Abigail BRIANT b. 27 May 1604 Shalbourne, Berkshire, England d. 22 Feb 1687 Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America: Our Family History

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Name	Abigail BRIANT [2]
Birth	27 May 1604	Shalbourne, Berkshire, England [2]
Christening	27 May 1604	Shalbourne, Berkshire, England [2, 3]
Gender	Female
Arrival	1638	Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [3, 4]
Arrival	On the Bevis with husband William, his father, and 4 children
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Burial	1687	Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America [2, 3]
Death	22 Feb 1687	Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America [2]
Person ID	I594766933	Carney Wehofer July 2025
Last Modified	14 Dec 2024

Father	John BRIANT, b. Abt 1570, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 20 Jun 1643, Shalbourne, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 73 years)
Mother	Alice SANGER, b. 2 Jul 1570, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. Mar 1659, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 88 years)
Marriage	Abt 1596	Berkshire, England [5, 6]
Family ID	F536728803	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family William CARPENTER, b. Abt 1605, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England d. 7 Feb 1659, Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America (Age ~ 54 years)

Marriage 28 Apr 1625 St. Michaels And All Angels Church, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England [7]

Alt. Marriage 28 Apr 1625 St. Michaels And All Angels Church, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England [8]

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 year)
	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)

Family ID F536728801 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 13 Jan 2023

Notes

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Some sources give wife Abigail's maiden name as Bennett or Searles. The first instance, however (prompted by the maiden name of her son William3 Carpenter's first wife, Priscilla Bennett), represents unwarranted linkage to a Bennett family of Sway, Hampshire. The second reflects apparent confusion with the maiden name of William3's second wife, Miriam Sale(s). [1]

The second also reflects a confusion of Abigail with a legendary figure named "Abigail Searles", born 1606. This Abigail is a conflation of Abigail Sale, born 1594 and daughter of Edward Sale and Elizabeth Gifford, and Miriam Sale, wife of William Carpenter, Jr.
Biography

Abigail Briant, bapt 5/27/2106, Shalbourne, England; md William Carpenter 4.28.1625, Shalbourne, Eng; d 2.22.1687/8, Rehoboth, MA, bur Newman Cemetery, East Providence, RI, Father John Briant, Mother: Alice. [2] [3]

Name

William and Abigail's marriage record (only Bishops' Transcripts of Shalbourne parish records survive for this period) has her surname as Briante (Shalbourne ParR; TAG 70:194). The five remaining Shalbourne church records mentioning Abigail's family (including her baptismal record) spell the name Briant (Shalbourne ParR). Her father's will, however (including his signature), has it as Bryan (PCC). [1]
1604 Birth and Baptism

Abigail Briant was baptized May 27, 1604 at St.Michael's and All Angels Church, then in the Berkshire Co. section of Shalbourne, England, the daughter of John Briant and Alice ____ Briant. [4]

Abigail Briant was born about 1606 as she was 32 when a passenger on the Bevis [5]
1625 Marriage

Abigail married William Carpenter[6] (1605-1659) at St.Michael's and All Angels Church, then in the Berkshire Co. section of Shalbourne, England on Apr 28,1625. The family resided in the Wiltshire Co. section of Shalbourne.[4]

St. Michael and All Angels, the church where the couple married and their first five children were baptized, is situated in what was then the Berkshire part of Shalbourne parish. The church was nevertheless under the jurisdiction of the dean and chapter of the cathedral church at New Sarum (Salisbury), Wiltshire (TAG 70:194, 194n5).[1]
Arrival in America on the ship "Bevis"

She and her husband arrived in New England on the "Bevis" in 1638, settling first at Weymouth,MA and then, by 1645, Rehoboth,MA. [4]

William's wife, Abigail, and 4 of their children under 10 yers. of age came with William and William's father on the Bevis. Settled at Rehoboth. [6] Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts. Genealogical Co., Balt., 1977; p 89; DAR Library, Washington, D.C.:

Abigail Carpenter, arrived Massachusetts 1638. Primary Immigrant, Carpenter, William. Family Members: Son William; Daughter-in-law Abigail; With 4 grandchildren. [6]

