Descendants of William Carpenter of Providence (Pawtuxet section, now in Cranston), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, now part of Providence County, RI

Notes


2. Joseph Carpenter

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 and the specific sketch of Joseph2 Carpenter. (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.**

The 1898 Carpenter Memorial 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.

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.

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.


Hannah Carpenter

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 and the specific sketch of Hannah3 Carpenter. (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.**

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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


11. Thomasin or Tam(a)sin or Tamsen Carpenter

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky Ojai, California from 2009 - For the most up to date version of his notes, see the CHILDREN section at Joseph2 Carpenter.

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.


15. Elizabeth Carpenter

Gene Zubrinsky deliberately omits Elizabeth from his list of this family's children. He has established that it was Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter's eldest daughter, Hannah, who married William Thornycraft, not an imaginary Elizabeth. See Zubrinsky's sketch of Joseph2 Carpenter, and his family.


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16. Mary Carpenter

Gene Zubrinsky deliberately excludes a daughter Mary from this family. He has established that it was Joseph and Hannah (Carpenter) Carpenter's eldest daughter, Hannah, who married William Thornycraft, not an imaginary Mary. See Zubrinsky's sketch of Joseph2 Carpenter, and his family.


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Ann Weekes or Wickes

NOTE: See spouse's notes for Gene Zubrinsky's complete comment on this person.
BIRTH: 9 Jul 1651 at New Amsterdam (now New York City), Colony of New Netherland.
DEATH:  After 24 4th month [June] 1713 (perhaps by 12 6th month [August] 1713)at Musketa Cove.

Old notes follow.

BIRTH: AFN 30Z7-QT and GN36-K1 are the same person. The birth dates are questionable. See above.
NAME: Ann or Anna.  In one record it is spelled "Ana" by her mark.

Page 58 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901, indicates her last name as WEEKS.


20. Sarah Carpenter

Eugene Cole Zubrinsky deliberately excludes Sarah as a member of this family.

Sarah is listed in the AF but not in other works as a daughter in this family.


21. Dorothy Carpenter

Eugene Cole Zubrinsky deliberately excludes Dorothy as a member of this family.


3. Lydia Carpenter

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky Ojai, California from 2009 - For the most up to date version of his notes, see the CHILDREN section at Joseph2 Carpenter.

**Where other information herein conflicts with Zubrinsky's notes, his notes take precedence.**]

LYDIA2 CARPENTER (William1 of Providence), b. Providence Plantation say 1640, d. Warwick 1 Oct. 1711; m. probably Pawtuxet (Providence), ca. 1660 (eldest son, Benjamin, in 69th yr. in 1729 [will]), BENJAMIN SMITH, b. ca. 1631-1632 (aged about 43 on 17 March 1674/5 [deposition]), d. Warwick 23 Dec. 1713, probable son of Christopher and Alice (______) Smith (WarVR 1:2:18; WarPR 1:95-100, 309-10 [misnumbered 209-10]; Angell Anc 469; Austin 376; PrTR 6:139, 143, 145, 15:146).

When on 9 Feb. 1657[/8?] she signed by mark in witnessing (with brothers Joseph and Ephraim) a deed of Pawtuxet (Warwick) land from an Indian sachem to her father, Lydia was in her teens (the _age of discretion_ was 14) (see WarTR 80-81; William1 of Providence notes, IMMIGRATION, par. 4, above).

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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Number 3 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.


Benjamin Smith

PARENTS: Father in AF is Christopher Smith and wife Alice.
However a note in the Carpenter Family and Related Family Journal, Page 206
indicates an alternate father as Joseph Smith.

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;
SMITH - BENJAMIN, Providence,
came a. 1660, one of the many, as to the cause of whose
coming tradit. is happy to repeat many foolish stories. Either he was a
parliam. man or a support. of Cromwell, so that it was good for him to
escape at the restorat. "losing, the bulk of his est." and as he was rather
young, this prob. was not much. However he m. Lydia, d. of William
Carpenter of Pawtuxit, had Benjamin, b. a. 1661; Joseph; William;
Simon; Lydia, wh. it is said, m. a Fones; and Elizabeth wh. m. 28 Feb.
1699, Israel Arnold. He was an Assist. 1696, his w. d. 1 Oct. 1711,
and he d. 13 Dec. 1713.
SEE ALSO:
JOSEPH Norwalk 1675, from Long Isl. purchas. Id. that yr. but is not found there
in 1688. JOSEPH, Providence, s. of Benjamin of the same, m. Lydia, d.
of the first Williarn Carpenter of the same, s. alleg. May 1682.


23. Benjamin Smith

He had 12 chidren, none listed.


27. Lydia Smith

She had three daughter, no names given.


4. Ephraim Carpenter

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.**]

EPHRAIM2 CARPENTER (William1 of Providence), b. Providence Plantation say 1642, d. probably West Neck (in south Oyster Bay), between 20 Feb. 1697/8 and 8 Jan. 1702/3; m. (1) probably Pawtuxet (Providence), by 1666 (perhaps by 1663), SUSANNAH HARRIS, d. before 3 Dec. 1677, dau. of William1 and Susannah (Hyde) Harris; (2) Oyster Bay, 3 Dec. 1677, SUSANNAH (WOOD) ENGLAND (widow of Josiah), d. probably Musketa Cove, before 1 July 1693 (in 1684?), dau. of John1 and Elizabeth (______) Wood of Portsmouth, R.I.; (3) by 1 July 1693, LYDIA _______, said (not proved) to be Lydia Dickinson, b. 5 Oct. 1662, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Howland) Dickinson (OBTR 1:235, 2:41-43, 71-73, 76-77, 613-14, 624-25; PrTR 5:42-44, 7:190-96, 10:43-44, 14:61, 202; TG 20:168-69; John Wood 10-16; MD 54:27-28; Austin 36).

