William CARPENTER

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William appeared in the will of his grandfather and by the advice of his family, in Deed on 2 September 1674, his estate at Providence, Rhode Island, he sold to his Uncle Stephen Arnold.

In the DH Carpenter's book on the R.I.Branch
"William acted as one of the proprietors after the death of his brother Joseph until 1706 when his nephew Joseph reached legal age. The Town Records shows very clearly that he was a large land owner and prominent in the affairs of the plantation.
He was a blacksmith by trade, and had his homestead and shop in that part of town known as "Duck Pond." He sold this property in 1720, and probably moved to Westchester county, though he still had landed interests at Musketa Cove as late as 1734."
William Carpenter was born about 1662/1666 in Pawtuxet, Bristol, RI. He died 2 February 1749 in NY. Number 13 in the book "The Carpenter Family" by Daniel H Carpenter. Pg 66

William married Elizabeth MUDGE in Jamaica, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America. Elizabeth (daughter of Moses MUDGE and Mary STEELE) was born in 1675 in Nassau, Richmond, New York Colony, British Colonial America; died in 1742 in Nassau, Richmond, New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes below by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky
Ojai, California, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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Joseph married Hannah CARPENTER on 25 Nov 1655 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Hannah (daughter of William CARPENTER and Abigail BRIANT) was born on 3 Apr 1640 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; died about Jun 1673 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York; was buried in 1673 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: ; Shoemaker

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Moses and Micah Mudge were the two sons of Jarvis Mudge. Their dates of birth and the name of their mother is contested.
Accoridng to one popular theory, recounted by a couple of 19th century family genalogies, there were both born to Rebecca [unknown] between the time of her marriage to Jarvis in 1649 and Jarvis's death in 1653. This theory is challenged by three facts: a) Moses and Micah were not mentioned in Hartford court documents recording the conviction and execution for witchcraft of Rebecca and Nathaniel Greensmith -- only the names of Rebecca's 2 daughters by her first marriage to Abraham Elsing; b) A 1681 document recorded by an Oyster Bay court (see source for that year) says that Moses was 41 years old at the time -- giving him a birth year 9 years before Jarvis married Rebecca; c) From the will of George Steele, Moses and Micah appear to have been his grandchildren -- but there is no source to suggest that George Steele had a daughter named Rebecca.

For these reasons, the theory which is now favored by genealogists is that Moses and Mican where children from a previous marriage of Jarvis Mudge -- to Mary Steele. This theory overlooks a) the likelihood that Rebecca's relatives would not want to be mentioned in court documents and might thus make alternative arrangements for raising Moses and Micah; b) 19th centry genealogies suggest that Moses and Mican were born to Rebecca in 1650 and 1652 respectively.
p entd. in Oyster Bay about 1729.

Moses Mudge lived his adult life in Oyster Bay, New Yorrk. His name appears numberous times in Oyster Bay town records (see source for 1681). One 19th century genealogical history says that he appeared as a witness in 1664. This sources is sometime cited as documentaiton of his age of 13 at the time. A 13 year old witness? Until that source can be reviewed, it seems best to assume that the source itself makes no mention of his age or year of birth (that these were presumed by the 19th century author).

Moses was a shoemaker. Feb. 19, 1690. He was commissioned Lieutenant of Oyster Bay Company, Queens Co.

He m. Mary--, 1671.

Their children were :

1. Jarvis, b. 1672: m. Jane --.

2. William m. Ann Coles.

8. Jane was single In July 1741.

4. Elizabeth, m. John Dusenberry.

6. Mary, m. Waite Powell.
Sources

* Alfred Mudge, Memorials: a genealogical account of the name of Mudge in America (1868) (Boston, Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868), OpenLibrary.org, pages 47-48.

Moses married Mary STEELE. Mary (daughter of George STEELE and Margery SORRELL) was born in 1655 in Nassau, Richmond, New York Colony, British Colonial America; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Mudge formerly Steele
Born 7 May 1620 in Fairstead, Essex, Englandmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of George Steele and Margery (Sorrell) Steele
Sister of Richard Steele, Margery Steele, John Steele, John Steele, James Steele, Elizabeth (Steele) Watts and Sarah Steele
Wife of Jarvis Mudge ? married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Moses Mudge, Martha (Mudge) Henryson and Micah Mudge
Died before Dec 1649 [location unknown]
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Mary Steele was bp. Fairstead 7 May 1620, d/o George Steele. Generally it has been accepted that there was no further record of Mary Steele.[1]

A 2006 article[2] names Mary as the probable Steele daughter who married Jarvis Mudge. Daughter Margery (bpt. 1612) would be the other choice but chronologically Mary fits better.

