William CARPENTER^[1]

Abt 1605 - 1659  (~ 54 years)

• Name	William CARPENTER  [2]
  Born	Abt 1605	Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1638	Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [3, 4]
  FamilySearch ID	M2HJ-YXC
  Freeman	1640	Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [3, 4]
  Residence	1644	Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [3, 4]
  	Removed from Weymouth
  Buried	1659	Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America   [2, 4]
  Died	7 Feb 1659	Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [2]
  Inventory of Estate	21 Feb 1659	Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [3, 4]
  Will Proved	21 Apr 1659	Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I594766932	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	William CARPENTER,   b. Abt 1575, Newton, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England ,   d. Bef 13 May 1640, Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Alice SWITHEN,   b. 1580, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 25 Feb 1637, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England o  (Age 57 years)
  Married	14 Apr 1605	Warminster, Wiltshire, England
  Family ID	F536729239	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail BRIANT,   b. 27 May 1604, Shalbourne, Berkshire, England ,   d. 22 Feb 1687, Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 82 years)
  Married	28 Apr 1625	St. Michaels And All Angels Church, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England   [3]
  Alt. Marriage	28 Apr 1625	St. Michaels And All Angels Church, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England   [4]
  Children	1. John CARPENTER,   b. 1626, Shalbourne, Berkshire, England ,   d. Bef 23 May 1695, Jamaica, New York Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 69 years)   2. Abigail CARPENTER,   b. 31 May 1629, Shalbourne Parish, Berkshire, England ,   d. 10 Mar 1709, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America  (Age 79 years)   3. Robert CARPENTER,   b. 16 Dec 1630, Oving, Sussex ,   d. 1672, Chichester, Sussex, England  (Age 41 years)   4. William CARPENTER,   b. 22 Nov 1631, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 26 Jan 1702, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 70 years)   5. Joseph CARPENTER, I,   b. 6 Apr 1634, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 4 May 1675, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 41 years)   6. Samuel CARPENTER,   b. 1 Mar 1636, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 5 May 1637, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England  (Age 1 years)   7. Samuel CARPENTER, I,   b. 1638, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America ,   d. 20 Feb 1683, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 45 years)   8. 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)   9. Abiah CARPENTER,   b. 9 Apr 1643, Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America ,   d. Aft 14 Dec 1687, Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America  (Age 44 years)
  Last Modified	13 Jan 2023
  Family ID	F536728801	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S1111] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA. [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 Hannah CARPENTER, person ID 9Z97-MC2. (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 M2HJ-YXC. (Reliability: 3). [S1166] FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Jan 2023), entry for William CARPENTER, person ID M2HJ-YXC. (Reliability: 3).