
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/register/default.asp?vol=9&pg=53
3-1 William Carpenter's children.
8-1
9-2 ...
SEE: MISC PICS - RIN 103.

GRAVE: images
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15383213
William Carpenter
Birth:  Nov. 22, 1631  <----- should be 25 Dec 1631
Shalbourne
Wiltshire, England
Death:  Jan. 26, 1703
Rehoboth
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA
He married, first, on Oct 5,1651 at Rehoboth,MA, Priscilla Bennett.
He married, second, on Feb 10,1663/4 at Rehoboth,MA, Miriam Sale.
Children(by first marriage): John Carpenter, William Carpenter, Priscilla Carpenter Sweet, and Benjamin Carpenter.
Children(by second marriage): Josiah Carpenter, Nathaniel Carpenter, Daniel Carpenter, Noah Carpenter, Miriam Carpenter Bliss, Obadiah Carpenter, Ephraim Carpenter, Hannah Carpenter Chaffee, and Abigail Carpenter Perrin.
Family links:
 Parents:
 William Carpenter (1605 - 1659)
 Abigail Briant Carpenter (1604 - 1687)
 Spouses:
 Priscilla Bennett Carpenter (1632 - 1663)
 Miriam Sale Carpenter (1645 - 1722)*
 Children:
 John Carpenter (1652 - 1695)*
 William Carpenter (1659 - 1718)*
 Priscilla Carpenter Sweet (1661 - ____)*
 Benjamin Carpenter (1663 - 1738)*
 Josiah Carpenter (1664 - 1728)*
 Nathaniel Carpenter (1667 - 1727)*
 Daniel Carpenter (1669 - 1721)*
 Noah Carpenter (1672 - 1753)*
 Miriam Carpenter Bliss (1674 - 1706)*
 Obadiah Carpenter (1678 - 1749)*
 Ephraim Carpenter (1681 - 1743)*
 Hannah Carpenter Chaffee (1684 - 1767)*
 Abigail Carpenter Perrin (1687 - 1781)*
 Siblings:
 Abigail Carpenter Titus Palmer (1629 - 1710)*
 William Carpenter (1631 - 1703)
 Joseph Carpenter (1634 - 1675)*
 Samuel Carpenter (1638 - 1682)*
 Hannah Carpenter Carpenter (1640 - 1673)*
 Abiah Carpenter (1643 - 1688)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Newman Cemetery
East Providence
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA

Created by: as
Record added: Aug 15, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 15383213

MISC:
BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials.
Page 219
BIRTHS.
CARPENTER, MIRIAM, daughter of William, Rehoboth, 16 October, 1674, .   53
Obadiah, son of William, Rehoboth, 12 March, 1678,    70
Ephraim, son of William, Rehoboth, 25 April, 1681,   76
William, children of,  53, 70, 76
David, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 17 1675,   62
Solomon, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 23 December, 1677,   66
Zechariah, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 1 July, 1680,   73
Abraham, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 20 September, 1682,   79
Samuel, children of,   62, 66, 73, 78
Amos, son of John, Rehoboth, 19 November, 1677,   67
Eliphalet, son of John, Rehoboth, 17 April, 1679,   86
Priscilla, daughter of John, Rehoboth, 20 January, 1680,   73
Dorothy, daughter of John, Rehoboth, 9 February,   88
John, children of,   67, 73, 86, 88
Margaret, daughter of Joseph, Swansey, 4 May, 1675,   61
Joseph, child of,   61
Carpenter, Jotham, son of Benjamin, Swansey, 1 June, 1682,   80
Benjamin, child of,   80

Priscilla Bennett

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Priscilla Bennett is often said in electronic databases to have been born at Weymouth, England, on 5 October 1631, and her mother's name is sometimes given as Elizabeth/Alice Egington; never, however, do primary-source citations accompany these claims. That the date is exactly twenty years before that of Priscilla's marriage to William Carpenter raises suspicion that it originated from an estimate of her age on the latter date. It is not certain, moreover, what Priscilla's relationship to Edward Bennett was (see first paragraph, above). And in any case, his origin and the identity of his wife are unknown. But even if, for example, a baptismal record (parish registers do not record births) of a Priscilla, daughter of Edward Bennett, were found, it would not by itself be sufficient to conclude that such a pair were Carpenter's eventual wife and father-in-law. [Gene Zubrinsky, Jan. 2009]

Died the day her son Benjamin was born.
In some records her father is listed as Edward Bennett of Rehoboth who may
have been the brother of William Bennett of Sway.

E-MAIL: From:      GeneZub@aol.com
Sharilyn,
The JOHN CARPENTER listed as a Rehoboth inhabitant in 1689 would have been
the son of William and Priscilla (Bennett) Carpenter.  He and his family
didn't migrate to Woodstock, Conn., until 1692.
JOHN CARPENTER JR. is among those listed as "Proprietor not Inhabitants."
Listed immediately after Joseph and Benjamin Carpenter, he, like them, was
the son of Joseph and Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter of Swansea.  He's "Jr." as
the younger of the two John Carpenters on the Rehoboth list.
Eliphalet, Priscilla, and Amos Carpenter were among the eight Rehoboth-born
children of the aforementioned John Carpenter (Sr.) and his wife, Rebecca
(Redway); two more are recorded at Woodstock.  Despite Amos B. Carpenter's
claim (p. 64) that a son John was born at Woodstock, there is absolutely no
evidence of it in Woodstock records or elsewhere.
Gene Zubrinsky

Miriam Sales

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

NAME: True spelling of name: SAILE or SALES. SE-AR-L-ES is the approximate sounding of the English version of SALES.  SEE "ENGLISH ORIGINS OF NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES",
VOL 1, PAGE 102, ITEM 4 "EDWARD SALE(S) or Sarle."

1639 IS AN INCORRECT DATE FOR BIRTH. MIRIAM WAS THE 5TH CHILD OF PARENTS MARRIED ABOUT 1636.

MIRIAM, M. AT REHOBOTH, 10 FEB 1663-64, WILLIAM CARPENTER per another record.

10. Joseph Carpenter

INTRO:
Joseph Carpenter (William ) was christened on 6 Apr 1634 in the parish of Shalbourne, Berkshire, that part now in Wiltshire, England. He died between 3 May 1675 (will) and 6 May 1675 (burial) in Swansea, Plymouth Colony. He was buried near, so-called 100-acre Cove, in that part of Swansea now Barrington, Bristol Co., RI.
Joseph married Margaret Sutton, on 25 Nov 1655 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Margaret was baptized on 30 Nov 1637 in Attleborough, Norfolk, England, daughter of John1 and Julian (Adcocke) Sutton. She died between 21 Mar 1675/6 and 4 Oct 1676 (not in 1700) probably in Swansea. She was almost certainly buried next to her husband, in present-day Barrington.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]   Updated 3 Oct 2011 by Gene Zubrinsky.

JOSEPH3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was baptized at Shalbourne,
Berkshire, England, on 6 April 1634 and died at Swansea, Plymouth Colony, between 3
May 1675 (date of will [not 1676]) and 6 May 1675 (date of burial). He is said to have
been buried near the “100-acre cove,” in that part of Swansea now Barrington, Rhode
Island. Joseph married at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, on 25 November (not May) 1655,
MARGARET SUTTON, who was baptized at Attleborough, Norfolk, England, on 30 November
1637 and died, probably at Swansea, between 21 March 1675[/6] and 4 October
1676 (not in 1700), daughter of John1 and Julian (Adcocke) Sutton of Hingham,
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Rehoboth (TAG 70:194, 204; RVR 1:44; AttParReg
1:65v; MD 19:165; PCR 5:116; PCPR 3:2:33, 36, 37; SwVR A:147; NEHGR 15:26–27,
91:61–64; 143:299–300, 159:44–45; Carpenter [1898] 45 [burial place]; see also
MARRIAGE and COMMENTS sections, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data
is presented in Register style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source
citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO
SOURCE NOTES, at the end of this sketch. The format below is patterned loosely after
that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series.]

MARRIAGE: The month of Joseph and Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter’s marriage, which
Amos B. Carpenter mistakenly gives as May, is November (Carpenter [1898] 45; RVR
1:44).

Widow Margaret Carpenter submitted her husband Joseph’s estate inventory to the court
on 21 March 1675[/6] (PCPR 3:2:36). In that her own inventory was taken on 4 October
1676, she died between those dates (see PCPR 3:2:37). The Old Rehoboth (Newman)
Cemetery gravestone whose inscription Amos Carpenter presents as “M. C. D. Y. 1700
A. G. 65” and attributes to Margaret belongs to Mary (Kingsbury) Cooper, born at Dedham,
Massachusetts, 1 September 1637, and died at Rehoboth, 18 September 1700, wife
of Thomas2 Cooper (NEHGR 159:45n13; RI Cems 63; Carpenter [1898] 45).
Due to this misidentification, Amos Carpenter gives Margaret’s gravesite as the “East
Providence burial ground,” that is, the Old Rehoboth (Newman) Cemetery (Carpenter
[1898] 45). Having died so soon after her husband, however, she was almost certainly
buried next to him, in present-day Barrington (see above).

IMMIGRATION: Joseph was the youngest of four Carpenter children who accompanied their parents and paternal grandfather to Massachusetts on the _Bevis_ in 1638 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, IMMIGRATION).

RESIDENCES: Shalbourne; Weymouth (probably 1638); Rehoboth (1644); and Swansea (by 22 February 1669/70). Amos Carpenter has Joseph removing to Swansea in 1661 or 1662, but the town was not established until fall of 1667, and Joseph was still living at Rehoboth on 2 April 1669 (Carpenter [1898] 45; PCR 4:169, 175; NEHGR 159:44, 45).

OCCUPATION: House-carpenter/joiner and yeoman. Joseph's estate inventory contains an extensive list of house-carpenter's tools (PCPR 3:2:35-36; JC Inv [transcr]).

EDUCATION: He signed his will, and his estate inventory includes several Bibles and other books (PCPR 3:2:33-36; JC Inv [transcr]).

OFFICES: Rehoboth: coroner's jury, 1662. Swansea: way warden (surveyor [overseer] of highways), 1671; grand juror (Plymouth Colony Grand Enquest), 1673; appointed to preserve the town's timber and wood, 1673 (PCR 4:13, 5:58, 114; SwTM 9, 19, 20).

WILL/ESTATE: Joseph Carpenter's will, dated 3 May 1675 (three days before his burial), mentions sons Joseph (eldest), Benjamin, and John, "my five daughters" (names not given), "my beloved wife" (executrix), and his brothers William and Samuel Carpenter (overseers). (William and Samuel probably became guardians of the children.) The will also acknowledges the impending birth of another child: "if hee be a son; that now my wife is with child withall; hee shall have his p[or]t[io]n . . ." (PCPR 3:2:33). The day after the will was written, Joseph's sixth surviving daughter, Margaret, was born (SwVR A:33). Only four daughters have been identified.

Joseph's estate (movable goods only), inventoried on 20 May 1675 and exhibited on 2 November 1676, was valued at £137 (not £437) 10s. 6d. (PCPR 3:2:33-36; JC Inv [transcr]; see also OCCUPATION and EDUCATION, above).

Widow Margaret's estate--the inventory was taken less than a year and a half after her husband's (see MARRIAGE, above)--amounted to £87 1s. 6d. While only £23 13s. remained after payment of debts, expenses for the children, etc., £38 8s. was nevertheless divided among eight children (a daughter had apparently died) on an unspecified date (probably in 1681 or 1682) (PCPR 3:2:37-38, 4:2:121 [see record dates at 4:2:120, 122]; MC Inv [transcr]).

CHILDREN: Numbers i-iv born at Rehoboth, viii-x at Swansea (RVR 1:10; SwVR A: 17, 33, 59).

i. JOSEPH4 CARPENTER, b. 15 Aug. 1656, d. Swansea 26 Feb. 1717/8, aged 63 [sic]; m. Swansea 23 Feb. 1681[/2?], MARY _______, b. ca. 1659, d. Swansea 1 or 12 March 1718[/9?] (not 1713), aged abt. 59; both bur. Kickemuit Cem., Swansea (that part now Warren, R.I.) (SwVR A:94, B:130/249; NEHGR 48:442, 70:25; RI Cems 69).
Corrections (to Carpenter [1898] 73-74, 122) concerning their son Joseph5, b. Swansea 20 June 1688: Rather than declaring marriage intentions at Bristol, Mass. (now in R.I.), on 16 February 1723, he married there (Rev. John Usher presiding) on 16 February 1723/4, Abigail Newton, sister of John Newton of Bristol. Joseph5 did not die in Surinam on 4 February 1745 but drowned with three others in passage from Hog Island to Bristol on 21 December 1728, when their canoe "sunk under them." His widow, Abigail--not his sister of that name, who died at Swansea, 1 February 1683 (not 1783)--married second, at Bristol on 29 (int. 16) February 1735/6, Obadiah Papill(i)on. Abigail Papillon, "widow, of Rehoboth," where she had moved between 1763 and 1769, was buried at Providence, R.I., 16 February 1776. Joseph5 and Abigail (Newton) Carpenter had two (not three) children: 1. Sarah6, b. Bristol 3 Feb. 1724/5, d. probably Bristol 22 Feb. 174[7/]8. 2. Joseph, b. Bristol _ Oct. 1726, d. Surinam (rec. Bristol) 4 (not 24) Feb. 1745, aged 19 (SwVR A:22, 137; RIVR 6:1[Bristol]:13, 121, 8:150, 202, 224, 10:152; NEHGR 124:177, 179; MQ 67:139).
ii. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, b. 15 (not 19) Jan. 1657[/8], d. Swansea 22? May 1727, aged 69, bur. Knockum Hill Cem., Barrington, R.I.; m. (1) prob. Dorchester, Mass., by 1680 (1st child b. 27 Jan. 1680[/1?]), RENEW WEEKS, b. Dorchester 12 6th mo. [Aug.] 1660, d. Swansea 29 July 1703, aged 43, bur. Knockum Hill Cem., dau. of William and Elizabeth (______ [not Atherton]) Weeks; m. (2) Swansea 27 Nov. 1706, MARTHA (BLISS) TOOGOOD (widow of Nathaniel), b. Rehoboth __ April 1663, d. there 22 March 1735, in 73rd yr., dau. of Jonathan Bliss and probable wife Rachel Puffer (not Miriam Harmon/Wilmarth) (RI Cems 68, 69; Stevens-Miller 46, 266-67, 273; DChR 194 ["Jotham ye son of Benjamen Carpenter ye mothers name was Renew ye daughter of William Weeks"]; DVR 7; SwVR B:81/173, 138/257; NEHGR 151:31-37, 159:361-62; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:240; RVR 1:5).
For major corrections of the secondary literature pertaining to Benjamin's son John and his family, see NEHGR 159:49-53.
iii. ABIGAIL CARPENTER, b. 15 March 1659[/60?], d. perhaps Swansea, 1 Feb. 1683[/4?] (SwVR A:137). The death record gives Abigail's parents as Joseph Jr. and Mary Carpenter (no. i, above), but their first recorded child is Mary, born 27 Dec. 1683 (SwVR A:35). If the Abigail who died in 1683[/4?] had been born to that couple (eight children are recorded for them at Swansea between 1683 and 1704), the logical explanation of the failure to record her birth is that she died at that time or so soon thereafter that only her death was recorded. This, however, probably conflicts with the birth date (late 1683) of the couple's aforementioned daughter Mary: the date 1 Feb. 1683 probably represents Old Style dating (year beginning 25 March), which puts it only slightly more than one month after Mary's birth. (To allay any possible confusion, the Abigail Carpenter who married Jonah Palmer Jr. in 1692 was William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter's dau. Abigail (Carpenter) Titus [see Abigail3 notes, first par.].)
iv. ESTHER CARPENTER, b. 10 (not 6) March 1661[/2?], d. Norton, Mass., 20 Dec. 1730; m. Swansea 19 March 1687, SAMUEL BRENTNALL/BRINTNELL, b. Boston 2 Dec. 1665, d. Norton between 19 Nov. 1735 (will, in 70th yr.) and 16 Dec. 1735 (est. inv.), son of Thomas and Esther (______) Brentnall of Boston, Norton, and Taunton, Mass. Samuel m. (2) Wrentham, Mass. (also rec. Norton) 23 May 1734, Elizabeth (Candage) Blake (widow of Jonathan2) (NoVR 202, 360; SwVR A:123; BVR 95, 250; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:246; BrCoPR 1:225; Norton Hist 78; Blake Gen 35; WrVR 2:260).
v. DAUGHTER, b. 1662-1671; place in birth order uncertain. The Martha Carpenter who was born ca. 1663 and died at Swansea 22 March 1735, in her 73rd yr., is often said to have been Joseph and Margaret's daughter (see, for example, Carpenter [1898] 58; Stevens-Miller 266). She was in fact their daughter-in-law Martha (Bliss) (Toogood) Carpenter, 2nd wife of their son Benjamin (no. ii, above) (NEHGR 159:361-62; see also WILL/ESTATE, above). Her proper identification eliminates the sole basis for the assertion that Joseph and Margaret had a daughter Martha.
vi. JOHN CARPENTER, b. ca. 1667, prob. Rehoboth (father still res. there 2 April 1669), d. East Greenwich, R.I., 25 Aug. 1753, in 87th yr.; m. (1?) by 1705, ______ GRINNELL, d. before 1721, dau. of Matthew2 Grinnell; m. (2?) by 1721 ELIZABETH _______; m. (3?) after 1726 ABIGAIL _______, living 12 Sept. 1753. Amos Carpenter mistakenly presents John and his sister Hannah (no. viii, below) as twins, born on 21 Jan. [sic] 1671/2. John's birth is not recorded, however, and his age at death makes him about five years her senior (NEHGR 159:43-47 [also includes vital-event data about John's children--Martha, Mary, Sarah, Diadema, Prudence, Cornel, Dinah, and Joseph--seven of whom Amos Carpenter mistakenly attributes (as he does two of John's wives) to another John Carpenter, son of Oliver4 Carpenter (Abiah3) of Warwick and North Kingstown, R.I. (see Carpenter [1898] 75, 128-29)]; EGPR 2:67-73, at 67; see also Carpenter [1898] 58).
vii. DAUGHTER, b. 1662-1671; place in birth order uncertain (see WILL/ESTATE, above).
viii. HANNAH CARPENTER, b. 21 1st mo. [March] 1671 [uncertain if 1670/1 or 1671/2], d. probably Norton, after 29 June 1757 (named in husband's will); m. probably Swansea, by 1695 (1st child b. 30 May 1695), THOMAS SKINNER, b. Malden, Mass., 3? Nov. 1668, d. Norton between 29 June 1757 (will, in 89th yr.) and 19 May 1758 (probate), son of Thomas and Mary (Pratt) Skinner (BrCoPR [abstr] 2:219; WrVR 1:189; MalVR 79; Skinner Kinsmen 8, 14-18; Ackley-Bosworth 277-78, 280; NEHGR 53:401-2; Norton Hist 88-89).
In the absence of documentary evidence that Thomas Skinner's wife, Hannah, was by birth a Carpenter, let alone this Hannah Carpenter, strong circumstantial evidence makes the case. Six children--Thomas, Solomon, Joseph, Hannah, Esther, and Mary--were born to Thomas and Hannah Skinner at Wrentham between 1695 and 1706; his will mentions all but Mary and adds Benjamin and Samuel (WrVR 1:189; Skinner Kinsmen 15-17; BrCoPR [abstr] 2:219). Four of these names--Solomon, Joseph, Esther, and Benjamin--are also those of siblings (and, in one instance, also the father) of the subject Hannah Carpenter (see nos. i, ii, iv, above; ix, below). A fifth, Samuel, is also the name of her sister Esther's husband, Samuel Brentnall/Brintnell (see no. iv, above). They, like Thomas and Hannah Skinner, settled in a part of Norton that is now Mansfield (Norton Hist 78, 89). Thomas Skinner's will describes his daughter Esther as the widow of Ebenezer Brintnall; they had married at Norton in 1728 (Skinner Kinsmen 16; BrCoPR [abstr] 2:219; NoVR 202). Ebenezer, who died at Norton about 1748, was the son of Samuel and Esther (Carpenter) Brentnall (BrCoPR [abstr] 1:246, 2:35; WrVR 1:36).
 ix. SOLOMON CARPENTER, b. 27 April 1673, d. Swansea 25 Oct. 1674 (PCR 8:51).
  x. MARGARET CARPENTER (probably posthumous), b. 4 May 1675, d. Rehoboth 6 May 1751; m. probably Swansea (rec. Rehoboth), 4 June (not Jan.) 1695, THOMAS CHAFFEE,  b. Swansea 19 Oct. 1672, d. Rehoboth 21 Feb. 1754, son of Nathaniel and Experience (Bliss) Chaffee (RVR 1:163 [not 95], 2:258, 3:358; SwVR A:63, 107).

COMMENTS: Joseph Carpenter was one of seven founding members of the Swansea Baptist Church. Formed at Rehoboth in the fall of 1666 (not in 1663), it was relocated to neighboring Swansea about a year later, when the latter town was established (NEHGR 139:23-24; Rehoboth Hist 63).

Daniel Cushing, a contemporary of John Sutton's at Hingham, records that Sutton, with a wife and four children (none of whom is identified), came from Attleborough on the _Diligent_ in 1638 (NEHGR 15:26-27). Immediately above the Sutton entry, Cushing lists Stephen Paine and his family (unnamed), from Great Ellingham [adjacent to Attleborough, in co. Norfolk], as passengers on the same ship. The will of former Attleborough resident John Adcocke of Great Ellingham, dated 12 October 1638, names (among others) "Stephen Payne my sonn in lawe" and grandchild Elizabeth Sutton (NEHGR 143:299-300). Among Adcocke's children were daughters Julian and Neele, baptized at Attleborough in 1598/9 and 1602/3, respectively (NEHGR 143:300n). Rehoboth vital records list the death in 1660[/1?] of Neele (not Niobe or Noole) Paine, wife of Mr. Stephen Paine, and the burial in 1678 of Julian Sutton (RVR 1:50a, 55a; NEHGR 143:300). On 3 June 1673 letters of administration were "graunted unto Julian Sutton, widdow, the late wife of John Sutton, of Rehoboth, deceased" (PCR 5:116). It is thus apparent that Neele Paine and Julian Sutton were sisters, both of them daughters of John and Elizabeth (Eldred) Adcocke (see NEHGR 143:300n).

Without explanation, the distinguished genealogist Mary Lovering Holman describes Julian ______ as John1 Sutton's second wife but fails to mention a first wife (Stevens-Miller 269). Holman undoubtedly knew that Charles E. Banks had given Sutton's _Diligent_-passenger wife's forename as Elizabeth (see Planters 193). In attempting to reconstruct the identities of Sutton-family passengers, however, Banks mistakenly used Scituate, Plymouth Colony, records of John1 Sutton's namesake son, his wife (Elizabeth House), and four of their children (NEHGR 91[1937]:63, 64). Julian Adcocke married John Sutton early enough to have had daughter Elizabeth with him by 1638 (see above). Although this does not guarantee that she was also the mother of his daughter Margaret (birth/baptismal date unknown), it does make it likely. John Adcocke's granddaughter and legatee Elizabeth Sutton was presumably named after his wife (Julian's mother). Since grandparents' names were usually given to children early in the birth order, Elizabeth was probably older than Margaret. If so, logic dictates that Julian was also Margaret's mother. Nevertheless, the name Julian does not appear among any of John Sutton's known or supposed children and grandchildren (see Stevens-Miller 269-70; BrCoPR 2:123, 171).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Ackley-Bosworth: Nathan Grier Parke II, _The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth_, ed. Donald Lines Jacobus (Woodstock, Vt., 1960); digital images online at

Blake Gen: Francis E. Blake, _Increase Blake of Boston, His Ancestors and Descendants, with a Full Account of William Blake of Dorchester and His Five Children_ (Boston, 1898)

BrCoPR: Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, vols. 1-4 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #461,882]

BrCoPR [abstr]: H. L. Peter Rounds, _Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records_, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 1988)

BVR: _Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699_, Ninth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883; repr. Boston 1908)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

DChR: _Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734_ (Boston, 1891) [FHL film #856,696]

DVR: _Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825_, Twenty-first Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890)

EGPR: East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Probate Records [FHL film #926,804, item 3]

IGI: International Genealogical Index, online at

JC Inv [transcr]: Joseph Carpenter estate inventory (transcription), online at , a Plymouth Colony Archive Project webpage (contains errors, including dates [as of 2/22/08])

MC Inv [transcr]: Margaret Carpenter estate inventory (transcription), online at , a Plymouth Colony Archive Project webpage (contains errors [as of 2/22/08])

MQ: _The Mayflower Quarterly_, vol. 1 (1935) through present

MalVR: Deloraine Pendre Corey, _Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850_ (Cambridge, Mass., 1903)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

Norton Hist: George Faber Clark, _A History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1669 to 1859_ (Boston/Norton, 1859); digital images online at

NoVR: _Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1906)

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

PCR: _Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England_, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-1861)

Planters: Charles Edward Banks, _The Planters of the Commonwealth, 1620-1640_ (Boston, 1930; repr. Baltimore, 1997); digital images online at

Rehoboth Hist: Leonard Bliss Jr., _The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts_ (Boston, 1836)

RI Cems: The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Master Index, online at

RIVR: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1891-1912)

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, vol. 1 [FHL film #562,559 (restricted), item 3], vols. 2-3 [FHL #562,558 (uncatalogued), items 5-6]; citations of vol. 1 in text, above, include any necessary corrections to page numbers cited in James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (Providence, 1897)

Skinner Kinsmen: Natalie R. Fernald, _The Skinner Kinsmen: Descendants of Thomas Skinner of Malden, Massachusetts_ (Washington, D.C., 1939); digital images online at

Stevens-Miller: Mary Lovering Holman, _Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller_ (Concord, N.H., 1948)

SwTM: Swansea, Massachusetts, Town Meetings, 1670-1718 [FHL film #903,396, item 5]

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, items 5, 7]

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

WrVR: _Vital Records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1910)
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[Imperfect but nevertheless instructive, the following transcription of Joseph3 Carpenter's estate inventory is retained from the CE 2001. Based on the original, Plymouth Colony record, corrections have been made to the introductory and concluding passages. The inventory items themselves remain as originally transcribed. ECZ]

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/P239.htm
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Joseph Carpenter
November 2, 1676 [sic; should be 20 May 1675]
Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):33-36
#P239
The Inventory of Joseph Carpenter

An Inventory of the Goods and Cattle of Joseph Carpenter of Rehoboth / deceased, exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 2cond of Nouember / 1676 [inserted, beneath month, at end of next line] / on the oath taken by those whose hands are heervnto Subscribed / the 20th of May 1675
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Impr: 2 paire of serge briches and a doublett 01 10 00
Item 2 Cloth Coates 01 05 00
Item 2 paire of drawers and a paire of breiches 01 00 00
Item 4 old Garments and an old apron 00 15 00
Item 3 paire of stokens a paire of shooes 00 12 00
a paire of letheren breiches 00 10 00
Item 2 hatts 00 12 00
Item 1 shirt 4 neckclothes 2 bands 00 15 00
Item 2 paire of shooes 00 08 00
Item a bedsted & bed & its furniture 02 10 00
Item a Chest 00 10 00
Item a drum cord 00 02 09
Item 3 boxes 00 12 00
Item a smale box and a Remnant of stuffe 00 03 00
Item a warming pan 00 06 00
[...MS torn...]alf a steel trapp 00 15 00
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Item an old box 00 02 00
Item a little Table 00 03 00
Item a paire of Flocke Cards 00 [06 00]
Item 3 paire of Cards 00 06 00
Item 3 pound of sheeps woole 00 03 00
Item 9 basketts 00 07 00
Item a lookeing glase 00 01 00
Item an earthen Chamberpot 00 01 00
Item a pewter Flagon 00 15 00
Item 6 pewter platters 01 12 06
Item 7 porrengers 00 10 00
Item 2 handl porrengers 00 03 00
Item a sucking bottle a drinking Cup and a dram Cupp 00 04 00
Item an old drinking Cup 00 02 00
Item 8 Glasse bottles & som sallet oyl 00 08 00
Item earthen ware 00 03 00
Item an houre Glasse 00 01 00
Item a Lining [---]ll 00 00 06
Item trayes trenchers dishes 00 05 00
Item 4 bibles 01 11 00
Item an old bible an old Testament 00 03 00
Item 3 bookes 00 07 00
Item 3 Guns & 1 pistell 05 00 00
Item 2 rapiers & 2 belts 01 00 00
Item 2 fier shouells 1 paire of tongs 00 15 00
Item powder & bullets 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of Andirons 01 00 00
Item 2 pothanggers 00 10 00
Item 3 sheets & a Table Cloth of holland & som towells 02 00 00
Item 2 smoothing Irons & a gridiron 00 05 00
Item 2 potts an pothookes 1 skillet 01 05 00
Item a brass kettle 01 15 00
2 Iron kettles 01 00 00
Item a spitt 00 04 06
Item a Great Table and forme 00 15 00
Item 8 Chaires 01 05 00
Item [items are crossed out but value stands] 01 15 00
Item a Cradle 00 05 00
Item small boxes and Gally potts 00 01 00
Item morter pestell & a Can 00 04 00
Item 3 spining wheels 00 12 00
linnine bollen and Cotten yerne 00 18 00
Item som tape and 2 little basketts 00 01 00
Item brasse tapps and wolle 00 04 04
Item 2 little remnants of Cloth 00 05 00
Item a [-ebb?] of Cloth 04 10 00
Item sheers & siccers 00 04 00
Item 2 oxen 08 00 00
Item 3 Cowes and three Calues 10 10 00
Item 3 yonge beasts and halfe a Calfe 05 05 00
Item 6 spining wheeles 01 10 00
Item Cotton woole 02 [...MS torn...]
Item a bed & its furniture 03 [...MS torn...]
Item Flax 02 [...MS torn...]
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Item a lock 00 06 06
Item 20 bushells of Corn 03 00 00
Item nailes 00 16 00
Item a paire of scales 00 02 00
Item a frying pan 00 02 00
Item hookes and eyes 00 03 00
Item 2 seiues 00 04 00
Item a bed and its furniture 03 10 00
Item 2 sickles 00 02 00
Item pulley blockers 00 05 00
Item 2 hogsheds 00 05 00
Item barrells 00 12 00
Item 2 meale troughes 00 07 00
Item a Cherne 00 04 00
Item a seed thinge and a halfe bukshell 00 04 00
Item bridle & saddle & pillian 01 00 00
Item 4 baggs 00 15 00
Item 2 seiues 00 02 00
Item [MS smugged] hiues of bees 01 00 00
Item 1 pound of brimston & safferon 00 01 06
Item Tobacco 00 01 06
Item pailes 00 04 00
Item 4 [----s hendle &-------?] bowle 00 04 00
Item a barrell 2 smalle barrells and a tramell 00 04 00
Item a ladder 00 01 06
whalbon a pound 00 02 06
Item a Grindstone 00 16 00
Item a plow and harrow 01 00 00
2 old tubbs and an Iron bail [This item is written in the margin.] 00 04 00
Item a Cart and wheeles & yoak 03 00 00
Item 2 Chaines and a horse Chaine 01 15 00
Item 500 foot of board 01 10 00
Item 3 pitchforks 00 05 00
Item a syder presse 00 10 00
Item a Canoo and paddl 00 15 00
Item spoaks and timber for work 00 05 00
Item 3 Rakes 00 02 00
Item 4 wheels 00 10 00
Item 2 broad axes 00 15 00
Item 4 [------] axes 00 15 00
Item 3 broad hoes 00 09 00
Item a spad and a shouell 00 05 00
Item a Croscutt saw and a hand saw 00 10 00
Item 2 adds 00 10 00
Item a sledge 00 08 00
Item a frow and a hold fast 00 05 06
Item 2 [-----] Ringes & 4 w[ --- ]s 00 10 00
Item 2 hatchetts 00 05 00
Item a viz 00 02 00
Item a spoke shav and Gripers 00 05 00
Item 3 Harrow hoes 00 08 00
Item a paire of Chissels and a Gouge 00 05 00
Item a paire of doggs 00 04 00
Item a [-]arre and screw & bow[ -- ] and turning tools 00 16 00
Item plowes plaines & a Ioynter 01 05 00
Item 2 paire of Mallett Ringes 00 03 00
Item a Great Ioynter 00 05 00
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Item a [ - ] are screw and turning points 01 04 00
Item a square and spokeshaue 00 06 00
Item a Coopers adds and drawing kniffe & a rond shaue 00 09 00
Item a Round shaue [no value given]
Item 2 bursses 1 Great Gouge 00 18 00
Item Ringe and stapl & foot 00 04 00
Item 5 augers 3 wrybitts 01 01 00
Item 3 paire of pincers 00 04 06
Item 2 paire of plyers 00 03 00
3 files 00 03 00
Item 3 plaine Irons 00 02 06
Item smale tools 00 07 00
Item wimble bittls & a sett 00 04 06
Item seiring Irons 00 03 00
Item Calking Chissels & Cold Chissells 00 02 00
Item 2 smale saues & a scribe 00 04 00
Item a hammer and a markeing tool 00 02 00
Item a padlock & shoomakers kniffe 00 01 00
Item more smale tools 00 01 00
Item a maderell 00 01 06
Item a brake 00 05 00
Item a Cheesepresse 00 08 00
Item red occur and Glew 00 01 00
Item smale nailes for wheeles 00 01 00
Item a burning Iron 00 01 00
Item in old Iron 00 02 00
Item a Coller 00 03 00
Item 2 paire of Compassas & prickers 00 02 06
Item smale moulds 00 00 06
Item workeing benches 00 05 00
Item horse kine 05 00 00
Item 3 sowes and piggs 02 00 00
Item 1 bushell and an halfe of wheat 00 07 06
Item old Lumber 00 05 00
Item in mony and [p-ag-] 00 18 00
Item in debts in mony 10 00 00
Item a book of Mr Perkins 00 12 00
_____________
sume 437 [sic; should be 137] 10 06
Nicholas Tanner
Thomas Lewis
These were Giuen in: viz: this Inventory by the executrix of Joseph Carpentor / deceased; viz: Margarett Carpentor, according to order of the Court / this 21 of March 1675
Before mee James Browne / Assistant
(Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 33-36)

[End of Gene Zubrinsky's notes]

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 19 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 45.  Family on page 58 (#10).