D. H. Carpenter mistakenly asserts that Ephraim's first recorded appearance is as a witness to a Providence deed on 5 Feb. 1661 (see Carpenter [1901] 314; PrTR 1:82-83). Implicit in author Carpenter's estimate of Ephraim's birth year as about 1640 is the false assumption that to have witnessed this deed he must have been at least 21 years old. On 9 Feb. 1657[/8?], he witnessed (with siblings Joseph and Lydia) a deed of Pawtuxet (Warwick) land to his father; Ephraim was unquestionably a teenager at the time (as above, children as young as 14 could witness documents) (see WarTR 80-81). He was most likely still a minor when he witnessed a deed in each of May and August 1660 and March 1660[/1?] (WarTR 81; PrTR 4:112-13, 14:254). Ephraim had certainly come of age, however, by the time he was admitted a Providence freeman, on 2 May 1666 (PrTR 15:73). Ephraim and his father were the only Carpenters among Providence householders who swore allegiance to King Charles II on 31 May 1666 (PrTR 3:101, 15:104-5).

In his will, dated 20 Feb. 1697/8, Ephraim2's namesake son, of Pawtuxet (Providence), bequeaths all his real estate to "my Honrd: ffather Ephraim Carpenter, now inhabetant at long Jsland" (PrTR 7:190-91). Except for his clothing, horse, saddle, bridle, and 4 bushels of oats (all willed to his uncle Silas's widow, Sarah), he also leaves his personal estate to his father. On 8 Jan. 1702/3, however, "Susannah Arnold sister of . . . [testator] Ephraim Carpenter, & wife of Elisha Arnold of Providence . . . the Reall, true, & lawfull heires of the Estate of ye deceased Testator" acknowledged receipt of "all ye Remnant of the Estate . . . which was left after all charges was Defraied" (PrTR 5:42-44). Although Ephraim2 is not mentioned, it seems clear that his son's bequests to him had been invalidated by the father's death and intestacy, prompting the distribution of Ephraim3's estate to his sister and only surviving heir at law. Supporting this interpretation is that on 4 Sept. 1703, Josias Carpenter (presumably Ephraim3's half-brother, named for the latter's mother's first husband, Josiah England) sold several parcels of land at West Neck whose descriptions match those of lots previously acquired by Ephraim2 Carpenter (OBTR 1:387-89, 2:41-43, 71-73, 76-78, 624-25). And on 2 Nov. 1703, George Hewlett of Hempstead, L.I., deeded to Capt. Thomas Jones of Fort Neck (in south Oyster Bay) 1 3/4 meadow lots at the latter place that were "formerly Daniel Harcuts and after In possession of Ephraim Carpenter Deceased" (OBTR 2:613-14).

D. H. Carpenter states that Ephraim3 Carpenter was admitted a Musketa Cove [sic] inhabitant "in 1683 (at 21 years of age)" (see Carpenter [1901] 316). This is apparently the author's basis for estimating the younger Ephraim's birth date as about 1662 and his father's marriage date as about 1661 (see Carpenter [1901] 314, 316). Despite Ephraim2's having settled permanently in Oyster Bay about 1676, however, Ephraim3 was in Providence by 1684 and lived there (probably on land his father gave him in 1685) until 1693, when he took up residence at Musketa Cove; he was admitted an inhabitant of Oyster Bay on 5 Sept. 1694 ("to settle here at his own cost and Charge in order to Trading or [      ]") (PrTR 5:278-79, 14:202-3, 217-18, 259-63, 15:147, 17:44, 47, 48, 52, 102, 103, 21:33-35; OBTR 1:235, 575-76, 2:362). He bought a dwelling house and parcels of land in Oyster Bay on 30 March 1695 and sold them on 29 June 1696 (OBTR 2:192-93, 279-80). He then returned to Pawtuxet, where he died about a year and a half later (PrTR 7:190-96).

The earliest records of Ephraim3 at Providence are in 1684 tax lists and a 1685 deed of Providence lands from his father (of Musketa Cove), which "I . . . deliver into the actual possession of my [eldest] son Ephraim Carpenter" (PrTR 14:202-3, 17:44, 47, 48, 52 [compare relative amounts with 17:102, 103]). Ephraim3's taxation and receipt of land in these years, however, do not rule out the possibility that he was then a minor. Not until 27 May 1687, when Ephraim Carpenter of Providence sold to Clement King land left to Ephraim by his grandfather, William Carpenter, was he unquestionably 21, the legal age for disposing of property (PrTR 21:33-35; Blackstone 1:451). Based on these considerations, we infer that Ephraim3 had been born by 1666, perhaps by 1663. Logic dictates that we estimate the first marriage of our subject, Ephraim2, as having occurred by the same time.

In a testamentary deed dated 10 Nov. 1670, William Harris calls his daughter Susannah the wife of Ephraim Carpenter (PrTR 14:61). On 1 July 1693, Ephraim--with his then wife Lydia consenting--sold his Musketa Cove lands, including his home-lot (OBTR 2:72-73).

Ephraim is said to have been constable at Oyster Bay from 1681 or 1682 to 1687, but the township's records indicate otherwise (see Austin 36; Carpenter [1901] 315; OBTR 1:240, 253, 264, 265; 2:323, 330, 334). The only occasion on which he was named to a related office was on 2 April 1681, when Caleb Wright was named constable, and Ephraim became deputy constable for the plantation at Musketa Cove (OBTR 1:240-41).

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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Number 4 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901.


31. Timothy Carpenter Not Proven

For descendants see the "other" Timothy Carpenter born 19 Dec 1665 in this
computer record.  See Notes below.
The descendants of Cotleb Zimmerman per James Usher and by 20th century
genealogists differ as to who his parents were.
Timothy as a child in this family is not proven, yet circumstantial evidence
is given by Amos B. Carpenter (1898 Carpenter Memorial) and by Charles L.
Carpenter, Rear Admiral USN Ret. (1976 Records) and the belief of
Raymond George Carpenter, Genealogist of the Carpenter Family.

MARRIAGE: He alledgedly married Mercy Coles, granddaughter of Robert and
Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles and possibly a daughter of John Coles.

Timothy was only 13 when he arrived in America and was too young to purchase
land or participate in municipal affairs.  It appears he engaged in the
cooperage business, in which his grandson, William and his great-grandson,
Seaman, also engaged in.
Timothy was a Quaker or Friend, was not allowed to have any kind of monument
erected to mark his place of burial.  No family plots for burial were allowed,
the dead were interred in rows, without regard to relationship, side by side.
For this reason it is inpossible to find his burial place.
The town records of Hempstead (ajoining north of Oyster Bay), Long Island were
destroyed by fire on the 31st of October 1797.

Of the Cotleb Zimmerman line.
SEE: Genealogical and Historical Record of the Carpenter Family, by James Usher
Page 30 regarding The Carpenter Family of Long Island and NY.

BOOK: See page 12 (for notes) 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.

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Glenn    rlglenn@tds.net
To: John R Carpenter (JRC)
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Carpenter Pedigree

William Denton Carpenter b, Feb 3,1930, at home 8139 Jordan Road, Atlas Twp, Grand Bland,Michigan still living

Joseph Denton Carpenter b May 18, 1904 Genesee County, Burton, Michigan d. Feb. 20, 1990 Midland Michigan buried Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Michigan

Denton Jacob Carpenter  b. May 25 1868 Genesee County, Davison twp. Michigan  d. January 29, 1951, Vassar, Michigan, buried Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Michigan

Jacob Denton Carpenter  b. June 28, 1834, Onondaga County New York d. May 25, 1903, Burton Twp. Flint, Michigan, buried Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Michigan.

William Carpenter Sr.  B. Sept. 16, 1805, Duchess County, Stanford, New York, d. July 13, 1898, Atlas Twp. Goodrich, Michigan, buried Goodrich cemetery, Atlas, Michigan

George Carpenter b. 1757 Duchess County, New York, d 1859 Genesee County Atlas Twp, Goodrich Michigan, buried Goodrich Cemetery, Atlas, Michigan, Grave marked by DAR in 1963, New York Artillery 2nd regiment.

George Carpenter b. August 1726, North Castle Westchester, New York, d. May 27 1811 Duchess County, New York

Timothy Carpenter b. April 1, 1698 Musketa Cove LI, d May 24, 1769 North Castle Westchester New York

Timothy Carpenter b Dec. 19, 1665 Pawtucket R.I. d. New York (these records are the ones we cannot find due to a fire)

Ephraim Carpenter b. 1639  Pawtucket R.I., d 1703 Providence R.I.

William Carpenter b.1610 Amesbury England d. 1685 Rhode Island, Pawtucket


32. Elizabeth Carpenter Not Proven

Elizabeth is not proven as a daughter in this family.
See the other Elizabeth Carpenter born abt 1655 in this record for spouse.
Raymond George Carpenter and others believe she is a daughter of Ephraim BUT...
Ephraim would have been about 15 years old and before any of his marriages.
Elizabeth did exist however and married John, son of Robert Wheaton of
Rehoboth, on Sept. 14, 1674 in Providence.
SOURCE: Records of Marriages in Providence, Rhode Island.
She would fit in as a sister to Ephraim, but she is not found in any known
record to that family.


John Wheaton

MARRIAGE: Source is Providence, RI records of marriage.
SPOUSE; Elizabeth's parentage is uncertain.  Thus the double marriage.

AF:
Husband's Name
John WHEATON (AFN:2JVF-XG)  Pedigree

Born:  20 Apr 1650  Place:  Providence, Providence, Ri
Died:  25 Jul 1737  Place:  Swansea, Bristol Co, Ma
Buried:  Jul 1737  Place:  Swansea, Bristol Co, Ma
Married:  Bef 1679  Place:  Rehoboth, , Mass

Father:  Robert WHEATON (AFN:2JVD-2T)  Family
Mother:  Alice (Elce) (Elinor) BOWEN (AFN:FPW5-LG)

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Wife's Name
Elizabeth CARPENTER (AFN:8NT3-P8)  Pedigree

Born:  Abt 1660  Place:  Rehoboth, Bristol, Ma
Died:  Dead  Place:
Married:  Bef 1679  Place:  Rehoboth, , Mass

Father:
Mother:

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Children

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1.  Sex  Name
M  James WHEATON (AFN:PTPK-14)  Pedigree

