Joseph Arnold CARPENTER b. 1638 Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America d. 1683 Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York Colony, British Colonial America: Our Family History

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Name	Joseph Arnold CARPENTER [1]
Born	1638	Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America [1]
Gender	Male
FamilySearch ID	LTM9-B1V
Died	1683	Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York Colony, British Colonial America [1]
Buried	Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island [1]
Person ID	I594765684	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

Father	William CARPENTER, b. 23 May 1605, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England , d. 7 Sep 1685, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America (Age 80 years)
Mother	Elizabeth ARNOLD, b. 23 Nov 1611, Ilchester, Somerset, England , d. 7 Sep 1685, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Rhode Island, British Colonial America (Age 73 years)
Married	1 Nov 1635	Amesbury, Wiltshire, England [2]
Family ID	F536728800	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Hannah CARPENTER, b. 3 Apr 1640, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America , d. Abt Jun 1673, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York (Age 33 years)

Married 25 Nov 1655 Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America [3]

Children

	1. Joseph CARPENTER, b. 1660, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, British America , d. 1690, Musketa Cove, Long Island, British America (Age 30 years)
	2. Elizabeth CARPENTER, b. 1662, Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Mary CARPENTER, b. 1662, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island , d. Yes, date unknown
	4. Hannah CARPENTER, b. Abt 1662, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island , d. 17 Mar 1720, Musketa Cove, Nassau, New York (Age ~ 58 years)
	5. Tamsen CARPENTER, b. 1664, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island , d. May 1706, White Plains, Westchester, New York (Age 42 years)
	6. Ann CARPENTER, b. 1665, Glen Cove, Nassau, New York , d. 1750, Rockaway, Queens, New York (Age 85 years)
	7. William CARPENTER, b. 12 May 1666, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 2 Feb 1749, North Castle, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 82 years)
	8. Margaret CARPENTER, b. 1667, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 1706, Jamaica, Long Island, Queens, NY (Age 39 years)
	9. Captain Nathaniel CARPENTER, b. 12 May 1667, West Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America , d. 25 Feb 1730, North Castle, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 62 years)
	10. William CARPENTER, b. 1668, Pawtuxet, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 14 Jan 2023

Family ID F536728510 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

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 <http://carpentercousins.com/carplink.htm>. (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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Sources

[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for William Carpenter, person ID LHRR-1ZR. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for William Carpenter, person ID GQX8-NTF. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Joseph Arnold CARPENTER, person ID LTM9-B1V. (Reliability: 3).