BAPTISM: Per the American Genealogist, whole number 280, Vol. 70, No. 4 October 1995, page 2 which gives baptism date.
SEE ALSO:
Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886 Transcription
First name(s) JOSEPH
Last name CARPENTER
Birth year 1634
Birth date ? ? 1634
Baptism year 1634
Baptism date 06 Apr 1634
Place SHALBOURNE
Father's first name(s) William
Mother's first name(s) Abigall
County Wiltshire
Country England
Record set Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Births & baptisms
Collections from United Kingdom
Wiltshire Family History Society
Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fb%2f204331583%2f1

MARRIAGE: PER NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700, PAGE 135 . . .
JOSEPH MARRIED MARGARET SUTTON (-1700, AE 65); 25 NOV 1655, 25 MAY 1655, REHOBOTH.  Which date is correct is unknown.

MISC:
BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
The names of such as have taken the Oath of Fidelitie in the Towne of Rehoboth in the Yeare 1657.
Page 1798
Joseph Carpenter

LAND: 1668
1668 -The third and last purchase was the “North Purchase,” forming now Attleborough, Mass. And Cumberland, R.I. The last was formerly called “Attleborough Gore.
May 26, 1668. : Rehoboth - “lots were drawn for the meadow lands in the North Purchase by the following persons:” (Bliss, pp 67-68)
Joseph Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, Widow Carpenter and William Carpenter mentioned.  These are the sons and Abigail the widow of William Carpenter b. abt 1605.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

SEE ALSO 929.273 C226c A MANUSCRIPT ON THE "DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH CARPENTER" AT THE SAN DIEGO MULTI-REGIONAL FAMILY HISTORY CENTER FOR DESCENDANTS NOT LISTED HEREIN.

SEE "The Epistle" (Vol. 2, No.12, p 41) He moved from Rehoboth to nearby Swansea about 1662 and was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in MA (at Swansea) in 1663.

THE SECOND BOAT (Vol. 1 No.1 ) May 1980 indicates Joseph died in RI. The 1898 book states he was buried near the 100 acre cove in Barrington, RI.

NOTE:
Joseph was one of the founders of the first Baptist church in MA in 1663. He was one of seven members who contributed to the building of the fourth Baptist church in America located at Swansey (Swansea).  He was also fined 5 pounds and prohibitted from worship for one month in relation to the building of said church.  He moved from Rehoboth to Swansea in 1661 or 1662.
His will was dated 3 May 1675.  See pages 45, 46 and 833 of the Carpenter Memorial (1898 book) for detailed notes.

WILL: His will is dated 3 May 1676.  In it he mentioned his wife and sons Joseph, Benjamin and John Carpenter, his daughters and noted that "my wife is with child, (who) shall have his part in the lands before described."
He appointed his wife executrix and desired that his loving brothers William and Samuel be overseers.

Amos B. Carpenter, The Carpenter Memorial, Carpenter and Morehouse, Amherst, MA, 1898; # 19.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/P239.htm
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Joseph Carpenter
November 2, 1676
Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):33-36
(See Gene Zubrinsky notes above)

BURIAL:
BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
Swansey Register of Marriages, Birthes, and Burialls
Page 61
Joseph Carpenter was buried the 6th of May, 1675

GRAVE:  
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44237520
Joseph Carpenter
Birth: 1634
Shalbourne
Wiltshire Unitary Authority  
Wiltshire, England
Death: May 4, 1675
Rehoboth
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA
He was christened Apr 6,1634 at Shalbourne, Co.Wiltshire, England.
He was the son of William Carpenter and Abigail Briant Carpenter.
He married Margaret Sutton on Nov 25,1655 at Rehoboth,MA.
Children: Joseph Carpenter Jr, Benjamin Carpenter, Abigail Carpenter, Esther Carpenter, an infant daughter, John Carpenter, Hannah Carpenter, Solomon Carpenter, and Margaret Carpenter Chaffee.
NOTE: His stone longer exists.
Family links:
 Parents:
 William Carpenter (1605 - 1658)
 Abigail Briant Carpenter (1604 - 1687)
 Spouse:
 Margaret Sutton Carpenter (1635 - 1676)
 Children:
 Joseph Carpenter (1656 - 1718)*
 Benjamin Carpenter (1658 - 1727)*
 Siblings:
 Abigail Carpenter Titus Palmer (1629 - 1710)*
 William Carpenter (1631 - 1703)*
 Joseph Carpenter (1634 - 1675)
 Samuel Carpenter (1638 - 1682)*
 Hannah Carpenter Carpenter (1640 - 1673)*
 Abiah Carpenter (1643 - 1688)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Knockum Hill Cemetery  <---No. Near, 100-acre Cove Cemetery, now in, Barrington, Providence, Rhode Island.
Barrington
Bristol County
Rhode Island, USA
 
Created by: Kevin Avery
Record added: Nov 12, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 44237520

Margaret Sutton

MARGARET SUTTON, who was baptized at Attleborough, Norfolk, England, on 30 November
1637 and died, probably at Swansea, between 21 March 1675[/6] and 4 October
1676 (not in 1700), daughter of John1 and Julian (Adcocke) Sutton of Hingham,
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Rehoboth (TAG 70:194, 204; RVR 1:44; AttParReg
1:65v; MD 19:165; PCR 5:116; PCPR 3:2:33, 36, 37; SwVR A:147; NEHGR 15:26–27,
91:61–64; 143:299–300, 159:44–45; Carpenter [1898] 45 [burial place]; see also
MARRIAGE and COMMENTS sections, below). (Updated 3 Oct 201 by Gene Zubrinsky)

For details of Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter’s family of origin and the identities of all four of her grandparents, see Zubrinsky, “Julian Adcocke, Wife of John1 Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Their Family,” NEHGR 167(2013):7–14; idem, “The English Origin of John1 Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts,” NEHGR (forthcoming).  (Updated 17 Jan 2017 by Gene Zubrinsky)

[While the foregoing genealogical data
is presented in Register style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source
citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO
SOURCE NOTES, at the end of this sketch. The format below is patterned loosely after
that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series.]

MARRIAGE: The month of Joseph and Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter’s marriage, which
Amos B. Carpenter mistakenly gives as May, is November (Carpenter [1898] 45; RVR
1:44).

Widow Margaret Carpenter submitted her husband Joseph’s estate inventory to the court
on 21 March 1675[/6] (PCPR 3:2:36). In that her own inventory was taken on 4 October
1676, she died between those dates (see PCPR 3:2:37). The Old Rehoboth (Newman)
Cemetery gravestone whose inscription Amos Carpenter presents as “M. C. D. Y. 1700
A. G. 65” and attributes to Margaret belongs to Mary (Kingsbury) Cooper, born at Dedham,
Massachusetts, 1 September 1637, and died at Rehoboth, 18 September 1700, wife
of Thomas2 Cooper (NEHGR 159:45n13; RI Cems 63; Carpenter [1898] 45).
Due to this misidentification, Amos Carpenter gives Margaret’s gravesite as the “East
Providence burial ground,” that is, the Old Rehoboth (Newman) Cemetery (Carpenter
[1898] 45). Having died so soon after her husband, however, she was almost certainly
buried next to him, in present-day Barrington (see above).
                                              ____________________

[Like the transcription of her husband's estate inventory (see above), Margaret Carpenter's is retained from the CE 2001 despite its imperfections. Based on the original, Plymouth Colony record, minor revisions have been made to the introductory and concluding passages. The inventory items themselves remain as originally transcribed. ECZ]

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/P278.htm
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Margaret Carpenter
October 4, 1676
Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):37-38
#P278
The Inventory of Margaret Carpenter

An Inventory of the estate of Margarett Carpentor wife of Joseph Carpentor deceased exhibited to the / Court held att Plymouth the 2cond of Nouember 1676 on the oath of / Will[i]am Carpentor apprised by Mr Nicholas Tanner and John Butterworth / this 4th of October 1676
                         L  s  d
Impr: her wearing apparrell
Item 4 petticoates 02 05 00
Item 3 wastcoates 01 05 00
Item 4 aprons 00 15 00
Item 2 hatts 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of shooes 1 paire of stockens 1 paire of bodies 00 10 00
Item a yard of Cloth 00 06 00
Item a shift and smale linnine 00 15 00
Item thrid and pins 00 02 00
Item 7 yards and 3 quarters of Cloth 01 00 00
Item 3 yards of Carsey 00 15 00
Item a shift and smale linnine 00 15 00
[items crossed out but value stands]
Item 2 yards and a quarter 00 10 00
Item 26 yards of Cloth att the weauers
Item 1 box locke 01 01 00
item in mony 02 05 00
Item a box with a drawer and a few smale thinges in it 00 15 00
Item an Inkhorn 00 01 00
Item a gun 02 00 00
Item a rapier 00 12 00
Item an old Rapier 00 03 00
Item a belt 00 02 06
Item a Chest & old box 00 09 00
Item a Cradle 00 05 00
Item 4 Chaires 00 08 00
Item 9 pound of woollen yern 01 02 06
a paire of andirons 01 08 00
Item 2 fier shouells and pare of tonggs 00 12 06
Item 2 smoothing Irons 00 05 00
Item 2 pothangers 00 10 00
Item a warming pan 00 05 00
Item a lookeing glasse and Grater 00 02 00
Item a frying pan 00 04 00
Item a spitt 00 05 00
Item 2 paire of shooes 00 02 06
Item 9 trayes 00 05 00
Item a pistoll 00 08 00
Item eleuen trenchers 00 01 06
Item 3 bibles 00 15 00
a Great bible [written in margin] 00 15 00
Item a Psalm book & a Psalter 00 02 06
Item 3 bookes 00 15 00
Item kniues & sissers 00 01 03
Item 2 pond and an half of Flax 00 03 00
Item 8 spoons 00 0[?]
Item a Flaggon 00 18 00
Item a Cupp 00 04 00
[38]
Item 6 porrengors 00 10 00
Item 6 platters 02 00 00
Item 4 peeces of pewter 00 07 00
Item 4 pound of Cotton yerne 00 14 00
Item Course yerne for blanketts 01 00 00
Item 6 pound of woole 00 04 00
Item 3 paire of Cards 00 06 00
Item a paire of flocke Cards 00 08 00
Item a Gridiron 00 04 00
Item 2 seiues 00 02 00
Item two brasse lockes 00 02 00
Item 9 [trew?]ell & lines 00 02 00
Item 7 pound of Flax 00 08 00
Item 2 Iron kettles & 2 potts pothookes and skillett 02 08 00
Item a Great brasse kettl 01 15 00
Item a blankett a sheet a bolster and pillow 01 15 00
Item a paire of New blanketts 01 15 00
Item 2 wheeles 00 08 00
Item 3 pailes 1 tubb 00 05 00
Item 3 Glasse bottles 00 03 00
Item 1 Iugge 00 01 06
Item an houre Glasse 00 01 00
Item a Couerlid and blankett 01 15 00
Item 6 dishes a pipkin and a Can 00 03 00
Item a paire of scales 00 02 06
Item a pillian 00 03 00
Item a blankett a Green Rugg & a pillow 01 10 00
Item 2 blanketts 01 00 00
Item 2 bedds and a bolster 01 10 00
Item 1 new Chairre 00 03 00
Item 2 bedsteeds 01 00 00
Item 5 Glasse bottles 00 10 00
a table Cloth* 00 10 00
2 pillowbeer* 00 06 00
5 sheets* 02 10 00
a Green Rugg sad somethings else* 01 10 00
Item 13 hundred of Nailes 00 13 00
Item a kneading trough and a halfe bushell 00 04 00
Item Indian Corn 00 04 00
Item 2 baggs 00 06 00
Itemn old saddle & bridl 00 04 00
Item 2 pound and halfe of Cotton woole 00 01 06
Item Cart wheels yoak Copps 01 10 00
Item a Chain 01 05 00
Item horse Chaines 00 15 00
Item plow Irons & Copps 00 10 00
Item 2 oxen 08 00 00
Item 2 Cowes 06 00 00
Item 2 two yeer olds 04 00 00
Item 2 yeerlings 03 [MS smudged]
Item half a horse 00 10 00
Item Corn on the Ground 01 00 00
Item an hoe and axe 00 04 00
Item halfe a steele trapp 00 16 00
Item a meale trough and bushells & other lumber 00 07 00
Item a sett of harrow teeth 00 12 00
Item a paire of bodyes 00 08 00
Item a debt 05 0[MS torn]
_____________
87 [...MS torn...]
[89 16 09] [sic; a subsequent record has 87 01 06 (see PCPR 4:2:121)]
This Inventory taken and apprised by vs / whose names are vnder written the day / and yeer first aboue written Nicholas Tanner
[page torn through second name]
(Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 37-38)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* [These items are written in the left hand margin.]

OLD NOTES:

DEATH: May 1675 per AF.

SEE JOSEPH CARPENTER'S NOTES.   ALSO PER NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700:
MARGARET SUTTON CARPENTER DIED 1700, AE 65. *** THIS IS IN CONFLICT WITH IGI RECORDS.
!THE SECOND BOAT (VOL. 1 NO. 1) MAY 1980 INDICATES SHE DIED CA 1700 IN RHODE ISLAND.

NOTE: early marriage records include a record for a Joseph Carpenter to Margaret SABIN on Nov. 25, 1655, possibly at Rehoboth.  Is it possible that Margaret was a widow?

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/P278.htm
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Margaret Carpenter
October 4, 1676
Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):37-38
#P278
The Inventory of Margaret Carpenter
An Inventory of the estate of Margarett Carpentor wife of Ioseph Carpentor deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 2cond of Nouember 1676 on the oath of Willan Carpentor apprised by Mr Nicholas Tanner and Iohn Butterworth this 4th of October 1676.
L s d
Impr: her wearing apparrell
Item 4 petticoates 02 05 00
Item 3 wastcoates 01 05 00
Item 4 aprons 00 15 00
Item 2 hatts 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of shooes 1 paire of stockens 1 paire of bodies 00 10 00
Item a yard of Cloth 00 06 00
Item a shift and smale linnine 00 15 00
Item thrid and pins 00 02 00
Item 7 yards and 3 quarters of Cloth 01 00 00
Item 3 yards of Carsey 00 15 00
Item a shift and smale linnine 00 15 00
[items crossed out but value stands]
Item 2 yards and a quarter 00 10 00
Item 26 yards of Cloth att the weauers
Item 1 box locke 01 01 00
item in mony 02 05 00
Item a box with a drawer and a few smale thinges in it 00 15 00
Item an Inkhorn 00 01 00
Item a gun 02 00 00
Item a rapier 00 12 00
Item an old Rapier 00 03 00
Item a belt 00 02 06
Item a Chest & old box 00 09 00
Item a Cradle 00 05 00
Item 4 Chaires 00 08 00
Item 9 pound of woollen yern 01 02 06
a paire of andirons 01 08 00
Item 2 fier shouells and pare of tonggs 00 12 06
Item 2 smoothing Irons 00 05 00
Item 2 pothangers 00 10 00
Item a warming pan 00 05 00
Item a lookeing glasse and Grater 00 02 00
Item a frying pan 00 04 00
Item a spitt 00 05 00
Item 2 paire of shooes 00 02 06
Item 9 trayes 00 05 00
Item a pistoll 00 08 00
Item eleuen trenchers 00 01 06
Item 3 bibles 00 15 00
a Great bible [written in margin] 00 15 00
Item a Psalm book & a Psalter 00 02 06
Item 3 bookes 00 15 00
Item kniues & sissers 00 01 03
Item 2 pond and an half of Flax 00 03 00
Item 8 spoons 00 0[?]
Item a Flaggon 00 18 00
Item a Cupp 00 04 00
[38]
Item 6 porrengors 00 10 00
Item 6 platters 02 00 00
Item 4 peeces of pewter 00 07 00
Item 4 pound of Cotton yerne 00 14 00
Item Course yerne for blanketts 01 00 00
Item 6 pound of woole 00 04 00
Item 3 paire of Cards 00 06 00
Item a paire of flocke Cards 00 08 00
Item a Gridiron 00 04 00
Item 2 seiues 00 02 00
Item two brasse lockes 00 02 00
Item 9 [trew?]ell & lines 00 02 00
Item 7 pound of Flax 00 08 00
Item 2 Iron kettles & 2 potts pothookes and skillett 02 08 00
Item a Great brasse kettl 01 15 00
Item a blankett a sheet a bolster and pillow 01 15 00
Item a paire of New blanketts 01 15 00
Item 2 wheeles 00 08 00
Item 3 pailes 1 tubb 00 05 00
Item 3 Glasse bottles 00 03 00
Item 1 Iugge 00 01 06
Item an houre Glasse 00 01 00
Item a Couerlid and blankett 01 15 00
Item 6 dishes a pipkin and a Can 00 03 00
Item a paire of scales 00 02 06
Item a pillian 00 03 00
Item a blankett a Green Rugg & a pillow 01 10 00
Item 2 blanketts 01 00 00
Item 2 bedds and a bolster 01 10 00
Item 1 new Chairre 00 03 00
Item 2 bedsteeds 01 00 00
Item 5 Glasse bottles 00 10 00
a table Cloth* 00 10 00
2 pillowbeer* 00 06 00
5 sheets* 02 10 00
a Green Rugg sad somethings else* 01 10 00
Item 13 hundred of Nailes 00 13 00
Item a kneading trough and a halfe bushell 00 04 00
Item Indian Corn 00 04 00
Item 2 baggs 00 06 00
Itemn old saddle & bridl 00 04 00
Item 2 pound and halfe of Cotton woole 00 01 06
Item Cart wheels yoak Copps 01 10 00
Item a Chain 01 05 00
Item horse Chaines 00 15 00
Item plow Irons & Copps 00 10 00
Item 2 oxen 08 00 00
Item 2 Cowes 06 00 00
Item 2 two yeer olds 04 00 00
Item 2 yeerlings 03 [MS smudged]
Item half a horse 00 10 00
Item Corn on the Ground 01 00 00
Item an hoe and axe 00 04 00
Item halfe a steele trapp 00 16 00
Item a meale trough and bushells & other lumber 00 07 00
Item a sett of harrow teeth 00 12 00
Item a paire of bodyes 00 08 00
Item a debt 05 0[MS torn]
--------------
87 [...MS torn...]
[89 16 09]
This Inventory taken and apprised by vs whose names are vnder written th day and yeer first aboue written Nicholas Tanner
[page torn through second name]
Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 37-38.
3 of 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* [These items are written in the left hand margin.]

[End Gene Zubrinsky notes]

50. Abigail Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Number 47 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.

52. Martha Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Number 49 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.
NAME: Unknown

Beeekman Patent Book claims this is Martha.

Gene Zubrinsky writes in his article on the 3 John Carpenters ...
A Martha Carpenter died at Swansea on 22 March 1735, “in the :73: year of her age or their about.”[] Based on her place of death and implied birth year (ca. 1663); the ten-year gap between the fourth and fifth recorded births of Joseph Carpenter’s children; his bequests to “my five daughters”; and the elimination of all other contemporary Carpenter couples as her possible parents, Martha was probably Joseph and Margaret’s daughter and is so identified in the literature. ...

54. 7 Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

NAME: Unknown

Possibility of a duplicate.

56. Solomon Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Number 52 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.

BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
Swansey Register of Marriages, Birthes, and Burialls, 1674
Page 51
Sollomon, the son of Joseph Carpenter, deceased the 25th of October 1674.

12. Samuel Carpenter

INTRO:
Samuel Carpenter (William ) was born about 1638 probably in, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was buried on 20 Feb 1682/3 in Old Rehoboth (Newman) Cem., now in East Providence, RI.
Samuel married Sarah Redway/Readaway, on 25 May 1660 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Sarah was born about 1642, probably in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, daughter of James1 Redway. She died on 15 Jul 1717 in Rehoboth.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

SAMUEL3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was born about 1638 (not 1644), probably at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was buried in Old Rehoboth (Newman) Cemetery, in that part of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, now East Providence, Rhode Island, on 20 February 1682[/3]. He married at Rehoboth on 25 May 1660, SARAH REDWAY, born about 1642, probably at Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and died at Rehoboth on 15 July 1717 (not 8 Jan. 1717/8), daughter of James1 Redway. Sarah married second at Rehoboth on 18 January 1687[/8], as his second wife, Gilbert Brooks, born about 1621 (aged 14 in 1635) and died at Rehoboth on 13 June 1695 (TAG 70:194, 195-97, 204; PCR 3:215, 6:102; RVR 1:44, 48, 56, 57, 2:230, 266; PCPR 4:2:73; RPropR 2:11; Early Rehoboth 1:128-29, 130-31, 4:32; RI Cems 63; BrCoPR 1:129; GM 1:407-11; see also BIRTH, DEATH, and COMMENTS sections, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his _Great Migration_ series.]

BIRTH: A 1995 journal article makes a strong circumstantial case that Samuel was born about 1638, rather than 1644, as often said (see TAG 70:195-97; also, for example, Carpenter [1898] 48). The article's author (this writer) has since confirmed this conclusion, having discovered that Samuel Carpenter was sworn a Grand Enquest juryman at Plymouth on 4 June 1661 (PCR 3:215). In that the age requirement for holding public office was twenty-one, Samuel must have been born by 4 June 1640. But since his sister Hannah was born in April of that year, it is appropriate to estimate Samuel's birth year as about 1638. A brother of the same name had died as an infant at Shalbourne, England, in 1637 (TAG 70:194, 196, 204; see also William2 of Rehoboth notes, CHILDREN).

DEATH: Samuel's gravestone inscription and Rehoboth vital records give his year of death and burial, respectively, as 1682 (RVR 1:56; RI Cems 63 [year only]). That this is an Old Style date (year beginning 25 March) is evident from the fact that his estate was settled and letters of administration were granted by the Court of Assistants on 6 March 1682/3 (PCR 6:102). Plymouth Colony law required that a decedent's will (if any) and/or estate inventory be presented at the next Court of Assistants held after his death; the previous such court had met on 31 October 1682 (Pilgrim Laws 36 [1672]; PCR 6:97-99). Accordingly, Samuel's year of death is expressed in the first paragraph as 1682[/3].
(He was buried at Rehoboth on 20 February 1682[/3] (Rehoboth VR, 1:56). His death is not recorded.)

RESIDENCES: Weymouth (probably from birth, ca. 1638); Rehoboth (1644).

OCCUPATION: Cooper and yeoman (see ESTATE, below).

FREEMAN: Though there is no known record of Samuel's having been propounded for or admitted to freemanship, he appears on the Plymouth Colony list of freemen dated 29 May 1670 (PCR 5:278).

EDUCATION: Samuel's estate inventory includes an item for four books, and his signature as a witness appears on several deeds (PCPR 4:2:42; see, for example, PCLR 3:1:6, 3:2:224-25, 4:2:330).

OFFICES: Grand juror (Plymouth Colony Grand Enquest), 1661; surveying activity for the town, 1663, 1663/4; way warden (surveyor [overseer] of highways), 1664, 1680; constable, 1666, 1677; coroner's jury, 1668, 1673/4 (PCR 3:215, 4:123, 5:6, 231, 6:42; RTM 1:62r/135, 69v/150, 72v/156, 73r/157, 79/166, 2:18, 30).

ESTATE: Samuel's estate inventory was taken on 27 February 1682[/3], and widow Sarah swore to its accuracy on 1 March 168[2/]3 (PCPR 4:2:42, 44; DEATH, above). The inventory contains ample evidence in land, implements, and animals of his having been a farmer; it also lists many tools and materials pertaining to the cooper's trade. His estate (land included) was valued at £436 10s. 6d. The inventory identifies tracts of specified area totaling 220 acres and several other parcels of unspecified size, including his home lot, described elsewhere as comprising twelve acres (PCPR 4:2:42-44; RPropR 1:13).

Samuel died intestate. On 6 March 1682/3, the Plymouth Colony Governor and Court of Assistants granted letters of administration on Samuel's estate to his brother William, son Samuel Jr., and relict Sarah. His estate was settled the same day, with Sarah to receive a widow's one-third, dower share and £26 "for and toward the bringing vp of four smale children, and the remainder to be deuided into eleuen p[ar]tes, the eldest to haue a double p[ar]te, and the rest to be deuided amongst the children equally and in a like proportions, viz., the children of Mr Samuell Carpenter, late deceased" (PCR 6:102).

CHILDREN: All born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:6).

i. SAMUEL4 CARPENTER, b. 15 Sept. 1661, d. Rehoboth 17 Jan. 1736/7, in 76th yr.; m. Rehoboth 8 Jan. 168[2/]3, PATIENCE IDE, b. Rehoboth 25 May 1664, d. there 28 Oct. 1732, aged 68, dau. of Nicholas and Martha (Bliss?) Ide (RVR 1:19, 48, 2:242, 244; Old Rehoboth Cem 15; RI Cems 69; Early Rehoboth 1:132). Their marriage record, entered at Rehoboth with the year 1683, appears in Plymouth Colony records as part of an undated year's list of vital records forwarded by Rehoboth town clerk William3 Carpenter. The list includes several birth records originally dated in 1682/3 and none of several originally dated in 1683/4 (see PCR 8:87-88; RVR 1:24, 29, 37, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49). The year of marriage is therefore presented above as 168[2/]3.
It is often said that Patience (Ide) Carpenter's mother, Martha, was the daughter of Thomas1 Bliss of Rehoboth (formerly of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, and Braintree, Mass. Bay Colony). This is far from certain, however. For arguments pro and con, see the thread of messages on GenForum's Ide Family Genealogy Forum beginning with #275, online at . A 1647 marriage at Springfield, Mass., sometimes attributed to Nicholas Ide and Martha Bliss is not recorded and almost certainly did not occur. The earliest Blisses of Springfield were children of a different Thomas Bliss, who lived at Hartford, Connecticut, and had no daughter Martha (see GenForum, as above).
Amos Carpenter presents Samuel and Patience's son Jedediah's correct birth data (Rehoboth, 15 Dec. 1696) but assigns his wife and children to another Jedediah Carpenter, born at Northampton, Mass., 1 Oct. 1697 and died at Stafford, Conn., 2 March 1781, son of Benjamin4 and Hannah (Strong) Carpenter; the latter's wife is unknown (Carpenter [1898] 65, 78, 96-97; RVR 1:56; CVR 19; StVR [Barbour] 2:177; NVR 1:102; see also William3 notes, CHILDREN, no. iv). Samuel and Patience's son Jedediah died at Rehoboth 15 Dec. 1731; he married there 24 May 1725 Mercy Brown of Barrington, Mass. (now in R.I.), born at Swansea, Mass., 25 Nov. 1699, dau. of James and Margaret (Denison) Brown (RVR 2:144, 241; SwVR A:36, 93; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:317-18). They had four children, all born at Rehoboth: 1. Amy, b. 24 May 1726; 2. Rebecca, b. 9 March 1728; 3. Caleb, b. 13 March 1729/30; 4. Patience, b. 6 Feb. 1731/2 (RVR 2:65).
ii. SARAH CARPENTER, b. 11 Jan. 1663, d. Rehoboth 5 Jan. 1747/8; m. Rehoboth 17 May 1683, NATHANIEL PERRY, b. Rehoboth 8 Oct. 1660, d. there before 22 April 1715 (estate inv.), son of Anthony and Elizabeth (______) Perry (RVR 1:3, 47, 2:257; BrCoPR [abstr] 2:39, 55; BrCoPR 3:222, 244, 264-67).
iii. ENS. ABIAH CARPENTER, b. 10 Feb. 1665, d. Rehoboth 28 April 1732, in 68th yr.; m. (1) Rehoboth 30 May 1690, MEHITABEL READ, b. Rehoboth 13 April 1667, d. there 19 March 1702[/3?], dau. of John2 and Rachel (______) Read; m. (2) Rehoboth 7 June 1703, SARAH READ, d. there 17 July 1724 (prob. b. Rehoboth 10 March 1666, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clarke) Read); m. (3) Rehoboth 16 July 1726, MARY ORMSBEE (not Mary Perrin [m. (1) Jacob (not Isaiah) Ormsby 1670, (2) Nicholas Ide 1677]; not dau. of Jeremiah and Mehitabel (Willmarth) Ormsbee [b. 1708, d. 1789, in 81st yr.; m. Thomas Redway 1749]). Widow Mary probably m. (2) Rehoboth 19 April 1733, John Read of Barrington, Mass. (now in R.I.) (RVR 1:21, 24, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 53, 121, 173 [not 169], 2:142, 152, 235, 241, 262; Old Rehoboth Cem 16, 17; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:203; NEHGR 62:236-37; Early Rehoboth 1:150; RVR [pub] 481).
iv. JAMES CARPENTER, b. 12 April 1668, d. Rehoboth 27 April 1738, in 71st yr.; m. (1) Rehoboth 26 June 1690, DOROTHY BLISS, b. Rehoboth 27 Jan. 1668[/9?], d. there 28 Oct. 1694, dau. of Jonathan Bliss and probable wife Rachel Puffer (not Miriam Harmon/Wilmarth); m. (2) Rehoboth 15 April 1695, GRACE PALMER, b. Rehoboth 1 Oct. 1668, living there 2 March 1737/8 (James's will), dau. of Jonah and Elizabeth (Grissell/Griswold) Palmer (RVR 1:5, 13, 44, 49, 80, 89 [not 91], 163 [not 95], 2:246; Old Rehoboth Cem 18; RI Cems 69; NEHGR 151:31-37, 159:361-62; BrCoPR 2:255-56; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:270; GMB 3:1382 ).
v. JACOB CARPENTER, b. 5 Sept. 1670. He survived the 1690 Canada Expedition (in which he is said probably to have been killed [Early Rehoboth 1:132]), but fell sick in Rhode Island and died there not long before 23 Sept. 1693, when his estate inventory was taken at Rehoboth (BrCoPR [packets]).
vi. JONATHAN CARPENTER, b. _ [illegible (not 6, as per RVR [pub] 571)] Dec. 1672, d. Rehoboth 23 Aug. 1716, aged 44; m. Rehoboth 13 March 1699, HANNAH FRENCH, b. Rehoboth 19 Oct. 1679, d. there 2 Oct. 1768, in 80th [sic] yr., dau. of John and Hannah (Palmer) French. Widow Hannah m. (2) Rehoboth 18 Nov. 1725, as his 2nd wife, David Thurston (RVR 1:37, 46, 152, 174 [not 168], 2:140, 230; Old Rehoboth Cem 18, 51; RI Cems 69, 358; RVR [pub] 363, citing RVR 7:11). The will of John French, dated 31 May 1723, names daughter Hannah Carpenter, widow. Dated 16 May 1726, the account of the will's executor, French's son Jonathan, calls David Thurston the husband of Hannah Carpenter (BrCoPR [abstr] 1:119, 134).
vii. DAVID CARPENTER, b. 17 April 1675, d. Rehoboth 26 July 1701, aged 26; m. Rehoboth 22 Nov. 1697, REBECCA (WARD?) HUNT (widow of Ephraim, m. Rehoboth ca. 1686), b. ca. 1665, d. Rehoboth 14 April 1749, in 85th yr. Widow Rebecca m. (3) Rehoboth 25 Nov. 1706, Samuel Wilson; she m. (4) Rehoboth 25 May 1713, Lt. John Wilson of Billerica, Mass. (not related to Samuel) (RVR 1:93; Old Rehoboth Cem 16; RI Cems 63; NEHGR 159:60-63). Fourteen years Ephraim Hunt's junior and about ten years younger than Hunt's widow, David had been bound out to him and presumably remained in the Hunt household until turning twenty-one, if not longer. His marrying Rebecca (a year and a half after coming of age) probably grew out of their close living and working conditions, which extended through at least the first two years of her widowhood (NEHGR 159:61-62).
viii. SOLOMON CARPENTER, b. 23 Dec. 1677, d. South Kingstown, R.I., between 30 April (will) and 8 Oct. 1750 (probate); m. prob. South Kingstown, before 1703 (1st child b. 4 Jan. 1703), ELIZABETH TEFFT, b. Providence, R.I., or Kingstown (that part now South Kingstown) say 1682, d. before 30 April 1750 (not named in Solomon's will), dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Jenckes?) Tefft (Austin 36, 113, 392, 393; RIVR 5:2[South Kingstown]:40; NEHGR 159:58-59, 362; Prov Co Hist 2:119). For definitive evidence that Solomon was the son of Samuel3 Carpenter--not of the latter's brother Abiah, as often stated--see NEHGR 159(2005):362. A secondary source presents Elizabeth (Tefft) Carpenter's birth date as 29 Sept. 1687 (see Ancestral Lines 618). But as the Tefft Family Association's genealogist confirms, there is no known documentary source for this--or for attributing to Elizabeth's mother the maiden name Jenckes (Tim Tefft, e-mail to this writer). In light of Solomon's birth date and that of their first child, a 1687 birth date for Elizabeth seems too late by several years.
ix. ZACHARIAH CARPENTER, b. 1 (not 10) July 1680, d. Rehoboth 8 April 1718, aged 38; m. Rehoboth 8 Nov. 1705, MARTHA IDE, b. Rehoboth 18 March 1682/3, d. there (as Martha Walker) 22 Aug. 1756 (not 17 June 1727, date of their dau. Martha's death), dau. of Nicholas and Mary (Perrin) (Ormsby) Ide. Widow Martha m. (2) Rehoboth 24 March 1718/9, as his 2nd wife, Ephraim Carpenter, b. 25 April 1681, d. Rehoboth 30 April 1743, aged 62, son of William3 and Miriam (Sale) Carpenter; m. (3) Rehoboth 8 Dec. 1748, as his 3rd wife, Peter Walker (his 2nd wife was widow Martha Read [d. 1647/8]), b. Rehoboth 18 Sept. 1689, d. there 24 March 1760, at/in 74th [sic] yr. (RVR 1:9, 43, 44, 45, 46, 53, 54, 174 [not 170], 2:8, 134, 145, 231, 238, 250, 256, 264, 3:359, 361; Early Rehoboth 1:112; BrCoPR [abstr] 1:157, 340, 2:263, 265; Old Rehoboth Cem 14, 53; RI Cems 68, 372; RVR [pub] 507).
x. ABRAHAM CARPENTER, b. 25 Sept. 1682, d. Rehoboth 20 or 22 April 1758, in 75th yr.; m. (1) Rehoboth 1 May 1705, ABIELL/ABIALL (not Abigail) BULLARD, b. Medfield, Mass., 29 [prob. Sept. or Oct. 1681], d. 5 June 1713, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (______) Bullard (also Bullerd/Bullward/Bullen); m. (2) Rehoboth 22 April 1714, ELEANOR (WATERS) CHARD (widow of Caleb, m. Bridgewater, Mass., 23 April 1700; he d. there ca. 1709), b. ca. 1678, d. Rehoboth 27 Dec. 1762, in 85th yr. (RVR 1:122, 158, 161, 174 [not 170], 3:360, 362; MVR 25-28; BVR 2:393; Porter Gen 19).