Born:  Abt 1682   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma
Died:  6 Sep 1683   Place:

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2.  Sex  Name
M  John WHEATON (AFN:PTPK-4M)  Pedigree

Born:  Abt 1688   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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3.  Sex  Name
M  Joseph WHEATON (AFN:PTPP-H3)  Pedigree

Born:  Abt 1690   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma
Died:  1750/1751   Place:

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4.  Sex  Name
F  Patience WHEATON (AFN:23SP-6N)  Pedigree

Born:  6 Oct 1698   Place:  Rehoboth, , Ma, U.s.a.
Christened:  BAPTIST   Place:

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5.  Sex  Name
M  Isaac WHEATON (AFN:PTPP-P4)  Pedigree

Born:  5 Mar 1694/1695   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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6.  Sex  Name
F  Priscilla WHEATON (AFN:PTPP-DK)  Pedigree

Born:  9 Jun 1684   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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7.  Sex  Name
M  Samuel WHEATON (AFN:FGSW-FT)  Pedigree

Born:  21 Jul 1683   Place:  , Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

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8.  Sex  Name
M  Nathaniel WHEATON (AFN:PTPK-0X)  Pedigree

Born:  25 Jul 1681   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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9.  Sex  Name
F  Mary WHEATON (AFN:PTPP-GW)  Pedigree

Born:  25 Jul 1685   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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10.  Sex  Name
M  John WHEATON (AFN:H0RM-V0)  Pedigree

Born:  23 Aug 1682   Place:  Swansea, New England, America
Died:  20 Feb 1706   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

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11.  Sex  Name
M  Israel WHEATON (AFN:PTPK-60)  Pedigree

Born:  23 Aug 1692   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Ma

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12.  Sex  Name
M  James WHEATON (AFN:8XGQ-21)  Pedigree

Born:  16 Nov 1686   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Mssc
Died:  28 Dec 1742   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Mssc
Buried:  Dec 1742   Place:  Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts


34. Phoebe Carpenter

See father's notes and that of her brother Josiah.


35. Joseph Carpenter

See father's notes and that of his brothers.


5. Priscilla Carpenter

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky in 2009
- For the most up to date version of his notes, see the CHILDREN section at Joseph2 Carpenter.

[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.**]

PRISCILLA2 CARPENTER (William1 of Providence), b. Pawtuxet (Providence) say 1644, d. probably Providence about 15 Nov. 1690; m. Providence (probably Pawtuxet section), 31 May 1670, [her cousin] WILLIAM VINCENT, bp. Amesbury, Wiltshire, 17 June 1638, d. Providence between 21 Dec. 1695 (will) and 1 Feb. 1695/6 (estate inv.), son of Nicholas (not Thomas) and Frideswide (Carpenter) Vincent. William m. (2) before 21 Dec. 1695, JEMIMA ______ (PrTR 5:294, 7:176-79, 20:231-33; RIVR 2:1[Providence]:37; AmParReg 1:n.p; Austin 213-14, 459).

The deed by which William Vincent sold to Timothy Carpenter a quarter share of a meadow lot inherited by William's wife Priscilla from her father, William1 Carpenter, ends with the following: "In Wittness . . . I the said William Vinsent & Priscilla My Wife doe hereunto set our handes & seales this fifteene day of November . . . 1690" (PrTR 6:144, 20:231-33; PrLR 2:95-96). Only William's name is subscribed, however, suggesting that Priscilla had died before she could formally consent to the sale of her legacy.

William Vincent's will, dated 21 Dec. 1695 and proved 3 March 1695/6, names "my wife Jemima" and "my three sonns, Thomas Nicholas & the youngest [William]" (PrTR 7:176-77). D. H. Carpenter claims that Vincent made another will, also dated in 1695 but previous to the official one, naming a son Jonas before the three children listed above (see Carpenter [1901] 321). No such document is found, however. (Perhaps Carpenter viewed both the "original," clerk's copy and the published transcription, misread _Thomas_ as _Jonas_ in the former, and in reviewing his notes, concluded that the two copies were of separate origin.)

In a deed of 64 acres to William Vincent, dated 5 Feb. 1661[/2?], William Carpenter calls Vincent his "Cousen" (i.e., nephew) (PrTR 1:82-83, 21:86).

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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Number 7 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901. Alternate marriage date: 31 May 1670.


William Vincent

SEE: Vincent Genealogy from Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island.  Page 213.
Christened Date is 17 June 1638 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.  D. 1695
Married 31 May 1670 to Priscilla Carpenter.  This maybe the correct date.
Married second to a Jemima.   He had three children, Thomas, Nicholas and
William.  He was a cooper by trade.
SEE: Austin, "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island," p 213, 114. William
Vincent m. 31 May 1670 to Priscilla Carpenter, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter.  "His mother was Fridgswith, sister of
William Carpenter, of Providence, and perhaps she sent over her children
William and Joan to the care of their uncle in America."
1680: His sister Joan married John Sheldon.  1671, Dec. 14.  His mother
Fridgswith Vincent, of Amesbury (Wiltshire, Eng.) had a deed from her
brother William Carpenter of Providence, of a house in Frog Lane, Amesbury,
the same being a free gift to her from her brother.
SEE: The American Genealogist, v. 20, p. 118, Corrections to Austin: 17 Jun
1638, birth of William Vincent, Amesbury, son of Thomas and Fridgsewith
Vincent.  His mother was a sister of William Carpenter of Providence.

