NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
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).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. JRCBOOK: 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..
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).
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).
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).
BIRTH: Probably New London,, CT.
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.
NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
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
Shalbourne
Wiltshire, England
Death: Jan. 26, 1703
Rehoboth
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA
**** Use Gene Zubrinsky data instead of the following from Find a Grave ****
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
Priscilla Bennett, probable daughter (widow?) of Edward 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
NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
NAME: True spelling of name: SAILE or SALE. 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 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.
NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
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.
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)
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)[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 CarpenterAn 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)
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* [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]
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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
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* [These items are written in the left hand margin.][End Gene Zubrinsky notes]
NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
Number 47 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.
NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
Number 49 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.
NAME: Unknown
NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
NAME: Unknown
NOTE: See father's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's data on this individual.
Number 52 on page 58 of the Carpenter Memorial.
Notes by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009[His notes contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed in the "Gene Zubrinsky" folder of the CE 2009 or online at [Carpenter Sketches Main Page here.]. (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.**]
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.
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.
NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
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 Sketches (see link 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.
59. Thomasin/Tam(a)sin/Tamsen Carpenter
Notes 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.
Madnan's Neck now Great Neck, Queens county, LI, NY.
!WILL: Wife appointed administrator on 4 April 1705.
NOTE: Eugene Cole Zubrinsky has written twelve fully formatted sketches of the early Carpenters who were part of the Plymouth Colony and Providence Plantation. These sketches contain the most-authoritative information available as of January 2013. The sketches may be viewed online at the Carpenter Sketches main page. (The online version will be updated when appropriate; check the revision date.) **Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's information, his writings take precedence.**
CHILDREN:
Abiah had the listed children (the secondary literature mentions several others, all of whom have been shown to have had other parents or have been otherwise discounted).
MARRIAGES: It is reasonable to assume that Abiah remarried after Mary's death-his children were then quite young and perhaps did not yet include Joseph-but evidence of it has not been found. It is certain that he did not marry Ann Weeks (his brother Joseph's second wife) and unlikely that he married a sister of Ann's (only one is known: Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Simpkins)
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.
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 - THIS PERSON is NOT the Rebecca ______ (Ward?) who married (1) Ephraim Hunt, (2) David Carpenter, (3) Samuel Wilson, and (4) Lt. John Wilson (see NEHGR 159:60-64)
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.