COMMENTS: T. E. Delaney's biographical account of Samuel3 Carpenter (compiled for an undergraduate anthropology class at the University of Virginia) is prominently featured in the notes for Samuel in the CE 2001 (see SamCarpSr). It contains many errors and omissions, however, and should be read with great caution.

The estimation of Sarah Redway's year of birth as 1642 is based on her father's having served a three-year term of indenture at Hingham, beginning in mid-1637 and the assumption that he did not marry until the year following his release therefrom; his second child was born on 10 December 1644 (Early Rehoboth 1:124-26, citing SLR 3:176-77; RVR 1:12).

The published volume of Rehoboth vital records gives widow Sarah (Redway) (Carpenter) Brooks's date of death as 8 January 1717/8 and describes her in that record as a "stranger" (non-inhabitant) (see RVR [pub] 804). That information, however, belongs to an adjacent entry; the original record gives her date of death as 15 July 1717 (RVR 2:230).

James1 Redway's wife has not been identified. Mary Whipple is sometimes mentioned, but she married in 1748, as his second wife, Capt. James3 Redway (RVR 2:266).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Ancestral Lines: Carl Boyer, _Ancestral Lines_, 3rd ed. (Santa Clarita, Calif., 1998)

Austin: John Osborne Austin, _The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1969)

BrCoPR: Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, vols. 1-4 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #461,882]

BrCoPR [abstr]: H. L. Peter Rounds, _Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records_, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 1988)

BrCoPR [packets]: Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Files (Carpenter, Caroline - Carpenter, Jarvis) [FHL film #572,197]

BVR: _Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1916)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

CVR: _Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844_, ed. Susan Whitney Dimock (New York, 1897)

Early Rehoboth: Richard LeBaron Bowen, _Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township_, 4 vols. (Rehoboth, Mass., 1945-1950)

GM: Robert Charles Anderson, George Freeman Sanborn Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, _The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I A-B_ (Boston, 1999)

GMB: Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633_, 3 vols. (Boston, 1995)

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

MVR: _Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850_ (Boston, 1903)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NVR: Northampton, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #186,161]

Old Rehoboth Cem: Marion Pearce Carter, "Old Rehoboth Cemetery . . . Near Newman's Church" (Attleborough, 1932; typescript) [FHL film #22,366, item 16]

PCLR: Plymouth Colony Deeds, vols. 2-4 [FHL film #567,789]

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

PCR: _Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England_, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-1861)

Pilgrim Laws: John D. Cushing, ed., _The Laws of the Pilgrims: A Facsimile Edition of The Book of the General Laws of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plymouth. 1672 & 1685_ (Wilmington, Del., 1977)

Porter Gen: Joseph W. Porter, _A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635 . . ._ (Bangor, Maine, 1878)

Prov Co Hist: Richard M. Bayles, ed., _History of Providence County, Rhode Island_, 2 vols. (New York, 1891)

RI Cems: The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Master Index, online at

RIVR: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1891-1912)

RPropR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Proprietors Records (original), vols. 1-4 [FHL film #550,004]; transcription of vols. 1-2 also available [FHL #550,001]

RTM: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Town Meeting Records, vols. 1 and 2 [FHL films #562,558 (uncatalogued), item 4, and #562,561, item 2, respectively]

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, vol. 1 [FHL film #562,559 (restricted), item 3], vols. 2-3 [FHL #562,558 (uncatalogued), items 5-6]; citations of vol. 1 in text, above, include any necessary corrections to page numbers cited in RVR [pub]

RVR [pub]: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896_ (Providence, 1897)

SamCarpSr: T. E. Delaney, "Samuel Carpenter, Sr., of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony" (1999), online at , a Plymouth Colony Archive Project webpage

SLR: Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Deeds

StVR [Barbour]: _The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stafford 1719-1850, Tolland 1715-1850_ (Baltimore, 2002)

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, item 5]

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

BOOK- GENEALOGY: PER "GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK" LEWIS 1912, PAGE 1318: SAMUEL, YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM, WAS BORN IN REHOBOTH ABOUT 1644, AND DIED THERE 20 FEB 1683.

BIRTH: This was the second Samuel born in the family.  He was probably born in late 1638 or very early in 1639 (probably the former). His parents set sail on  He was of age when listed in his father's will (proved April 1659) and could not have been born in 1644.
His parents, with children, embarked at Southampton, Hampshire, on the Bevis. The preamble to the ship's passenger list indicates that by 2 May 1638 "they [had been] some Dayes gone to sea" (NEHGR 14:336). They landed probably at Boston (the point of all but a handful of Bay Colony arrivals) in July 1638 (the average ocean crossing took eight to ten weeks).  If this second Samuel was indeed born in Weymouth then he was likely born between July 1638 to the end of March 1638 which was the end of the year back then. That eight month window is rather wide and thus we simply give his birth as about 1638.

NOTE: SEE ALSO "NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700" PAGE 136 AND "BROOKS" PAGE 102: CARPENTER, SAMUEL ( -1683) & SARAH REDAWAY, M/2 GILBERT BROOKS 1687/8; 25 MAY 1660; REHOBOTH.
Rehoboth vital records regarding marriages 1652-1896 on page 78 lists 25 May 1660 as the marriage date in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

SAMUEL WAS ONE OF THE PURCHASERS OF THE NORTH DIVISION OF THE NEW REHOBOTH TOWN AND RECEIVED LAND IN THE DIVISION OF 5 FEB 1671. IN 1680 CHOSEN MEMBER TO LAY OUT LAND.  HE MARRIED SARAH READAWAY AND HAD 9 SONS AND 1 DAUGHTER.
SARAH MARRIED GILBERT BROOKS AFTER SAMUEL DIED IN 1683.

BOOK- GENEALOGY: Amos B. Carpenter, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA.  Also known as the CARPENTER MEMORIAL. Published 1898 By: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, MA.
SAMUEL is listed as # 23 on page 48.
There are very extensive notes in that record.

Samuel, the son of William and Abigail Carpenter lived in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA all his life.  
It was recorded that he advanced money to carry on "Phillips War".  This may refer to the Wamponpag Indian leader which led the indians in the worst New England indian war, starting in 1675, when three Wampanoag indian warriors were executed for the murder of a Christian Indian, an informer of an alleged Indian conspiracy against the whites.  Phillip, an indian named Pometacom or Metacomet, the son of Massosoit, became the sachem of the Wamponoag Indiams in 1662 and followed a peaceful policy for nine years, even though the indians land was expropiated and they were pushed into a smaller and smaller area.  When the 3 indians were tried and executed he declared war.  By 1676 however the whites gained strength and destroyed the indians crops, captured their women and children, including Phillip's wife and son.  Finally, thru bounties, an indian traitor shot Philip near Bristol, RI on Aug. 12, 1676.

LAND: 1668
1668 -The third and last purchase was the “North Purchase,” forming now Attleborough, Mass. And Cumberland, R.I. The last was formerly called “Attleborough Gore.
May 26, 1668. : Rehoboth - “lots were drawn for the meadow lands in the North Purchase by the following persons:” (Bliss, pp 67-68)
Joseph Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, Widow Carpenter and William Carpenter mentioned.  These are the sons and Abigail the widow of William Carpenter b. abt 1605.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

FREEMAN: 1670
Plymouth Colony Court List of Freemen for Rehoboth and Swansea
29 May 1670 - “ An exact List of all the Names of the Freemen of the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth, transcribed by Nathaniell Morton, Secretary of the Court for the said Jurisdiction, the 29 May, Ann Domini 1670.” (Bowen pp 37)
Rehoboth
William Carpenter and Samuel Carpenter mentioned.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

MILITARY:   1675-1676
1675-1676 - “Phillip's War” - Garrison houses in Rehoboth North Purchase (now Attleborough) - “Woodcock's Garrison” ; The South end of Seekonk Plain (Sekonk Common); Northern part of Swansey near Mile's Bridge - “Mille's Garrison”. Bliss (pp 117-118)
The names of the Rehoboth soldiers who served in Philip's war have been preserved, and are as follows: Those engaged in the Narraganset expedition, were:  ... John Carpenter
Following are the names of those who made advances of money to support the war:
John Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, William Carpenter and Wid. Carpenter.

INHABITANT: Rehoboth Inhabitants in 1689
1689: Rehoboth (Bliss, pg 128)
“A list of the names of the inhabitants and proprietors of the Towne of Rehoboth having Rights and Titles to the Meas uages, Tenements and Lands contained in the above written Instrument hereunto annexed and affixed, which hath been reade and allowed in a full Towne meeting, ffebruary the 7th, 1689.”
Abiah* Carpenter, James Carpenter, John Carpenter, Josiah Carpenter, Sam'l* Carpenter, and William* Carpenter, jr.
* Confirmed son of William Carpenter b. abt 1605 England.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

BURIAL:
BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
Marriges, Birthes, and Burialls, att Rehoboth in the Yeers 1682
Page 79
Samuell Carpenter, Senir, buried the 20th of February, 1682

GRAVE: image
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21485365
Samuel Carpenter, Sr
Birth: 1638
Death: Feb. 20, 1682
__________________________
Birth may be 1638 or 1643
He married Sarah Readaway on May 25,1660 at Rehoboth,MA. Daughter of James Redway of Hingham and Rehoboth,MA. The surname is alternately spelled a number of ways, including Redway, Reedaway, Readaway, Reedeway, Reedaway, Reddaway, and Reddeway. Sarah was the sister of Mary Readaway Carpenter. Sarah married, second, Gilbert Brooks, and she died Jan 8,1717/8 at Rehoboth.
Children: Samuel Carpenter Jr, Sarah Carpenter Perry(wife of Nathaniel Perry), Abiah Carpenter, James Carpenter, Jacob Carpenter, Jonathan Carpenter, David Carpenter, Solomon Carpenter, Zachariah Carpenter, and Abraham Carpenter.
Family links:
 Parents:
 William Carpenter (1605 - 1658)
 Abigail Briant Carpenter (1604 - 1687)
 Spouse:
 Sarah Redway Carpenter Brooks (1642 - 1717)
 Children:
 Samuel Carpenter (1661 - 1737)*
 Abiah Carpenter (1665 - 1732)*
 James Carpenter (1668 - 1738)*
 Jonathan Carpenter (1672 - 1716)*
 David Carpenter (1675 - 1701)*
 Zachariah Carpenter (1680 - 1718)*
 Siblings:
 Abigail Carpenter Titus Palmer (1629 - 1710)*
 William Carpenter (1631 - 1703)*
 Joseph Carpenter (1634 - 1675)*
 Samuel Carpenter (1638 - 1682)
 Hannah Carpenter Carpenter (1640 - 1673)*
 Abiah Carpenter (1643 - 1688)*
*Calculated relationship
Inscription:
"S. C."
Burial:
Newman Cemetery
East Providence
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA

Maintained by: Kevin Avery
Originally Created by: Superkentman
Record added: Sep 10, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 21485365

SOURCE DATA:
Rehoboth, MA Vital Records regarding marriages 1652-1896 on page 78 lists 25 May 1660 as the marriage date in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.  See also: Rehoboth VR, 1:56 [FHL film #562559].
DAR records - Birth, Death and Marriage records.
Mrs. Emma Carpenter Blair - DAR ID Number: 43205
Mrs. Mary Melvine M. Scovil - DAR ID Number: 44234
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett Bittmann. - DAR ID Number: 53685
A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA. By Amos B. Carpenter, 1898.  Also known as the CARPENTER MEMORIAL.
Number 23 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 48.
GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK LEWIS 1912, PAGE 1318.
NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700,  PAGE 136 AND PAGE 102.
Biography of Samuel Carpenter -  Compiled by T.E. Delaney of the University of Virginia, Anth 401B, Fall 1999:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/Carpenter.html
T. E. Delaney cites:
Primary Sources
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vol. 1: 1633-1669. Ed. C. H. Simmons.  Camden: Picton Press, 1996. Volume 2, Wills, pages 357-367.
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vols. I-VII, 1670-1685. Unpublished compilation, ed. Patricia E. Scott Deetz. Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1999.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England [PCR]. 1855-61. Ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Secondary Sources
Sherman, Ruth Wilder, and Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth Colony Probate Guide, 1620-91. Plymouth Colony Research Group, 1983. Page 19.

E-MAIL:   Thu, 7 Jun 2001  From: GeneZub@aol.com
Gene Zubrinsky of Ojai, Calif. provided the following insights:
Samuel's birthplace was probably Weymouth, but there is no record to prove it.
Double dates, reflecting both Julian and Gregorian calendars (the former's year began on 25 March), were/are typically written with only the last digit repeated (e.g., 1682/3).  Repeating the first two or three digits (except in cases such as "1689/90" or "1699/1700") is to be avoided because it risks leaving the impression that the year is one or the other, rather than both.  In the case of Samuel, however, his burial (not death) record gives the date as 20 February 1682—not 1682/3, which would be the correct form only if it had been recorded as such (see Rehoboth VR [orig.], 1:56 [FHL film #562559]). If independent evidence (e.g., surrounding entries or another dated document) indicates that it represents Old Style (Julian calendar) dating, then 1682[/3] is appropriate; if you have only a plausible suspicion that this is so, you may express it as 1682[/3?].  In all other cases (including this one), present the date as recorded.  For a more detailed discussion of pre-1752 dates and their form of expression, see Donald Lines Jacobus's little classic, Genealogy as Pastime and Profession, 2d ed. (Baltimore, 1968), 109-13, and/or Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1 (Boston, 1995), 1:xxiv.
The date of Samuel's death is not recorded.
Notes for 512. Samuel Carpenter
<< BIRTH: This was the second Samuel born in the family. He was probably born in late 1638 or very early in 1639 (probably the former). He was of age when listed in his father's will (proved April 1659) and could not have been born in 1644. >>
This comes from my TAG article (which should be cited) but is not what the article says.  My estimate of Samuel's birth date ("say [less precise than 'circa'] 1638") is based on three factors: (1) Sarah Redway was about 18 when Samuel married her, in 1660 (if born in 1644, he would have been no more than 16); (2) if Samuel had been as far from adulthood in Dec. 1658—the latest his father's will could have been written (it is dated with only the day and month)—as the 1644 birth year claimed for him by Amos B. Carpenter would have made him, his receipt of the property his father left him would almost certainly have been conditioned upon his coming of age (this is not the same as saying he had come of age when his father's will was made [the will's probate date is irrelevant to this issue]); and (3) it is reasonable to assume that he was the next son born after the death of the first Samuel, at Shalbourne in 1637 (see TAG 70[1995]: 195-97).

NOTE: The following came from the following web site and was Compiled by T.E. Delaney of the University of Virginia, Anth 401B, Fall 1999:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/Carpenter.html
E-MAIL:  3 Nov 2001 From: Bruce E. Carpenter  "carpenter"
Subject:    [CARPENTER] Rehoboth Samuel
The following from someone at the University of Virginia. I hadn't realized the extent of Samuel's assets.
If I try to visualize 450 acres of land in the vicinity of the Newman church and the old Carpenter homesteads,
it seems a lot of land. A square mile is 640 acres.
BC
"Samuel Carpenter, Sr., of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
b: unknown, unknown d:1683, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
Compiled by T.E. Delaney
University of Virginia, Anth 401B, Fall 1999
Origin
There is no surviving record of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., or of any details of his emigration to Plymouth Colony.
Family
Very little is known about the family of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. He was the son of William, Sr., (d:1658-59) and Abigail Carpenter (d:1686), and was one of seven children. His siblings included John, William, Jr., Joseph, Hannah, Abiah, and Abigail. Incidentally, in Joseph Carpenter's will of 1676, he referred to Samuel Carpenter, Sr., as his "loving brother".
Carpenter married a woman named Sarah, and had at least five children (all sons) with her: David (b:1675), Soloman (b:1677), Zachariah (b:1680), Abraham (b:1682), and Samuel, Jr. (b:ca.1660). The records of the court-ordered disposal of Carpenter's estate (since he left no will) mentions that his relict was left to bring up "four small children," likely referring to David, Soloman, Zachariah, and Abraham.
Occupations
Although there is no explicit reference to Carpenter's occupation in the archives, an examination of his probate inventory suggests he was some type of wood-worker: carpenter, joiner, or turner. Perhaps his trade was passed
down from generation to generation since his forebears originally took the surname "Carpenter".
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was probably a literate man, since there were four books, worth ten shillings, listed in his estate inventory of 1683.
Wealth & Estate
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was a very wealthy resident of Rehoboth. When he died his estate was valued at £436.5, with his landholdings amounting to over 450 acres. Among his extensive properties was land "in Commonage in the town of Rehoboth" (surrounding the central village green), and £110 worth of "housing", orchards, home lot, and pasture opening.
According to his probate inventory, Carpenter owned forty-seven and one half livestock, almost 100 carpentry tools, and seventy bushels of Indian corn.
Public Life & Civic Duties
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., engaged in all of the civic affairs typical for someone of his wealth and prominence. He served on several juries (1661-1673), and was elected Constable twice (1666, 1677) and Surveyor of the Highways once (1680). He became a freeman by 1670, and was involved with the disposal of his brother's and sister-in-law's estates (1676, 1678).
Chronology & References
1658 October- 1659 April. Death of William Carpenter, Sr., father of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [Simmons, 1996, 357-367]
1661 June 4. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on the "Grand Enquest". [PCR 3:214-215]
1666 June 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Constable of Rehoboth, with John Perram. [PCR 4:122-123]
1668 October 29. Report of the coroner's inquest, impaneled to investigate the sudden death of "an Indian". Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on this jury, which found that the Indian, "going up upon a log, and setting his foot upon the first rail, the rail broke, and he fell down, and his head came first to the ground." Upon examination, the Indian had a broken neck and broken wrist. [PCR 5:4-7]
1670 May 29. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., listed as a freeman of Rehoboth. [PCR 5:274-278]
1673 November 11. Report of the coroner's inquest, impaneled to investigate the death of Roger Annadowne. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on this jury, which was convened because of potential foul play in Annadowne's death  Although there was publicly-known "strife between his wife and him" before his death, the jury found no evidence, "no wound or bruise", that might suggest an untimely demise. [PCR 5:137-141]
1675 April 17. Birth of David Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:62]
1676 November 1. Letters of administration granted to Samuel Carpenter, along with his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., "to administer on the estate of Margaret Carpenter, and to see Joseph Carpenter's will performed
according to the tenor thereof…" To clarify, Joseph Carpenter died in 1675 or 1676, and his wife survived him by about two years. [PCR 5:211-212]
1677 June 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Constable of Rehoboth, with Thomas Cooper, Jr. [PCR 5:229-231]
1677 December 23. Birth of Soloman Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:66]
1678 March 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., declared "overseers of the estate of [sister-in-law] Margaret Carpenter," and ordered "to dispose of a competent part of the land of Joseph Carpenter,
Senior, for the use of Joseph Carpenter, Junior…" [PCR 5:251-252]
1680 June 1. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Surveyor of the Highways for Rehoboth, with John Fitch. [PCR 6:34-42]
1680 July 1. Birth of Zachariah Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:72-73]
1683 February. Death of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. He died without a will.
1683 February 20. Burial of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:78-79]
1683 February 27. Inventory taken of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., by Daniel Smith, Captain Peter Hunt, John Pecke, Lieutenant Pecke, and William Carpenter. [Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 4, Part 2, Folios 42-44]
1683 March 5. Inventory of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., probated, by oaths of Daniel Smith and James Brown. [Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 4, Part 2, Folios 42-44]
1683 March 6. Court-ordered disposal of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Jr. (he died without a will). The court named Samuel Carpenter, Jr., William Carpenter, Jr., and relict Sarah Carpenter to be the administrators of his
estate. [PCR 6:102]
1686. Death of Abigail Carpenter, mother of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. Her estate inventory was probated in Bristol County. [Sherman 19]
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vol. 1: 1633-1669. Ed. C. H. Simmons.  Camden: Picton Press, 1996. Volume 2, Wills, pages 357-367.
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vols. I-VII, 1670-1685. Unpublished compilation, ed. Patricia E. Scott Deetz. Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1999.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England [PCR]. 1855-61. Ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Secondary Sources
Sherman, Ruth Wilder, and Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth Colony Probate Guide, 1620-91. Plymouth Colony Research Group, 1983. Page 19.

E-MAIL: From:         GeneZub@aol.com   4 Nov 2001 Sun 5:09 AM
Subject:         [CARPENTER] Re: Rehoboth Samuel
<< The following from someone at the University of Virginia. I hadn't
realized the extent of Samuel's assets. If I try to visualize 450 acres of
land in the vicinity of the Newman church and the old Carpenter homesteads,
it seems a lot of land. A square mile is 640 acres.
BC >>
While descendants of Samuel Carpenter may be pleased to learn that he left a
sizable estate, they shouldn't be dazzled into ignoring the inadequacies of
the material in which that information is embedded.  As an antidote to that
possibility, I offer the following:
<< Samuel Carpenter, Sr., of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
b: unknown, unknown d:1683, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony >>
SAMUEL3 CARPENTER was born in Massachusetts (perhaps Weymouth), say 1638, and
was buried at Rehoboth, 20 February 1682[/3] (TAG 70[1995]:194, 195-97, 204;
orig. Rehoboth VR, 1:56a).
<< Origin
There is no surviving record of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., or
of any details of his emigration to Plymouth Colony. >>
While the first half of this sentence is true, see the above-cited TAG
article for the English origin of his parents and older siblings and for
facts and analysis indicating that he was born in Massachusetts--but not in
Plymouth Colony.  Samuel's father, William2 Carpenter, and his family settled
at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, in 1644.  But by 13 May 1640, when William
became a Bay Colony freeman from Weymouth, they had been living at that place
(NEHGR 3[1849]:187 [Weymouth cluster]).  And, of course, Samuel's two
youngest siblings, Hannah and Abiah, were born there in 1640 and 1643,
respectively (NEHGR 8[1854]:348; TAG 70:200).
<< Family
Very little is known about the family of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. He was the son
of William, Sr., (d:1658-59) and Abigail Carpenter (d:1686), and was one of
seven children. >>
Samuel's father, WILLIAM2 CARPENTER (b. c.1605, d. Rehoboth, 7 February
1658[/9?]), married at Shalbourne, Wiltshire/Berkshire (the parish straddled
the county line), England, 28 April 1625, ABIGAIL BRIANT (bap. Shalbourne, 27
May 1604, bur. Rehoboth, 22 February 1686/7), daughter of John and Alice
(-------) Briant (for primary-source citations, see TAG 70:193-94, 203).
Although seven children survived to adulthood, another--the first of their
sons to be named Samuel--was baptized at Shalbourne, 1 March 1636[/7], and
was buried there on 20 April 1637 (TAG 70:194, 204; see ibid. for their
children's proper birth order and baptismal or birth data).
<< Carpenter married a woman named Sarah, and had at least five children (all
sons) with her ... >>
SAMUEL3 CARPENTER married at Rehoboth, 25 May 1660, SARAH READAWAY (variant
of Redway), b. probably at Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, c.1642, d. at
Rehoboth, 15 July 1717, daughter of James1 Redway (orig. Rehoboth VR, 1:44,
2:230; Plymouth Colony Wills, 3:2:77, 4:2:73).  They had TEN children
(Rehoboth VR, 1:-- [sorry]; see also Richard LeBaron Bowen, EARLY REHOBOTH, 4
vols. (1945-50), 1:130-32 [correction thereto: son Jacob was still living on
12 May 1701, when he was named in his brother David's will (Bristol Co.
Probates, 2:31)]).  Sarah married second at Rehoboth, 18 January 1687[/8],
Gilbert Brooks (orig. Rehoboth VR, 1:48; Rehoboth Proprietors' Records,
2:11).  (Note: Bowen's reading of Sarah Brooks's death record as containing
the word "stranger" and the date 8 January 1717/8 is incorrect; these belong
to an adjacent entry [see EARLY REHOBOTH, 1:130n; orig. Rehoboth VR, 2:230].)
<< Among his [Samuel's] extensive properties was land "in Commonage in the
town of Rehoboth" (surrounding the central village green), ... >>
Although I haven't read Samuel's inventory, the "commonage" to which it
apparently refers was almost certainly not land he owned but the undivided
lands owned in common by Rehoboth proprietors.  When the proprietors
distributed some of this collectively owned land to themselves in occasional
"divisions" (see Rehoboth Proprietors' Meetings), Samuel was presumably
entitled to receive a share.  That is, he owned not commonage but a
"commonage right."  (Once a section of common lands had been divided and
distributed, its individually owned, constituent parcels were, by definition,
no longer commonage.)  Although a commonage right could be sold as a separate
entity, it originally (and typically) accompanied ownership of a home-lot
(itself originally granted by the town from common lands).  Samuel's right of
commonage, if not fractional, probably derived from his having ultimately
come into possession of his father's entire home-lot, half of which he
inherited in 1659 (see Plymouth Colony Wills, 2:1:80-81).  The more such
lands were distributed, the further they lay from the "Ring of the Town," the
site of the original settlement (now in Rumford, East Providence, R.I.).
<< 1658 October- 1659 April. Death of William Carpenter, Sr., father of Samuel
Carpenter, Sr. [Simmons, 1996, 357-367] >>
William's will was written "the 10th month the 10th day of the month [NO YEAR
IS GIVEN]" (Plymouth Colony Wills, 2:1:80).  In that England and its colonies
used the Julian Calendar until 1752, when William made his will, the 10th
month was not October but December.  But in any case, we have a specific date
of death for him: 7 February 1658 (orig. Rehoboth VR, 1:50).  The year
probably reflects Old Style dating; if so, it should have been double-dated
as 1658/9 (see below).  But since we can't be absolutely certain which
calendar is represented by the single year written, the date should be
written by compilers either as it is found in the record (1658) or with
brackets and question mark (1658[/9?]).
<< 1683 February 20. Burial of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:78-79] >>
Samuel's date of death is more properly written 20 February 1682[/3].  That
the "/3" is bracketed indicates that the original record says 1682 but either
surrounding entries and/or other documentary evidence makes it certain that
the year reflects Old Style (Julian Calendar) dating and that the New Style
(Gregorian Calendar) date was therefore 1683.  Since by then the Gregorian
calendar had long since been adopted by virtually everyone but the English,
double dates were often used by them to clarify the year associated with all
dates between 1 January and 24 March (the Julian Calendar year began on 25
March).
<< 1683 February 27. Inventory taken of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr.
...   1683 March 5. Inventory of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr.,
probated ... 1683 March 6. Court-ordered disposal of the estate of Samuel
Carpenter, Jr. >>
Same problem.  Are these dates in 1682/3 or 1683/4?  This can probably be
clarified either by the date(s) these records were recorded and/or by
surrounding records.
<< 1686. Death of Abigail Carpenter, mother of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. Her
estate inventory was probated in Bristol County. [Sherman 19] >>
As above, Abigail (Briant) Carpenter was buried 22 February 1686/7 (orig.
Rehoboth VR, 1:57).
Gene Z.
MORE:  From:         GeneZub@aol.com
11/8/2001             Thu 3:30 PM
Subject:         [CARPENTER] Re: dates
<< Didn't Delaney at UV make the wise choice in leaving the dates just as
found them?  BC >>
But he didn't.  In virtually every instance, the dates he presents are at
odds with the original records.  Where citing secondary sources, he
presumably repeats their mistranslations; where citing primary sources (such
as Plymouth Colony Records), he presumably revised the dates himself.  And as
it turns out, Mr. Delaney is equally inaccurate in his description of the
contents of Samuel's estate inventory.
<< << Samuel Carpenter, Sr. ... d:1683, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony >> >>
<< SAMUEL3 CARPENTER was buried at Rehoboth, 20 February 1682[/3] (orig.
Rehoboth VR, 1:56a). >>
Delaney says 1683; the original record says 1682.  Adding the bracketed "/3"
expresses that other entries and/or evidence indicates that the recorded date
is Old Style and that the New Style year was 1683.  This is a convention of
the leading genealogical journals.
<< << ... William, Sr., (d:1658-59) and Abigail Carpenter (d:1686) ... . >> >>
<< Samuel's father, WILLIAM2 CARPENTER ... d. Rehoboth, 7 February 1658[/9?]
... ABIGAIL BRIANT ... bur. Rehoboth, 22 February 1686/7 ... . >>
For William's death, Delaney says 1658-59; the original record says 1658.
Following Jacobus, we may assume that a pre-1700, single-year date between 1
January and 24 March is Old Style.  The brackets and question mark
accompanying "/9" reflect that we nevertheless have no evidence to confirm it
(again, this is a convention of the leading genealogical journals).
(Actually, based on Delaney's later passage, "1658 October - 1659 April.
Death of William Carpenter, Sr.," his use here of "1658-59" probably
represents a date range, rather than a double date [of which he seems
ignorant].)
For Abigail's death, Delany says 1686; the original record says 1686/7.
<< << 1683 February 20. Burial of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:78-79] >> >>
<< Samuel's date of death is more properly written 20 February 1682[/3]. >>
As above, Delaney says 1683; the original Rehoboth record says 1682.
<< << 1683 February 27. Inventory taken of the estate of Samuel Carpenter,
Sr. ...   1683 March 5. Inventory of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr.,
probated ... 1683 March 6. Court-ordered disposal of the estate of Samuel
Carpenter, Jr. >> >>
<< Same problem.  Are these dates in 1682/3 or 1683/4?  This can probably be
clarified either by the date(s) these records were recorded and/or by
surrounding records. >>
My review yesterday of the relevant original records provides the answers.
The record of Samuel Carpenter's estate inventory says it was taken on 27
February 1682 (Plymouth Colony Wills, 4:2:42).  Widow Sarah's oath as to the
inventory's veracity is dated "the fist [1st]" or "fift [5th] of March 1683"
(ibid., 4:2:44).  The terms of the estate's distribution were set forth at a
meeting of the Plymouth Colony General Court, the record of which is dated 6
March 1682/3 (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF NEW
PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND, Volume 6 [Boston, 1856], p. 102).  On the "eight of
March, anno Dom. one thousand six hundred eighty and two, 83," estate
coadministrators William Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter Jr., and their mother,
widow Sarah (Redway) Carpenter, signed a £400 bond ensuring the legal
execution of their fiduciary responsibilities (ibid.).  These last two items
make it clear that all four events occurred in 1682/3.  But the form in which
compilers should present the single-dated years depends on the year stated in
the original record: since the estate inventory is dated 1682, compilers
should write it as 1682[/3] or 1682 (O.S.); since Sarah's oath is dated 1683,
it should appear in compilations as 168[2/]3 or 1683 (N.S.).
<< << 1686. Death of Abigail Carpenter, mother of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. >> >>
<< As above, Abigail (Briant) Carpenter was buried 22 February 1686/7 (orig.
Rehoboth VR, 1:57). >>
Here, again, Delaney says one thing, the original record says another.
Unfortunately, Delaney's description of Samuel's estate inventory,
particularly the real estate, is also plagued by inaccuracies:
<< Wealth & Estate
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was a very wealthy resident of Rehoboth. When he died
his estate was valued at £436.5, with his landholdings amounting to over 450
acres. Among his extensive properties was land "in Commonage in the town of
Rehoboth" (surrounding the central village green), and £110 worth of
"housing", orchards, home lot, and pasture opening. >>
The inventory's "Suma totalis," £436 10s. 6d. (436 pounds, 10 shillings, 6
pence), is augmented by a short addendum of items valued at 2s. 6d.  Ten
items pertain to lands of specified acreage; they total 220 acres and are
appraised at £128 10s., total.  The remaining land-related items are as
follows: (1) "a tract of swamp on the east side of the mill River" (£7 10s.);
(2) "the housing - orchards homelott and pasture pen[n]ing" (£110); (3) "a
share of meddow in the North Side" (£2); (4) "a share of the undevided Land
on the North Side" (£15); and (5) "200 lb. estate in Comonage in the towne of
Rehoboth" (£10).  Although the total acreage of item two can't be determined,
Samuel's home-lot comprised 12 acres (Rehoboth Proprietors' Records, 1:13).
It had been granted in 1643 to his father, William2 Carpenter, one of 58
original Rehoboth proprietors.  (The size of a home-lot grant [6, 8, or 12
acres] had been based on the value of the proprietor's estate [personal and
real] and family size [Rehoboth Town Meetings, 1:31].  Of the 58 original
Rehoboth proprietors, the highest-valued personal estate, £834, belonged to
Richard Wright; William's, at £254 10s., ranked 16th [Rehoboth Town Meetings,
1:5; Rehoboth Proprietors' Records, 1:1-2].)
Items three and four refer to parcels not yet distributed but for which
Samuel, with the many other co-owners of the North Purchase (1661), was
eligible.  (In 1694 this tract, also known as the Attleborough Gore, was set
off from Rehoboth as the township of Attleborough.)  Item five's "200 lb.
estate in Comonage" implies the means by which Rehoboth proprietors
determined the parcel size of common lands they distributed to themselves in
periodic land divisions.  But while Rehoboth Town Meeting Records (1:31)
indicate that it was the value of a man's estate and family size (£12 per
person) that determined his share of divided common lands, even distinguished
Rehoboth historian/genealogist Richard LeBaron Bowen was unable to determine
the specific share or parcel size into which a given expression of one's
commonage right (e.g., "200 lb.") translated.  (In that proprietors could buy
and sell commonage rights among themselves, the expression of a man's
commonage right in pounds need not be the same as the value of his actual
estate.)  In any case, as with items three and four, this was not land in
Samuel's possession; it was a right to be exercised in divisions of common
lands.  It appears from Delaney's estimate of the total acreage Samuel owned
at his death (450) that he mistook this £200 commonage right as 200 acres of
land.
It would consequently seem reasonable to estimate the actual real estate
Samuel owned when he died at roughly 250 acres.  That figure may be obtained
in either of two ways: Delaney's estimate of 450 acres minus 200 (his
confusion of a £200 right of commonage with 200 acres of land) or the
inventory's explicitly stated 220 acres plus items one and two.  The
respective appraised values of items three, four, and five suggest that the
parcels ultimately received thereby wouldn't be particularly sizable.  Over
time, the divisions became fewer and the parcels smaller, less desirable, and
more distant.
Gene Z.
___________________________
MORE:  From: John  F. Chandler"
Nov 8, 2001                   Thu 4:38 PM
Subject:        Re: [CARPENTER] Re: dates
Gene wrote:
> February 1682 (Plymouth Colony Wills, 4:2:42).  Widow Sarah's oath as to the
> inventory's veracity is dated "the fist [1st]" or "fift [5th] of March 1683"
This points up a calendar variation that is seen from time to time,
especially in backwaters like New England of the 17th century -- since
everybody knew March was the first month of the year, some people took
the simplifying approach of reckoning the year to begin on March 1.
This is called March Style.  Needless to say, it adds another
complication for modern interpreters, as it is neither Old Style nor
New Style, but sits in between.  It was never "official", but that
didn't stop people from using it.
> should write it as 1682[/3] or 1682 (O.S.); since Sarah's oath is dated 1683,
> it should appear in compilations as 168[2/]3 or 1683 (N.S.).
I think the bracket notation is clearer, since it avoids confusion
over whether "N.S." implies a retroactive Gregorian conversion by the
compiler (a horrible practice that has nonetheless been advocated by
some).
> Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was a very wealthy resident of Rehoboth. When he died
> his estate was valued at #436.5, with his landholdings amounting to over 450
> acres. Among his extensive properties was land "in Commonage in the town of
> Rehoboth" (surrounding the central village green),
In many places, though not necessarily in Rehoboth, the term "commonage"
implied a right to pasture a specified number of animals on the common
land, in addition to the claim of a share in any divisions.
                                         John Chandler

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Subject: Biographical Sketch of Samuel Carpenter Sr.