BIRTH: 17 Jan 1638 in AF and 17 June 1638 in other records.
NOTE: He was of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He NOT born in Nettlecomb, Somerset, England

MARRIAGE: As noted below in full is: "... WILLIAM, New London, had
prob. liv. at Gloucester, there m. Rachel, d. of William Varney; did not
improve the grant made him at N. L. in 1651, but was of Providence in
May 1666, when he engag. his alleg. to Charles II. and m. 31 May
1670, Priscilla, d. of William Carpenter, perhaps as sec. w. and by a
former one may have had Joanna wh. m. John Sheldon."

E-MAIL: From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] Re: Vincents
> << WILLIAM, New London, had prob. liv. at Gloucester, there m. Rachel, d. of
> William Varney; did not improve the grant made him at N. L. in 1651, but was
> of Providence in May 1666, when he engag. his alleg. to Charles II. and m. 31
> May 1670, Priscilla, d. of William Carpenter, perhaps as sec. w. and by a
> former one may have had Joanna wh. m. John Sheldon. It hardly seems possib.
> however, with every readiness to acknowl. the migrat. habits of our people,
> even in the earliest days, to admit this man to be the same as preced. >>
>
> Savage does well to express doubt that William Vincent of Providence was the
> same man as he of Gloucester.  Baptized at Amesbury in 1638, Providence
> William was too young to have been the man of Gloucester (and/or New London).
>  Joanna (Vincent) Sheldon has been identified as Providence William Vincent's
> sister.
>
> Gene Z.

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; VINCENT, ADRIAN, a passeng. in the Mary and John from London
1634, but we hear no more of him.  HUMPHREY, Cambridge 1634, rem.
to Ipswich bef. 1638, when he had gr. of ld. d. 3 Dec. 1664, seems, by
his will, to have left no fam. nor much est. * JOHN, Lynn, rem. to
Sandwich at its early settlem. was liv. there 1663, rep in 1639 and six
yrs. aft.  JOHN, New Haven 1639, had Hannah, bapt. 28 Mar. 1647;
and John, 8 Oct. 1648; d. 1659, leav. w. Rebecca wh. d. 1679, in her
will of 23 Jan. 1677, gives to childr. of d. Hannah, w. of Ebenezer Brown,
all her est. so that we may conclude that John d. young.  NICHOLAS,
Manchester 1679, was b. a. 1612.  PHILIP, a gent. of anc. fam. b. at
Frisby, near Coningsborough in the S. of Yorksh. bred at Peterhouse,
Cambridge Univ. was s. of Richard of Elizabeth d. of Thomas Rokeby, a
fam. of distinct. in that Co. bapt. 23 Nov. 1600.  His f. mo. and sis.
Jane, all d. June 1617.  Aft. ordin. he was present. to a living in
Surrey, wh. he resign. Aug. 1629, and aft. the d. of his w. next yr.
went upon travels in various and distant countries, visit. Guiana, but
came to N. E. when the Pequot war had begun, seems to have partaken
in active serv. and aft. its terminat. went home, and publ. at London
1638, "The true relat. of the late battle fought in N. E. betw. the Eng.
[[374]]
and the Pequot salvages" of wh. reprint. may be seen in 3 Mass. Hist.
Coll. VI. 29. Biogr. notice of him, writ. with admir. felicity of research,
by Rev. Joseph Hunter, is giv. in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 86.  WILLIAM,
Salem, with w. whose name is not found, join. the ch. 1650, but as Felt
I. 176 makes him to be a freem. aft. 1635, I cannot doubt that the sound
and spelling Vincen, justify my calling him Vinson, as below.  But the
adm. as freem. was on 10 May 1643.  WILLIAM, New London, had
prob. liv. at Gloucester, there m. Rachel, d. of William Varney; did not
improve the grant made him at N. L. in 1651, but was of Providence in
May 1666, when he engag. his alleg. to Charles II. and m. 31 May
1670, Priscilla, d. of William Carpenter, perhaps as sec. w. and by a
former one may have had Joanna wh. m. John Sheldon.  It hardly
seems possib. however, with every readiness to acknowl. the migrat.
habits of our people, even in the earliest days, to admit this man to be
the same as preced.

E-MAIL: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 From: "John L. Carpenter"
To: "john R. Carpenter"
John,
Would you like what I have from William Vincent and Priscilla Carpenter on
down?  If so, here it is, attached.  If you don't want it, just delete it.
It goes to my father, David Vincent Robison and his sister, Daphne Ann.
Daddy doesn't care if he's published or not and Daph is deceased.
Thanks again, John!!! Jan
Descendants of William Vincent
Generation No. 1
1.  WILLIAM2 VINCENT  (THOMAS (SHOULD BE NICHOLAS)  NICHOLAS1)1 was born June 17, 1638 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, and died January 1695/96 in Rhode Island.  He married
PRISCILLA CARPENTER2,3,4 May 31, 1670 in Somersetshire, England.  She was born
1648 in Warwick, RI5,6, and died 1691 in RI7,8.
Notes for WILLIAM VINCENT:
From: CLARK1528@aol.com
Date: 10 August, 1999 8:34 AM
>From Austin, "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island,"  p 213, 114. William
Vincent m. 31 May 1670 to Priscilla Carpenter, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Arnold) Carpenter.  "His mother was Fridgswith, sister of William
Carpenter, of Providence, and perhaps she sent over her children William and
Joan to the care of their uncle in America."  1680:  His sister Joan married
John Sheldon.  1671, Dec. 14.  His mother Fridgswith Vincent, of Amesbury
(Wiltshire, Eng.) had a deed from her brother William Carpenter of
Providence, of a house in Frog Lane, Amesbury, the same being a free gift to
her from her brother.
>From The American Genealogist, v. 20, p. 118, Corrections to Austin:  17 Jun
1638, birth of William Vincent, Amesbury, son of Thomas and Fridgsewith
Vincent.  His mother was a sister of William Carpenter of Providence.
More About WILLIAM VINCENT:
Fact 1: December 21, 1695, Will drawn
Fact 2: March 03, 1695/96, Will proved
Children of WILLIAM VINCENT and PRISCILLA CARPENTER are:
2.
i.
NICHOLAS3 VINCENT, b. Bet. 1680 - 1690, Providence, RI; d. 1749.
3.
ii.
THOMAS VINCENT.

iii.
WILLIAM VINCENT, b. Bef. 1695; m. ELIZABETH BENNETT, October 22, 1724, Warwick,
RI.
iv.
JONAS? VINCENT.
Generation No. 2
2.  NICHOLAS3 VINCENT (WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1) was born Bet. 1680 - 1690 in
Providence, RI, and died 1749.  He married ELIZABETH REYNOLDS Abt. 1721.
More About NICHOLAS VINCENT:
Fact 1: Res. Westerly, RI
Fact 2: Cordwainer
Fact 3: April 24, 1749, Will Proved
Children of NICHOLAS VINCENT and ELIZABETH REYNOLDS are:
4.
i.
WILLIAM4 VINCENT, b. March 31, 1729, Westerly, RI; d. July 19, 1807.
ii.
NICHOLAS VINCENT, b. 1722; m. MARY EARLE.
More About NICHOLAS VINCENT:
Fact 1: Settled on Blackstone Rive, Hoosick, NY
iii.
ELIZABETH VINCENT, b. Westerly, RI; m. OLIVER LEWIS, August 02, 1781.
More About OLIVER LEWIS:
Fact 1: Capt.
iv.
JEMIMA VINCENT, m. WILLIAM CLARK, November 13, 1749, Westerly, RI.
v.
MARY VINCENT, b. February 20, 1754; m. EPHRIAM BACON.
vi.
MERCY VINCENT, m. ELISHA FREEMAN.
vii.
HANNAH VINCENT, m. ELIJAH HINCKLEY.
viii.
JOSEPH VINCENT, m. ANNE DUNBAR.
5.
ix.
DEBORAH VINCENT.
x.
JOSHUA VINCENT.
3.  THOMAS3 VINCENT (WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1)  He married (1) SARAH SMITH
February 14, 1745/46 in Gloucester, RI.    He married (2) MARTHA SHELDON April
01, 1750.
Children of THOMAS VINCENT and MARTHA SHELDON are:
i.
LABAN4 VINCENT, b. November 30, 1750.
ii.
SARAH VINCENT, b. June 10, 1752.
iii.
MARY VINCENT, b. December 12, 1754.
iv.
MARTHA VINCENT, b. December 24, 1756.
Generation No. 3
4.  WILLIAM4 VINCENT (NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1) was born March 31,
1729 in Westerly, RI, and died July 19, 1807.  He married ZERVIAH RUDD June 22,
1758.  She was born in Norwich, CT.
More About WILLIAM VINCENT:
Fact 1: Surgeon during Revolutionary War
Fact 2: Patriot Index pg. 706
Children of WILLIAM VINCENT and ZERVIAH RUDD are:
6.
i.
JOSHUA5 VINCENT, b. September 11, 1762, Westerly, RI.
ii.
SUSANNAH VINCENT, b. November 12, 1760; m. (1) BENJAMIN GARDNER; m. (2) NATHAN
BRAND, October 24, 1779.
7.
iii.
WILLIAM VINCENT, b. March 31, 1764; d. March 16, 1854.
iv.
JEREMIAH VINCENT, b. 1776, Westerly, RI.
v.
NICHOLAS VINCENT, b. January 22, 1768, Westerly, RI; m. WILLIE HALMINA, 1803.
vi.
SALLY VINCENT, b. March 08, 1770; m. JOSIAH GREENE, Westerly, RI; b. 1776,
Westerly, RI.
vii.
JOSEPH VINCENT, b. April 19, 1772.
viii.
BETSY VINCENT, b. 1776.
ix.
ZERVIAH VINCENT, b. 1776.
x.
THOMAS VINCENT, b. July 28, 1781; m. POLLY CROME.
5.  DEBORAH4 VINCENT (NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1)  She married
NICHOLAS GARDNER October 19, 1762 in Exeter, RI.
Children of DEBORAH VINCENT and NICHOLAS GARDNER are:
i.
HONOR5 GARDNER, b. January 03, 1763.
ii.
VINCENT GARDNER, b. December 09, 1764.
iii.
ELIZABETH GARDNER, b. April 10, 1767.
iv.
NICHOLAS GARDNER, b. August 11, 1769.
v.
BERIAH GARDNER, b. November 16, 1771.
vi.
WILLETT GARDNER, b. February 13, 1774.
vii.
ELIZABETH GARDNER, b. October 06, 1776.
viii.
BENJAMIN CHAMPLIN GARDNER, b. April 27, 1779.
Generation No. 4
6.  JOSHUA5 VINCENT (WILLIAM4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1) was born
September 11, 1762 in Westerly, RI.  He married ELEANOR MAXON.
Children of JOSHUA VINCENT and ELEANOR MAXON are:
i.
DAVID6 VINCENT, b. March 06, 1798, Petersburg, NY; d. 1866; m. FREEGIFT
SAUNDERS, November 14, 1819; b. April 09, 1799; d. Almond, NY.
More About DAVID VINCENT:
Fact 1: Buried at three family cemetery on old turnpike Rd.
Fact 2: from Almond NY to W. Almond
More About FREEGIFT SAUNDERS:
Fact 1: Died of stdroke on Sabbath morning
ii.
AMELIA VINCENT.
iii.
JOSHUA VINCENT.
iv.
ZERVIAH VINCENT.
7.  WILLIAM5 VINCENT (WILLIAM4, NICHOLAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS NICHOLAS1) was born
March 31, 1764, and died March 16, 1854.  He married JOANNA FRINK.
Child of WILLIAM VINCENT and JOANNA FRINK is:
i.
EZRA6 VINCENT.
Endnotes
1.  American Genealogist V 20, pg 118.
2.  Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Tree # 1018,
(Release date: December 11, 1997), "CD-ROM."
3.  John Osborne Austin, Genealogy Dictionary of Rhode Island,  (1978), Pg 214
, 114.
4.  American Genealogist V 20, pg 118, Corrections to Austin's correction to
birth of Wm Vincent.
5.  TITLE.
6.  Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Tree # 1018,
(Release date: December 11, 1997), "CD-ROM."
7.  TITLE.
8.  Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Tree # 1018,
(Release date: December 11, 1997), "CD-ROM."


37. Thomas Vincent

Thomas Vincent was living in Providence in 1722 and being made a Freeman in that year, but nothing further appears.


38. Nicholas Vincent

WILL:  SEE:
http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/getwill.php?id=23106


6. Timothy Carpenter

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.**]

TIMOTHY2 CARPENTER (William1 of Providence), b. Pawtuxet (Providence) say 1646, d. Pawtuxet (Providence) 19 August 1726; m. probably Providence 1670-1671, HANNAH BURTON, d. probably Pawtuxet (Providence) before 1 Dec. 1724 (not mentioned in husband's will), dau. of William and Hannah (Wickes) Burton (RIVR 2:1[Providence]:263; PrTR 7:170-73; WarTR 19, 140; PrPR 3:3-6; Austin 36, 266, 268, 420-21).

Timothy's three eldest siblings were minors when they witnessed a deed to their father on 9 Feb. 1657[/8?] (PrTR 80-81). Had Timothy then been at least 14 (the legal minimum age for witnessing documents), he, as a male, almost certainly would have replaced his sister Lydia in attesting to the document's legitimacy (see William1 of Providence notes, IMMIGRATION, par. 4, above). Timothy fails to appear on Providence freemen's lists (the last dated in 1669) and was not among that township's householders who swore allegiance to the king between 31 May 1666 and 29 April 1670 (PrTR 3:101-2; 15:104-5). He evidently became a householder sometime between the latter date and the last Monday in May 1671, when he (along with his brothers Silas and Benjamin and 20 other young men) affirmed his loyalty to the crown (see PrTR 3:199-200). That Timothy appears first in all documents in which he and his brothers Silas and Benjamin are named in succession (including their father's will and codicil) implies that he was older than they (PrTR 4:21-22, 5:115-16, 201-2, 6:141, 142, 143, 147, 21:33).

In his will, dated 30 (not 20) March 1703, William Burton mentions daughters Hannah Carpenter and Ethlannah Clarke (PrTR 7:170-72). In Timothy Carpenter's will, dated 1 Dec. 1724 and proved 19 Sept. 1726, he names daughters Ethalannah Sweet and Hannah Arnold among his legatees (PrPR 3:3-5; Austin 36).

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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Number 5 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.


41. William Carpenter

He was not married.   He drowned in the Pawtuxet Falls (River).
Number 1855 in the Carpenter Family in America, 1912 Book.


42. Ethalanah Carpenter

NAME: Ethalanah or Ethaleanah.  (Elkalannah per Usher as a male name?)
DEATH: There is over a 100 years between birth and death.  Death date probably belongs to a descendant.
Number 1851 in the Carpenter Family in america, 1912 Book.


7. Silas Carpenter

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.**]

SILAS2 CARPENTER (twin?) (William1 of Providence), b. Pawtuxet (Providence) ca. 1650-1651 (24 in 1675), d. Pawtuxet (Providence) 25 Dec. 1695 (leaving 4 children, all minors); m. probably Pawtuxet (Providence) say 1685-1688, his cousin SARAH ARNOLD, b. 26 June 1665, d. Pawtuxet (Providence), widow, 22 April 1742 (not 26 Nov. 1727), dau. of Stephen and Sarah (Smith) Arnold (PrTR 6:156-59, 194-209, 7:157-59, 10:61-62, 15:146; RIVR 2:1[Providence]:7, 209, 263). For evidence suggesting that Silas and his brother Benjamin were twins, see the latter's listing below.

