BENJAMIN CARPENTER 1764-1840 is my 3rd g grandfather. He and several
generations of my family are buried in Perryville Cemetery in
So.Kingstown,R.I. We are from the William Carpenter of Rehoboth Line,who is
buried in Newman Cemetery in East Providence (Rumford),R.I.
I haven't done a lot of researching on Thomas Carpenter,but thought I would
pass on what I have
shows his son THOMAS CARPENTER b 1710 W.Greenwich,R.I. d (Will
proved)
6-6-1778 So.Kingstown,R.I. Book 6a page 113 married ELIZABETH PAGE from
Westerly,R.I. RIVR Vol#7 titled Marriages from Probate Records. on
7-4-1737 in W.Greenwich,R.I. Book 1 page 10
Their son THOMAS B. CARPENTER b 8-3-1738 d 1815 Exeter,R.I. Book 10 page
221 married DORCAS GRINNELL b __?__ d__?__ on 10-25-1759 in
No.Kingstown,R.I.
Charlie Carpenter
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From: <GeneZub(a)aol.com>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Carpenters of South Kingstown, RI
John Chandler wrote:
<< Can anyone shed light on either of these two Thomases [one of Exeter,
R.I., the other of South Kingstown, R.I.]? >>
Assuming you've examined all available probate records of Carpenters (and,
where known or suspected, their in-laws) in East and West Greenwich,
Exeter,
and North and South Kingstown, have you done the same for all Carpenter
land
records in these towns (checking not only the body of each but also the
names
of witnesses)? More specifically: In his will, dated at North Kingstown
in
1727, Abiah3 Carpenter's son Oliver left his son Thomas a farm at East
Greenwich. Have you checked the latter town's deeds to see when, to
whom, etc.,
Thomas might have sold that property? How about West Greenwich deeds, to
see
when, from whom, to whom, etc., Thomas Carpenter of that place--who
married on
4 July 1737, Elizabeth Page of Westerly, R.I.--bought and sold land at
West
Greenwich? (Compare Thomas, Mary, and Elizabeth, b. West Greenwich
between
1738 and 1642, children of Thomas Carpenter--and, presumably, wife
Elizabeth
(Page)--with those named in 1778 South Kingstown probate record of Thomas
Carpenter.) Exeter and South Kingstown deeds?
Gene Z.
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Original message:
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: john.chandler(a)alum.mit.edu (John Chandler)
Subject: [CARPENTER] Carpenters of South Kingstown, RI
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Message-ID: <REME20080805190027(a)alum.mit.edu>
All,
I have for a long time been trying to figure out my wife's Rhode
Island Carpenter lineage, but it's not easy. It has been a while
since I raised the subject on this list, and so this may be a good
time to bring it up, especially since the list has been rather quiet
lately.
The line goes back reliably to Benjamin Carpenter (c1764-1840) of
South Kingstown. His father was probably named Thomas, since there
was a Benjamin Carpenter of S.K. who was granted administration of the
estate of Thomas Carpenter of Exeter in 1815, but things get hairy
from there on. Lots of people point to the birth record in 1738 of a
Thomas Carpenter in East Greenwich, and say that's the one who later
died in Exeter, but I haven't found anything to make that connection,
nor even anything to show that the Thomas born in 1738 even survived
to adulthood. Indeed, the 1738 birth record shows the father as
another Thomas, but doesn't give the mother's name. Meanwhile, the
RIGR index of probate info shows a case from 1778 in South Kingstown
where a Thomas Carpenter left a widow Elizabeth and a bunch of
children, including a Thomas. It is tempting to jump to the
conclusion that this son Thomas was the same Thomas who died in 1815,
but it would be nice to fill in at least a little bit of that 37-year
gap first.
One of the popular theories is that Thomas (d. 1815) was the son of
Thomas, who was the son of either Joseph or Oliver, both of whom were
sons of Abiah, son of William2 of Rehoboth. Now, as it happens,
Abiah is a particularly ticklish case, since a bunch of children
have been misattributed to him (for a discussion of this problem,
see Gene Zubrinsky's Carpenter sketches, found at
http://members.cox.net/jrcrin001/carplink.htm along with much
material on the other early Carpenters of the Rehoboth line).
However, as it also happens, both Joseph and Oliver seem to make the
cut as documented sons of Abiah. Thus, the line would be complete all
the way to William1 of Shalbourne parish back in Wiltshire, England,
if only I could patch the holes represented by the two Thomases
(assuming that this theory is actually correct).
Can anyone shed light on either of these two Thomases?
John Chandler
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