Ens. Abiah Carpenter

Biography

60. Ensign Abiah Carpenter-112 (Samuel , William , William ) was born on 10/10 Feb 1665/1666 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 26 Apr 1732 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. He was buried on 28 Apr 1732 in Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA.

Farmer, wheelwright. Reference shows Abiah's death date as 28 Apr 1732. A description of a sale of land to his son Thomas:He deeds to his son, Thomas, for love, good will, and affection, land lying and being in the forks of Palmer's River in Rehoboth, lying in two parts; one lot of 62 acres, bounded westerly by the land of Abraham Carpenter. The other tract is allthe meadow on the east side of Palmer's River, bounded easterly by the land of Abraham Carpenter, and northerly by the heirs of Jonathan Carpenter, and westerly by the said river. Mar 4th, 1717 or 1718. He was an Ensign in the militia.

Married

1. May 13, 1690, Mehitable Read, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
2. June 7 1702/03, Sarah Read, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
3. July 16, 1726, Mary Ormsbee, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Family

https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwg06.htm#112

Abiah married Mehitable Read-938, daughter of Thomas Read-7665 and Elizabeth Clark-6591, on 13 May 1690 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Mehitable was born on 13 Apr 1667 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 19 Mar 1701 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She was buried in Palmer River Churchyard Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

from https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwn06.htm#938: Followup by Gene Zubrinsky: "... I give additional information: the vital-record citation RVR 1:21, which has her birth at Rehoboth, 13 April 1667, as being to John and Rachel (______) Read, not Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Read. Thomas Read's wife Elizabeth Clark died in 1674/5; they had five children but no daughter Mehitabel. Thomas then married Hannah Perrin, with whom he had a daughter Mehitabel, but she was born in 1684 and died unmarried in 1743. (Jim Bullock, whose work I respect, agrees with all this.)"

They had the following children.

• + 319 F i Rachel Carpenter-7513 was born on 19 May 1699. She died on 5 Jan 1778.
• + 320 M ii Abiah Carpenter-7528 was born on 21 Apr 1691. He died on 7 Oct 1743.
• + 321 M iii Thomas Carpenter-7529 was born on 8 Nov 1692. He died on 3 May 1779.
• 322 F iv Mehitable Carpenter-7530 was born on 15 Dec 1694 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 29 Jan 1717 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.[Notes]
• 323 M v Samuel Carpenter-7531 was born about 1695 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.[Notes]
• 324 F vi Sarah Carpenter-7532 was born on 3/3 Mar 1696/1697 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 10 Sep 1722 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.[Notes]
• Sarah married Noah Chaffee-7700, son of Nathaniel Chaffee-1417 and Experience Bliss-1418, on 5 May 1720 in , Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Noah was born on 17 Dec 1692 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 5 Oct 1732 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.[Notes]
• 325 M vii Josiah Carpenter-7533 was born in Jul 1697 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.[Notes]
• 326 M viii Peter Carpenter-7534 was christened on 22 Apr 1701 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 7 Sep 1719 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

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Abiah also married Sarah Read-1396, daughter of Daniel Read-119733 and Hannah Peck-119734, on 7 Jun 1702 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah was born on 1 Apr 1684 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 17 Jul 1724 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She was buried in Jul 1724 in Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA.

https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwn06.htm#1396 Gene presents presents Sarah as "(prob. b. Rehoboth 10 March 1666, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Read)" and cites her birth record as RVR 1:24.

They had the following children.

• + 327 F ix Mary Carpenter-12906 was born on 4 Mar 1704. She died on 18 Feb 1743.
• + 328 M x Cornelius Carpenter-12986 was born on 20 Aug 1707. He died on 12 Jan 1734.

Abiah also married Mary Perrin-1596 on 16 Jul 1726 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born in Feb 1649 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 9 Sep 1690. She was buried on 9 Sep 1690.

https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwn06.htm#1596 Gene Zubrinsky writes from his Samuel3 notes, CHILDREN section: "m. (3) Rehoboth 16 July 1726, Mary Ormsbee (not Mary Perrin [m. (1) Jacob (not Isaiah) Ormsby 1670, (2) Nicholas Ide 1677]; not dau. of Jeremiah and Mehitabel (Willmarth) Ormsbee [b. 1708, d. 1789, in 81st yr.; m. Thomas Redway 1749]). Widow Mary probably m. (2) Rehoboth 19 April 1733, John Read of Barrington, Mass. (now in R.I.)"

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References

• https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwg06.htm#112
• http://www.ormsby.org/genie/Miscellaneous/abraham_g5_A.html
• Arnold, James N. Vital record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. (Providence, RI), page 571. 'CARPENTER, Abiah, [of Samuell and Sarah] ... Feb. 10, 1665'
• Samuel3 Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. Carpenter Sketches: Links to Sketches And Articles Representing the Most Current and Reliable Scholarship Cconcerning Early Generations of the Carpenter Families of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island and Their Ancestors. (Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters, 2008), page 3. 'ENS. ABIAH CARPENTER, b. 10 Feb. 1665, d. Rehoboth 28 April 1732, in 68th yr.; ...'
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Abiah_Carpenter_(2)
• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via brother Jonathan Carpenter, Sr by SmartCopy: Mar 11 2015, 4:38:29 UTC
• https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwn06.htm#1396
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21484251/abiah-carpenter notes “He married sisters Sarah and Mehitable Read.” However, according to genealogist Gene Zubrinsky, they were not sisters.