Dear Ms. Deetz and Dr. Fennell:

T. E. Delaney's biographical sketch of Samuel Carpenter Sr., which appears on your wonderful Plymouth Colony Archive Project website, is one of the more accurate accounts I've seen--probably because it ignores (directly, at least) Amos B. Carpenter's A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE REHOBOTH BRANCH OF THE CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA (1898) [hereafter REHOBOTH CARPENTER FAMILY].  Delaney's account (apparently done for an undergraduate anthropology course) nevertheless suffers from several errors and omissions, of which I thought you might like to be apprised.

<< There is no surviving record of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., or of any details of his emigration to Plymouth Colony. >>

Samuel was not among the four children of William2 and Abigail Carpenter who emigrated with them and William1 Carpenter on the BEVIS in 1638; chances are he was born at Weymouth (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in late 1638 (THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST [hereafter TAG] 70[1995]:193-194, 196-97, 203-4; primary sources cited therein).

<< He was the son of William, Sr., (d:1658-59) and Abigail Carpenter (d:1686), and was one of seven children. His siblings included John, William, Jr., Joseph, Hannah, Abiah, and Abigail. >>

The death dates of William Sr. and wife Abigail are discussed below.  Abigail was baptized at Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England, 27 May 1604, daughter of John and Alice (_____) Briant (TAG 70:194, 203).  Samuel was one of seven surviving children, eight in all; the birth order was John, Abigail, William, Joseph, Samuel (d. Shalbourne), Samuel (again), Hannah, and Abiah (TAG 70:194-98, 203-4).

<< Incidentally, in Joseph Carpenter's will of 1676, he referred to Samuel Carpenter, Sr., as his "loving brother". >>

Although Joseph's will appears to be dated 3 May 1676 (the last digit of the year is overwritten and could be a 5 or a 6), his inventory is dated 20 May 1675 and was "Given in" to the court on 21 March 1675[/6]; the date of his burial, recorded at Swansea (where he had moved from adjacent Rehoboth about 1670), is 6 May 1675 (Plymouth Colony Wills [hereafter PCW], 3:2:33, 36; Swansea, Mass., Vital Records, A:147)

<< Carpenter married a woman named Sarah, and had at least five children (all sons) with her >>

Samuel married at Rehoboth (Plymouth Colony), 25 May 1660, Sarah Redway, b. ca. 1642, daughter of James1 Redway (Rehoboth VR, 1:44; PCW, 4:2:73).  They had ten children: i. Samuel, b. 1661; ii. Sarah, b. 1663; iii. Abiah, b. 1665; iv. James, b. 1668; v. Jacob, b. 1670; vi. Jonathan, b. 1672; vii. David, b. 1675; viii. Solomon, b. 1677; ix. Zachariah, b. 1680; and x. Abraham, b. 1682 (Rehoboth VR, 1:6).

<< 1658 October- 1659 April. Death of William Carpenter, Sr., father of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [Simmons, 1996, 357-367] >>

"1658 October" is apparently meant as an approximation of the date of William2's will, which actually says only "the 10th month the 10th day of the month"; no year is given (PCW, 1:80-83; by far the best transcription of this will is found in George Ernest Bowman, "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," THE MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT 14[1912]:231-33).  And in any case, prior to 1752 in England and its colonies, the 10th month was not October but December.  William2 Carpenter died on 7 February 1658[/9?], and his will was proved on 21 April 1659 (Rehoboth VR, 1:50; PCW, 1:80).

<< 1676 November 1. Letters of administration granted to Samuel Carpenter, along with his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., "to administer on the estate of Margaret Carpenter, and to see Joseph Carpenter's will performed according to the tenor thereof…" To clarify, Joseph Carpenter died in 1675 or 1676, and his wife survived him by about two years. [PCR 5:211-212] ... 1678 March 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., declared "overseers of the estate of [sister-in-law] Margaret Carpenter," ... >>

I was gratified to see these references to Samuel's brother Joseph's wife, Margaret (Sutton).  Putting her death at about two years after Joseph's is much closer to the mark than Amos B. Carpenter's generally accepted assertion that she died in 1700 (see REHOBOTH CARPENTER FAMILY, 45).  She died between 21 March 1675[/6] (when she submitted Joseph's inventory to the court) and 4 October 1676 (when her own inventory was taken), which is between 10 months and 1 year, 5 months after Joseph's death (PCW, 3:2:36, 39).

<< 1686. Death of Abigail Carpenter, mother of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. Her estate inventory was probated in Bristol County. [Sherman 19] >>

Abigail (Briant) Carpenter was buried at Rehoboth on 22 February 1686/7 (Rehoboth VR, 1:57).

Sincerely,

Gene Zubrinsky
Ojai, Calif.

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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/Carpenter.html
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Samuel Carpenter, Sr.,
of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
b: unknown, unknown d:1683, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
Compiled by T.E. Delaney
University of Virginia, Anth 401B, Fall 1999
Origin
There is no surviving record of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., or of any details of his emigration to Plymouth Colony.
Family
Very little is known about the family of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. He was the son of William, Sr., (d:1658-59) and Abigail Carpenter (d:1686), and was one of seven children. His siblings included John, William, Jr., Joseph, Hannah, Abiah, and Abigail. Incidentally, in Joseph Carpenter's will of 1676, he referred to Samuel Carpenter, Sr., as his "loving brother".
Carpenter married a woman named Sarah, and had at least five children (all sons) with her: David (b:1675), Soloman (b:1677), Zachariah (b:1680), Abraham (b:1682), and Samuel, Jr. (b:ca.1660). The records of the court-ordered disposal of Carpenter's estate (since he left no will) mentions that his relict was left to bring up "four small children," likely referring to David, Soloman, Zachariah, and Abraham.

Occupations
Although there is no explicit reference to Carpenter's occupation in the archives, an examination of his probate inventory suggests he was some type of wood-worker: carpenter, joiner, or turner. Perhaps his trade was passed down from generation to generation since his forebears originally took the surname "Carpenter".
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was probably a literate man, since there were four books, worth ten shillings, listed in his estate inventory of 1683.
Wealth & Estate
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., was a very wealthy resident of Rehoboth. When he died his estate was valued at £436.5, with his landholdings amounting to over 450 acres. Among his extensive properties was land "in Commonage in the town of Rehoboth" (surrounding the central village green), and £110 worth of "housing", orchards, home lot, and pasture opening.
According to his probate inventory, Carpenter owned forty-seven and one half livestock, almost 100 carpentry tools, and seventy bushels of Indian corn.
Public Life & Civic Duties
Samuel Carpenter, Sr., engaged in all of the civic affairs typical for someone of his wealth and prominence. He served on several juries (1661-1673), and was elected Constable twice (1666, 1677) and Surveyor of the Highways once (1680). He became a freeman by 1670, and was involved with the disposal of his brother's and sister-in-law's estates (1676, 1678).
Chronology & References
1658 October- 1659 April. Death of William Carpenter, Sr., father of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [Simmons, 1996, 357-367]
1661 June 4. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on the "Grand Enquest". [PCR 3:214-215]
1666 June 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Constable of Rehoboth, with John Perram. [PCR 4:122-123]
1668 October 29. Report of the coroner's inquest, impaneled to investigate the sudden death of "an Indian". Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on this jury, which found that the Indian, "going up upon a log, and setting his foot upon the first rail, the rail broke, and he fell down, and his head came first to the ground." Upon examination, the Indian had a broken neck and broken wrist. [PCR 5:4-7]
1670 May 29. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., listed as a freeman of Rehoboth. [PCR 5:274-278]
1673 November 11. Report of the coroner's inquest, impaneled to investigate the death of Roger Annadowne. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., served on this jury, which was convened because of potential foul play in Annadowne's death. Although there was publicly-known "strife between his wife and him" before his death, the jury found no evidence, "no wound or bruise", that might suggest an untimely demise. [PCR 5:137-141]
1675 April 17. Birth of David Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:62]
1676 November 1. Letters of administration granted to Samuel Carpenter, along with his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., "to administer on the estate of Margaret Carpenter, and to see Joseph Carpenter's will performed according to the tenor thereof…" To clarify, Joseph Carpenter died in 1675 or 1676, and his wife survived him by about two years. [PCR 5:211-212]
1677 June 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Constable of Rehoboth, with Thomas Cooper, Jr. [PCR 5:229-231]
1677 December 23. Birth of Soloman Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:66]
1678 March 5. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., his brother, William Carpenter, Jr., declared "overseers of the estate of [sister-in-law] Margaret Carpenter," and ordered "to dispose of a competent part of the land of Joseph Carpenter, Senior, for the use of Joseph Carpenter, Junior…" [PCR 5:251-252]
1680 June 1. Samuel Carpenter, Sr., elected Surveyor of the Highways for Rehoboth, with John Fitch. [PCR 6:34-42]
1680 July 1. Birth of Zachariah Carpenter, son of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:72-73]
1683 February. Death of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. He died without a will.
1683 February 20. Burial of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. [PCR 8:78-79]
1683 February 27. Inventory taken of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., by Daniel Smith, Captain Peter Hunt, John Pecke, Lieutenant Pecke, and William Carpenter. [Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 4, Part 2, Folios 42-44]
1683 March 5. Inventory of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Sr., probated, by oaths of Daniel Smith and James Brown. [Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 4, Part 2, Folios 42-44]
1683 March 6. Court-ordered disposal of the estate of Samuel Carpenter, Jr. (he died without a will). The court named Samuel Carpenter, Jr., William Carpenter, Jr., and relict Sarah Carpenter to be the administrators of his estate. [PCR 6:102]
1686. Death of Abigail Carpenter, mother of Samuel Carpenter, Sr. Her estate inventory was probated in Bristol County. [Sherman 19]
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vol. 1: 1633-1669. Ed. C. H. Simmons. Camden: Picton Press, 1996. Volume 2, Wills, pages 357-367.
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vols. I-VII, 1670-1685. Unpublished compilation, ed. Patricia E. Scott Deetz. Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1999.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England [PCR]. 1855-61. Ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Secondary Sources
Sherman, Ruth Wilder, and Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth Colony Probate Guide, 1620-91. Plymouth Colony Research Group, 1983. Page 19.

MISC:
BOOK:
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England - Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, MD. - Boston, Mass 1857
Volume 8 - Records of Plymouth Colony - Miscellaneous Records - 1633-1689
Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials.
Page 219
BIRTHS.
CARPENTER, MIRIAM, daughter of William, Rehoboth, 16 October, 1674, .   53
Obadiah, son of William, Rehoboth, 12 March, 1678,    70
Ephraim, son of William, Rehoboth, 25 April, 1681,   76
William, children of,  53, 70, 76
David, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 17 1675,   62
Solomon, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 23 December, 1677,   66
Zechariah, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 1 July, 1680,   73
Abraham, son of Samuel, Rehoboth, 20 September, 1682,   79
Samuel, children of,   62, 66, 73, 78
Amos, son of John, Rehoboth, 19 November, 1677,   67
Eliphalet, son of John, Rehoboth, 17 April, 1679,   86
Priscilla, daughter of John, Rehoboth, 20 January, 1680,   73
Dorothy, daughter of John, Rehoboth, 9 February,   88
John, children of,   67, 73, 86, 88
Margaret, daughter of Joseph, Swansey, 4 May, 1675,   61
Joseph, child of,   61
Carpenter, Jotham, son of Benjamin, Swansey, 1 June, 1682,   80
Benjamin, child of,   80

Sarah Redway

NAME:
Redway or Readaway

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
Gene also added:
It's not certain where Sarah's parents lived before settling in Rehoboth (probably in 1644). It may well have been Hingham, where her father had served a three-year term of indenture, but there's no evidence to confirm that he remained there after mid-1640. It's therefore not possible to say with certainty that Sarah was born in, or was ever of, Hingham. It would be appropriate to say that she was born "probably" in Hingham.

SARAH HAD 9 SONS AND 1 DAUGHTER BY SAMUEL.  AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1683 SHE MARRIED GILBERT BROOKS. See page 102 of New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
Number 2 MARRIAGE LISTED AS 18 JAN 1687.  GILBERT IS LISTED 1621-1695.
SARAH IS LISTED AS REDAWAY ON PAGE 136, READWAY ON PAGE 102, AND PARENTS LAST NAMES AS REDWAY/REDEWAY ON 617.  ONE RECORD INDICATES SHE DIED BEF 1705.

This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
James /REDWAY/ (AFN:GW44-TL) and /(REDWAY)/ (AFN:GW44-VR)

E-MAIL:   Thu, 7 Jun 2001  From: GeneZub@aol.com
Gene Zubrinsky of Ojai, Calif. provided the following insights:
Sarah, eldest child of James1 Redway, was born about 1642, probably at Hingham, where her father had served a three-year term of indenture, beginning in mid-1637.  Rehoboth was not established and settled until 1643 and 1644, respectively.  The birth year is an estimate based on the probable year her father's term of indenture ended (above), the assumption that he did not marry until the following year, and the recorded date of his second child's birth (10 Dec. 1644).
Sarah died on 15 July 1717 (Rehoboth VR [orig.], 2:230).  (Having long ago found a number of transcrip-tion and page-reference errors in Arnold's Vital Record of Rehoboth, I have since used nothing but the original records [FHL film #562558 and #562559 (primarily the latter)].  In the case of Sarah [Redway] [Carpenter] Brooks, Arnold (p. 804) inadvertently combines her name with the date entered in the record immediately below hers, which says, "[blank] White dyed Jany 8th[,] a strainger – 1717/8."  Your date of 29 April 1712 is, of course, even further off the mark.) (CORRECTED! JRC)
Notes for 513. Sarah Readaway
Sarah's marriage to Gilbert Brooks is recorded as 18 Jan. 1687/8 (Rehoboth VR [orig.], 1:48).

BOOK: A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.  BY JAMES SAVAGE;
REDWAY, REDWEY, READAWAY, or REDDAWAY, JAMES, Rehoboth
1646, prob. had John, perhaps more, as Sarah, wh. m. 25 May 1660,
Samuel Carpenter; and was bur. 28 Oct. 1676. JOHN, Rehoboth, prob.
s. of the preced. had James, b. 10 Jan. 1679; and John, 10 Sept 1682.

SOURCE DATA:
Rehoboth, MA Vital Records regarding marriages 1652-1896 on page 78 lists 25 May 1660 as the marriage date in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.  See also: Rehoboth VR in  FHL film #562559.
GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK LEWIS 1912, PAGE 1318.
NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700,  PAGE 102, 136 and 617.
A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING
THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.  BY JAMES SAVAGE. - Parent information REDWAY, REDWEY, READAWAY, or REDDAWAY, JAMES.

62. Jacob Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

Number 66 in the Carpenter Memorial.  Page 59
JACOB WENT ON AN EXPEDITION TO CANADA IN 1690 AND WE FIND NO
ACCOUNT OF HIS RETURN.

13. Hannah Carpenter

INTRO: (A recap of the info below)
Hannah Carpenter (William ) was born on 3 Apr 1640 in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She died not long before 8 Jun 1673 in Musketa Cove (a plantation in Oyster Bay Township; now in the town of Glen Cove, Nassau Co.), Long Island, NY.
Hannah married Joseph Carpenter, about 1658 (not 21 Apr 1659) in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Joseph was born about 1638 in Providence Plantation (now in Providence Co., RI), son of William1 and Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter of Providence. He died between 15/17 Feb 1682/3 and 15 Mar 1683/4 in Musketa Cove.

Gene Zubrinsky’s original notes (ca. 2000), different venue from the later Carpenter Sketches, received August 2018:
11. (line 4) … HANNAH3 CARPENTER of Rehoboth born 3 2m [Apr] 1640 place Weymouth, Mass. Bay Colony died _by 1673_______ place _prob Musketa Cove, NY_________________ …
12a. The said (no. 11, line 4) _HANNAH3 CARPENTER of Rehoboth__ was the child of
WILLIAM2 CARPENTER born ca 1605 (33 in May 1638) place prob Wiltshire, Berkshire,
or Hampshire, England (res. parish of Shalbourne, where these counties meet)
died _7 Feb 1658[/9]__ place _Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony___ and (only) spouse
ABIGAIL BRIANT born (bap.) 27 May 1604 place Shalbourne, Wiltshire/Berkshire
died _(bur.) 22 Feb 1686/7__ place _Rehoboth____________________________
married _28 April 1625_____ place _Shalbourne___________________________
List proof: Weymouth VR, in NEHGR 8(1854):348 (H3C b rec); [Samuel G. Drake], “The Founders of
New England,” NEHGR 14(1860):297-345, at 336 (Bevis pass. list, 2 May 1638); Rehoboth VR, 1:50
(W2C d rec), 57 (A[B]C bur rec); Rehoboth Proprietors’ Records, 4A:7 [FHL film 550,005]; Shalbourne
Parish Recs. (Bishop’s Transcr.), Bundle 1, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Chippenham, England
[FHL 1,279,426, item 11] (AB bp, m rec). For full account of this family, see Zubrinsky, “The Family
of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters,”
American Genealogist (TAG) 70(1995):193-204; also .

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

HANNAH3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 3 2nd month [April] 1640 and died not long before 8 June 1673, probably at Musketa Cove (then a plantation in Oyster Bay Township; now the town of Glen Cove, Nassau County), Long Island, Province of New York. She married probably at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, ca. 1658 (not on 21 April 1659), JOSEPH2 CARPENTER, born about 1638 (aged 26 in 1664), probably at Providence Plantation (not 1635, in England), and died intestate at Musketa Cove between 15 or 17 February 1682[/3] and 15 March 1683/4, son of William1 and Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter of Providence (Pawtuxet section, now in Cranston), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Joseph married second, probably at Oyster Bay, by 2 September 1674, Ann Weekes, baptized at New Amsterdam (now New York City), Colony of New Netherland, on 9 July 1651 and died at Musketa Cove after 24 4th month [June] 1713 (perhaps by 12 6th month [August] 1713), daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (______) Weekes of Salem and Dorchester, Massachusetts; Providence; New Amsterdam; Gravesend, Long Island; and Oyster Bay (TAG 70:201, 204; RILE 1:47, 50-51; NEHGR 159:64n47, 67-68; PrTR 6:138, 141, 144, 147-48; PubRIHS 4:197; NYChR 29; WMM-MM A:24; FMM-VR 78; OBTR 1:99, 411-12, 640-41, 642-44, 2:702; see also DEATH, MARRIAGE, and COMMENTS sections, below; Joseph2 Carpenter notes, BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGES, and COMMENTS). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his _Great Migration_ series.]

DEATH: That Hannah Carpenter had died by 8 June 1673 is deduced from husband Joseph's deed of that date, in which he, "of Muskeeto Cove In Longe-Island," conveys to "my Brother in Law Abyah Carpenter of Pawtuxet in Rhode-Island Collony . . . Lands and Commonage [there] which Fell to me by my wife . . . from her father"; Hannah is not a cosignatory (RILE 1:47). (For bequests to Hannah from her father, William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, see PCPR 2:1:80-81 or MD 14:231-32 [transcr.].)

MARRIAGE: The secondary literature's oft-repeated date of Hannah's marriage, 21 April 1659, is highly suspect. Supporting evidence is never presented, nor has any been found. It is, moreover, the date on which the will of Hannah's father, William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, was proved at Plymouth, presumably upon presentation by her mother, as "Exequitrice" (PCPR 2:1:80, 83; MD 14:231, 233). Initial confusion and subsequent repetition have thus given Hannah's marriage a widely accepted date that actually pertains to another event--one that would have absented her mother (and probably one or more brothers) from Rehoboth on the alleged date of the marriage.

References in the will of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth to "Cozen Carpenter" and "my brother Carpenter"-presumably Joseph2 and his father, William1 of Providence, respectively-have given rise to claims that Hannah and Joseph were first or second cousins. Recent Y-DNA test results virtually eliminate either possibility, however, showing with 95 percent certainty that the couple's nearest common Carpenter ancestor preceded their respective fathers by between two and twenty generations (Carpenter Cousins; William2 of Rehoboth notes, COMMENTS). The term _cousin_ was used broadly at this time, often to denote _kinsman_, or relative by marriage. _Brother_ was sometimes used similarly: in two letters written in 1636 to his namesake son, for example, Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop calls the stepfather of the younger Winthrop's then wife, Elizabeth Reade, "my brother [Hugh] Peter" (WP 269, 275; Davis 212-13, 215; NEHGR 88:301). The quoted phrases above thus almost certainly reflect relationships created by the couple's having married _before_ the partially dated will was made, no later than 10 December 1658 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, WILL/ESTATE).

RESIDENCES: Weymouth; Rehoboth (1644); Warwick (Pawtuxet section), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (ca. 1658); Musketa Cove (probably late 1668: husband Joseph was of Pawtuxet on 7 November and of Musketa Cove on 30 November). It was presumably when Hannah married Joseph2 Carpenter that they left the homes of their respective families of origin--hers at Rehoboth, his at Providence (Pawtuxet section)--and settled on the southern, Warwick side of the Pawtuxet River, which at its mouth bisects the village that is its namesake (WarTR1 162-63, 176-77; WarTR2 153-54; RILE 50-51; OBTR 1:42-43, 629-32, 641, 2:682-83; NEHGR 159:56n4; PawWeb; Carpenter [1901] 31-32).

EDUCATION: Among the bequests to Hannah from her father are three books: "her Bible; the practice of Pietie and the Returne of Prayers" (MD 14:231-32). (Lewis Bayly's _The Practice of Piety: A Puritan Devotional Manual, Directing a Christian How to Live, That He May Please God_ was first published in 1611; Thomas Goodwin's _The Return of Prayers: A Treatise, Wherein This Case, How To Discern God's Answers to Our Prayers, Is Briefly Resolved . . ._ first appeared in 1651.)

CHILDREN: Numbers i-iv born probably at Pawtuxet (Warwick); birth order uncertain.

i. HANNAH3 CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 (parents m. ca. 1658) and say 1661/2, living Musketa Cove 19 March 1719/20 (husband's will); m. Musketa Cove or vicinity before 17 Feb. 1682[/3?] (probably by 14 Jan. 1681[/2?]), WILLIAM THORNYCRAFT, b. probably Warwick, d. Musketa Cove between 6 April 1720 (sold land) and 19 Dec. 1728 (will proved), son of Thomas and Jean? (______) Thornycraft of Warwick (by 1647) and Maspeth Kills, Newtown (now Elmhurst, Queens Co.), L.I. (NYWills 11:80; MARRIAGE, above; WarTR1 1-296 passim [215, 217]; WarTR2 29, 141, 251, 252, 329; Cock-Cocks-Cox 357; OBTR 1:378, 6:654; NYGBR 64:31, citing NTR [1:]158).
On 17 February 1682 [probably 1682/3], William Thornycraft conveyed "twenty Accars of Land unto _his father in Law_ Joseph Carpenter . . . for and in Consideration of fifty Accars of Land in hand and reseaved, of _his father_ Joseph Carpenter" (emphases added) (OBTR 1:643; Carpenter [1901] 45 omits portion of quoted passage following ellipsis points). On the same date, Carpenter, in an exchange of fifty-acre lots with Nicholas Simkins, obtained the parcel he gave to Thornycraft, abutting the twenty acres his son-in-law gave him in return (OBTR 1:642-44). Thornycraft's right to the twenty acres of woodland he traded to Joseph Carpenter had been granted to him on 14 Jan. 1681[/2?] by a deed from the five Musketa Cove proprietors, including Carpenter (OBTR 1:639-40). It is doubtful that this grant to Thornycraft--also including "A sartin peece or parsell of Land whare hee now Inhabitts and Builtt upon for A home Lott as within fenc Allredy InClosed" and a parcel of upland--would have been made until he had married (in which case he need not have been twenty-one to receive it). The lots Thornycraft and Carpenter exchanged were adjacent and thus presumably of comparable quality. From this, the transfers' transaction date, and a gift of land made by Joseph Carpenter probably four days (rather than a year and four days) earlier (see no. ii, below), it is reasonable to conclude that the thirty acres Thornycraft gained from the trade was a marriage settlement from his father-in-law. The will of William Thorneycraft Sr. of Musketa Cove, dated 19 March 1719/20 and proved 19 Dec. 1728, names wife Hannah; sons William, Joseph, and Thomas; and daughters Hannah Washburn, Elizabeth Pellam (Pelham), Mary Thorneycraft, Jane Carpenter [m. cousin Silas, son of William (no. iv, below)], and Phebe Thorneycraft; the witnesses were Mary Carpenter, Thomas Pearsall, and Joseph Carpenter (NYWills 11:80, 85).
ii. THOMASIN/TAM(A)SIN CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 and say 1662/3, living Madnan's Neck, Hempstead (now Great Neck, North Hempstead), L.I., 30 Jan. 1710, 9 Anne [regnal year], i.e., 30 Jan. 1710/11; m. Musketa Cove or vicinity before 13 Feb. 1682[/3], as his second wife, JOHN WILLIAMS, d. Madnan's Neck shortly before 4 April 1705 (widow granted letters of adm.), son of Robert and Sarah (Washburn) Williams of Hempstead and Lusum (Jericho, in Oyster Bay) (HempTR 2:395-97; OBTR 1:187-88, 272, 458-60, 625-27, 641; Cock-Cocks-Cox 371; NYWills 1:118, 403-4; TAG 36:62; Washburn Gen 95-99, citing HempCtR 78-83).
The evidence that Thomasin (Mrs. John) Williams was Joseph and Hannah Carpenter's daughter is circumstantial: On 13 Feb. 1682[/3], Joseph Carpenter Sr. conveyed by a deed of gift to John Williams, a cordwainer (shoemaker) "now Residing on ye same place[,] foure Accars of Land . . . on ye north side of the highwaye Against my now dwelling house" (OBTR 1:641). Taken together, the nature of the transfer, the lot's location and Williams's prior occupation of it, and a similar transaction made by Carpenter probably four days (rather than a year and four days) later (see no. i, above) strongly suggest that the gift was a marriage settlement. On 13 May 1686, John Williams of Madnan's Neck sold to Joseph Carpenter fifty acres at Matinecock, "w[i]thin ye pattent & Township of Oysterbay"; John and Tamsun Williams signed the deed by mark (OBTR 1:483-84). Letters of administration on the estate of John Williams of Madnan's Neck, deceased, were granted to wife Tamasan on 4 April 1705; his estate inventory was exhibited by Thomasan Williams, administratrix, on 15 Sept. 1705 (NYWills 1:322, 403-4, 16:35 [corrections]). On 19 March 1705/6, Tamson Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, purchased fifty acres of woodland in Oyster Bay (OBTR 3:188-90). "Tamisen Williams the widow & Relick [sic] of John Williams of madnans neck," purchased 300 acres of woodland on the Byram River in Rye, Westchester Co., N.Y., on 20 May 1707 (not 12 May 1706) (WeLR C:430; NYGBR 51:254; Carpenter [1901] 47 [12 May 1706]). On 30 Jan. 1710[/11], the town of Hempstead quitclaimed to Thomasin Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, 66 acres "in her full and peaceable posesion being" (HempTR 2:395-97).
Daniel H. Carpenter says that Thomasin "was probably named for her great-aunt 'Tomazin'" who "came over in 1635 . . . [and] is believed to have been an elder sister of William of Providence" (see Carpenter [1901] 45-46, 46n). This statement is presumably based on the tenuous assumption that because a Carpenter woman of that forename and a male Carpenter from William1's English home were recorded as emigrants about a week apart--William1 arrived in New England probably the following year (though not under the circumstances stated by D. H. Carpenter)--all three must be closely related (see Carpenter [1901] 5, 9, 46n; NEHGR 159:67-68). On 13 April (not 15 May) 1635, Tomazin Carpenter, aged 35, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the _Susan & Ellen_ (Hotten 57 [13 April], 59; Carpenter [1901] 5 [15 May]). Thomas Carpenter of Amesbury [in Wiltshire], carpenter, was among those who registered at Southampton "in and aboute" 6 April 1635 for passage to New England on the _James_ (PRO/TNA CO1/8/183-85, at 185; Coldham 133-34; NEHGR 14:332-33 and Carpenter [1901] 5 erroneously have 5 April). The _Susan & Ellen_'s passenger list gives no indication of Tomazin's origin, however, and nothing more is known of her (or of Thomas--unless he was actually the eventual William1 of Providence [in whose sketch see IMMIGRATION]). But if she was closely related to William of Providence, it is reasonable to suppose that she, too, was from Amesbury or thereabout. In that case, one would expect her and so-called Thomas of Amesbury to have sailed together or at least to have embarked from the same port. That they did neither renders what was never more than a possibility all the more remote. Ironically, Joseph's daughter Thomasin may well have been named after a slightly more-distant aunt on the other side of his family: his maternal grandfather, William1 Arnold, had a sister Thomasine/Tamzen, who remained in England (NEHGR 33:427-28, 69:67).
iii. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 and 9 July 1663 (perhaps by 13 Feb. 1661/2), d. Musketa Cove between 9 Sept. 1687 (quitrent payment) and 6 Jan. 1691 [probably 1691/2]; m. by 1685 (1st known child b. 16 Oct.) (OBTR 2:337, 350-51).
That records dated in mid-Feb. 1682[/3] call his father Joseph "Sr:" or "Sen:" suggests that Joseph (Jr.) was by then of age (OBTR 1:640-41; DEATH, par. 3, above). He was certainly so by 9 July 1684, when he and his mother were named administrators of his father's estate (Hist Mss 130). He was "late deceased" when a "memorandum" of the birth, on 16 Oct. 1685, of his "Eldest son and Heire," Joseph, was recorded at the top of a page also containing a record dated 6 Jan. 1691 (OBTR 2:350-51).
The identity of Joseph's wife is at best uncertain. The wife Ann(e) that D. H. Carpenter attributes to him was probably his stepmother, Ann (Weekes) Carpenter (see Carpenter [1901] 44; OBTR 1:644-47, 2:127-29, 650-51). Hinshaw gives Joseph's namesake son's mother as Anne, but while his main sources are original Quaker records, they are supplemented by others, some secondary (see Quaker Gen 1, 391). The younger Joseph's Musketa Cove birth record does not name his mother, and the otherwise informative Quaker record of his death names neither parent (see OBTR 2:350; Carpenter [1901] 64n and Hazard Index, both citing WMM-VR A:159). It is therefore probable that Hinshaw's identification of the younger man's mother as Anne derives ultimately from the D. H. Carpenter volume. Note, however, that the younger Joseph's first daughter was named Ann (Quaker Genealogy 391; Carpenter [1901] 66, 93). D. H. Carpenter's further supposition concerning the elder Joseph's wife--(having previously thought she was a daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Weekes) Simpkins)-- "we now think she was daughter of Thomas Thornycraft and sister to William Thornycraft"--is unsupported, as is the assertion of another author (whose Carpenter section builds upon Carpenter [1901]) that she was probably Mary Thornycraft (see Carpenter [1901] 44; Cock-Cocks-Cox 357).
The subject Joseph had a second son, Thomas, who is said by D. H. Carpenter to have been born on 16 Aug. 1687 (OBTR 3:344-45 [1708 quitclaim, Joseph to "my Brother Thomas"]; Carpenter [1901] 44 [b. 15 Aug.], 67; Haviland Gen 110). Seeming to confirm this is the 1 Jan. 1859 account by Sarah C. Field (1797-1879) of a family record then in her possession or that of her mother, Jane (Haviland) Field (1765-1860), giving Thomas's birth date as "8 mo., 16th day, 1687" (Haviland Gen 186). Prior to 1752, however, the eighth month was not August but October (as consistent with the latter's Latin origin). Without informing the reader of his translations, D. H. Carpenter expresses with named months many dates that are actually recorded with numbered ones (including all those from Quaker records). Because his conversions of pre-1752 numbered-month dates are mistakenly based on modern reckoning, they are consistently off by two months. Note, however, that Thomas's corrected birth date, 16 October 1687, contains the same day and month as his brother Joseph's (see above). So while the October date is more reliable than the August one, the former should nevertheless be regarded with some caution. Thomas certainly had been born by 26 Nov. 1687: he and brother Joseph sold land to their uncle Nathaniel on 26 Nov. 1708 (OBTR 3:310-12).
The aforementioned family record gives the date of Joseph3's son Thomas's marriage as "10 mo., 14th day, 1708" [14 Dec. (not Oct.) 1708] (Haviland Gen 110 [Oct.], 186 [10 mo.]; see also Carpenter [1901] 67 [Oct.]). While his wife is identified therein only as Hannah, several secondary sources have her as Hannah Alsop, daughter of Thomas [sic] and Hannah (Underwood) Alsop (see, for example, Haviland Gen 110; Carpenter [1901] 67). This is doubly incorrect, however: First, the secondary literature has long accepted (albeit without documentation) that Hannah Underwood married the immigrant Richard Alsop; the earliest Thomas Alsop was their son, born in 1687 (also Thomas Carpenter's birth year), who married Susannah Blackwell (GMB 3:1862, 1863; Alsop Gen 3, 4; Underhill Gen 65). And second, Richard and Hannah Alsop's daughter Hannah married Joseph Sackett (Alsop Gen 2 [Richard Alsop will (transcr.), naming dau. Hannah Sackett], 4; Underhill Gen 66). There was a marriage between a Thomas Carpenter, son of Joseph, and a Hannah Alsop, daughter of Richard, but it occurred in 1777 (Hazard Index, citing WMM-VR A:250). The identity of Hannah, wife of the subject Thomas Carpenter, is unknown.
iv. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. by 3 Sept. 1666 (freeholder by 3 Sept. 1687), living Oyster Bay Township 5 Aug. 1734; m. ELIZABETH _______ (OBTR 2:337, 3:429-31, 5:623-25; Carpenter [1901] 49n, 73).
On 13 May 1720, William sold his 81-acre Musketa Cove farm, "Reserveing to my Self Three Acres" (OBTR 3:429-31). On 8 May 1722, with son Silas (about whom more below), William purchased 375 acres on the Byram River at North Castle and Rye, Westchester Co., N.Y., of which William was then "in possession" (Carpenter [1901] 49n, 73, both citing WeLR G:215-17). Subsequent records put William on Long Island in 1728/9 and in Oyster Bay Township from 1730/1 to 1734 (NYWills 11:85 [William Jr. of Long Island (implies presence at same place of Wm. Sr.)], 3 Jan. 1728/9]; OBTR 4:366-68 [William Jr., 5 March 1730/1], 5:75 [William Jr., 5 Aug. 1734], 623-25 [William Sr., 2 April 1734]).
William sold his farm (see above) "with ye ffree will and Consent of my Wife Elizabeth Carpenter," who added her signature (by mark) to his (OBTR 3:431). D. H. Carpenter calls it "a _possibility_ amounting to a _probability_" (his emphases) that Elizabeth was the daughter of William's uncle Ephraim Carpenter and says that she died about 1743 (Carpenter [1901] 50); he fails to support either assertion, however. G. W. Cocks says that Elizabeth's parentage is "not certainly known, but may have been Moses and Elizabeth (Weeden) Mudge, then of Musketa Cove, who had a dau. Elizabeth, b. 28/12 mo. (Feb.) 1674" (Cock-Cocks-Cox 358, 385). Note that this is expressed as no more than a possibility. There is, moreover, no known basis for the assertion that Moses and Elizabeth Mudge had a daughter Elizabeth, let alone that she was born on the date stated (which is not to say that either is necessarily false). An Elizabeth Mudge was born at Northampton, Mass., 10 Oct. 1673 and another at Charlestown, Mass., 12 March 1674, but their respective parents and husbands are not those of the same-named woman mentioned by Cocks (see Mudge Gen 46, 49; TAG 81:25; Charlestown Gens 2:693). In the most recent and authoritative account of Moses Mudge and his family, Gale Ion Harris, FASG (citing an unpublished typescript by Harry Macy Jr., FASG) presents Mudge's issue as consisting of two sons and no daughters (see TAG 81:18-30, at 24 [24n38 corrects Mudge Gen 48]). Elizabeth (Mrs. William) Carpenter's maiden name is unknown. And in any case, since the one known record in which her forename appears as William's wife is dated in 1720 (see above), it is not certain that she was the mother of his children.
The will of William's son Silas Carpenter of North Castle, dated 3 Jan. 1728/9 and proved 13 Feb. 1728[/9], names wife Jane [his cousin, dau. of William and Hannah (Carpenter) Thornycraft (see no. i, above)]; daughters Hannah and Phebe; sons William, Timothy, and Silas; and executors [brother-in-law] William Craft [formerly Thornycraft], [brother] William Carpenter Jr., both of Long Island, and wife Hannah [sic]; witnesses include [uncle] Nathaniel Carpenter (no. v, below) (NYWills 11:80, 85 [_Silas_ transcr. as _Giles_]). The will of William's son Joseph Carpenter of Oyster Bay, dated 25 Feb. 1727[/8?] and proved 21 March 1727/8, names wife Abigail [nee Robbins]; sons Joseph and John; and executors "my wife and her brother, John Robbins" (NYWills 11:101).
v. NATHANIEL CARPENTER, b. Pawtuxet (Warwick) or Musketa Cove between say 1668 and 10 Feb. 1672[/3?] (grantee 10 Feb. 1693[/4?]), d. North Castle 25 2nd mo. [April (not Feb.)] 1730; m. Musketa Cove 5 Nov. 1690, TAMAR COLES, b. 18 May 1673, dau. of Robert and Mercy (Wright?) Coles (OBTR 1:652-53, 655, 2:101-3; FMM-VR 220; MacDonough-Hackstaff 455).
Nathaniel is said to have been probably the first white child born at Musketa Cove (see Carpenter [1901] 43, 50). This, however, is based on the unsupported assertion that he was born in the summer of 1668 and the questionable assumption that both parents had settled on Long Island by that time (see Carpenter [1901] 50; OBTR 2:682; RESIDENCES, above). The record of his death calls him Nathaniel "Juner," but the only other man of that name known to have been residing at North Castle at the time was his son, who died in late 1758 (see FMM-VR 220; Quaker Gen 63; NYWills 5:274; Carpenter [1901] 85). An item in the 1 Jan. 1759 issue of the _New-York Mercury_ is often said online to refer to the elder Nathaniel but in fact concerns the estate settlement of his recently deceased son. Naming "Captain Nathaniel Carpenter, deceas'd, of North-Castle, in Westchester County, and Province of New-York," the notice was placed by Caleb Fowler and Caleb Green, "Executors, in said County" (Hist Newspapers). The latter two men were brothers-in-law of the younger Nathaniel, whose will names them as executors (NYWills 5:274; Carpenter [1901] 85-86).