Silas was a householder--though not necessarily 21 and evidently not married--when he made oath of his fidelity to the king on the last Monday in May 1671 (PrTR 3:199-200, 15:104-5 ["all hovse hovlderes inhabiting this Colloney take the : oath of allegiance . . . March : 4th : 1664"]). In a deposition taken on 28 April 1675 (not in 1674, as per D. H. Carpenter), Silas describes himself as aged 24 (PrTR 15:146; see also Carpenter [1901] 30n). He was admitted a Rhode Island freeman on 3 May 1681 (RICR 3:98). Despite D. H. Carpenter's claim that both the aforementioned deposition and Silas's gravestone give his birth year as 1650, the former simply has his age in 1675, and the latter's location, let alone inscription, is unknown (see Carpenter [1901] 30n; no mention of gravestone at 322-23 [Silas's detail pages]).

In his will, dated 22 Dec. 1695 (three days before his death) and belatedly presented for probate by widow Sarah on 8 April 1701, Silas calls Stephen Arnold his father-in-law (PrTR 6:157, 7:157-58, 10:61-62). Stephen Arnold's will, dated 2 June 1698, mentions daughter Sarah Carpenter (PrTR 6:205, 206, 210). D. H. Carpenter gives Sarah's date of death as 26 Nov. 1727 (see Carpenter [1901] 323). This, however, was another Sarah (Arnold) Carpenter: the daughter of Israel and Mary (Barker) (Smith) Arnold, she had married Silas's namesake son on 21 Dec. 1708 (RIVR 2:1[Providence]:7; PrBMD, citing PrVR 1:86, 434).

[Gene Zubrinsky's notes end here.]

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Number 8 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H. Carpenter, 1901.  A disposition made in 1674 gives his birth date as 1650, as does his gravestone.  See page 322 also.


Sarah Arnold

AFN GN3F-75 Sarah Arnold (d. 26 Nov 1727) and AFN SCZ1-0P Sarah Austin
(d. 1701) are apparently the same person with the same birth dates.
She was living in Providence, as a widow on 5 Oct. 1745.


8. Benjamin Carpenter

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

Number 9 in the book "The Carpenter Family in America" by Daniel H.
Carpenter, 1901. He was a prominent citizen; member of the town council
1693-99, and his name is frequently on the town records.  He held various
positions of trust and left a large estate.

SEE: Rosmary E. Bachelor (Ed.), The Epistle, Vol. 6, No. 3 (March, 1980)
and No. 4 (May 1980).
SEE: History of Northern New York. Page 298.
Submitted by "Ken Warkentin" on 29 June 1999.


Mary Tillinghast

MARRIAGE: As noted below: "Mary m. one of the numerous Carpenters at Pautuxet, prob. a. s. of William ..."

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;
TILLINGHAST, BENJAMIN, Providence, s. prob. youngest of the first
Pardon, had three ds. of whose dates I hear nothing, nor names; but it
is said that they m. Solomon Drown, Edward Kinnicutt, and Christopher
Arnold, respective.  JOHN, Providence, of whose descent I am ign.
had perhaps other ch. beside Mary, b. a. 1689, wh. m. 2 Nov. 1709,
Richard Ward. JOSEPH, Providence, br. of Benjamin, by first w. had
Paris; and by sec. w. Lydia, had Elizabeth; Samuel; Nicholas, b. 26 May
1726; and Daniel; to ea. of wh. I would gladly give dates.  PARDON,
Providence, b. a. 1622, it is said, near Beach Head on the coast of
Sussex, was sett. as Bapt. min. 1645.  See Benedict, Hist. I. 478.  He
built at his own exp. the first meeting-ho. and gave it to the soc. in 1711,
with the lot it stood on; and d. 29 Jan. 1718.  By his sec. w. Lydia,
prob. d. of Philip Tabor of Tiverton, he had Pardon; Philip; Joseph, b.
1677; Benjamin; Mary; Abigail; Mercy, b. a. 1679; Hannah; and
Elizabeth  He d. 29 Jan. 1718; but he had three ch. by a former w. whose
names are unkn.  Mary m. one of the numerous Carpenters at Pautuxet,
prob. a. s. of William; Abigail m. Nicholas Sheldon; Mercy m. the third
Nicholas Power, as his sec. w. had nine ch. and d. 13 Nov. 1769, aged
91; Hannah m. a Hale of Swanzey; and Elizabeth m. a Tabor of New
London.  He is, I believe, founder of a long line, eight of wh. had, says
Farmer, been gr. at Brown Univ. in 1834.  PARDON, Providence, s. of
the preced. rem. to East Greenwich, and had John, Joseph, and Philip,
beside one d. Mercy, w. of Peter Mawney, as from his will is learn.
This docum. names a great many gr.ch.  PHILIP, Providence, br. of the
preced. was prob. the soldier in GallopÕs comp. 1690,  m. 3 May 1692,
Martha Holmes, prob. a gr.d. of persecut. Obadiah,
[[304]]
had Charles, b. 5 Mar. 1693; Philip, 9 Aug. 1694; John, 4 Apr.
1696; Jonathan, 18 Sept. 1698; Martha, 20 Dec. 1699; Pardon, 15
Dec. 1701; Obadiah, 2 Dec. 1703, d. young; Joseph, 18 Mar. 1706, d.
at 18 yrs.; Lydia, 16 Oct. 1708; Sarah, 5 Mar. 1710; perhaps Samuel,
1711; Ann, 13 Apr. 1713; William, 22 Jan. 1715; Elisha, 29 Aug.
1716; and Mary, 16 Feb. 1718.


52. Mary or Mercy Carpenter

MARRIAGE: See "The Epistle", Vol. 6, No. 3 (March 1980), and No. 4 (May,
1980).


Joseph Williams

NAME: In one record last name is "Blackman".