Abigal, wife of William, and 4 of their children under 10 yers. of age came with William and William's father on the Bevis. [6]
1641 Rehoboth, Massachusetts

William, Abigal and family settled at Rehoboth. They bought lands of Indians 30 Nov 1641. He was adm. from 13 May 1640. constable, 1640; deputy, 1641. Children listed. [6]

They bought lands of Indians 30 Nov 1641. [6]

He was adm. from 13 May 1640. constable, 1640; deputy, 1641. [6]
1687 Death - Burial - Estate

Abigail was buried February 22, 1686/7[1] in the Newman Cemetery in Old Rehoboth (now East Providence, Rhode Island). [4]

Abigail's estate admin. 7 September 1687 by son William.[6]
Children

John Carpenter, bp. at Shalbourne 8 Oct. 1626; m. Hannah Smith. [7]
Abigail Carpenter, bp. at Shalbourne31 May 1629; m. (1) JOHN TITUS, (2) JONAH PALMER SR. [7](1629 - 1710)[4]
William Carpenter, bp. at Shalbourne22 Nov. 1631; m. (1) PRISCILLA BENNETT, (2) MIRIAM SALE. [7] d. 1703[4]
Joseph Carpenter, bp. at Shalbourne 6 April 1634; m. MARGARET SUTTON. [7] d. 1675 [4]
Samuel Carpenter, bp. at Shalbourne 1 March 1636/7. Samuel died less than two months later and was bur. Shalbourne 20 April 1637 (TAG 70 194, 196, 204). [7]
Samuel Carpenter, b. at Weymouth ca. 1638 and given the name of his deceased brother; m. SARAH REDWAY. 7 [7] d. 1682 [4]
Hannah Carpenter, b. at Weymouth 3 2nd mo. [April] 1640; m. Joseph Carpenter, son of William Carpenter of Providence. [7] d. 1673[4]
Abiah Carpenter b. at Weymouth 9 2nd mo. [April] 1643; m. MARY REDWAY. [7] d. 1688.[4]

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG, Ojai, California. William2 Carpenter (William1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. 2008; Prepared for Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2008 Update. Last revised 16 October 2012. Page 2; http://www.carpentercousins.com/Wm2_Rehoboth.pdf. (TAG 70:194n9, 204; see also Second Boat 1:15). Accessed Sept 27, 2015.
? http://jfredpeterson.com/tree/g11carp.htm#A1
? Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. "The Family of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters," The American Genealogist 70 (Oct. 1995):193-204.
? 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Abigail Briant Carpenter, Find A Grave Memorial# 17793532, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17793532
? Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, by Carl Boyer, 3rd (Santa Clarita, CA 1998), pp. 272 and 508-09, and in NEHGR, Vol. 65, pp. 63-66.
? 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Charles Henry Pope. The Pioneers of Massachusetts. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1977, p. 89. DAR Library, Washington, D.C.
? 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG, Ojai, California. William2 Carpenter (William1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. 2008; Prepared for Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2008 Update. Last revised 16 October 2012. Pages 6-7; http://www.carpentercousins.com/Wm2_Rehoboth.pdf. Accessed Sept 27, 2015. Zubrinsky notes that the first five children were baptized at Shalbourne, and the remaining three at Weymouth. (TAG 70 194, 203– 4)

The American Genealogist, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Oct 1995) http://www.carpentercousins.com/Carpenter%28TAG1995%29.pdf

Sources

[S1111] compiled by James H Carney, Jim Carney.
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Hannah CARPENTER, person ID 9Z97-MC2. (Reliability: 3).
[S1166] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Jan 2023), entry for Abigail BRIANT, person ID LRD7-6PR. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Abigail Briant, person ID LRD7-6PR. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for John Briant, person ID LLHQ-XDX. (Reliability: 3).
[S1166] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Jan 2023), entry for John Briant, person ID LLHQ-XDX. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for William Carpenter, person ID M2HJ-YXC. (Reliability: 3).
[S1166] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Jan 2023), entry for William CARPENTER, person ID M2HJ-YXC. (Reliability: 3).

Abigail BRIANT[1]

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