D. H. Carpenter gives Joseph and Hannah a sixth child: Hannah, "born 1672-3, married Jacob Hicks in 1690" (Carpenter [1901] 43). A few secondary sources state that the maiden name of Jacob Hicks's wife was Carpenter, but not all give her parentage, and none presents supporting evidence (see, for example, Mott Gen 372; Shotwell Gen 237, 280; Cornell Gen 383; Seaman-Husband 84). In his will, dated in 1751, Jacob Hicks's bequests to wife Hannah include "all the goods she brought with her when married" (NYWills 5:93-94). The quoted phrase implies that Hannah (whatever her maiden name) was not Hicks's first wife and probably married him long after his children were born (at Hempstead between 1702--making a 1690 marriage date unlikely [see above]--and about 1718) (see Colonial Fams 3:1330). More to the point, however, the Carpenter daughter whom D. H. Carpenter is unable to identify by forename but correctly describes as having married William Thornycraft is almost certainly the woman whom Thornycraft's will calls "my wife Hannah" (see Carpenter [1901] 43; NYWills 11:80; child no. i, above).

For Joseph's children with Ann Weekes, see Joseph2 Carpenter (William1 of Providence) notes.

COMMENTS: On 3 May 1656, Joseph2 Carpenter witnessed a deed of Pawtuxet (Providence) land from his maternal uncle Stephen Arnold to Joseph's father, William1 Carpenter (PrTR 1:44-45). It has been supposed that Joseph was then an adult and thus was born about 1635, prior to his parents' emigration from England (see, for example, Carpenter [1901] 8-9, 30, 31; Arnold Mem 9, 52; RI Roots 13:75). It is wrong, however, to assume that Joseph was an adult when he witnessed the deed. Witnesses as young as fourteen (the age of discretion) are found in early New England records. When on 9 February 1657 Joseph, his brother Ephraim, and sister Lydia witnessed a deed of Pawtuxet (Warwick) land from an Indian sachem to their father, at least two and probably all three siblings were minors (see WarTR2 80-81). The most reliable approximation of Joseph's birth date is based on a deposition that he and Benjamin Smith gave on 16 October 1664 (HP 72-73). Its description of Joseph as "Aged 26 yeeres" implies a birth year of about 1638 and Providence as his probable birthplace (see William1 of Providence notes, RESIDENCES). For a detailed discussion of this and related issues--the immigration of William1 Carpenter of Providence (ca. 1636, as a single man) and his marriage to Elizabeth Arnold (ca. 1637, probably at Providence)--see NEHGR 159:67-68.

On 22 November 1682, Joseph Carpenter, on behalf of Samuel Till(i)er, paid £20 to John Robbins (OBTR 1:128-29). Two Musketa Cove proprietors' records, respectively dated 13 and 15 February 1682[/3], indicate that Joseph was still living at this time (OBTR 1:640-41). (Both follow on the same page a record dated 28 December 1682.) Three others, apparently recorded at or very near the same time as the foregoing ones, probably extend by two days the 15 February date, the latest on which Joseph is known with certainty to have been alive: all three are dated 17 February 1682 [probably 1682/3] (OBTR 1:642-44). On 15 March 1683/4, William1 Carpenter of Providence added to his will a codicil in which his son Joseph is described as deceased (PrTR 6:138-48, at 147-48).

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: See, for example, Bill Bleyer, "The Daily Grind," online at ; Howard Chapin, "Early House Lots in the Town of Warwick," _Rhode Island Historical Society Collections_ 12:4(Oct. 1919):129-36; Robert Reed Coles and Peter Luyster Van Santvoord, _A History of Glen Cove_ (Glen Cove, 1967); Don D'Amato, "Warwick's Villages & Historic Places: Conimicut Village," links to pts. 2 and 3, online at ; Oliver P. Fuller, _The History of Warwick, Rhode Island_ (Providence, 1875) (caveat [see below]); _Harris Papers_, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 10 (Providence, 1902); Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, and Carol McCrossen, "History of Glen Cove," online at . The Fuller volume is useful but contains inaccuracies: Hannah's mother-in-law, Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter, for example, is omitted from an account of the family of William1 Arnold, to whom is attributed a nonexistent son Thomas (p. 16); William1 Arnold and William1 Carpenter of Pawtuxet village, Providence, are mistakenly listed with Robert Coles and Benedict Arnold as residents of the Warwick part of the village (p. 137).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Alsop Gen: Douglas Leffingwell, _Alsop Genealogy, Being a Brief Account of the Descendants of Richard Alsop . . ._ (Conn., 1928)

Arnold Mem: Elisha Stephen Arnold, _The Arnold Memorial: William Arnold of Providence and Pawtuxet, 1587-1675 . . ._ (Rutland, Vt., 1935)

Carpenter [1901]: Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, _History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America, from the Settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901_ (Jamaica, N.Y., 1901)

Carpenter Cousins: Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project website, maintained by John F. Chandler; discussion of Groups 2 and 3 (Providence and Rehoboth Carpenter descendants, respectively) is at (13 March 2008 update)

Charlestown Gens: Thomas Bellows Wyman, _Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1879)

Cock-Cocks-Cox: George William Cocks, _History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cook of Killingworth upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oysterbay, Long Island, N.Y._, 2nd ed. (New York, 1914)

Coldham: Peter Wilson Coldham, _The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660_ (Baltimore, 1987)

Colonial Fams: Herbert F. Seversmith, _Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut_, 5 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1939-1958)

Cornell Gen: John Cornell, _Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth_, R.I. (New York, 1902)

Davis: Walter Goodwin Davis, _Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis_, vol. 3, Neal-Wright (Baltimore, 1996)

FMM-VR: Flushing, Long Island, Monthly Meeting [of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)], Vital Records 1640-1796 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #17,376, item 1]; all Flushing Monthly Meeting records are catalogued at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and in Hazard Index as New York Monthly Meeting (Pre [i.e., pre-Separation])

GMB: Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633_, 3 vols. (Boston, 1995)

Haviland Gen: Josephine C. Frost, _The Haviland Genealogy_ (New York, 1914)

Hazard Index: "James E. Hazard Index: The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends," database of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, online at

HempCtR: Hempstead Court Proceedings, 1657-1660, at the Office of the Town Clerk, North Hempstead, Long Island, New York

HempTR: _Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, New York [1654-1880]_, 8 vols., ed. Benjamin D. Hicks (Jamaica, N.Y., 1896-1904)

Hist Newspapers: Historical Newspapers 1690-1977 (digital images), online at GenealogyBank.com (subscription website)

Hist Mss: E. B. O'Callaghan, ed., _Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y._, pt. 2 (Albany, 1866; repr. 1968)

Hotten: John C. Hotten, ed., _The Original Lists of Persons of Quality . . ._ (London, 1874)

HP: _Harris Papers_, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 10 (Providence, 1902)

MacDonough-Hackstaff: Rodney MacDonough, _The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry_ (Boston, 1901)

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

Mott Gen: Thomas C. Cornell, _Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Descendants_ (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1890)

Mudge Gen: Alfred Mudge, _Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge in America, from 1638 to 1868_ (Boston, 1868)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NTR: Newtown, Long Island, Town Records

NYChR: _Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church_, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, vol. 2 (New York, 1901); improved version online at

NYGBR: _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, vol. 1 (1869) through present

NYWills: [William S. Pelletreau], _Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York_, 17 vols., New-York Historical Society Collections 25-41 (New York, 1893-1909); digital images online at

OBTR: _Oyster Bay Town Records_, 8 vols., ed. John Cox (New York, 1916-1940); vol. 1 (digital images online at ) includes Musketa Cove Proprietors' Book

PawWeb: Pawtuxet-related websites: "Pawtuxet Village History" (with map), online at ; "Pawcatuck, Pawtucket, Pawtuxet: Three Places in Rhode Island?" online at ; "Pawtuxet-Pawtucket," at

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

PRO/TNA: Public Record Office, The National Archives, London, England; images of _James_ passenger list (ref. CO 1/8, pp. 183-85) available for purchase online at --> Shop online --> Order copies of documents

PrTR: _The Early Records of the Town of Providence_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892-1915)

PubRIHS: _Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society: New Series_, 8 vols. (1893-1900); digital images online at

Quaker Gen: William Wade Hinshaw and Thomas Worth Marshall, _Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy_, vol. 3, New York and Long Island (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1940)

RILE: _Rhode Island Land Evidences, Volume I, 1648-1696_ (Providence, 1921)

RI Roots: _Rhode Island Roots_, vol. 1 (1975) through present

Seaman-Husband: Mary Thomas Seaman, _Links in Genealogy: Memorial of Samuel Hicks Seaman and His Wife Hannah Richardson Husband_ (New York, 1921)

Shotwell Gen: Ambrose Milton Shotwell, _Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors . . . the Shotwell Family in America . . ._ (Lansing, Mich., 1897)

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, item 5]

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

Underhill Gen: Josephine C. Frost, ed., _Underhill Genealogy: Descendants of Capt. John Underhill_, vol. 2 (New York? 1938)

WarTR1: _The Early Records of the Town of Warwick_ (Providence, 1926)

WarTR2: _More Early Records of the Town of Warwick, Rhode Island_, ed. Cherry Fletcher Bamburg and Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boston, 2001)

Washburn Gen: Mabel T. R. Washburn, _Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England, and America_ (Greenfield, Ind., 1953); digital images at HeritageQuest Online (subscription website)

WeLR: Westchester County, New York, Deeds, vols. C-D [FHL film #589,694]

WMM-MM: Westbury, Long Island, Monthly Meeting [of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)], Men's Minutes [FHL film #18,033]

WMM-VR: Westbury Monthly Meeting, Vital Records (as abstracted in Hazard Index)

WP: _Winthrop Papers, Volume 3, 1631-1637_, ed. Allyn Bailey Forbes (Boston, 1943)

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 20 on page 46 of the Carpenter Memorial.

See REF: B.B. TOPP, Carpenter Chronicles #24, Nov 1995
Hannah married Joseph Carpenter, the son of William of "Pautuxet". Hannah was the daughter of William Jr. of Rehoboth, MA.

AFN 2PN-G8 and SCX6-J2 are the same person.  AFN SCX6-J2 and QFBG-LP are the same person.  As is AFN RJSG-Z9. Per AFN: died in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY

Joseph Carpenter

INTRO: (This is a recap of the data below!)
Joseph Carpenter (William ) was born about 1638 in Providence, Providence Plantation. He died between 15/17 Mar 1682[/3] and 15 Mar 1683/4 in Musketa Cove, Queens County, Long Island, NY.
Joseph married Hannah Carpenter, daughter of  William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter, about 1658 probably in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Hannah was born on 3 Apr 1640 in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She died by 8 Jun 1673 in Musketa Cove, Long Island, NY.

Gene Zubrinsky’s original notes (ca. 2000), different venue from the later Carpenter Sketches, received August 2018:
JOSEPH2 CARPENTER born ca 1638 (not 1635) place Providence (not in England)
died before 15 Mar 1683/4 (by Sep 1683?) place Musketa Cove, NY and (1st) spouse
HANNAH3 CARPENTER of Rehoboth born 3 2m [Apr] 1640 place Weymouth, Mass. Bay
Colony died _by 1673_______ place _prob Musketa Cove, NY_________________
married prob 1658 (21 Apr 1659 unlikely) place prob Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony
List proof: Carpenter Family at Providence, 25 (codicil [transcr.], dtd 15 Mar 1683/4, to will of W1C
[no. 12, line 2], item nullifying bequest to recently deceased son J2C and leaving it to grandson J3C),
60-61 (see no. 10, proof section, above), 62n (ibid.), 315n (unidentified “records show” J2C bro. Ephraim absent from Musketa Cove in Sep 1683, gone to R.I. presumably on business related to J2C’s death); Weymouth VR, in so-called “Early Records of Boston,” NEHGR 8(1854):348 (H3C b rec); Harris Papers, Coll. of R. I. Hist. Soc., vol. 10 (Prov., 1902), 72-73, deposition, dtd 16 Oct 1664, J2C “Aged 26 yeeres” (for complete refutation of claim that W1C of Prov m. in England and J2C b. there, see Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, “Abiah3 Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, and His Family:
With Additional Material Concerning William1 Carpenter of Providence, Rhode Island, and William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth,Massachusetts,” NEHGR 159[2005], 55-68, at 67-68, and Zubrinsky, “The Immigration and Marriage of William1 Carpenter of Amesbury, Wiltshire, and Providence, Rhode Island,” NEHGR 164[2010]: 36-40); Rhode Island Land Evidences, vol. 1 (Prov., 1921), 47 (deed [abstr.], dtd 8 June 1673, in which J2C [H3C not signatory] conveys to “my Brother in Law” Abiah Carpenter of Pawtuxet [H3C’s bro.] lands there “which Fell to me by my wife … from her father” [for bequests from W2C of Rehoboth (no. 12a, line 2) to H3C, see Plymouth Colony Wills, 2:1:80-81]), 50-51 (deed [abstr.], dtd 2 Sep 1774 at Pawtuxet, signed by J2C; W1C [of Prov.]; by mark, “Ana” Carpenter [2d wf J2C; 1st wf, H3C, literate]; dau. Francis Weekes [Oyster Bay Town Records, Volume I-1653-1690 (New York, 1916), 411-12 (FW will)]). Marriage date highly suspect: undocumented, same date as probate of father’s will.
Married prob bef W2C (12a, line2) made will, dtd 10 10m [Dec] ____ (prob 1658), whose ref. to
“Cozen” Carpenter (i.e., J2C) synonymous w/ kinsman (i.e., son-in-law) (for detailed discussion of this
issue, see Zubrinsky, “Abiah3 Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island,” NEHGR 159:64-66). See also
http://carpentercousins.com/Joseph2_RI&NY.pdf and http://carpentercousins.com/Hannah3_Mass&RI&NY.pdf.
12. The said (no. 11, line 2) __JOSEPH2 CARPENTER_________________ was the child of
WILLIAM1 CARPENTER_ born _say 1610_ place _prob Amesbury, Wiltshire, England


Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

JOSEPH2 CARPENTER (William1 of Providence) was born about 1638 (aged 26 in 1664), probably at Providence Plantation (not 1635, in England), and died intestate between 15 or 17 February 1682[/3] and 15 March 1683/4 at Musketa Cove (then a plantation in Oyster Bay Township; now the town of Glen Cove, Nassau County), Long Island, Province of New York. He married first, probably at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, ca. 1658 (not on 21 April 1659), HANNAH3 CARPENTER, born at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 3 2nd month [April] 1640 and died not long before 8 June 1673, probably at Musketa Cove, daughter of William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter of Rehoboth. Joseph married  second, probably at Oyster Bay, by 2 September 1674, ANN WEEKES, baptized at New Amsterdam (now New York City), Colony of New Netherland, on 9 July 1651 and died at Musketa Cove after 24 4th month [June] 1713 (perhaps by 12 6th month [August] 1713), daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (______) Weekes of Salem and Dorchester, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; New Amsterdam; Gravesend, Long Island; and Oyster Bay (NEHGR 159:64n47, 67-68; PrTR 6:138, 141, 144, 147-48; PubRIHS 4:197; TAG 70:201, 204; RILE 1:47, 50-51; NYChR 29; WMM-MM A:24; FMM-VR 78; OBTR 1:99, 411-12, 640-41, 642-44, 2:702; see also BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGES, and COMMENTS sections, below; Hannah3 notes, DEATH and COMMENTS). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his _Great Migration_ series.]

BIRTH: On 3 May 1656, Joseph2 Carpenter witnessed a deed of Pawtuxet (Providence) land from his maternal uncle Stephen Arnold to Joseph's father, William1 Carpenter (PrTR 1:44-45). It has been supposed that Joseph was then an adult and thus was born about 1635, prior to his parents' emigration from England (see, for example, Carpenter [1901] 8-9, 30, 31; Arnold Mem 9, 52; RI Roots 13:75). It is wrong, however, to assume that Joseph was an adult when he witnessed the deed. Witnesses as young as fourteen (the age of discretion) are found in early New England records. When on 9 February 1657 Joseph, his brother Ephraim, and sister Lydia witnessed a deed of land at Pawtuxet (Warwick) from an Indian sachem to their father, at least two and probably all three siblings were minors (see WarTR2 80-81; RESIDENCES, below). The most reliable approximation of Joseph's birth date is based on a deposition that he and Benjamin Smith gave on 16 October 1664 (HP 72-73). Its description of Joseph as "Aged 26 yeeres" implies a birth year of about 1638 and Providence as his probable birthplace (see William1 of Providence notes, RESIDENCES). For a detailed discussion of this and related issues--the immigration of William1 Carpenter of Providence (ca. 1636, as a single man) and his marriage to Elizabeth Arnold (ca. 1637, probably at Providence)--see William1 of Providence sketch, IMMIGRATION, which incorporates and supplements NEHGR 159:67-68..

DEATH: On 22 November 1682, Joseph Carpenter, on behalf of Samuel Till(i)er, paid £20 to John Robbins (OBTR 1:128-29). Two Musketa Cove proprietors' records, respectively dated 13 and 15 February 1682[/3], indicate that Joseph was then still living (OBTR 1:640-41). (Both follow on the same page a record dated 28 December 1682.) Three others, apparently recorded at or very near the same time as the foregoing ones, probably extend by two days the 15 February date, the latest on which Joseph is known with certainty to have been alive: all three are dated 17 February 1682 [probably 1682/3] (OBTR 1:642-44). On 15 March 1683/4, William1 Carpenter of Providence added to his will a codicil in which his son Joseph is described as deceased (PrTR 6:138-48, at 147-48).

According to Daniel H. Carpenter, "[t]he records show that in September 1683, Ephraim Carpenter was absent from Musketa Cove, having gone to Rhode Island apparently on business connected with the death of his brother Joseph, who had died a little while earlier in 1683" (Carpenter [1901] 315n [see also 42]). While Joseph's death apparently did occur in 1683--perhaps by September (see below)--the records do not show what author Carpenter claims. A record listing Oyster Bay inhabitants (including those at Musketa Cove) and their respective estates, dated 29 September 1683, ends with a statement signed by Edmund Wright, deputy constable: "The Inhabytants being at this time sikly and not sending in their lists, According to order, the ouersears, _ye Constable being Absent at roadislond_ did laye A valewation upon Euery mans Eastate to ye best of there vnderstanding According to law" (emphasis added) (OBTR 1:691-92). Having been elected the previous 2 April, the Oyster Bay constable at this time was John Weeks (OBTR 1:264). The nearest Ephraim Carpenter came to being Oyster Bay constable was on 2 April 1681, when Caleb Wright was named to that office, and Ephraim became deputy constable for the plantation at Musketa Cove (OBTR 1:240-41). Thus it was John Weeks, not Ephraim Carpenter, who was "Absent at roadislond" in September 1683.

The Musketa Cove proprietors' records dated 13 and 15 February 1682[/3], respectively, and one of the three dated probably within days of them (see above) refer to Joseph2 as "Sr:" or "Sen:" (OBTR 1:640-41, 642-44). The term _Senior_ was not generally applied to the elder of two same-named males of a locality until the younger one reached adulthood. The references to Joseph Sr. therefore suggest that Joseph2's namesake son had come of age by mid-February 1682/3. The record dated 15 February 1682/[3] appears to make a distinction between Joseph Sr. and his son Joseph: the town orders that a road separating the home lots of Joseph Carpenter and Nathaniel Coles shall be laid out by Joseph Carpenter Sr. and Robert Coles (OBTR 1:640). The aforementioned list of inhabitants--a virtual census of Oyster Bay freeholders as of 29 September 1683--names only one Joseph Carpenter, with no generational indicator, raising the possibility that Joseph2 had died by then, leaving Joseph3 (child no. iii, below) and the latter's uncle Ephraim as the only Carpenter freeholders then in Oyster Bay Township.

MARRIAGES: The secondary literature's oft-repeated date of Joseph2's marriage to Hannah Carpenter, 21 April 1659, is highly suspect. Supporting evidence is never presented, nor has any been found. It is, moreover, the date on which the will of Hannah's father, William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, was proved at Plymouth, presumably upon presentation by her mother, as "Exequitrice" (PCPR 2:1:80, 83; MD 14:231, 233). Initial confusion and subsequent repetition have thus given Hannah's marriage a widely accepted date that actually pertains to another event--one that would have absented her mother (and probably one or more brothers) from Rehoboth on the alleged date of the marriage.

References in the will of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth to "Cozen Carpenter" and "my brother Carpenter"--presumably Joseph2 and his father, William1 of Providence, respectively--have given rise to claims that Joseph and Hannah were first or second cousins. Recent Y-DNA test results virtually eliminate either possibility, however, showing with 95 percent certainty that the couple's nearest common Carpenter ancestor preceded their respective fathers by between two and twenty generations (Carpenter Cousins; William1 of Providence notes, COMMENTS). The term _cousin_ was used broadly at this time, often to denote _kinsman_, or relative by marriage. _Brother_ was sometimes used similarly: in two letters written in 1636 to his namesake son, for example, Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop calls the stepfather of the younger Winthrop's then wife, Elizabeth Reade, "my brother [Hugh] Peter" (WP 269, 275; Davis 212-13, 215; NEHGR 88:301). The quoted phrases thus almost certainly reflect relationships created by the couple's having married _before_ the partially dated will was made, no later than 10 December 1658 (see William2 of Rehoboth notes, WILL/ESTATE).

Joseph's having remarried by 2 September 1674 is implied in a deed of that date in which he, "of Muskeata Cove neer Oyster Bay on Long Island[,] . . . Formerly Inhabitant on the south of Pawtuxet River within . . . Warwick . . . For mony . . . paid . . . me by my uncle Stephen Arnold of Pawtuxet within . . . Towne-shipp of Providence . . . with . . . consent of my Father William Carpenter . . . of . . . Pawtuxet . . . sell[s] . . . unto . . . uncle Stephen Arnold, . . . one halfe of all my . . . Lands . . . on the South side of . . .  Pawtuxet river, Exceptinge only my dwellinge house, lott and pasture and meddow adjoyninge to it"; also mentioned is "Hannah [sic], my now wife" (RILE 50-51). The deed is signed by Joseph Carpenter, William Carpenter Sr., and-by the mark A-"Ana" Carpenter (Carpenter [1901] n.p. [376 (facsimile of original deed)]; RILE 51). That An[n]a was not Joseph's first wife, Hannah (of which Anna was a variant), is apparent from the phrase "my now wife" (implying one or more previous marriages) and the fact that Hannah had been literate and would not have signed by mark (see Hannah3 notes, EDUCATION). Francis Weekes's will and a codicil thereto, dated 25 June 1687 and 3 February 1688/9, respectively, identify his daughter Ann as the widow of Joseph Carpenter (OBTR 1:412, 2:702).

RESIDENCES: Providence Plantation; Warwick (Pawtuxet section), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (ca. 1658); Musketa Cove (probably late 1668: Joseph was of Pawtuxet on 7 November and of Musketa Cove on 30 November). It was presumably when Joseph married Hannah3 Carpenter that they left the homes of their respective families of origin--his at Providence (Pawtuxet section), hers at Rehoboth--and settled on the southern, Warwick side of the Pawtuxet River, which at its mouth bisects the village that is its namesake (WarTR1 162-63, 176-77; WarTR2 153-54; RILE 50-51; OBTR 1:42-43, 629-32, 641, 2:682-83; NEHGR 159:56n4; PawWeb; Carpenter [1901] 31-32).

OCCUPATION: Miller and yeoman (RILE 50-51; NYColDocs 606; OBTR 1:629-30; Glen Cove Hist; Carpenter [1901] 31, 33). D. H. Carpenter states that Joseph had a corn mill at Warwick when he was an inhabitant there (see Carpenter [1901] 31). In fact, the mill was in the part of Pawtuxet village lying on the north side of the river of that name, in the township of Providence; John Sweet had the corn mill at Warwick (RILE 50-51; WarTR1 157, 160). At Musketa Cove, "Carpenter and his friends . . . constructed a saw mill and a gristmill across what is now known as Glen Cove Creek. The harbor was ideal for shipping lumber to New York City and the creek was dammed to provide power for the mills. Their goal was [to] furnish New York City with lumber for the construction of housing. The site for the saw mill had many congenial conditions--a fine stream, opportunity for a short dam, and easy access to navigable water at high tide. . . . The lumber produced by the saw mill found a ready market in New York City. By 1679, two years after Carpenter's purchase from the Indians was officially ratified by the colonial New York government, the mill was producing nine different thickness[es] of boards and timber, as well as tile laths, shingle laths, wainscot, 'feather-edged' boards for paneling, and custom-cut walnut for cabinet-making" (Glen Cove Hist).

FREEMAN: Although there is no record of Joseph's having been admitted a freeman in either Rhode Island or New York, that status (comparatively easily achieved in Rhode Island) was a prerequisite to his being chosen for public office at Warwick (see Abiah3 sketch, FREEMAN). It is therefore virtually certain that he had been admitted a freeman of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by 1662 (see OFFICES, below).

EDUCATION: He signed his deeds and other documents (see WarTR2 81; RILE 47, 51; OBTR 1:43-655 passim).

OFFICES: Warwick: juror, Court of Trials, 1662; grand juror, 1666; constable, 1667. Oyster Bay: appointed by Court of Sessions to arbitrate property-line dispute, 1678; on committee to receive deed of Unqua Neck from Indians, 1678[/9?] (RICT 2:5 [date], 8, 42 [date], 45; WarTR1 162-63, 176-77; OBTR 120-21, 129-30).

CHILDREN: Numbers i-iv born probably at Pawtuxet (Warwick), vi-viii at Musketa Cove; birth order uncertain.

    With first wife:

i. HANNAH3 CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 (parents m. ca. 1658) and say 1661/2, living Musketa Cove 19 March 1719/20 (husband's will); m. Musketa Cove or vicinity before 17 Feb. 1682[/3?] (probably by 14 Jan. 1681[/2?]), WILLIAM THORNYCRAFT, b. probably Warwick, d. Musketa Cove between 6 April 1720 (sold land) and 19 Dec. 1728 (will proved), son of Thomas and Jean? (______) Thornycraft of Warwick (by 1647) and Maspeth Kills, Newtown (now Elmhurst, Queens Co.), L.I. (NYWills 11:80; MARRIAGE, above; WarTR1 1-296 passim [215, 217]; WarTR2 29, 141, 251, 252, 329; Cock-Cocks-Cox 357; OBTR 1:378, 6:654; NYGBR 64:31, citing NTR [1:]158).
On 17 February 1682 [probably 1682/3], William Thornycraft conveyed "twenty Accars of Land unto _his father in Law_ Joseph Carpenter . . . for and in Consideration of fifty Accars of Land in hand and reseaved, of _his father_ Joseph Carpenter" (emphases added) (OBTR 1:643; Carpenter [1901] 45 omits portion of quoted passage following ellipsis points). On the same date, Carpenter, in an exchange of fifty-acre lots with Nicholas Simkins, obtained the parcel he gave to Thornycraft, abutting the twenty acres his son-in-law gave him in return (OBTR 1:642-44). Thornycraft's right to the twenty acres of woodland he traded to Joseph Carpenter had been granted to him on 14 Jan. 1681[/2?] by a deed from the five Musketa Cove proprietors, including Carpenter (OBTR 1:639-40). It is doubtful that this grant to Thornycraft--also including "A sartin peece or parsell of Land whare hee now Inhabitts and Builtt upon for A home Lott as within fenc Allredy InClosed" and a parcel of upland--would have been made until he had married (in which case he need not have been twenty-one to receive it). The lots Thornycraft and Carpenter exchanged were adjacent and thus presumably of comparable quality. From this, the transfers' transaction date, and a gift of land made by Joseph Carpenter probably four days (rather than a year and four days) earlier (see no. ii, below), it is reasonable to conclude that the thirty acres Thornycraft gained from the trade was a marriage settlement from his father-in-law. The will of William Thorneycraft Sr. of Musketa Cove, dated 19 March 1719/20 and proved 19 Dec. 1728, names wife Hannah; sons William, Joseph, and Thomas; and daughters Hannah Washburn, Elizabeth Pellam (Pelham), Mary Thorneycraft, Jane Carpenter [m. cousin Silas, son of William (no. iv, below)], and Phebe Thorneycraft; the witnesses were Mary Carpenter, Thomas Pearsall, and Joseph Carpenter (NYWills 11:80, 85).
ii. THOMASIN/TAM(A)SIN CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 and say 1662/3, living Madnan's Neck, Hempstead (now Great Neck, North Hempstead), L.I., 30 Jan. 1710, 9 Anne [regnal year], i.e., 30 Jan. 1710/11; m. Musketa Cove or vicinity before 13 Feb. 1682[/3], as his second wife, JOHN WILLIAMS, d. Madnan's Neck shortly before 4 April 1705 (widow granted letters of adm.), son of Robert and Sarah (Washburn) Williams of Hempstead and Lusum (Jericho, in Oyster Bay) (HempTR 2:395-97; OBTR 1:187-88, 272, 458-60, 625-27, 641; Cock-Cocks-Cox 371; NYWills 1:118, 403-4; TAG 36:62; Washburn Gen 95-99, citing HempCtR 78-83).
The evidence that Thomasin (Mrs. John) Williams was Joseph and Hannah Carpenter's daughter is circumstantial: On 13 Feb. 1682[/3], Joseph Carpenter Sr. conveyed by a deed of gift to John Williams, a cordwainer (shoemaker) "now Residing on ye same place[,] foure Accars of Land . . . on ye north side of the highwaye Against my now dwelling house" (OBTR 1:641). Taken together, the nature of the transfer, the lot's location and Williams's prior occupation of it, and a similar transaction made by Carpenter probably four days (rather than a year and four days) later (see no. i, above) strongly suggest that the gift was a marriage settlement. On 13 May 1686, John Williams of Madnan's Neck sold to Joseph Carpenter fifty acres at Matinecock, "w[i]thin ye pattent & Township of Oysterbay"; John and Tamsun Williams signed the deed by mark (OBTR 1:483-84). Letters of administration on the estate of John Williams of Madnan's Neck, deceased, were granted to wife Tamasan on 4 April 1705; his estate inventory was exhibited by Thomasan Williams, administratrix, on 15 Sept. 1705 (NYWills 1:322, 403-4, 16:35 [corrections]). On 19 March 1705/6, Tamson Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, purchased fifty acres of woodland in Oyster Bay (OBTR 3:188-90). "Tamisen Williams the widow & Relick [sic] of John Williams of madnans neck," purchased 300 acres of woodland on the Byram River in Rye, Westchester Co., N.Y., on 20 May 1707 (not 12 May 1706) (WeLR C:430; NYGBR 51:254; Carpenter [1901] 47 [12 May 1706]). On 30 Jan. 1710[/11], the town of Hempstead quitclaimed to Thomasin Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, 66 acres "in her full and peaceable posesion being" (HempTR 2:395-97).
D. H. Carpenter says that Thomasin "was probably named for her great-aunt 'Tomazin'" who "came over in 1635 . . . [and] is believed to have been an elder sister of William of Providence" (see Carpenter [1901] 45-46, 46n). This statement is presumably based on the tenuous assumption that because a Carpenter woman of that forename and a male Carpenter from William1's English home were recorded as emigrants about a week apart--William1 arrived in New England probably the following year (though not under the circumstances stated by D. H. Carpenter)--all three must be closely related (see Carpenter [1901] 5, 9, 46n; NEHGR 159:67-68). On 13 April (not 15 May) 1635, Tomazin Carpenter, aged 35, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the _Susan & Ellen_ (Hotten 57 [13 April], 59; Carpenter [1901] 5 [15 May]). Thomas Carpenter of Amesbury [in Wiltshire], carpenter, was among those who registered at Southampton "in and aboute" 6 April 1635 for passage to New England on the _James_ (PRO/TNA CO1/8/183-85, at 185; Coldham 133-34; NEHGR 14:332-33 and Carpenter [1901] 5 erroneously have 5 April). The _Susan & Ellen_'s passenger list gives no indication of Tomazin's origin, however, and nothing more is known of her (or of Thomas--unless he was actually the eventual William1 of Providence [in whose sketch see IMMIGRATION]). But if she was closely related to William of Providence, it is reasonable to suppose that she, too, was from Amesbury or thereabout. In that case, one would expect her and so-called Thomas of Amesbury to have sailed together or at least to have embarked from the same port. That they did neither renders what was never more than a possibility all the more remote. Ironically, Joseph's daughter Thomasin may well have been named after a slightly more-distant aunt on the other side of his family: his maternal grandfather, William1 Arnold, had a sister Thomasine/Tamzen, who remained in England (NEHGR 33:427-28, 69:67).
iii. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 and 9 July 1663 (perhaps by 13 Feb. 1661/2), d. Musketa Cove between 9 Sept. 1687 (quitrent payment) and 6 Jan. 1691 [probably 1691/2]; m. by 1685 (1st known child b. 16 Oct.) (OBTR 2:337, 350-51).
That records dated in mid-Feb. 1682[/3] call his father Joseph "Sr:" or "Sen:" suggests that Joseph (Jr.) was by then of age (OBTR 1:640-41; DEATH, par. 3, above). He was certainly so by 9 July 1684, when he and his mother were named administrators of his father's estate (Hist Mss 130). He was "late deceased" when a "memorandum" of the birth, on 16 Oct. 1685, of his "Eldest son and Heire," Joseph, was recorded at the top of a page also containing a record dated 6 Jan. 1691 (OBTR 2:350-51).
The identity of Joseph's wife is at best uncertain. The wife Ann(e) that D. H. Carpenter attributes to him was probably his stepmother, Ann (Weekes) Carpenter (see Carpenter [1901] 44; OBTR 1:644-47, 2:127-29, 650-51). Hinshaw gives Joseph's namesake son's mother as Anne, but while his main sources are original Quaker records, they are supplemented by others, some secondary (see Quaker Gen 1, 391). The younger Joseph's Musketa Cove birth record does not name his mother, and the otherwise informative Quaker record of his death names neither parent (see OBTR 2:350; Carpenter [1901] 64n and Hazard Index, both citing WMM-VR A:159). It is therefore probable that Hinshaw's identification of the younger man's mother as Anne derives ultimately from the D. H. Carpenter volume. Note, however, that the younger Joseph's first daughter was named Ann (Quaker Genealogy 391; Carpenter [1901] 66, 93). D. H. Carpenter's further supposition concerning the elder Joseph's wife--(having previously thought she was a daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Weekes) Simpkins)-- "we now think she was daughter of Thomas Thornycraft and sister to William Thornycraft"--is unsupported, as is the assertion of another author (whose Carpenter section builds upon Carpenter [1901]) that she was probably Mary Thornycraft (see Carpenter [1901] 44; Cock-Cocks-Cox 357).
Joseph3 had a second son, Thomas, who is said by D. H. Carpenter to have been born on 16 Aug. 1687 (OBTR 3:344-45 [1708 quitclaim, Joseph to "my Brother Thomas"]; Carpenter [1901] 44 [b. 15 Aug.], 67; Haviland Gen 110). Seeming to confirm this is the 1 Jan. 1859 account by Sarah C. Field (1797-1879) of a family record then in her possession or that of her mother, Jane (Haviland) Field (1765-1860), giving Thomas's birth date as "8 mo., 16th day, 1687" (Haviland Gen 186). Prior to 1752, however, the eighth month was not August but October (as consistent with the latter's Latin origin). Without informing the reader of his translations, D. H. Carpenter expresses with named months many dates that are actually recorded with numbered ones (including all those from Quaker records). Because his conversions of pre-1752 numbered-month dates are mistakenly based on modern reckoning, they are consistently off by two months. Note, however, that Thomas's corrected birth date, 16 October 1687, contains the same day and month as his brother Joseph's (see above). So while the October date is more reliable than the August one, the former should nevertheless be regarded with some caution. Thomas certainly had been born by 26 Nov. 1687: he and brother Joseph sold land to their uncle Nathaniel on 26 Nov. 1708 (OBTR 3:310-12).
The aforementioned family record gives the date of Joseph3's son Thomas's marriage as "10 mo., 14th day, 1708" [14 Dec. (not Oct.) 1708] (Haviland Gen 110 [Oct.], 186 [10 mo.]; see also Carpenter [1901] 67 [Oct.]). While his wife is identified therein only as Hannah, several secondary sources have her as Hannah Alsop, daughter of Thomas [sic] and Hannah (Underwood) Alsop (see, for example, Haviland Gen 110; Carpenter [1901] 67). This is doubly incorrect, however: First, the secondary literature has long accepted (albeit without documentation) that Hannah Underwood married the immigrant Richard Alsop; the earliest Thomas Alsop was their son, born in 1687 (also Thomas Carpenter's birth year), who married Susannah Blackwell (GMB 3:1862, 1863; Alsop Gen 3, 4; Underhill Gen 65). And second, Richard and Hannah Alsop's daughter Hannah married Joseph Sackett (Alsop Gen 2 [Richard Alsop will (transcr.), naming dau. Hannah Sackett], 4; Underhill Gen 66). There was a marriage between a Thomas Carpenter, son of Joseph, and a Hannah Alsop, daughter of Richard, but it occurred in 1777 (Hazard Index, citing WMM-VR A:250). The identity of Hannah, wife of the subject Thomas Carpenter, is unknown.
iv. WILLIAM CARPENTER, b. by 3 Sept. 1666 (freeholder by 3 Sept. 1687), living Oyster Bay Township 5 Aug. 1734; m. ELIZABETH _______ (OBTR 2:337, 3:429-31, 5:623-25; Carpenter [1901] 49n, 73).
On 13 May 1720, William sold his 81-acre Musketa Cove farm, "Reserveing to my Self Three Acres" (OBTR 3:429-31). On 8 May 1722, with son Silas (about whom more below), William purchased 375 acres on the Byram River at North Castle and Rye, Westchester Co., N.Y., of which William was then "in possession" (Carpenter [1901] 49n, 73, both citing WeLR G:215-17). Subsequent records put William on Long Island in 1728/9 and in Oyster Bay Township from 1730/1 to 1734 (NYWills 11:85 [William Jr. of Long Island (implies presence at same place of Wm. Sr.)], 3 Jan. 1728/9]; OBTR 4:366-68 [William Jr., 5 March 1730/1], 5:75 [William Jr., 5 Aug. 1734], 623-25 [William Sr., 2 April 1734]).
William sold his farm (see above) "with ye ffree will and Consent of my Wife Elizabeth Carpenter," who added her signature (by mark) to his (OBTR 3:431). D. H. Carpenter calls it "a _possibility_ amounting to a _probability_" (his emphases) that Elizabeth was the daughter of William's uncle Ephraim Carpenter and says that she died about 1743 (Carpenter [1901] 50); he fails to support either assertion, however. G. W. Cocks says that Elizabeth's parentage is "not certainly known, but may have been Moses and Elizabeth (Weeden) Mudge, then of Musketa Cove, who had a dau. Elizabeth, b. 28/12 mo. (Feb.) 1674" (Cock-Cocks-Cox 358, 385). Note that this is expressed as no more than a possibility. There is, moreover, no known basis for the assertion that Moses and Elizabeth Mudge had a daughter Elizabeth, let alone that she was born on the date stated (which is not to say that either is necessarily false). An Elizabeth Mudge was born at Northampton, Mass., 10 Oct. 1673 and another at Charlestown, Mass., 12 March 1674, but their respective parents and husbands are not those of the same-named woman mentioned by Cocks (see Mudge Gen 46, 49; TAG 81:25; Charlestown Gens 2:693). In the most recent and authoritative account of Moses Mudge and his family, Gale Ion Harris, FASG (citing an unpublished typescript by Harry Macy Jr., FASG) presents Mudge's issue as consisting of two sons and no daughters (see TAG 81:18-30, at 24 [24n38 corrects Mudge Gen 48]). Elizabeth (Mrs. William) Carpenter's maiden name is unknown. And in any case, since the one known record in which her forename appears as William's wife is dated in 1720 (see above), it is not certain that she was the mother of his children.
The will of William's son Silas Carpenter of North Castle, dated 3 Jan. 1728/9 and proved 13 Feb. 1728[/9], names wife Jane [his cousin, dau. of William and Hannah (Carpenter) Thornycraft (see no. i, above)]; daughters Hannah and Phebe; sons William, Timothy, and Silas; and executors [brother-in-law] William Craft [formerly Thornycraft], [brother] William Carpenter Jr., both of Long Island, and wife Hannah [sic]; witnesses include [uncle] Nathaniel Carpenter (no. v, below) (NYWills 11:80, 85 [_Silas_ transcr. as _Giles_]). The will of William's son Joseph Carpenter of Oyster Bay, dated 25 Feb. 1727[/8?] and proved 21 March 1727/8, names wife Abigail [nee Robbins]; sons Joseph and John; and executors "my wife and her brother, John Robbins" (NYWills 11:101).
v. NATHANIEL CARPENTER, b. Pawtuxet (Warwick) or Musketa Cove between say 1668 and 10 Feb. 1672[/3?] (grantee 10 Feb. 1693[/4?]), d. North Castle 25 2nd mo. [April (not Feb.)] 1730; m. Musketa Cove 5 Nov. 1690, TAMAR COLES, b. 18 May 1673, dau. of Robert and Mercy (Wright?) Coles (OBTR 1:652-53, 655, 2:101-3; FMM-VR 220; MacDonough-Hackstaff 455).
Nathaniel is said to have been probably the first white child born at Musketa Cove (see Carpenter [1901] 43, 50). This, however, is based on the unsupported assertion that he was born in the summer of 1668 and the questionable assumption that both parents had settled on Long Island by that time (see Carpenter [1901] 50; OBTR 2:682; RESIDENCES, above). The record of his death calls him Nathaniel "Juner," but the only other man of that name known to have been residing at North Castle at the time was his son, who died in late 1758 (see FMM-VR 220; Quaker Gen 63; NYWills 5:274; Carpenter [1901] 85). An item in the 1 Jan. 1759 issue of the _New-York Mercury_ is often said online to refer to the elder Nathaniel but in fact concerns the estate settlement of his recently deceased son. Naming "Captain Nathaniel Carpenter, deceas'd, of North-Castle, in Westchester County, and Province of New-York," the notice was placed by Caleb Fowler and Caleb Green, "Executors, in said County" (Hist Newspapers). The latter two men were brothers-in-law of the younger Nathaniel, whose will names them as executors (NYWills 5:274; Carpenter [1901] 85-86).

D. H. Carpenter gives Joseph and Hannah a sixth child: Hannah, "born 1672-3, married Jacob Hicks in 1690" (Carpenter [1901] 43). A few secondary sources state that the maiden name of Jacob Hicks's wife was Carpenter, but not all give her parentage, and none presents supporting evidence (see, for example, Mott Gen 372; Shotwell Gen 237, 280; Cornell Gen 383; Seaman-Husband 84). In his will, dated in 1751, Jacob Hicks's bequests to wife Hannah include "all the goods she brought with her when married" (NYWills 5:93-94). The quoted phrase implies that Hannah (whatever her maiden name) was not Hicks's first wife and probably married him long after his children were born (at Hempstead between 1702-making a 1690 marriage date unlikely [see above]-and about 1718) (see Colonial Fams 3:1330). More to the point, however, the Carpenter daughter whom D. H. Carpenter is unable to identify by forename but correctly describes as having married William Thornycraft is almost certainly the woman whom Thornycraft's will calls "my wife Hannah" (see Carpenter [1901] 43; NYWills 11:80; child no. i, above).

    With second wife:

vi. ANN CARPENTER (unconfirmed), b. say 1676; m. JOSEPH?/SAMUEL? WEEKS (see Carpenter [1901] 43; Davol-Willets 191, Joseph Weeks m. Hannah Crooker; Cock-Cocks-Cox 357, 385, 386).
vii. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, b. say 1676?/1680?, d. Oyster Bay between 2 Dec. 1729 (will) and 13 April 1730 (will proved); m. Musketa Cove ca. 1704 (1st child b. 15 Sept. 1705), MERCY/MARCY COLES, b. 24 March 1683/4, living Oyster Bay 2 Dec. 1729 (Benjamin's will), dau. of Robert and Mercy (Wright?) Coles (OBTR 1:652-53, 654, 655, 3:349-50; Carpenter [1901] 43 [Benj. b. 1680], 55 [b. ca. 1676]; NYWills 11:128; MacDonough-Hackstaff 455). Among children named in Benjamin's will is a son Robert, not named in the secondary literature.
viii. JOHN CARPENTER, b. by ca. 1683 (father's death), living Musketa Cove 4 June 1759; m. Westbury (Quaker Meeting House), Hempstead (now Old Westbury, in North Hempstead and Oyster Bay), 12 6th mo. [August (not June)] 1713, MARTHA FEAKE, b. Killingworth, Oyster Bay, 27 8th mo. [October] 1688, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Prior) Feake (Carpenter [1901] 58 [m. June], 59-60 [citing orig. Oyster Bay recs., 10:410]; FMM-VR 78, 125; GMB 1:658, citing NYGBR 87:107-8).

COMMENTS: That Joseph's first wife, Hannah, had died by 8 June 1673 is deduced from his deed of that date, in which he, "of Muskeeto Cove In Longe-Island," conveys to "my Brother in Law Abyah Carpenter of Pawtuxet in Rhode-Island Collony . . . Lands and Commonage [there] which Fell to me by my wife . . . from her father"; Hannah is not a cosignatory (RILE 1:47). (For bequests to Hannah from her father, William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, see PCPR 2:1:80-81 or MD 14:231-32 [transcr.].)

On 10 and 27 December 1692, Musketa Cove proprietors Nicholas Simkins, Robert Coles, and Nathaniel Coles, "w[i]th ye consent of ye Overseers & Administrat[o]rs of ye Deceased Joseph Carpenter and Daniel Coles," divided certain lands among themselves and the estates of the two deceased proprietors. In the first of these divisions, "The ffourth Lott" went to the estate of Joseph Carpenter, represented by Ann Carpenter, who signed, as she had in 1674 (see MARRIAGES, above), with the mark A (OBTR 1:644-47, 2:127-29). On 19 September 1703, "upon the Request of Anne Carpenter the Relict or widdow of Joseph Carpenter Deceased of the Township of Oysterbay," Simkins and Coles brothers Robert and Nathaniel quitclaimed to her "the fourth Lott of Land Lying In the Neck Within the Limitts of Musketacove pattent" (OBTR 2:650-51). At a Quaker monthly meeting held at Jericho [in Oyster Bay Township] on 24 4th month [June] 1713, "John Carpenter [son] of Joseph Carpenter deceased and of Ann his wife, and Martha Feak Daughter of John Feak of Matiniconck [village of Oyster Bay] & of Elizth his Wife decd appeared & declared their intentions of Marriage" (WMM-MM A:24). It is possible, though by no means certain, that Ann had died by 12 6th month [August] 1713, the date of her son John's marriage (see FMM-VR 78; child no. viii, above). By Quaker custom, all adults present at the ceremony sign the wedding certificate (presented to the newlyweds), typically beginning with the bride and groom's parents. Ann's name, however, is not among those of the first sixteen witnesses (there were "Ten Others"), copied into the Flushing Monthly Meeting record of the event (FMM-VR 78). Note, however, that although the bride's father, John Feake, lived until 1724, his name is also missing from the record (FMM-VR 218).

In a testamentary deed to his son Daniel, dated 29 January 167[2/]3, Francis Weekes mentions wife Elizabeth (OBTR 1:99). While there is no direct evidence that Elizabeth was Ann (Weekes) Carpenter's mother, Ann's older, only known sister was also named Elizabeth (baptized at New Amsterdam on 31 March 1647 with her three quadruplet brothers) (NYChR 22). And in 1655, Elizabeth Weekes, under power of attorney, sold husband Francis's property in Gravesend (now in Brooklyn) (Davol-Willets 190). Without explanation, an important (though hardly infallible) nineteenth-century Rhode Island source gives the forename of Ann's mother as Alice (see Austin 36); in light of the above, however, this seems unlikely.

Several secondary sources assert, without proof, that Francis Weekes's wife Elizabeth's maiden name was Luther (see, for example, LIGens 323; Cock-Cocks-Cox 295, 354, 383; Davol-Willets 190-91; Carpenter [1901] 35). The earliest known Elizabeth Luther in New England, however, was more than twenty years younger than Ann Weekes. The daughter of Samuel2 Luther of Swansea, Plymouth Colony, she was born there on 2 February 1672 (see SwVR A:5). Since Samuel2 Luther, the eldest known child of John1 Luther, was himself born about 1636, it is likely that an unrecorded older sister Elizabeth would also have been too young to have been Ann's mother (see NEHGR 48:443, 70:30). A recent genealogy published "under patronage of The Luther Family Association" concludes a detailed discussion of this matter by saying  that "[c]ontinued research has not produced any further evidence that the Elizabeth Luther who married Francis Weeks has any connection with our Captain John Luther line" (Luther Gen 37). The most authoritative Weekes genealogy goes further: "It has been reported that the wife of Francis Weekes was Elizabeth Luther. The late George W. Cocks, in the Cocks [g]enealogy, said that she was a daughter of Samuel Luther, of Swansea, R.I. [sic], &c. Mr. Clarence A. Torrey, of Dorchester, Mass., a professional genealogist and a descendant of Francis Weekes, says: 'I feel doubtful about the Luther line. Capt. John Luther's known children were born after 1634. Elizabeth, wife of Francis Weekes, was born, it is supposed, about 1620. I have never seen proof that her name was Luther'" (Weekes Gen 25-26). In his posthumously published _New England Marriages Prior to 1700_, the aforementioned Clarence Almon Torrey lists Francis Weekes's marriage without a surname for his wife, despite his having included in his source notes for this item several volumes that give her maiden name as Luther (Torrey [CD]).

On 13 July 1663, Joseph Carpenter, [brother-in-law] Abiah Carpenter, Benjamin Smith, and Mr. Henry Reddock, all of "Pautuxett in Warwicke," asked that the Warwick Court of Trials transfer their prosecution "concerning a Riot" to the General Court of Trials held at Portsmouth the following October (WarCT 230; RICT1 2:22; NEHGR 159:58).

D. H. Carpenter describes the land that Joseph Carpenter bought from the Matinecock Indians on 24 May 1668 as comprising about 3,000 acres, but this is inaccurate (see Carpenter [1901] 32, also n.p. [374 (map)]). (Neither the original deed nor a copy is extant, but the date of purchase is mentioned in several subsequent records [see OBTR 1:65-67, 322-23, 641-42, 2:65].) Joseph granted a share of his acquisition to brother-in-law Abiah Carpenter on 30 November 1668, describing the latter's portion as twenty acres and "a fifth parte of Three Square Miles" (all of which Abiah deeded back to him about six months later) (OBTR 1:42-43, 49, 629-30). The Indians' acknowledgement of the sale to Joseph, dated 7 November 1668, describes it more precisely: "[W]e the Indian Proprietors of Matinicock upon Long Islan . . . do acknowledg to have . . . sould . . . unto Joseph Carpenter of Potuxen of Rhoade Island Colony . . . a certaine parcell of Woodland containing a hundred acres, lying upon the North side of Musketooe Cove, w[i]th a square myle of timber & grazing, on the North side of this hundred acres, & also a square myle of timber and grasing on the South side of the said Cove, the meadows & all the Creeke Thatch excepted, lying . . . about the said Cove, & also a square myle of timber & grasing at the head of the said Cove, ioyning to the said hundred acres" (OBTR 2:682-83). This and other records make it clear that Joseph had actually acquired only one hundred acres, with the privilege of harvesting timber from and grazing animals upon the remaining three square miles. On 6 March 1670 [probably 1670/1], he conveyed a one-fifth interest in land and privileges to each of four others (see below) (OBTR 1:65-67, 2:65).

On 27 February 1675 [probably 1675/6], the inhabitants of Musketa Cove and "Mattinicock" [Oyster Bay plantation] petitioned colonial authorities "for a preference in purchasing land near them" (Hist Mss 34; OBTR 2:683). Governor's Council minutes dated 17 May 1676 describe what followed: "The Matinicock Indyans being sent for, The Governor proposes the buying of their Land, and particularly of three parcels of Land of a mile square each, about Muskitoe Cove, of which the Inhabitants have already the herbage and trees. They aske an Extravagant Rate. Att length come to an Agreement for six hundred Guilders [equivalent to £50] Seawant [wampum]" (NYColDocs 720; OBTR 2:684; Money). The Musketa Cove patent, issued by Governor Edmund Andros on 29 September 1677, describes the tract--laid out to Joseph Carpenter, Nicholas Simkins, and Coles brothers Nathaniel, Daniel, and Robert--as "Contayning in all one Thousand & Seven hundred Acres as by ye Returne under ye hand of ye Surveyors doth & maye appeare" (OBTR 1:309-10 [also 635]). In return, the five patentees are to pay "Yearly and every Yeare unto his Royall Highness use as a Quitrent one Bushel of good Winter Wheat unto Such officer or officers as Shall be empowered to receive the Same." The patent thus brought Joseph Carpenter's actual land holdings at Musketa Cove from 16 acres (one-fifth of 100, minus 4 acres he had sold to Moses Mudge in 1674) to 356 acres (one-fifth of 1,800, minus the aforementioned 4 acres) (OBTR 1:322-23).

Also on 29 September 1677, a separate patent was issued to Joseph Carpenter and six others, "as patentees for and on ye behalf of themselves and their Associates the Freeholders & Inhabitants of [Oyster Bay]"; the annual quitrent was to be "one Good fatt lamb on ye 25th Day of March" (OBTR 1:307-8). On 9 September 1687, Joseph Carpenter [son of the patentee], "in behalfe of the Town of Oysterbay for Quit Rents doe," paid provincial authorities "Three Lambs being for Quit Rent for three Years to ye 25th of March Last past" (OBTR 2:337).

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: See, for example, Bill Bleyer, "The Daily Grind," online at ; Howard Chapin, "Early House Lots in the Town of Warwick," _Rhode Island Historical Society Collections_ 12:4(Oct. 1919):129-36; Robert Reed Coles and Peter Luyster Van Santvoord, _A History of Glen Cove_ (Glen Cove, 1967); Don D'Amato, "Warwick's Villages & Historic Places: Conimicut Village," links to pts. 2 and 3, online at ; Oliver P. Fuller, _The History of Warwick, Rhode Island_ (Providence, 1875) (caveat [see below]); _Harris Papers_, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 10 (Providence, 1902); Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, and Carol McCrossen, "History of Glen Cove," online at . The Fuller volume is useful but contains inaccuracies: Joseph's mother, Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter, for example, is omitted from an account of the family of William1 Arnold, to whom is attributed a nonexistent son Thomas (p. 16); William1 Arnold and William1 Carpenter of Pawtuxet village, Providence, are mistakenly listed with Robert Coles and Benedict Arnold as residents of the Warwick part of the village (p. 137).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Alsop Gen: Douglas Leffingwell, _Alsop Genealogy, Being a Brief Account of the Descendants of Richard Alsop . . ._ (Conn., 1928)

Arnold Mem: Elisha Stephen Arnold, _The Arnold Memorial: William Arnold of Providence and Pawtuxet, 1587-1675 . . ._ (Rutland, Vt., 1935)

Austin: John Osborne Austin, _The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1969)

Carpenter [1901]: Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, _History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America, from the Settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901_ (Jamaica, N.Y., 1901)

Carpenter Cousins: Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project website, maintained by John F. Chandler; discussion of Groups 2 and 3 (Providence and Rehoboth Carpenter descendants, respectively) is at (13 March 2008 update)

Charlestown Gens: Thomas Bellows Wyman, _Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1879)

Cock-Cocks-Cox: George William Cocks, _History and Genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cook of Killingworth upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oysterbay, Long Island, N.Y._, 2nd ed. (New York, 1914)

Coldham: Peter Wilson Coldham, _The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660_ (Baltimore, 1987)

Colonial Fams: Herbert F. Seversmith, _Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut_, 5 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1939-1958)

Cornell Gen: John Cornell, _Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I._ (New York, 1902)

Davis: Walter Goodwin Davis, _Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis_, vol. 3, Neal-Wright (Baltimore, 1996)

Davol-Willets: Josephine C. Frost, _Ancestors of Frank Herbert Davol and His Wife, Phebe Downing Willits_ (New York, 1925)

FMM-VR: Flushing, Long Island, Monthly Meeting [of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)], Vital Records 1640-1796 [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #17,376, item 1]; all Flushing Monthly Meeting records are catalogued at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and in Hazard Index as New York Monthly Meeting (Pre [i.e., pre-Separation])

Glen Cove Hist: Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, and Carol McCrossen, "History of Glen Cove," online at

GMB: Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633_, 3 vols. (Boston, 1995)

Haviland Gen: Josephine C. Frost, _The Haviland Genealogy_ (New York, 1914)

Hazard Index: "James E. Hazard Index: The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends," database of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, online at

HempCtR: Hempstead Court Proceedings, 1657-1660, at the Office of the Town Clerk, North Hempstead, Long Island, New York

HempTR: _Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, New York [1654-1880]_, 8 vols., ed. Benjamin D. Hicks (Jamaica, N.Y., 1896-1904)

Hist Newspapers: Historical Newspapers 1690-1977 (digital images), online at GenealogyBank.com (subscription website)

Hist Mss: E. B. O'Callaghan, ed., _Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y._, pt. 2 (Albany, 1866; repr. 1968)

Hotten: John C. Hotten, ed., _The Original Lists of Persons of Quality . . ._ (London, 1874)

HP: _Harris Papers_, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 10 (Providence, 1902)

LIGens: Mary Powell Bunker, _Long Island Genealogies_ (Albany, 1895)

Luther Gen: Leslie L. Luther and George A. Luther, _The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther . . ._ (orig. Leslie L. Luther, _The Luther Family in America_ [1976]; ed., rev., and additionally comp. by George A. Luther) (Rockport, Maine, 2001)

MacDonough-Hackstaff: Rodney MacDonough, _The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry_ (Boston, 1901)

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

Money: "Money Substitutes in New Netherland and Early New York," online at

Mott Gen: Thomas C. Cornell, _Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Descendants_ (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1890)

Mudge Gen: Alfred Mudge, _Memorials: Being a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge in America, from 1638 to 1868_ (Boston, 1868)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NTR: Newtown, Long Island, Town Records

NYChR: _Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York_, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, vol. 2 (New York, 1901); improved version online at

NYColDocs: _Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York_, vol. 14 [Berthold Fernow, ed., _Documents Relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements, Principally on Long Island_] (Albany, 1883); digital images online at (as of 5/4/08, listed as _Documents Relative_ [sic] _to the Colonial History of the State of New York_)

NYGBR: _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, vol. 1 (1869) through present

NYWills: [William S. Pelletreau], _Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York_, 17 vols., New-York Historical Society Collections 25-41 (New York, 1893-1909); digital images online at

OBTR: _Oyster Bay Town Records_, 8 vols., ed. John Cox (New York, 1916-1940); vol. 1 (digital images online at ) includes Musketa Cove Proprietors' Book

PawWeb: Pawtuxet-related websites: "Pawtuxet Village History" (with map), online at ; "Pawcatuck, Pawtucket, Pawtuxet: Three Places in Rhode Island?" online at ; "Pawtuxet-Pawtucket," at

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

PRO/TNA: Public Record Office, The National Archives, London, England; images of _James_ passenger list (ref. CO 1/8, pp. 183-85) available for purchase online at --> Shop online --> Order copies of documents

PrTR: _The Early Records of the Town of Providence_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892-1915)

PubRIHS: _Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society: New Series_, 8 vols. (1893-1900); digital images online at

Quaker Gen: William Wade Hinshaw and Thomas Worth Marshall, _Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy_, vol. 3, New York and Long Island (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1940)

RICR: _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England_, 10 vols., ed. John Russell Bartlett (Providence, 1856-1865)

RICT: _Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670_, 2 vols. (Providence, 1920-1922)

RILE: _Rhode Island Land Evidences, Volume I, 1648-1696_ (Providence, 1921)

RI Roots: _Rhode Island Roots_, vol. 1 (1975) through present

Seaman-Husband: Mary Thomas Seaman, _Links in Genealogy: Memorial of Samuel Hicks Seaman and His Wife Hannah Richardson Husband_ (New York, 1921)

Shotwell Gen: Ambrose Milton Shotwell, _Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors . . . the Shotwell Family in America . . ._ (Lansing, Mich., 1897)

SwVR: Swansea, Massachusetts, Vital Records [FHL film #903,395, item 5]

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

Torrey [CD]: Clarence Almon Torrey, _New England Marriages Prior to 1700_ [CD-ROM] (Boston, c2001); source notes included

Underhill Gen: Josephine C. Frost, ed., _Underhill Genealogy: Descendants of Capt. John Underhill_, vol. 2 (New York? 1938)

WarTR1: _The Early Records of the Town of Warwick_ (Providence, 1926)

WarTR2: _More Early Records of the Town of Warwick, Rhode Island_, ed. Cherry Fletcher Bamburg and Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boston, 2001)

Washburn Gen: Mabel T. R. Washburn, _Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England, and America_ (Greenfield, Ind., 1953); digital images at HeritageQuest Online (subscription website)

Weekes Gen: Frank Edgar Weeks, _Genealogy of Francis Weekes . . ._ (Kipton, Ohio, 1938) [FHL film #1,429,817, item 2]

WeLR: Westchester County, New York, Deeds, vols. C-D [FHL film #589,694]

WMM-MM: Westbury, Long Island, Monthly Meeting [of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)], Men's Minutes [FHL film #18,033]

WMM-VR: Westbury Monthly Meeting, Vital Records (as abstracted in Hazard Index)

WP: _Winthrop Papers, Volume 3, 1631-1637_, ed. Allyn Bailey Forbes (Boston, 1943)

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

NOTE: Only 2 marriages for Joseph!

