Freelove Carpenter

Freelove Hale

• Birth: Apr. 3, 1712 Rehoboth Bristol County Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Jan. 30, 1803 Providence County Rhode Island, USA
• Daughter of John Hale and Hannah Tillinghast
• Married 1) Oliver Kingsley
• Married 2) Jotham Carpenter Jr.

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Birth: Freelove Hale was born April 3, 1712, in Rehoboth, Rhode Island Colony or Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, daughter of John Hale and Hannah Tillinghast. "Freelove the Daughter of John Haile and Hannah his Wife was Born april ye 3 1712"[3]

Death: She died in Providence County, Rhode Island, between 12 OCT 1801 and 30 Jan 1803.

Family

Oliver Kingsley was born in 1705, the son of Nathaniel and Christian (Cole) Kingsley.[1]. He married Freelove Hale on 31 December, 1729, in Swansea.[2]

Their children were

1. Pardon
2. Lydia
3. Peleg
4. James
5. Ann
6. