William CARPENTER

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William married Mary PALMER on 20 Aug 1722 in Warlberton, Sussex, England. Mary was born about 1700 in Brighton, Sussex, England; died about 1776 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William CARPENTER was born in 1732 in West Wittering, Sussex, England; died about 1765 in West Wittering, Sussex, England.

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Henry married Mary CROSS on 6 Jul 1697 in West Wittering, Sussex, England. Mary was born in 1678 in Sussex, England; died on 22 Apr 1716 in West Wittering, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Robbert CARPENDER
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• Arrival: 1638, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• Freeman: 1640, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1644, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Removed from Weymouth
• Inventory of Estate: 21 Feb 1659, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America
• Will Proved: 21 Apr 1659, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America

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http://www.carpentercousins.com/carplink.htm
PLEASE DO NOT MERGE him with William Carpenter born about 1610 in Wiltshire. The Rehoboth, Massachusetts & Providence, Rhode Island lines are distinctly different genealogically and genetically, which is proven by a genetic study and genealogical research.

This William was born about 1605, probably near the confluence of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire Counties. No exact date of his birth in primary sources has been found. Some sources indicate 16 May 1605, or 23 May 1605, but these dates are known and proven fabrications.

He was the son of William Carpenter of the Wiltshire portion of Shalbourne parish. His mother may have been the Alice Carpenter buried at Shalbourne on 25 January 1638. His father, William Carpenter, aged 62, was listed as a passenger on the "Bevis" in 1638, but he may have died during the voyage or shortly afterward. Certainly after 2 May 1638, when his name was recorded on the ship's passenger log. He married Abigail Briant at St. Michael's and All Angels Church, then in the Berkshire section of Shalbourne, England, on 28 April 1625.

Both William and Abigail, along with four minor children and his father William, arrived in 1638 on the "Bevis." They were at Weymouth, Massachusetts, by 1640, and Rehoboth, Plymouth, by 1645.

From Wikipedia "Rehoboth Carpenter Family"
The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter (Gen. 1) (born about 1575 in England). With his namesake son, William Carpenter (Generation 2) (born about 1605 in England, and died in 1659 at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony) and the son's wife and children (then numbering four), he arrived on the Bevis from Southampton, England, in 1638. Nothing more is known of the father, William (Gen. 1), in Massachusetts, and he is presumed to have perished either in passage, shortly after arriving in the new world, or, less likely, he returned to England.

William Carpenter (Gen. 2) is buried in the Newman Congregational Church Cemetery with a simple fieldstone marked with a "W. C.". He first appears in New England records in 1640, as a resident of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was among the founders (at Weymouth in late 1643) of the Plymouth Colony town of Rehoboth (settled 1644). His son, William (Gen. 3) Carpenter (born 1631 in England, and died in 1702/3 at Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts), was for many years the Rehoboth town clerk, by virtue of which his name? not that of his father? appears with some frequency in Plymouth Colony records, in association with a number of local vital-records lists that he certified and forwarded to Colony authorities. The name William Carpenter appears in copious Plymouth Colony records and in the writings of John Winthrop and in other public records over the generations.

William Carpenter, son of William Carpenter of Shalborough, was born in 1605, in England, and there married Abigail. On coming to America, he first settled in Weymouth, where he became a freeman in 1640. He was a representative from Weymouth in 1641 and 1643, and from Rehoboth in 1645, having been admitted an inhabitant of the latter town in 1645. He was also made a freeman in that same year. From 1643 to 1649, he served as proprietors' and town clerk. He died on 7 February 1659, in Rehoboth, Plymouth; his widow, Abigail, died on 22 February 1687. Five of their eight children were born in England, and the last three in Weymouth; they were: John, born about 1626; Abigail, 31 May 1629; William, 22 November 1631; Joseph, 6 April 1634; Samuel, 20 April 1637 (died 5 May 1637); Samuel, 3 April 1638; Hannah, 3 April 1640; and Abiah, 9 April 1643.

Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families Vol 2 by J.H. Beers & Co

William married Abigail BRIANT on 28 Apr 1625 in St. Michaels And All Angels Church, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England. Abigail (daughter of John BRIANT and Alice SANGER) was born on 27 May 1604 in Shalbourne, Berkshire, England; was christened on 27 May 1604 in Shalbourne, Berkshire, England; died on 22 Feb 1687 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in 1687 in Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1638, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; On the Bevis with husband William, his father, and 4 children

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HER SURNAME IS NOT BENNETT OR SEARLES.
SOME CONTEMPORARY SOURCES DISPUTE BRIANT/BRYANT. PLEASE READ HUSBAND WILLIAM'S LIFE SKETCH. HER MAIDEN NAME IS BRIANT. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE IT.

For more on Abigail's surname, see www.wikitree.com/wiki/Briant-35

She was baptized 27 May 1604 at St.Michael's and All Angels Church, then in the Berkshire section of Shalbourne, England, the daughter of John Briant and Alice ____ Briant.

Some older sources give Abigail's maiden name as Bennett or Searles. The first represents unwarranted linkage to a Bennett family of Sway, Hampshire, and the second reflects apparent confusion with the maiden name of William Carpenter Jr's second wife, Miriam Sale(s).

She married William Carpenter at St.Michael's and All Angels Church, then in the Berkshire section of Shalbourne, England, on 28 April 1625. The family resided in the Wiltshire section of Shalbourne.

She and her husband arrived in New England on the "Bevis" in 1638, settling first at Weymouth, Massachusetts, and then, by 1645, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Abigail was buried in the Newman Cemetery in Old Rehoboth (now East Providence, Rhode Island) on 22 February 1687.

Their children: John Carpenter, Abigail Carpenter Titus Palmer, William Carpenter, Joseph Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter, Hannah Carpenter Carpenter, and Abiah Carpenter.