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 2 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.

PER "NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700": PAGE 135:
CARPENTER, JOSEPH ( -1684), ?SWANSEA & 1/WF HANNAH CARPENTER (- ABT1670), 1673?); 21 APR 1659; REHOBOTH/MUSKETA COVE, LI.
CARPENTER, JOSEPH (1635-1687) & 2/WF ANN/ANNA WEEKS/SIMKINS (1651- ); B 1674; OYSTER BAY, LI.

PER "160 ALLIED FAMILIES", 1893 REPRINT 1977, AUSTIN: PAGE 56:
SON OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH ARNOLD CARPENTER. SECOND WIFE LISTED AS ANN WICKS DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS AND ALICE WICKS. JOSEPH DIED 1683 AND ANN WICKS DIED 1692+.HANNAH (FIRST WIFE) DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND ABIGAIL CARPENTER.

WILL: Will made out in 1683.  One record gives 23 May 1695 as death date. Will administered July 9. 1684.

NOTE: Some 20 children are credited to him by at least two possibly three wifes. Which child is which and which is duplicated is unknown at this time.

In the Carpenter Chronicles, Vol 26, (Sept. 1996) a Signe. N. Parrish claims decent from this Joseph.  From age of children et cetera, Amos as child to Joseph is probably wrong.  He most likely was a grandchild, but by whom is unknown.  Temporary connection.

AFN 30Z7-PN and RJSH-H1 are the same person.  AF has him dying in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY.

The 1898 book also indicates he died at Musceta Cove, an indian word for Mosquito Cove, in 1693 and that his wife Hannah died there too.
The five purchasers of Musketa Cove were Joseph Carpenter, Nicholas Simpkins and the brothers Daniel, Robert and Nathaniel Coles, sons of Robert Coles of Pawtuxet, RI.  A Map drawn in 1677 showed that the only Carpenters on Musketa Cove were the brothers Joseph and Ephraim Carpenter.  Joseph owned the site of the first house built in Musketa Cove about 1668. Adjacent to his land was the land of Daniel Coles, son of robert Coles of Pawtuxet.
Amos B. Carpenter stated in the Carpenter Memorial he was never ever able to substantiate any migration from Wales to Long Island in 1678, supporting the determination that the brothers had orginated in Providence.  James Usher indicates in his 1883 record a Carpenter family that was descendant of Caleb Zimmerman of Prussia that went to England as a "Friend" and his descendants went to Wales then America to Long Island.

Sources: Also: Thomas C. Cornell, Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Descendants (Poughkeepsie, NY 1890), p. 255; Mather, p. 287; Records of Louise Carpenter Licklider; Records of Ruth Carpenter Adair; William Wade Hinshaw, Encylopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, MI, 1950), 6 vols., Vol. 3.; The Epistle, August 1975, p. 20.

A map drawn in 1718 shows a Survey of Westchester County, NY for a Joseph Carpenter and a Bennonah Merit.  Joseph the largest landowner shown, had two tracts, the first and second purchases.  Timothy Carpenter's land was shown below Joseph's last purchase, where the town of Armonk now is located.  The land of William and Silas Carpenter was further south.
If Joseph died in 1693 or 1695 it could not have been him who requested the survey above.  His son Joseph died abt the same time period.  It had to be his grandson Joseph (B. 1685) or another non-related Joseph Carpenter.

BOOK: See page 9-11 of the Mowrey 1997 book. See book information below:
UPDATE OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE NEW ENGLAND CARPENTER FAMILY OF ENGLISH ORIGIN THE VIRGINIA / WEST VIRGINIA BRANCH - SOME DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH CARPENTER - PIONEER OF THE JACKSON RIVER - MOWREY"S VERSION.
BY TERRY LEE CARPENTER AND PAUL THOMAS MOWREY.
PRO BONO PUBLICO - PRIVATELY PUBLISHED, DOVER, OHIO, 1997.
BY PAUL THOMAS MOWREY.

Subject: Short history of Joseph Carpenter
Date: 99-05-03 18:58:16 EDT
From: LMORE@worldnet.att.net (Lawrence Gordon More)
To: JRCRIN001 (John R. Carpenter)
John,
I have a number of unanswered questions about the establishment of the Long Island Quaker colonies myself. I have read several versions that vary, hopefully some day a person, unbiased, will set down with a good
translation of the Dutch records, and pertinent genealogical records, and set the story to pen. There seem to be quite a number of players in the story, such as John Bowne, a number of passengers of the Woodhouse, Roger
Williams, Captian John Underhill, at least two Dutch Govenors, both Dutch and English soldiers and the Indians of the Island, and still many more, but I have as yet to hear the whole sotry told.
Larry More.
Here is a short history of Joseph Carpenter and a few decendants, refferences are at the end.
(II) Joseph, eldest son of William and Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter, was born at Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 1635. The first mention made of him is at Providence, Rhode Island, where on May 3, 1656, he is witness to
a deed from his uncle, Stephen Arnold, to his father, which indicates that he was then of legal age. The town records of Warwick, Rhode Island, show that he had a "corne mill" at the wading place near the Falls on the Pawtuxet river. Here he remained until 1677, although as early as 1663 he was at Long Island making negotiations for the purchase of land from the Indians at Oyster Bay. The Hempstead colony on Long Island resisted the attempts to settle at Oyster Bay, but finally allowed them to remain in peace. Joseph Carpenter is recorded as having purchased 3000 acres of land at Musketa Cove. Associated with him were Nathaniel Coles, Abia Carpenter, Thomas Townsend and Robert Coles. They styled themselves "The Five Proprietors of Musketa Plantations," which name and style was continued until after the revolution. Each proprietor had a "home lott" of five acres set off on which to erect a dwelling. These home lots were situated on a street or highway that they called "The Place." The site of these homes on this street, which still bears the name, are very readily identified. On the "lott of Joseph Carpenter" the first house was built after the erection of a saw mill. It was occupied by him all his lifetime, was the birthplace
of nearly all his children, and continued in the family for several generations. The plantation prospered, although its growth was retarded by King Philip's war. Following the erection of a saw mill he burt a grist and
fulling mill, agreeing with the other proprietors to grind their grain in return for the use of water power. In a few years the Oyster Bay settlement had its own town government, constable, overseers, justice of the peace and
recorder. They held their own town meetings and elected their own officers until the organization of Queens county in 1683. They had many industries, and the records show Joseph Carpenter to have been the prime mover in their
establishment, and that his energy and ability had made a thriving community from an humble beginning. He died during the "sickly season" of 1683. The place of his burial is not known. He married (first) April 21, 1659, Hannah, daughter of William Carpenter, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; she was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, February 3, 1640, died about 1673.
He married (second) Ann (or Anna), baptized in the Dutch Church at New York in 1647, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Luther) Weeks. Francis Weeks was with Roger Williams in the canoe when he first landed at Providence. He and his wife were early settlers of Hempstead, Long Island, where they were heavily fined for "entertaining Quakers," and soon after removed to Oyster Bay.
Children by first wife: 1. Joseph, "the eldest son," inherited the estate and title of his father. 2. A daughter, married William Thornecraft, 3. Tamsen, married John Williams. 4. William, born about 1666. 5. Nathaniel, said to have been the first white child born at Musketa Cove, Oyster Bay, Long Island; married Tamar, eldest daughter of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Coles. 6. Hannah, married Jacob Hicks. Children of second wife: 7. Ann, married Joseph Weeks. 8. Benjamin, married Mercy, daughter of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Coles, sister of the wife of his half brother, Nathaniel. 9. John (posthumous child), married Martha Feake. These children were all prominent in the plantation, and some of them joined in the exodus from Oyster Bay to "the Main," as Westchester county was then called, and were among the first settlers at Rye, North Castle, Bedford, Harrison and Mamaroneck. Other families leaving about 1700 were the Coles, Weeks, Lallings, Wrights, Townsends, Cocks and many others.
(III) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (1) and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter, was born about 1660, at Pawtuxet, and inherited the paternal estate, operating a mill and the plantation. There is a tradition that he was drowned trying to save the mill in a freshet. At any rate he died between September 9, 1687, and 1692. His wife Ann was probably a daughter of Thomas Thornycraft. Record of two sons is found: Joseph, mentioned below; Thomas, born August 15, 1687. (IV) Joseph (3), eldest son of Joseph (2) and Ann Carpenter, was born October 16, 1685, at Pawtuxet, the date being recorded at Oyster Bay, New York, probably to authenticate his heirship to one-fifth of the Musketa Cove patent. Five days after he came of age he deeded to his uncles, William and Nathaniel, farms in that section. His adult life was passed at Oyster Bay, and in 1707 he instituted suit to recover property in Rhode
Island formerly belonging to his greatgrandfather, William Carpenter. This suit was successful. He resided on the homestead at Pawtuxet until about 1715, when he sold out and moved across the Cove to Lot No. 1, in the
division of 1681, which is now in the village of Sea Cliff. His house was burned by lightning in 1747-8, after which he sold the land for o225 and retired to the village of Jericho, where he died June 3, 1776, at the house of his grandson, Joseph Carpenter. He was a sincere member of the Friends Society, often occupying places of trust and responsibility in the town and was noted for his charitable character. To his benevolence many worthy
persons were indebted for substantial aid at the proper time.
He married (first) in 1707, Ann, daughter of Captain Andrew and Ann (Coddington) Willett. She died February 9, 1709, and he married (second) in 1711, her sister Mary, born September 21, 1691. She was a granddaughter of Colonel Thomas Willett, born 1610, at Borley, Hertfordshire, England, and came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1629. Later he was at New Amsterdam, and was the first English mayor appointed over the city of New York, 1665. The Dutch soon after reoccupied New Amsterdam, and he retired to Swansea, Massachusetts, where he died August 4, 1674. He was a man of much character and ability and still has numerous descendants in the vicinity of New York. He married (third) in 1636, Mary, daughter of John Brown, a pioneer of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Andrew, son of Thomas and Mary (Brown) Willett, was born at Plymouth, and was a merchant at Boston, whence he removed about 1680 to Rhode Island. As early as 1692 he returned to Boston and occupied a residence on Boston Neck which was built by his brother-in-law, John Saffin, speaker of Massachusetts assembly. While residing in Rhode Island he represented Westerly in the general court. He married Ann, daughter of Hon. William
Coddington, of Newport, and among their children were daughters Ann and Mary, who married successively Joseph Carpenter, as above noted.
(V) Ann, daughter of Joseph (3) and Mary (Willett) Carpenter, born September 24, 1716, died 1803, married October 8, or December 23, 1737, at Oyster Bay, Samuel Underhill of that town (see Underhill IV).
SEE: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV Author: William Richard Cutter, 1913 Page 2032, 2033, 2034.
SEE: The following data is from a web page on Glen Cove. (submitted by John L. Carpenter of NH.
A bit of the Hamlet of Musketa Cove, Town of Oyster Bay (now known as the City of Glen Cove) early history concerning a young Rhode Island inhabitant named Joseph Carpenter who purchased 2,000 acres of land on May 24, 1668 in the then northwest section of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock Indians in order to erect a saw mill. "On May 24, 1668, a young Rhode Island inhabitant named Joseph Carpenter purchased 2,000 acres of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock Indians. His intention was to erect a saw mill and furnish New York City with lumber desperately needed for the construction of housing.
Carpenter took in as partners in his venture three brothers: Robert, Daniel and Nathaniel Coles, who were also former inhabitants of Rhode Island living in Oyster Bay; and Nicholas Simkins, also of Oyster Bay.
These five businessmen chose to retain the place-name by which the Matinecock Indians had known the area, and therefore styled themselves "The Five Proprietors of Musketa Cove Plantation." Musketa (also spelled
"rnusquito") translates from the Matinecock's language to roughly mean "the place of  rushes."
Within a rather short time, the "Five Proprietors" had dammed a small stream that ran through the valley, whose course is roughly paralleled by Glen Street today. This dam was located near the foot of Mill Hill, slightly northeast of the present fire department on a spot marked by a memorial plaque.
On the dam was erected the saw mill, which by an early. covenant between the "Five Proprietors" was jointly owned by each of them, and a small grist mill which was constructed by Joseph Carpenter under the condition that he grind the grain of the other proprietors "well and tolle free for ever."
(Millers were remunerated for their services by receiving a percentage of the finished flour as payment... usually about 10 per cent).
The lumber produced by the saw mill found a ready market in New York City, which had used up most of the indigenous trees on Manhattan Island rather quickly. By l679, just two years after Carpenter's purchase from the
Indians was officially ratified by the colonial New York govemment, the mill was producing nine different thicknesses of boards and timber, as well as tile laths, shingle laths, wainscott, "feather-edged" boards for
panelling, and custom-cut walnut for cabinet-making.
A small portion of the mill's accounts were recorded in the "Musketa Cove Proprietor's Book," a hand- written record of the early settlers' land transactions and agreements. The accounts indicate that one of the major
purchasers of Musketa Cove lumber was Jacob Leisler, a prosperous New York City merchant who would, in 1689, overthrow the colonial government of the colony and, in 1691, would be executed for treason.
However, it appears that Leisler did not forget his acquaintances in Musketa Cove during his reign as ad-hoc governor in New York, he appointed Robert Coles as Captain in the Oyster Bay Militia."
Early History of Glen Cove - City of Glen Cove Web Site.
The above information obtained from the City of Glen Cove web site:
http://www.glencove-li.com.

http://www.nassaulibrary.org/glencove/history/historyofglencove.html
History of Glen Cove
By Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, and Carol McCrossen
The history of Glen Cove, like that of most other settlements on the North Shore of Long Island is closely associated with the history of its waterfront. Surrounded by water of three sides, Glen Cove presently has over ten miles of waterfront including: three public beaches, two nature preserves, a public golf course and a public park. It was the waterfront that first attracted the Native Americans, the City’s founding fathers and ultimately the wealthy families who would later create the Gold Coast of Glen Cove.
I - A Settlement is Founded
On May 24, 1668 Joseph Carpenter of Warwick Rhode Island purchased about 2,000 acres of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock Indians. Later in that year he admitted four co-partners into the project - three brothers, Nathaniel, Daniel, and Robert Coles, and Nicholas Simkins, all residents of Oyster Bay. The five young men named the settlement “Musketa Cove,” which in the Matinecock language means “this place of rushes.” These settlers have been known forever after as the five original proprietors of Musketa Cove Plantation.
Carpenter and his friends saw great potential in their new community. They constructed a saw mill and a gristmill across what is now known as Glen Cove Creek. The harbor was ideal for shipping lumber to New York City and the creek was dammed to provide power for the mills. Their goal was furnish New York City with lumber for the construction of housing. The site for the saw mill had many congenial conditions - a fine stream, opportunity for a short dam, and easy access to navigable water at high tide.
The proprietors and their families built their homes near the campfires of the Indians along a street atop a hill overlooking the saw mill. They were blessed with the brave spirit of the pioneer. They were not afraid to work long hours to mold the raw materials of nature into the finished products needed to build a civilization. While each had land for his own homestead, much of the land was maintained as common space for the grazing of cattle. The first settled street in Glen Cove, called "The Place" still survives today.
The lumber produced by the saw mill found a ready market in New York City. By 1679, two years after Carpenter's purchase from the Indians was officially ratified by the colonial New York government, the mill was producing nine different thickness of boards and timber, as well as tile laths, shingle laths, wainscot, "feather-edged" boards for paneling, and custom-cut walnut for cabinet-making.
By this time the tiny group of settlers had grown considerably. A contributing factor to the sudden influx of settlers was King Philips’s War, which drove many out of New England for fear of their lives. In less than a decade after its settlement, the community of Musketa Cove had among its population carpenters, weavers, wool spinners, saddlers, tailors, millers, shipbuilders, and many tradesmen. They had their own town government, constable, overseers, Justice of the Peace and Recorder.
Some of the mill's accounts were recorded in the Musketa Cove Proprietor's Book, a hand- written record of the early settlers' land transactions and agreements. Musketa Cove Proprietor’s Book is an outstanding primary record; its pages contain a copy of the Andros Patent of 1677; references to minor land disputes with the Matinecock Indians, and family records of the Coles, Thornycraft and Carpenter families.
Some of the earliest entries are dated November 30, 1668; listed are certain Articles of Agreement signed by the five proprietors. The Proprietors agreed that “no trees shall be cut for pipe staves except as agreed upon by vote of the majority; no one shall put out hogs or cattle for summering except as agreed on by majority vote; only by vote of the majority shall any highway be built, lots laid out or fences erected.”
The saw mill built by the proprietors provided a major influx of capital from outside Glen Cove. A gristmill was built in 1677. The exports of the lumber industry were not the sole source of income, however. Colonial Governor Lord Bellomont wrote in 1699 to the Board of Trade in London describing Musketa Cove as one of the top four ports for smuggling on all of Long Island. Goods smuggled to avoid the high import taxes demanded by Mother England included brandy, rum and wine.
II - A Country Goes to War
Most Musketa Cove residents were at first uninterested in taking an active part in the Revolution. Prior to the incredible rout of the Patriot Army during the Battle of Long Island in August of 1776, more than 70 per cent of the local inhabitants attempted to remain neutral; of the remainder, only 12 per cent took the Patriot side, the other 18 per cent remaining loyal to English rule. But after the defeat of Washington's army at the Battle of Long Island in 1776, the fires of patriotism were lit. The local militia was reorganized as the "Musketa Cove Company of the Loyal Queens County Militia." Its officers wore red uniforms, with blue facings and silver buttons.
Long Island was one of the few places in North America that the British held uncontested throughout the Revolution, and as a result, dozens of British Provincial Corps (armed loyalists) and Hessian regiments were stationed on Long Island, housed in homes abandoned by Patriots who had fled the area. The population of Musketa Cove in the decade after the Revolution grew to nearly 250.
III – The Growth of Industry
The second major "industry," in Glen Cove, following the mills of the 17th and 18th century, was the mining of clay. About 1810, a local physician named Thomas Garvie, a native of Scotland, discovered that the large deposits of clay on his property (now called "Garvie's Point") were of sufficient quality for use in manufacturing pottery. Within a short time clay was being dug, and marketed in New York City, with some finding its way to the potteries of Huntington and Greenport. The discovery of clay furthered the use of the waterfront for both commercial shipping and commuter transportation.
In 1827, Dr. Thomas Garvie opened negotiations with Cornelius Vanderbilt to begin operating a steamboat between Glen Cove and New York City on a regular basis. In 1829 a daily steamboat run was made between Glen Cove and New York City. But many New York residents were reluctant to visit the town because they didn't realize that there was a difference between "mus-kee-tah" (this place of rushes) and "mosquito" (a rather pesky insect). A public meeting was held in 1834 to discuss the matter. Several possible names were suggested as alternatives. Local legend has always claimed that someone had suggested "Glen Coe," after a rather pretty spot in Scotland, which was misheard as "Glen Cove." The residents agreed to change the name to Glen Cove.
By the late 1850’s steamboat operation between New York and Glen Cove was in full swing. Glen Cove became a resort community. By the time of the Civil War there were half a dozen major hotels in Glen Cove, most centered near the steamboat landing (which was at the foot of Landing Road, within present day Morgan's Park). The largest of these was the Pavilion Hotel, which was used as a convalescent home during the Civil War for wounded soldiers. In addition to the hotels themselves, a number of "oyster saloons," taverns, and boarding houses opened in the Landing. The community catered to wealthy New York City residents who were beginning to build summer estate homes.
The Industrial Revolution did not reach Glen Cove until the 1850’s around the same time the Duryea Corn Starch Manufacturing Company relocated their main plant from Oswego to Glen Cove. The Duryea Starch Works sprawled over more than an acre and employed nearly 600 people. Employees lived in company-owned apartments, bought their food and clothes from the company store, and read the Glen Cove Gazette, which was printed at least part of its life on a press owned by the starch company. The Starch Works was not well loved by those Glen Cove residents who had no financial interest in it. The volumes of waste produced by converting corn into corn starch was flushed into Glen Cove Creek, where it settled to form a layer of putrefying, obnoxious-smelling organic detritus. The smell, pervasive in both the Glen Cove Landing and Sea Cliff, depending upon the wind, was irritating to resident and visitor alike.
IV – A Community Moves into the Twentieth Century
As with most of Glen Cove’s public institutions, the Glen Cove Public Library came from modest beginnings. It was founded in 1894, chartered in 1897, and housed in the public school building that had been built in 1893. The first librarian was Carolyn S. Reed, who would later marry another Coles descendant and would become the mother of the Robert R. Coles who established the library’s present historical collection. The library’s location changed over the years, and finally found its current home in 1959 next door to the Post Office. It now houses over 130,000 books, many videos, DVDs, music CDs, and offers an array of services to a community of over 25,000 residents.
By the beginning of the 20th Century the Glen Cove began to see an influx of wealthy industrialists, bankers and business people who built lavish estates, many along the waterfront. Some of the families had already established businesses in the City, including the Ladew family who built the Ladew Leather works, and the Duryeas of the Duryea Starch Works, but other wealthy residents came as well. JP Morgan, son of the industrialist, purchased an entire island, East Island where he established a palatial home. Charles Pratt of Standard Oil built a home in Glen Cove, as well as homes for seven of his eight children. Department store magnate Woolworth built Winfield Hall on Crescent Beach Road. These wealthy residents drew upon the rich pool of skilled and unskilled labor that was abundant in Glen Cove, and often built housing for their workers. Many of these estates are still standing and are in use today as schools, houses of worship and executive retreats.
For 250 years Glen Cove was part of the Town of Oyster Bay. But as the population grew to over 10,000 residents it became evident that the existing machinery of government was no longer adequate. On June 8, 1917 the Governor signed into law a bill proclaiming Glen Cove to be a City.
Since the time of the first settlers the Glen Cove community has progressed beyond anything its five original proprietors could have possibly imagined. Through wars, industrial revolutions, and changes in government it remains a thriving, growing City moving steadily into the Twenty-first Century.

WIKIPEDIA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cove,_New_York
Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.

Glen Cove was used as a port by English migrants from New England and named "Moscheto" before 1668. On May 24, 1668 Joseph Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island purchased about 2,000 acres (8.1 km) of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock. Later in that year he admitted four co-partners into the project: three Coles brothers, Nathaniel, Daniel, and Robert; and Nicholas Simkins, all residents of Oyster Bay. The five young men named the settlement Musketa Cove. In the Lenape language musketa meant “place of rushes.” The five men are considered the five original proprietors of Musketa Cove Plantation.

In the 1830s, steamboats started regular service on Long Island Sound between New York City and Musketa Cove, arriving at a point still called "The Landing." As "Musketa" was negatively associated with mosquito, in 1834 village residents changed the name to Glen Cove (said to be the misheard suggestion "Glencoe", after the Scottish glen) now Glencoe, Scotland. The village added population as workers arrived for jobs at the Duryea Corn Starch factory, which operated until 1900. The name "Duryea" was once suggested as a village name to replace Mosquito Cove but rejected.

By 1850 the village of Glen Cove had become a popular summer resort community for New York City residents. The Long Island Railroad was extended to Glen Cove in 1867, providing quicker, more frequent service to New York City. The availability of the train and the town's location on Long Island Sound made it attractive to year-round residents, and the population increased. On June 8, 1917, Glen Cove became an independent city, separating from the Town of Oyster Bay after 250 years.

69. Thomasin or Tam"a"sin or Tamsen Carpenter

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky Ojai, California, 2009

Children of Joseph2 and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter, i-iv born probably at Pawtuxet (Warwick) (birth order uncertain):

ii. THOMASIN/TAM(A)SIN CARPENTER, b. between ca. 1659 and say 1662/3, living Madnan's Neck, Hempstead (now Great Neck, North Hempstead), L.I., 30 Jan. 1710, 9 Anne [regnal year], i.e., 30 Jan. 1710/11; m. Musketa Cove or vicinity before 13 Feb. 1682[/3], as his second wife, JOHN WILLIAMS, d. Madnan's Neck shortly before 4 April 1705 (widow granted letters of adm.), son of Robert and Sarah (Washburn) Williams of Hempstead and Lusum (Jericho, in Oyster Bay) (HempTR 2:395-97; OBTR 1:187-88, 272, 458-60, 625-27, 641; Cock-Cocks-Cox 371; NYWills 1:118, 403-4; TAG 36:62; Washburn Gen 95-99, citing HempCtR 78-83).
The evidence that Thomasin (Mrs. John) Williams was Joseph and Hannah Carpenter's daughter is circumstantial: On 13 Feb. 1682[/3], Joseph Carpenter Sr. conveyed by a deed of gift to John Williams, a cordwainer (shoemaker) "now Residing on ye same place[,] foure Accars of Land . . . on ye north side of the highwaye Against my now dwelling house" (OBTR 1:641). Taken together, the nature of the transfer, the lot's location and Williams's prior occupation of it, and a similar transaction made by Carpenter probably four days (rather than a year and four days) later (see no. i, above) strongly suggest that the gift was a marriage settlement. On 13 May 1686, John Williams of Madnan's Neck sold to Joseph Carpenter fifty acres at Matinecock, "w[i]thin ye pattent & Township of Oysterbay"; John and Tamsun Williams signed the deed by mark (OBTR 1:483-84). Letters of administration on the estate of John Williams of Madnan's Neck, deceased, were granted to wife Tamasan on 4 April 1705; his estate inventory was exhibited by Thomasan Williams, administratrix, on 15 Sept. 1705 (NYWills 1:322, 403-4, 16:35 [corrections]). On 19 March 1705/6, Tamson Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, purchased fifty acres of woodland in Oyster Bay (OBTR 3:188-90). "Tamisen Williams the widow & Relick [sic] of John Williams of madnans neck," purchased 300 acres of woodland on the Byram River in Rye, Westchester Co., N.Y., on 20 May 1707 (not 12 May 1706) (WeLR C:430; NYGBR 51:254; Carpenter [1901] 47 [12 May 1706]). On 30 Jan. 1710[/11], the town of Hempstead quitclaimed to Thomasin Williams of Madnan's Neck, widow, 66 acres "in her full and peaceable posesion being" (HempTR 2:395-97).
D. H. Carpenter says that Thomasin "was probably named for her great-aunt 'Tomazin'" who "came over in 1635 . . . [and] is believed to have been an elder sister of William of Providence" (see Carpenter [1901] 45-46, 46n). This statement is presumably based on the tenuous assumption that because a Carpenter woman of that forename and a male Carpenter from William1's English home were recorded as emigrants about a week apart--William1 arrived in New England probably the following year (though not under the circumstances stated by D. H. Carpenter)--all three must be closely related (see Carpenter [1901] 5, 9, 46n; NEHGR 159:67-68). On 13 April (not 15 May) 1635, Tomazin Carpenter, aged 35, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the _Susan & Ellen_ (Hotten 57 [13 April], 59; Carpenter [1901] 5 [15 May]). Thomas Carpenter of Amesbury [in Wiltshire], carpenter, was among those who registered at Southampton "in and aboute" 6 April 1635 for passage to New England on the _James_ (PRO/TNA CO1/8/183-85, at 185; Coldham 133-34; NEHGR 14:332-33 and Carpenter [1901] 5 erroneously have 5 April). The _Susan & Ellen_'s passenger list gives no indication of Tomazin's origin, however, and nothing more is known of her (or of Thomas--unless he was actually the eventual William1 of Providence [in whose sketch see IMMIGRATION]). But if she was closely related to William of Providence, it is reasonable to suppose that she, too, was from Amesbury or thereabout. In that case, one would expect her and so-called Thomas of Amesbury to have sailed together or at least to have embarked from the same port. That they did neither renders what was never more than a possibility all the more remote. Ironically, Joseph's daughter Thomasin may well have been named after a slightly more-distant aunt on the other side of his family: his maternal grandfather, William1 Arnold, had a sister Thomasine/Tamzen, who remained in England (NEHGR 33:427-28, 69:67).

[End of Gene Zubrinsky's notes]

OLD NOTES:

Number 12 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.

DEATH:Last recorded information is where she buys 300 acres of woodland on the Byram River in Westchester county dated 12 May 1706 at White Plains.

John Williams

Madnan's Neck now Great Neck, Queens county, LI, NY.
WILL: Wife appointed administrator on 4 April 1705.

73. Elizabeth Carpenter See Notes

Gene Zubrinsky knowingly omits Elizabeth from his list of this family's children.
Gene Zubrinsky has established that it was Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter's eldest daughter, Hannah, who married William Thornycraft (and not this Elizabeth Carpenter).  See Zubrinsky's notes for her or either parent.

OLD NOTES:

AFN MTLC-38 and 8MJ3-35 are believed to be the same person.

Number 11 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.

William Thornycraft

AFN MTLC-23 and 8Mj3-4B are the same
NAME: Thorncraft as in AF or ThornYcraft as in other records.
See: Hannah Carpenter's notes, and his Will info.

74. Mary Carpenter See Notes

Gene Zubrinsky deliberately excludes a daughter Mary from this family.
Gene Zubrinsky has established that it was Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter's eldest daughter, Hannah, who married William Thornycraft (and not this Mary Carpenter).  See Zubrinsky's notes for her or either parent.

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SEE 160 ALLIED FAMILIES PAGE 56
Born either RI or NY.
Per Marriage Records Before 1699, page 54: Mary married Thomas Crockes, 8 Apr 1697, New London, CT.

William Thornycraft

AFN MTLC-23 and 8Mj3-4B are the same
NAME: Thorncraft as in AF or ThornYcraft as in other records.
See: Hannah Carpenter's notes, and his Will info.

14. Abiah Carpenter

INTRO:
Abiah Carpenter (William ) was born on 9 Apr 1643 in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He died aft 14 Dec 1687 and probably before 26 Dec 1689 (certainly before 22 Mar 1698/9) in Pawtuxet, Warwick Twp., Colony of RI and Plymouth Plantations (that part now in Kent Co., RI).
Abiah married Mary Redway, by 1667, probably in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. The daughter of James1 Redway, Mary was born on 27 May 1646 in Rehoboth. She died after 1669 and before 7 Mar 1676/7, probably in Pawtuxet (Warwick).

CHILDREN REMOVED: The following children were removed from Abiah's family. See Zubrinsky notes.
Abiah Carpenter-12736 --- All with "See Notes" comment
Samuel Carpenter-12738
Hannah Carpenter-12749
Mary Carpenter-12750
Solomon Carpenter--21856
John Carpenter-21857
WIFE REMOVED: Ann Weeks-634 See Zubrinsky notes below.

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

[Derived from one of twelve fully formatted sketches of early Carpenters, these notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2009. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 and also online at . (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

ABIAH3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 9 2nd month [April] 1643 and died intestate in the Pawtuxet section of Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island and Plymouth Plantations, after 14 December 1687 and probably before 26 December 1689 (certainly before 22 March 169[8/]9). He married by 1667, probably at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, MARY REDWAY, born there on 27 May 1646 and died probably at Pawtuxet (Warwick) after 1669 and certainly before 7 March 1676/7, daughter of James1 Redway (TAG 70:200-2; NEHGR 159:55-56; see also DEATH, MARRIAGE, and COMMENTS sections, below). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in _Register_ style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCES, at the end of these notes. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his _Great Migration_ series.]

DEATH: Abiah's record of regularly performed public service (see OFFICES, below) ends abruptly with his grand jury duty at Newport on 13 and 14 December 1687 (RICR 3:233-34). He was presumably deceased when "Rebecka Carpenter Daughter of Abiah Carpenter" was recorded in the "Orphants" section of a list of grantees appended to Major William Bradford's quitclaim deed to the town of Rehoboth, dated 26 December 1689 (Early Rehoboth 1:56-57; see NEHGR 159:56n6 for more-detailed discussion). The earliest record explicitly indicating that Abiah had died is his son Oliver's Warwick deed to Benjamin Smith Jr., dated 22 March 1699, 11 William III [regnal year]--that is, 22 March 1698/9--which mentions "my honoured Father Abiah Carpenter deceased" (WarLE 1:184; NEHGR 159:56n6). The record of his son Joseph's first marriage, on 18 March 1702/3, refers to the latter's deceased father as having been "of Pautuxet in the township of Warwick" (WarVR 1:2:16).

MARRIAGE(S): At Warwick on 14 September 1667, William and Mary Baker bound out their seven-year-old daughter, Mary, to Abiah Carpenter, so that he and his wife (not named) "may . . . educat & instruct [her] in all things that perteyneth to houswifery" (WarTR1 333-34). That Abiah's wife at that time was Mary Redway is deduced from her father James1 Redway's will, dated 26 July 1677 and proved 4 June 1684, which instructs that "Rebeckah Carpenter the daughter of Abiah Carpenter" receive twenty acres from the next land division (PCPR 4:2:73; Early Rehoboth 1:129, 132-33). Redway's will names three others, known to be another daughter's child and two sons-in-law, in the same fashion as it does Rebecca and Abiah; that is, the relationship of each to the testator or any of his daughters is unspecified. With James Redway's other daughters' husbands accounted for, Abiah's wife could only have been Mary.

Amos B. Carpenter asserts that about 1668 Abiah removed to Musketa Cove (Oyster Bay), Long Island, with his brother-in-law and sister, Joseph2 (William1 of Providence) and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter, and returned to Pawtuxet (Warwick) after Hannah's death, about 1670 [sic] (see Carpenter [1898] 46, 47; Hannah3 notes, DEATH [she died by 8 June 1673]). Author Carpenter suspects that Abiah, presumably while at Musketa Cove, "married for his second wife a sister of Ann Wickes [sic], second wife of Joseph Carpenter of Mosquito Cove" (see Carpenter [1898] 46). Joseph Carpenter married Ann2 Weekes (Francis1) of Oyster Bay (the settlement adjacent to Musketa Cove) by 2 September 1674 (see OBTR 1:412, 2:702; RILE 1:47, 50-51). That Abiah married Ann's sister, however, is highly unlikely. Francis Weekes's will and a codicil thereto, dated 25 June 1687 and 3 February 1688/9, respectively, mention only two daughters--Ann, widow of Joseph Carpenter, deceased, and Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas Simpkins--and imply no others, living or dead (OBTR 1:411-12, 2:702). Abiah, moreover, never lived at Musketa Cove, and his only known visit there, in June 1669, was almost certainly very brief (see RESIDENCES, below). His wife in mid-January 1669/70 (she was then ill at Pawtuxet) was very probably Mary Redway (see WarTR2 32-33; NEHGR 159:57n8 [cont'd.]). In 1933, a pair of respected genealogists named de Forest presented 1668, 1669, and mid-1670 land and court records putting Abiah at Warwick during that period (see RESIDENCES and OFFICES, below) and concluded that "[t]he evidence is against the theory advanced that Abiah Carpenter removed to Long Island" (see Brady Anc 132; NEHGR 159:57n9). That analysis led distinguished genealogist Herbert Seversmith to state in 1939 that "evidently the statements made that [Abiah] married 2, Abigail Wickes [sic] . . . are without foundation" (Colonial Fams 2:559). Records subsequent to those examined by the de Forests put Abiah at Warwick virtually continuously for another three and a half years (until early 1674) (see RESIDENCES, below).

It is reasonable to assume that Abiah remarried after Mary's death (see COMMENTS, below)--his children were then quite young and perhaps did not yet include one known to have been his--but evidence of it has not been found.

RESIDENCES: Weymouth; Rehoboth (1644); Pawtuxet (Warwick) (ca. 1662). The area called Pawtuxet is on both sides of the Pawtuxet River, one part in northern Warwick and the other in Cranston (formerly southern Providence).

Abiah was still of Rehoboth on 1 July 1661, when Kekettowicket, chief sachem of Pawtuxet, relinquished to him and three Pawtuxet (Warwick) men his interest in a parcel of land at the latter place (WarTR2 153-54; NEHGR 159:55-56). On 13 July 1663, however, Abiah Carpenter, [brother-in-law] Joseph Carpenter, Benjamin Smith, and Mr. Henry Reddock were all of "Pautuxett in Warwicke" when they asked that the Warwick Court of Trials transfer their prosecution "concerning a Riot" to the General Court of Trials to be held at Portsmouth (WarCT 230; RICT1 2:22; NEHGR 159:58). Abiah's father had bequeathed him a home lot, meadow, and other land at Pawtuxet and instructed Abiah's mother and brother Samuel to "healp him to build an house" there (MD 14:231-32).

Notwithstanding Amos Carpenter's claim that Abiah resided at Musketa Cove for a few years beginning in 1668 (see MARRIAGE(S), above), Abiah was of Pawtuxet on 30 November of that year, when his brother-in-law Joseph Carpenter deeded him twenty acres and "a fifth parte of three Square Miles [all at Musketa Cove] . . . provided [he] shall cum within three Yeares after, ye date beneith written, & possess ye said Lands with his ffamely" (OBTR 1:42-43). He was also of Pawtuxet on 14 June 1669, when he quitclaimed back to Joseph "my hole, right and titell of Land, at Musketow Cove" (OBTR 1:49); the witnesses to this deed, however, were Oyster Bay men (OBTR 1:4, 43-45, 50, 51-52). Evidently in the week following the expiration of his term as Warwick constable (1 June 1668 to 7 June 1669), Abiah visited Musketa Cove and decided against settling there (see WarTR2 158-59, 166-67). He almost certainly returned soon thereafter to Pawtuxet, where Warwick records locate him in mid-January 1669/70 (see MARRIAGE(S), above). A 1670 entry in Musketa Cove merchant Moses Mudge's account book shows Abiah Carpenter as indebted to him for a half-pint of rum (NYGBR 109:204; NEHGR 159:57n9). Mudge, however, "was in Warwick, R.I., in the period 1668-70 [marriage and birth of son Jarvis], but returned to Long Island by Aug. 1674" (TAG 81:24; NEHGR 161:300). It is therefore likely that the account-book entry refers to a transaction at Warwick rather than Musketa Cove. Warwick townsmen made Abiah a juryman at least annually from April 1670 to November 1673 (on the latter date for the following February) (WarTR2 174, 182-83, 190-91, 191-92, 209).

OCCUPATION: Amos Carpenter calls him a mariner, but the extent of Abiah's land holdings and the nature and frequency of his public service point to his having been a yeoman (see Carpenter [1898] 46; MD 14:232; WarTR2 43-44; RILE 1:47; OFFICES, below). Not a single seafaring reference is found in records pertaining to Abiah3. The mariner label probably reflects confusion with Abiah5 Carpenter (Oliver4, Abiah3), who died in 1729, apparently in the West Indies, and whose death record calls him captain and mariner (RIVR 2:1[Providence]:263; Brady Anc 138).

FREEMAN: There is no record of Abiah's having been admitted a freeman, but we may be certain that he was. Freemanship was a prerequisite not only to his 1682 election as Warwick deputy to the General Assembly but also to his being named, first in 1665, a juror at the General Court of Trials (see OFFICES, below). At the General Assembly convened at Newport on or about 13 May 1665, the governor presented a list of five "pertickelares" reflecting "his Majestyes will & pleasure." Item two was "[t]hat all men of competante estates and of civill conversation, who acknowledge and are obediante to the civill magistrate, though of differing judgements, may be admitted to be freemen, and have liberty to choose and be choosen [sic] officers both civill and [military]" (RICR 2:108 [date], 110). As this implies, Rhode Island freemanship requirements were considerably less restrictive than those of the other New England colonies at this time. An "Extract from the Report of the King's Commissioners concerning the New England Colonies, made December, 1665" states that in Rhode Island "[t]hey admitt all to be freemen who desire it" (RICR 2:127). On 2 May 1666, the General Assembly considered a list of Warwick men propounded by the town to be freemen: "soe many of them who are not alredy admitted, are now admitted freemen of the Collony" (RICR 2:146 [date], 147 [names not given]). In the spring of 1669, the General Court of Trials fined the town of Warwick for choosing Abiah Carpenter and Job Almy as grand jurors when neither was eligible--Carpenter because he was already serving as constable and Almy because _he was not a freeman_ (RICT1 2:76 [date], 78; see also OFFICES, below). In light of the above, it is probable that Abiah was a freeman by 1665.

EDUCATION: Abiah signed his name as a party to a 1667 agreement and a 1669 deed and as witness to a 1677 deed (MARRIAGE, above; WarTR2 113). His father left him two books: "Ursinus Chatichisme and hellens history of the world" (MD 14:233). (Zacharias Ursinus was the primary author of the _Heidelberg Catechism_ [1563; rev. 1619].)

OFFICES: Juror, General Court of Trials, 1665, 1667, 1669 (did not serve [see FREEMAN, above]), 1670-1672, 1674, 1675 (fined for nonattendance), 1676-1677, 1678-1679 (fined for nonattendance), 1681, 1687; constable, 1668; juror, Warwick Court of Trials, 1671/2; deputy to General Assembly, 1682 (WarTR1 151-52, 179; RICT1 2:57 [date], 59, 76 [date], 78; RICT2 43, 55, 64, 91; WarTR2 159-340 passim; RICR 3:106-07, 233).

CHILDREN: The de Forests preface their account of Abiah Carpenter's children thus: "_The Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family_ (1898) contains so many obvious inaccuracies and contradictions, especially in the sections concerning the children of Abiah3 Carpenter, Oliver4 Carpenter, and Christopher5 Carpenter, that the present writers have thought it best to construct the family line from other sources" (Brady Anc 135). The following discussion of Abiah's children accordingly uses as its point of departure not the eight children Amos Carpenter attributes to him but the four presented first by Austin and later (in different order) by the de Forests: Oliver (Warwick, North Kingstown); Joseph (North Kingstown, East Greenwich); John (East Greenwich); and Solomon (South Kingstown) (see Carpenter [1898] 58-59; Austin 35-36; Brady Anc 135-36; also Colonial Fams 2:559). (Alden G. Beaman, relying heavily on Carpenter [1898] and Austin, combines their mistakes and ascribes nine children to Abiah; the paragraph he devotes to Abiah himself is similarly replete with errors [see RIGR 20:8].) Even this shorter list, however, proves to be at once too long and yet incomplete.

It has been established that two of the aforementioned four sons attributed to Abiah by Austin and the de Forests were the respective children of two of his brothers: John Carpenter of East Greenwich (c1667-1753) was the son of Joseph3 and Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter; Solomon Carpenter of South Kingstown (1677-1750) was the son of Samuel3 and Sarah (Redway) Carpenter (NEHGR 159:43-47, 58-59, 362; see also Joseph3 and Samuel3 notes, CHILDREN, nos. vi and viii, respectively). Oliver and Joseph Carpenter, on the other hand, generated records naming Abiah as their father (see DEATH, above). To them must be added Rebecca, whose paternity is also a matter of record (see DEATH and MARRIAGE(S), above). Evidence of other children has not been found.

    Child i born probably to wife Mary Redway, ii almost certainly so, iii perhaps not; all born probably at Pawtuxet (Warwick):

i. OLIVER4 CARPENTER, b. probably by 1667 or 1668, d. North Kingstown, R.I., between 4 Oct. 1727 and 20 Nov. 1727; m. (1) say 1693, perhaps SARAH ______, his wife by ca. Sept. 1700 (their son William b. 9 June 1701; only recorded birth of Oliver's approx. 11 children, only 3 births are recorded); m. (2?) Yarmouth (Friends meeting-house), Mass., 6 Nov. 1721 SARAH OKILLEY, b. there 17 Sept. 1689, dau. of Jeremiah2 and Sarah (______) Okilley (RIVR 1:1[Warwick]:154; NEHGR 151:137, 141; NKPR 6:251).
On 4 Oct. 1727, Oliver was granted letters of administration on his son Oliver's estate (EGPR 1:71). The elder Oliver's own estate inventory was presented in court and his widow granted letters of administration on 20 Nov. 1727 (NKPR 6:253, 254). For supporting evidence concerning Oliver's approximate birth date and probable mother, see NEHGR 159:59-60. For detailed information about Oliver's son John and his family--of Norwich, Windham, and Stafford, Conn. (not Warwick, R.I.)--see NEHGR 159:43-44, 47-49, 59n24, 362, 362-63. The son Jeremiah whom Amos Carpenter attributes to Oliver4 in a greatly inflated list of 19 children was in fact Oliver's grandson (b. East Greenwich 18 June 1715) through his son Christopher5 (see Carpenter [1901] 75-77; NKPR 6:249; RIGR 7:56; RIVR 1:2[East Greenwich]:107). For a more reliable list of Oliver's children, see Brady Anc 136-39 (it, too, contains errors, however--misidentification of son John and misattribution of a son Solomon, for example).
ii. REBECCA CARPENTER, b. after 26 Dec. 1668 and by 7 March 1676/7, living (and under 21) on 26 Dec. 1689 (NEHGR 159:56n6, 56n8, 62n38; DEATH, above); no further record. For a detailed refutation of Amos Carpenter's assertion that she "probably m. Samuel Wilson of Norton, Mass.," see NEHGR 159:60-63.
iii. JOSEPH CARPENTER, b. say 1678, living East Greenwich 29 April 1732; m. (1) Warwick, 18 March 1702/3, MARY BROWN, dau. of Beriah and Abigail (Phenix) Brown; m. (2) before 29 April 1732, HANNAH ______ (WarVR 1:2:16; EGLE 4:443-44 [also 513]; Austin 27, 35, 151). In that Joseph's first known marriage occurred twenty-six years after Mary (Redway) Carpenter's omission from her brother James's estate division to his siblings (see COMMENTS, below), it is uncertain that she was his mother.

COMMENTS: Clerical errors in and misinterpretation of original Weymouth vital records caused that town's published vital-records volume to attribute to William2 Carpenter a son Abraham and to identify him as Abiah's twin. Amos Carpenter correctly concludes that Abraham did not exist but nevertheless retains the idea that Abiah had a twin--his sister Abigail (see Carpenter [1898] 46). It has since been established, however, that she was several years older than Abiah (see Abigail3 notes, par.1). There was neither an Abraham nor a multiple birth in this family (TAG 70:200-3).

Mary (Redway) Carpenter presumably died before 7 March 1676/7, when the Plymouth court ordered that her unmarried brother James2 Redway's estate be divided among [his brother] John Redway and three unnamed sisters (RVR 1:12; PCPR 3:2:77). Mary's sister Lydia (Mrs. John) Titus had been buried at Rehoboth on 28 October 1676, leaving Redway sisters Sarah (Mrs. Samuel3) Carpenter (died [as Sarah Brooks] Rehoboth 15 July 1717 [not 8 January 1717/8]); Martha (Mrs. Preserved2) Abell (buried Rehoboth 1 March 1685/6); and Rebecca (Mrs. John4) Carpenter (died Woodstock, Mass. [that part now Conn.], 29 December 1702) (RVR 1:54a, 57a, 2:230; WVR 1:11; RVR [pub] 804 has "Sarah Brooks, widow," as "a stranger" who died 8 January 1717/8, but these last two items are from adjacent entry in original records). Sarah, Martha, and Rebecca are also the only daughters named in James1 Redway's will, written in mid-1677 (PCPR 4:2:73).

James1 Redway's wife has not been identified. Mary Whipple is sometimes mentioned, but she married in 1748, as his second wife, Capt. James3 Redway (RVR 2:266).

Abiah, saying his wife was not well, declined in January 1669/70 to help neighbor children save their parents from drowning in the icy river nearby; he was not held responsible (WarTR2 32-34).

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Howard Chapin, "Early House Lots in the Town of Warwick," _Rhode Island Historical Society Collections_ 12:4(Oct. 1919):129-36; Don D'Amato, "Warwick's Villages & Historic Places: Conimicut Village," links to pts. 2 and 3, online at ; Oliver P. Fuller, _The History of Warwick, Rhode Island_ (Providence, 1875) (caveat [see below]); _Harris Papers_, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, vol. 10 (Providence, 1902). The Fuller volume is useful but contains inaccuracies: Abiah's sister Hannah's mother-in-law, Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter, for example, is omitted from an account of the family of William1 Arnold, to whom is attributed a nonexistent son Thomas (p. 16); William1 Arnold and William1 Carpenter of Pawtuxet village, Providence, are mistakenly listed with Robert Coles and Benedict Arnold as residents of the Warwick part of the village (p. 137).

KEY TO SOURCES:

Austin: John Osborne Austin, _The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1969)

Brady Anc: L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest, _James Cox Brady and His Ancestry_ (New York, 1933)

Carpenter [1898]: Amos B. Carpenter, _A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America_ [informal title: _Carpenter Memorial_] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)

Carpenter [1901]: Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, _History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America, from the Settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901_ (Jamaica, N.Y., 1901)

Colonial Fams: Herbert F. Seversmith, _Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut_, 5 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1939-1958)

Early Rehoboth: Richard LeBaron Bowen, _Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township_, 4 vols. (Concord, N.H., 1945-50)

EGLE: East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Land Evidence [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #926,787]

EGPR: East Greenwich Probate Records [FHL film #926,804, item 3]

MD: _The Mayflower Descendant_, vol. 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985-)

NEHGR: _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1847) through present

NKPR: North Kingstown, Rhode Island, Probate and Town Council Records [FHL film #930,972, item 3]

NYGBR: _The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record_, vol. 1 (1869) through present

OBTR: _Oyster Bay Town Records_, 8 vols., ed. John Cox (New York, 1916-1940); vol. 1 (digital images online at ) includes Musketa Cove Proprietors' Book

PCPR: Plymouth Colony Probate Records [Wills and Inventories, 1633-1686], vols. 1-4 [FHL film #567,794]

RICR: _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England_, 10 vols., ed. John Russell Bartlett (Providence, 1856-1865)

RICT1: _Rhode Island Court Records: Records of the Court of Trials of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670_, 2 vols. (Providence, 1920-1922)

RICT2: _Rhode Island General Court of Trials, 1671-1704_, transcr. Jane Fletcher Fisk (Boxford, Mass., 1998)

RIGR: _Rhode Island Genealogical Register_, vol. 1 (1978) through present

RILE: _Rhode Island Land Evidences, Volume I, 1648-1696_ (Providence, 1921)

RIVR: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850_, 21 vols. (Providence, 1891-1912)

RVR: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, vol. 1 [FHL film #562,559 (restricted), item 3], vol. 2 [FHL #562,558 (uncatalogued), item 5]

RVR [pub]: James N. Arnold, _Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896_ (Providence, 1897)

TAG: _The American Genealogist_, vol. 9 (1932) through present

WarCT: _Records of the Court of Trials of the Town of Warwick, R.I., 1659-1674_, transcr. Helen Capwell, (Providence, R.I., 1922), reprinted as appendix to _Rhode Island General Court of Trials, 1671-1704_, transcr. Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boxford, Mass., 1998)

WarLE: Warwick, Rhode Island, Land Evidences, 1669-1711 [FHL film #22,500]

WarTR1: _The Early Records of the Town of Warwick_ (Providence, 1926)

WarTR2: _More Early Records of the Town of Warwick, Rhode Island_, ed. Cherry Fletcher Bamburg and Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boston, 2001)

WarVR: Warwick, Rhode Island, Vital Records [FHL film #925,490, item 2]

WVR: Woodstock Vital [and Town] Records, vols. 1-4 (Book 1 has early town meeting records at back of volume, upside down; Book 3 includes vital records transcribed from Book 1 and elsewhere by town clerk Elisha Childs [1724/5-1798]) [FHL film #1,376,372]

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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OLD NOTES: The following notes consist of previously compiled data, some of which is incorrect. They are retained so that the reader may identify specific items contained in them that he or she might have thought worthy of inclusion in Gene Zubrinsky's notes (above) and will know that they were deliberately omitted for being erroneous or extraneous. For PAF and GEDCOM data files containing only his notes, see the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009.

Number 21 in the Carpenter Memorial - Family is number 11.
See extensive notes on page 46 and 47.
BAPTISM: He was baptised on the same date as Abigail & Abraham.  He was not a
twin or triplet.  See Abigail's notes.

MARRIAGE: ABIAH, (1643- ) & [MARY REDWAY?] (1646- ); B 1667?, B 1665;
PAWTUXET, RI? PER NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700.
In one record his wife is listed as "Sarah".

INHABITANT: Rehoboth Inhabitants in 1689
1689: Rehoboth (Bliss, pg 128)
“A list of the names of the inhabitants and proprietors of the Towne of Rehoboth having Rights and Titles to the Meas uages, Tenements and Lands contained in the above written Instrument hereunto annexed and affixed, which hath been reade and allowed in a full Towne meeting, ffebruary the 7th, 1689.”
Abiah* Carpenter, James Carpenter, John Carpenter, Josiah Carpenter, Sam'l* Carpenter, and William* Carpenter, jr.
* Confirmed son of William Carpenter b. abt 1605 England.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rehoboth_Time_Line

DEATH:Died before March 1702 and probably died in 1699 per a deed by Oliver
that states his father was then deceased.  Pawtuxet, Warwick Twp., now in,, Kent, RI

In early life, Abiah chose the calling of a mariner.  He received the largest
portion of his father's real estate at Pawtuxet.  In 1669 he and his wife were
appointed guardians for Mary, daughter of William and Mary Baker.
In 1669 he was made constable of Warwick, RI and Deputy in 1687.

SEE: The Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, Winter 1994,
Volumne 5, Number 7, page 414, which lists a John Carpenter as a son of this
Abiah with 6 children.  Source: Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode
Island Families, pages 35-36.

MISC: Name sometimes spelled Abia, and Abijah. (See Ann Wickes' doucmentation.
)  Abiah was 16 when his father died.
Carpenter Memorial, Rehoboth Family, call # 929.273 C225c, Family History
Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 46 & p. 47.  Also p. 58.
Sheets submitted by descendants.  One has a wife Sarah Read with two children,
Mary and Cornelius.  These can be found on film 1273777 in the Salt Lake
Family History Center.

E-MAIL:         GeneZub@aol.com  27 Nov 2001 Tue 10:21 PM
Subject:      [CARPENTER] Re: Abiah Carpenter, what was his date of birth?
    To:         CARPENTER-L@rootsweb.com
The Abiah Carpenter birth information posted by Sharilyn (apparently from an
online source) was extracted from Arnold, VITAL RECORD OF REHOBOTH.  The "R"
in the comment "8 R" is Arnold's reference to Rehoboth Town Meetings, Vol. 1,
which includes several pages (230, 232-46) representing probably the oldest
group of Rehoboth vital records.  (Whatever the "8" might have meant--other
numbers precede the "R" in other cases--it has no present significance that I
can discern.)  These records (organized by family, the latest birth dated 8
Oct. 1669) are copied into the first 18 or so pages of Rehoboth Vital
Records, Vol. 1.
The birth record of Samuel and Sarah (Redway) Carpenter's son Abiah appears
in both of the aforementioned Rehoboth record volumes; both give his birth
date as 10 February 1665 (Rehoboth Town Meetings, 1:237; orig. Rehoboth VR,
1:6).  Since there's no independent evidence (of which I'm aware) to indicate
whether the year represents Old or New Syle dating, it should either be
repeated as is (1665) or as 1665[/6?].
An entry in Rehoboth Vital Records ([orig.] 2:241) reports the death on 28
April 1732 of Ensign Abiah Carpenter.  The inscription on his gravestone in
the Old Rehoboth (Newman Church) Cemetery also includes his military title
and says he died on 26 April 1732, in his 68th year.  Samuel and Sarah's son
Abiah had six children with first wife Mehitabel Read and two more with
second wife Sarah Read (orig. Rehoboth VR, 1:49, 78, 173 [not 169, as per
Arnold]).  Sarah died on 17 July 1724; her death record describes her as the
wife of Ensign Abiah Carpenter (ibid., 2:235).  It's therefore clear that the
Abiah Carpenter who died in 1732 was Samuel and Sarah's son, who lived his
entire life at Rehoboth.  I'm unaware of another Abiah Carpenter of similar
age in New England.
While it's my impression that Rhode Island more frequently granted
freemanship to men in their early 20s than did other colonies, the Abiah
Carpenter who acquired that status in 1681 was probably the one born at
Weymouth, 9 April 1643, the son of William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter.
If the 1681 freeman had been this Abiah's namesake son (of whose existence
I've seen no evidence), his father would have been no more than 17 when he
(the son) was born.
Gene Z.
More:
All of Abiah3 Carpenter's children were presumably born at Pawtuxet (Warwick), now in Kent Co., not "Pawtuxet, Providence."  Remember that the village of Pawtuxet straddled the river of that name.  South of the river, where Abiah lived, was Pawtuxet (Warwick), now in Kent Co. North of the river was Pawtuxet (Providence [that part now Cranston]), in Providence Co.  (Pawtuxet, Warwick Twp., now in,, Kent, RI)

Mary Redway

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.

MARY REDWAY/READAWAY MARRIED A CARPENTER, ABIAH (1643-); b 1667?, b 1665; PAWTUXET, RI? . . . PER PAGE 135 OF NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700.
Marriage date (25 May 1660) is that of brother.  Date is thus probably in error.

75. Rebecca Carpenter

NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
There is no further record of her after 26 Dec.1689, when she was still a minor.
Marriage to Samuel Wilson is wrong per Gene Zubrinsky.
Samuel Wilson was of Newton (next to Boston), not Norton.  The Rebecca Carpenter who married Samuel Wilson (as the third of her four husbands) was the widow of David Carpenter; her maiden name was probably Ward.

Number 57 in the Carpenter Memorial.  Page 58.

Samuel Wilson

The Rebecca Carpenter who married Samuel Wilson (as the third of her four husbands) was the widow of David Carpenter; her maiden name was probably Ward.

15. David Carpenter

NOTE:
This is the David Carpenter of Farmington, CT who came from England in the
late 1640s. This is the David Carpenter who died 22 Jan 1651 in
Farmington, CT who left a wife and two children.  His wife (name unknown)
married second, a George Orvis, and third, a Richard Bronson.
She had the children baptized at Farmington on May 16, 1658.
BOOK" Vide Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary" and the "New England Register"
for 1858.
Unproven: Wife's name is Mary Elizabeth Welbourne.  Her daughter married a
cousin? Apparently so. This per E-MAIL 6-17-98: NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700 has Orvis, George ( - 1664) and Elizabeth (Welbourne)? ((Carpenter)), w
David, m/3 Richard Bronson aft 27 Apr 1664; ca 1661; Farmington, CT.

SEE:  AFN:  VHF8-2P and LQKH-KV

BIRTH:  sort of ...
Name: David Carpenter
Birth Date: 1620
Volume: 25
Page Number: 167
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 27 Oct 1930, 848
Source Information
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.
Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

BOOK:  
History and genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America. Published 1901 by Daniel Hoogland Carpenter.
The intro chapter (book page 6 - digital page 12) lists David Carpenter of Farmington, CT and cites Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary."

QUESTIONS:
Possibly from: Tumxis Settlement in CT?  Married about 1645 in CT?

DEATH:
He died between the will date of 20 Jan 1650/1651 and the inventory date of 18 May 1652.

COMMENT:  
Citing "Manwaring Digest 1:103" - cites will but with out direct citation. "The inventory was small, but apparently he was an heir to property in England."  and "His antecedentshave not been learned, but he was an early settler in Farmington."
Need proper cite for: Manwaring Digest 1:103 See image at:
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/31317319/person/13884417694/media/014da1de-5542-4407-9608-2138b6d5919b?_phsrc=Vrd1654&_phstart=successSource

WILL:  1650/1651
Name: David Carpenter
Location: Farmington
Date of Will: 20 Jan 1650/1651
Page: 33
Full text: Invt. œ76-00-00. Taken 18 May, 1652. Will dated 20 January, 1650-1. The last Will & Testament of David Carpenter, late of Farmington, Decd: I give to my wife Elizabeth the Celler that I live in and all my Household Stuff and half my Estate abroad. And I give to my children, Elizabeth, David and Mary, the other half of my Estate abroad, viz., all besides the Celler and Household Stuff. And I comitt the Care and Oversight of my Children and Estate and Buildings wholly to my Master, John White of Hartford.Testimony of Stephen Hart and Thomas Judd in Court.Witness: Roger Newton, Stephen Hart, Thomas Judd.Court Record, Page 33--19 May, 1652: Will & Invt. exhibited. Adms. to John White.
Source: A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS.1650 to 1663.
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1639-1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 1635-1700. Vol. I. n.p., 1906.
NOTE:
See page 103 of said book.  Inventory taken 18 May 1652 from Court record 19 May 1652.
See book page image at:
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/31317319/person/13884417694/media/4ba362d8-11fc-4907-8fbb-b9112aa44892?_phsrc=Vrd1654&_phstart=successSource

BOOK:
A historical discourse delivered by request before the citizens of Farmington, November 4, 1840 : in commemoration of the originals settlers.
Author:  Ancestry.com
Publisher: The Generations Network, Inc.
Publisher Date:  2005
Publisher Location:  Provo, UT
See book page 60 - digital image 60 - which cites David Carpenter, died in 1650 as one who either purchased house lots of the original owners and were oringianl settlers and most of them were also from Hartford.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/16159/dvm_LocHist004104-00034-0/58?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/31317319/person/13884417694/facts/citation/132617623071/edit/record

Mary Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Welbourne

NAME: Last name maybe Welbourne.
NAME:  Also known as Elizabeth W.
SEE:  AFN:  VHF8-3V and 3XL4-TQ

MARRIAGE: 1644 - image
Name: Elizabeth Carpenter
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 1644
Marriage Place: New England, USA
Death Year: 1694
Spouse: David Carpenter
Source Citation
Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012.
Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

MARRIAGE: 1664 - image
Name: Elizabeth Bronson  [Elizabeth Carpenter; Orvis]
Maiden Name: Wilbourne
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 27 Apr 1664
Marriage Place: New England, USA
Death Year: 1694
Spouse: Richard Bronson
Source Citation
Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012.
Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

DEATH:
Will dated 6 April 1694/1695 and Inventory dated 26 April 1694/1695. She died between these dates.
SEE ALSO:  - sort of record?  Basically from combined genealogies - USE WITH CAUTION.
Name: Elizabeth Welbourne Carpenter
Death Date: Apr 1694
City: Farmington
State: CT
Country: USA
Source Information
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

----- Original Message -----
From: "William R. Randall"
To:
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: RIN 22360

> James R. Carpenter,
>
> I have spent most of the day researching and correcting my information
> on Elizabeth wife of David Carpenter, et. al.
>
> 1694, April 6: "His widow, then Elizabeth Brunson of Farmington, made
> her Last Will and Testament.
> 1694, April 26: The inventory of her estate was taken.
> 1694, September 6: Her Last Will and Testament names her sons; Samuel
> and Roger (Orvis); daughter; Mary (Orvis), wife of Samuel Scott; son;
> David Carpenter and his daughters Mary and Ellen; daughter; Mary Hinman
> and her son Joseph Heacock; daughter; Elizabeth Hill; grandchildren;
> Mary, wife of Thomas Barnes and Experience Chapel, Martha Orvis, Deborah
> Orvis; grandchildren; Samuel Orvis. and Hannah Hough.
> Thomas Barnes was executor (A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate
> Records: Hartford District compiled by Charles William Manwaring; I:414)
> "Comstock-Thomas ancestry of Richard Wilmot Comstock" by H. Minot
> Pitman; p. 207; Bronxville, New York; 1964 (HeritageQuest)
>
> This source lists a child named Hinman for her, but I have not found
> that he is one of her husbands; are we missing one?
>
> I will save this mystery for another day, another researcher!!!
>
> wrr (WIlliam R. Randall)
>

From: MzCortez@aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:28 PM
To: jrcrin001@cox.net
Subject: (no subject)
WILL:
Court Record, Page 41—13 April, 1692: Will proven.
Page 184-5.
Branson, Elizabeth, Farmington. Invt. £69-14-08. Taken 26 April, 1694, by Thomas Porter & Samuel Hooker. Will dated 6 April, 1694.
The last Will & Testament of Elizabeth Brunson: I give to my son Samuel Orvis my Lott in Paquabuck Meadow, which Lott lyeth between Capt. John Stanly's Land & Samuel Gridley's, and a Chest & a Anchor or small Cask. I give to my son Roger Orvis one acre of Land in my Lott in Pequabuck Meadow, and one Cow. I give unto my daughter Mary, the wife of Samuel Scott, a brass Morter and Pestal, and 2 Hatts, and a small Chaire, & a young Steer. I give to my son David Carpenter a great Bible, and to his daughter Mary I give a silver Bodkin, and to his daugh- ter Elizabeth I give my white worked Sampler. I give to my daughter Mary Hinman a desk, and a sermon Booke I give to her son Joseph Hea- cox. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill my Bed & Boulster & Pillow which came from England, with Sheets & one Pillow Beere & a black Apron. I give to my gr. Child Mary, the wife of Thomas Barnes, a silk Scarfe in her possession already, with my old Clothes and Hose & Shoes and an Iron Pott & a Trunke. I give to my gr. Child Experience Chapell a heifer, a box, a skillett, pinte Pott and a Basin & Porringer. I give to Martha Orvis a brass Pan, and to Deborah Orvis a pewter Plate, and to my gr. Child Samuel Orvis my rope Hooks, and to my gr. Child Martha Scott a brass Candlestick and painted Box. I give to Hannah Hough, my gr. Child, a brass Box with pott hooks, when she comes of age, I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill and Mary, the wife of Samuel Scott, and Mary Barnes and Experience Chapell all my Lining. I make Thomas Barnes my sole Executor, & Sergt. Thomas Porter & Sergt. John Hart to be Overseers.
Witness: Thomas Porter,                elizabeth X brunsox.
John Wadsworth.
A Codicil dated 14 April, 1694.

BOOK:   The book cites the WILL info above on page 14 (digtal page 20). See also bottom of page 13 which cites her death as between 14 and 24 April 1694.
A history of the Orvis family in America
by Orvis, Francis Wayland, 1855-
Publication date 1922
Topics Orvis family (George Orvis, d.1664)
Publisher Hackensack, N.J., The Orvis company, inc.
Collection americana
Digitizing sponsor Google
Book from the collections of University of Wisconsin - Madison
Language English
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
An outgrowth of the two pamphlets published by the author in 1911 and 1913, under title: Outline of the Orvis family.
SEE:  https://archive.org/details/ahistoryorvisfa00orvigoog

78. Elizabeth Hill Carpenter

See father's notes.
!Elizabeth, maybe known as Mary probably married Joseph Hickok (b. 1645
Farmington, CT and d. 1687 Woodbury, Litchfield, CT)
SEE: Carpenter Chronicles Vol. 26, (Sept. 1996), Page 19-20, Branch # 81
submitted by Jerry Dale Brown of Denver, CO.
She may have married a Richard Welbourne in the 1660s.