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