Robin,
I dropped by my local Family History Center this evening and found the
following: PATIENCE CARPENTER, b. Rehoboth, 6 February 1731/2, daughter of
Jedediah and Marcy/Mercy (Brown) Carpenter (Arnold, citing Rehoboth VR, 2:65,
144); PATIENCE CARPENTER, daughter of Jedediah and Mercy, died 16 November
1751, at 20 yrs. (Marion Pearce Carter, comp., THE OLD REHOBOTH CEMETERY:
"THE RING OF THE TOWN" AT EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, NEAR NEWMAN'S
CHURCH
(Attleboro, Mass., 1932), p. 14 [FHL microfilm 22366, item 16]).
In case you're wondering if the difference between the death date you
provided (from Amos B. Carpenter) and that above is the result of typos on my
part, it isn't. That's what appears in Carter's transcription of
Patience's
gravestone inscription.
Arnold doesn't list a death record for her from Rehoboth Vital Records. He
does, however, list two other Patience Carpenters: one, born 1717/8, the
daughter of Zarriah/Zachariah and Martha (Ide) Carpenter, died in 1727; the
other, born in 1729, the daughter of a different Zachariah Carpenter and his
wife, Margaret Child, was probably she whose intentions to marry Abner
Stanley of Attleboro were published on 30 December 1749. And it was probably
she, as Patience Stanley, whose intentions to marry Joshua Everett of
Attleboro were published on 3 April 1756.
All the available evidence thus points to your Patience as having died
unmarried.
Gene Z.