<< Didn't one of the Rehoboth brothers go to Pennsylvania and some his kids
went south? >>
If you mean one of the sons of William2 and Abigail (Briant) Carpenter, no.
Eldest son John3 (bap. Shalbourne, 8 Oct. 1626) was the only one of their
children to leave New England, probably before 28 June 1653--but not for
Pennsylvania (see Plymouth Colony Deeds, 2:1:79; also Rehoboth Town Meetings, 1:231
[1657], 1:74 [1658]; these are lists of Rehoboth inhabitants or [in the last
case] proprietors that almost certainly would have included John3 if he had still
been living there). Undated proprietors' records (ca. 1662) indicate that he
had sold his Rehoboth holdings to James Redway (Rehoboth Proprietors' Records,
1:1, 12-13). John was of Huntington, Long Island, when on 7 December 1660 he
bought John Carman's dwelling house and home lot at nearby Hempstead
(Benjamin Hicks, ed., RECORDS OF THE TOWNS OF NORTH AND SOUTH HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND,
N.Y., 1654-1880, 8 vols. [Jamaica, N.Y., 1869-1904], 2:97). By early 1664 he
had settled at Jamaica, L.I., where he remained until his death, on 10 (will)
or 11 (probate) November 1694 (Herbert F. Seversmith, COLONIAL FAMILIES OF
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT, 5 vols. [Washington, D.C., 1939-58],
2:544-45, citing printed Jamaica Town Records, 1:21, and Jamaica, New York, Wills,
A:98).
Gene Z.