Jessie,
Thanks! I found a period after the link causing it to provide a "bad link."
I fixed that.
The following is the basics of the compromise article. It is far from
perfect and has many problems with proper sentence structure. Also I am not
an English major.
Gene Zubrinky's version was more accurate technically. This compromise
version is an attempt to get "Wannafish" - aka the "professor" - to
accept
an alternate version and quit reverting to an older version not acceptable
by wikipedia format and others.
The goal is to provide information to help others.
I encourage him to compromise and to communicate. Sharing helps everyone.
I welcome input on this article. I am, in many ways, being very generous to
make a compromise. I hope "Wannafish" can understand this.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
Compromise version 20 April 2009 - please note that references, links and
format is different from the online version at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rehoboth_Carpenter_family
The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an historic American family since 1638 that
helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644. [1]
The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter (Senior)
(b. c1575 in England), his namesake son, William Carpenter (Junior) (c1605
in England -1658/9 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA), and the son's wife and children
(then numbering four) arrived on the Bevis from Southampton, England, in
1638. Nothing more is known of the father, William, in Massachusetts and he
is presumed to have perished either in passage, shortly after arriving in
the new world or, less likely he returned to England. William Carpenter
(Junior) is buried in the Newman Congregational Church Cemetery with a
simple field stone marked with a "W. C.".
William Carpenter, (Junior) first appears in New England records in 1640, as
a resident of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was among the founders (at
Weymouth in late 1643) of the Plymouth Colony town of Rehoboth (settled
1644). His son, William (3rd generation) Carpenter (b. 1631 in England -
1702/3 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA), was for many years Rehoboth town clerk, by
virtue of which his name-not that of his father-appears with some frequency
in Plymouth Colony records, in association with a number of local
vital-records lists that he certified and forwarded to colony authorities.
The name William Carpenter appears in copious Plymouth Colony records and in
the writings of John Winthrop and in other public records over the
generations. [2]
English Ancestry
These Carpenters had previously lived in Shalbourne, an English parish near
Hungerford that straddled the boundary between Wiltshire and Berkshire. The
Rehoboth Carpenters' English origins were obscure until the discovery of
Bishops' Transcripts of Shalbourne parish records containing marriage,
baptismal, and burial records pertaining to them. Among these records is
that of William (Senior) Carpenter's marriage in 1625 to Abigail Briant of
Shalbourne. A search of Westcourt Manor tenants' records reveals William
Carpenter (Senior) as a copyholder at Westcourt Manor in Shalbourne from
1608 to late 1637.
Immigrant Family
William Carpenter (Senior - but never known as that) was born about 1575 in
England. He died after 2 May 1638 (Bevis passenger list) and certainly
before 1644 when his son, William settled in Rehoboth. He was of Newtown,
Shalbourne Parish, Wiltshire, England, by 1608, when he became a copyholder
(semipermanent leaseholder) at Westcourt Manor (Westcourt Recs 7).
Shalbourne, completely in Wiltshire since 1895, previously it straddled the
line separating Wiltshire and Berkshire, with Westcourt comprising the
Wiltshire part of the parish (Shalbourne Map); the Hampshire border was/is
about four miles away. It is likely that William was born in one of these
three counties. William's renewal of his Westcourt tenancy on 22 June 1614
gives his age as 40 (Westcourt Recs 7). The passenger list of the Bevis, the
ship on which he left England, is dated 2 May 1638 and states William's age
as 62 leading to an estimate of about 1575 for his birth. [3]
His son William Carpenter (Junior - but never known as that) was born about
1605 in or of Wiltshire, England. He died 7 Feburary 1658/1659 in Rehoboth,
Bristol, MA. He married Abigail Briant, daughter of John & Alice, on 28
April 1625 in Shalbourne Parish, Berkshire, now in, Wiltshire, England. [4]
Their children:
John Carpenter - Christened 8 Oct.1626 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
Abigail Carpenter - Chr. 31 May 1629 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
William Carpenter - Chr. 22 Nov. 1631 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
Joseph Carpenter - Chr. 6 Apr. 1634 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
Samuel Carpenter - Chr. 1 Mar 1636/1637 d. 20 Apr 1637 both in Shalbourne
Parish.
Samuel Carpenter - b. abt. 1638 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, MA - his mother was
probably pregnant on the Bevis
Hannah Carpenter - b. 3 Apr. 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
Abiah Carpenter - b. 9 Apr. 1643 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
Notable Carpenters of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family
Many Rehoboth Carpenter family descendants in America have played their part
in every aspect of American history, including the ancestry of at least two
U.S. presidents - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
(1989-1993) and father of George Walker Bush George W. Bush, 43rd President.
Among the many Rehoboth Carpenter descendants who fought in the American
Revolution was Captain Benajah Carpenter, a founding member of the United
States Army Field Artillery Corps under Henry Knox.
Another distinguished product of this family was George Rice Carpenter
(1863-1909), born in Labrador and a graduate of Harvard in 1886. He taught
at Harvard from 1888 to 1890 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1890 to 1893. In 1893 he became a professor of English rhetoric at
Columbia University and authored a long list of textbooks on literature and
rhetoric and biographies of Whittier, Whitman, and Longfellow. A classics
library at Columbia is named in his honor.
Also of note was the painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900), whose
work hangs in the United States Capitol. Carpenter also resided with
President Lincoln in the White House and published a memoir of his stay.
Project Mercury astronaut and argonaut M. Scott Carpenter (b. May 1,1925)
descends from Joseph Carpenter, the fourth son of William Carpenter
(Junior).
Church
There is no record to confirm it, but it is said that certain Rehoboth
Carpenters were among the founders of the Rehoboth (Newman) Congregational
Church, located in present-day Rumford, Rhode Island (site of the original
Rehoboth settlement). This much we know: William (Junior) Carpenter's
admission as a Massachusetts Bay Colony freeman from Weymouth in 1640
required church membership. The minister at Weymouth was Rev. Samuel Newman,
most of whose congregation accompanied him to Rehoboth, where he was also
the minister. William (Junior) Carpenter was one of Rehoboth's fifty-eight
original proprietors and is buried in Old Rehoboth (Newman Church) Cemetery.
(While records of the time provide no direct evidence as to the religious
affiliation of William (Junior) Carpenter of Rehoboth, he was certainly not
a Baptist, even though other Carpenters in New England were. In this regard,
he is sometimes confused with William_Carpenter_(Rhode_Island) of Providence
and others. [5]
References
^ Carpenter, Amos B. A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the
Carpenter Family in America (Amherst, Mass., 1898). aka "The Carpenter
Memorial", Press of Carpenter & Morehouse in 1898. Reprinted and duplicated
by many organizations in print, CD and DVD formats. Note: This 900 plus page
tome was remarkable for its day, but many corrections has been made in the
genealogies it contains over the last century. The best compiled corrections
to this work and related lines is in the "Carpenters' Encyclopedia of
Carpenters 2009", data DVD format by John R. Carpenter.
^ Bowen, Richard LeBaron. Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of
Families and Events in This Plymouth Colony Township, 4 vols. (Rehoboth,
Mass.: Rumford Press, 1945-1950).
^ *Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. "William1 Carpenter of Newtown, Shalbourne,
Wiltshire (Bevis, 1638)" (Ojai, Calif., 2009).
^ Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. "The Family of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters," The
American Genealogist 70 (October 1995):193-204. This work establishes the
English origin of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth (c1605-1658[/9]);
identifies his wife, Abigail Briant; and revises their children's birth
order.
^ Savage, James "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New
England Before 1692, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May,
1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register" - with to supplements in four
volumes, Baltimore GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC. Originally Published
Boston, 1860-1862. Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted
from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, No.
2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139. And "And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four
Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage", by O. P. Dexter,
1884. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1965,1969,1977,1981,1986,
1990. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 65-18541, International
Standard Book Number: 0-8063-0309-3, Set Number: 0-8063-0795 Corrected
electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994 @
http://puritanism.online.fr/puritanism/Savage/savage.html and at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/
External links
William Carpenter (Rhode Island) - The first Carpenter to make permanent
settlement in America.
Eugene Cole Zubrinsky. "LINKS TO SKETCHES AND ARTICLES REPRESENTING THE MOST
CURRENT AND RELIABLE SCHOLARSHIP CONCERNING EARLY GENERATIONS OF THE
CARPENTER FAMILIES OF REHOBOTH, MASSACHUSETTS, AND PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND,
AND THEIR ANCESTORS". Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2008 Update.
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/carplink.htm Retrieved on 4/7/2009. - A
very detailed and comprehensive sources list is provided in those sketches.
Carpenter (surname) - People associated with the Carpenter surname.
[[Category:American families]] [[Category:Rehoboth Carpenters]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, William}} [[Category:1605 births]] [[Category:1575
births]] [[Category:1685 deaths]] [[Category:1659 deaths]]
[[Category:English Americans]] [[Category:Massachusetts colonial people]]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jessie Deith" <jessydeith(a)aol.com>
To: <CARPENTER(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:51 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] compromise article
The only difficulty I found with your compromise article was way at
the end, under external links - the super work by Eugene Cole
Zubrinsky "LINKS TO SKETCHES etc"comes up Not Found The requested
URL/jcrin001/carplink.htm was not found on this server.
Jessie Deith