An alternate explanation is that the George Steele daughter who married Jarvis Mudge was Rebecca, relict of Abraham Elsen, later married to Nathaniel Greensmith, except that George Steele did not mention a daughter Rebecca in his will.

Martha Hannison was called granddaughter and Micah and Moses Mudge were named in George Steele's 1663 will, but a relationship was not named for the boys. The boys place in the will indicates they may also be grandchildren. It was speculated that Hannison was the married name of the granddaughter Martha.[3]

An entry in the Journal of John Winthrop Jr.: "1 Jan 1668/9 Hinderson Eliz 6 y: daught of Hinderso[n] Scotchma[n] at 30 mile Iland hath constant looseness married Mary Mudge her sister kinswoma[n] of serg:Wat[s] wife ... "[4] We know that Sgt Watt's wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of George Steele. Elizabeth Hinderson was the daughter of John Henryson and Martha his wife, leading to the conclusion that Mary Mudge and Martha Henryson were sisters.[2]

Mary died before Dec 1649 when it is known that Jarvis had remarried the widow of Abraham Elsen.[2]

Children of Jarvis Mudge and [Mary?] (Steele) Mudge -- order uncertain:[2]

Moses Mudge b. c 1640 (aged 41 years or thereabouts on 7 Feb 1680/1; died about 1694 or 1695; m 1668 Elizabeth Weeden. 22 Jan 1683 Moses Mudge of Oyster Bay, "son and heir of Jarvis Mudge sometime of New London," conveyed his New London land to Christopher Christophers.
Martha Mudge b. say 1642 (estimate based on age 21 at birth of first child. She m. by 20 Mar 1661/2 John Henryson. She was grandchild of George Steele in 1663; sister of Mary Mudge in Jan 1668/9" and "cousen" [niece] of widow Elizabeth (Steele) Watts in 1685.
Micah Mudge b. say 1645 (estimate based on age 25 at marriage) d. "aged" between 17 March 1720/1 (will) and 14 Sep 1724 (inventory); m. Mary Alexander. May 1696, May 1697 and June 1709, Micah Mudge of Lebanon gave deeds to the land of "my father Jarvis Mudge deceased" to two men from New London.
Mary Mudge, b. say 1657 "1 Jan 1668/9 Hinderson Eliz 6 y: daught of Hinderso[n] Scotchma[n] at 30 mile Iland hath constant looseness married Mary Mudge her sister kinswoma[n] of serg:Wat[s] wife ..."
Sources
? Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). p. 1754+ Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
? 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Harris, Gale Ion. "Jarvis Mudge and John Henryson Families of Connecticut. The American Genealogist 81:18-30 (2006)
? Manwaring, Charles William. A digest of the early Connecticut probate records Vol 1 1635-1700 (Hartford, Conn. : R.S. Peck & co.. printers, 1904) p. 239
? Harris: TAG81 citing Winthrop Medical records 861

Massachusetts Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790 - 1890.

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• Probate: 21 Apr 1639, Rehobeth, Bristol, Massachusetts,

William married Elizabeth ARNOLD on 1 Nov 1635 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of William ARNOLD and Christian PEAKE) was born on 23 Nov 1611 in Ilchester, Somerset, England; died on 7 Sep 1685 in Pawtuxet, Warwick, Rhode Island, British Colonial America; was buried on 7 Sep 1685 in Mineral Spring Cemetery, Pawtucket, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daughter of William Arnold and Christian Peake Arnold.

Her memorial in Mineral Spring Cemetery is a cenotaph commemorating her along with her brothers Stephen and Benedict Arnold. (He is not the same Benedict that is known as a traitor of America. Her brother Benedict succeeded Roger Williams, founder of RI, as president of the colony, becoming Govenor in 1644 under the charter granted by King Charles II. Roger Williams' family and Benedict were also related by marriage.)

The Sep 7,1685 death date on her cenotaphic memorial is actually the date of death of her husband William Carpenter. Neither her death date nor place of burial is known, and she may have outlived her husband, having been named in his will of Feb 10,1679/80. (He wrote a codicil at the death of his son in 1683/4, so lack of a further codicil suggests the possibility she may have outlived him.) She and her husband were almost certainly buried on their homestead, located in present-day Cranston,RI.

Children: Joseph Carpenter, Lydia Carpenter Smith, Ephraim Carpenter, Priscilla Carpenter Vincent, William Carpenter, Timothy Carpenter, Silas Carpenter, and Benjamin Carpenter.

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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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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.

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Jarvis married Rebecca STEELE. Rebecca was born in 1629 in Devon, England; died on 25 Jan 1663 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; was buried on 25 Jan 1663 in Gallows Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married Margery SORRELL. Margery was born about 1590 in Essex, England; died on 25 May 1653 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried on 24 May 1663 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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