Dear Bill,
From my notes below, you can see that someone realized this before in
the AF.
See where Jotham and Jonathan are listed as spouses for Freelove HAILE.
Hopefully with help from the Forum you can straighten out this mess!
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
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NOTES: From IGI and AF and my data files.
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Isaack CARPENTER Sex: M
Birth: 8 Jan 1734 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
Father: Jonathan CARPENTER
Mother: Mehitable
Film Number: 183601
Page Number:
Reference Number: 15759
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Freelove HAILE (AFN: 229D-PD) Sex: F
Birth: 3 Apr 1712 Swansea, Bristol, Ma
Death: 1801 Swansea, Ma
Father: John HAILE (AFN: 229D-5M)
Mother: Hannah TILLINGHAST (AFN: 229D-6S)
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Oliver KINGSLEY (AFN: BKX3-RR) [one child b. Oct 1730]
Marriage: 31 Dec 1729 Of, Bristol, Massachusetts
Spouse: Jotham CARPENTER (AFN: BKX3-SX) [no children]
Marriage: 17 Mar 1748
Spouse: Oliver KINGSLEY (AFN: LSVN-WC) [no children]
Marriage:
Spouse: Jonathan CARPENTER (AFN: XZGN-HQ) [b. abt 1708 - no
children]
Marriage: [abt 1733]
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Jonathan CARPENTER Sex: M
Birth: Abt. 1719 [1709] Of Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
Spouse: Mehitable
Film Number: 1239532
Page Number: 1101
Reference Number: 23117
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Jotham CARPENTER Sex: M
Spouse: Mehittabell THOMPSON
Marriage: 11 May 1728 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Source Information:
7105708 - 1235160 Film sheet 45
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The Jotham Carpenter who married Mehitable Thompson in the ABC book was
born 1 Aug 1708 in Rehoboth and died 10 May 1777 in
Cumberland,Providence,RI.
Number 635 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 123.
Mehitable is listed as being born on 17 May 1701 in Rehoboth.
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POSSIBLY:
Jonathan Carpenter born about 1701 to 1709 of Rehoboth
married Mehitable (various spellings) Thompson (likely)
on 11 May 1728 in Rehoboth and had ....
Isaack CARPENTER born 8 Jan 1734 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
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SO FAR I can only find one Jonathan Carpenter b. 9 April 1701 in
Rehoboth
BUT he supposedly died about 1720 per the ABC book!
Number 266 in the Carpenter Memorial. Page 80.
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I THINK that the Mehitable Thompson married Jonathan and not Jotham
Carpenter.
IF SHE EVER DID MARRY JOTHAM, IT HAD TO BE LATER!
JRC
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Subject:
[CARPENTER] A Mayflower (dis)Connection?
Date:
Fri, 09 Feb 2001 21:19:29 -0700
From:
Bill Wilson <billwilson(a)home.com>
To:
CARPENTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
Did any early Carpenters of Rehoboth marry Mayflower descendents? It
occurred to me that this was a distinct possibility. And sure enough,
while
browsing through the index of the John Billington Mayflower Family I
found
several familiar Carpenter names from my line.
I thought I had hit pay dirt! But as I read the fine print, I saw the
Billington book identified an error in Amos B Carpenter¹s book, which
apparently throws my family line out of the Rehoboth Family completely.
The discrepancy arose when ABC apparently read incorrectly the data of
1640
Isaiah Carpenter born January 8, 1735, and should have identified him as
Isaack Carpenter born January 8, 1734/5, who died young without issue.
To clarify the problem, I have listed the descendants from both books.
Square brackets [] are mine.
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Carpenter Family of Rehoboth (by Amos B Carpenter, 1898)
16 William Carpenter
19 Joseph Carpenter
46 Benjamin Carpenter
189 Jotham Carpenter m Desire Martin [a Mayflower descendent, see
below]
635 Jotham Carpenter
1640 Isaiah Carpenter b Jan 8, 1735 d Jan 17, 1809 [maybe should be
Isaack]
m Mirriam Sly in 1767
3495 Benjamin Carpenter
5743 Heman Carpenter
7378 Orrin Carpenter
7903 Florence Carpenter [my maternal grandmother]
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John Billington Family from the Mayflower
(by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, 1988, published by General Society of
Mayflower
Descendents, 4 Winslow Street, Plymouth, MA 02361)
1 John Billington (a Mayflower passenger)
2 Francis Billington
9 Mercy Billington m John Martin
24 Desire Martin m Jotham Carpenter [ABC #189]
97 Jotham Carpenter 1m Mehitable Thompson d 10 Feb 1746/7 [ABC #635]
* Isaack Carpenter b Swansea 8 Jan 1734/5 [ABC #1640 Isaiah]
doubtless d y, not in father¹s will or any
document to show he survived infancy.
[and this is the fine-print footnote:]
* Contrary to the account in Carpenter (Rehoboth) Gen pp 238, 398-9,
there
is no indication that the son ³Isaiah² (Isaack in birth record) . . .
lived
to maturity. The adults described as these sons of Jotham Carpenter do
not
belong to this family. . . And son Isaack, as ³Isaiah², is mistakenly
identified as an adult Isaiah of Vermont.
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Can anyone help me straighten this mess out?
Bill Wilson
Does anyone have any information about Benjamin Carpenter and Mary Coomes?
Was Mary Coomes a widow with children? Was she from the Maryland area? Was
her first husband lost at sea?
Here is what I have Benjamin Carpenter 14, (Samuel 13, John 12, William Jr.
11, William Sr. 10, Robert 9, William 8, Robert 7, Richard 6, William 5,
John 4, John, Sr. 3, Richard 2, John 1) was born abt. 1697 in Jamaica, (Long
Island) New York (Source: James Havilah Gordon )), and died about 1767 in
Goshen, (Orange ) New York (Source James Havilah Gordon). He married 1.
Prudence Kingsbury bef. 1735 (Source Hallard) He married 2 Mary Coomes bef.
1745 (Source Hallard).
Children of Benjamin Carpenter and Mary Coomes are:
Christianna
Gilbert
Sarah
Mary
Benjamin
Samuel
Rhoda
Elizabeth
Amy
Patience