I was doing a bit of USA Carpenter reading and digging and discovered
that many of the people on the Bevis with the Carpenters, as well as those
on the the other ship,
embarked for or at Newbury Massachusetts, which was intended as a cattle
and sheep raising project by the Bailly, Dummer families and others. The
project seemed
a one that recruited northan Wilts/Berks people who had husbandry skills.
It is odd that the Carpenters came over with these people (Batts etc.) but
chose Weymouth rather than Newbury. When I looked at the type of animals
that
were being imported to Newbury, sheep seemed the greater number.
The Massachusetts Newbury was named after the English Berks Newbury.
The Carpenters were there from the mid to late 1400s. It was a prominent
sheep/wool/
cloth town. Shalbourne was basically a satellite of Newbury.
I think this would be an interesting family research topic for someone.
BC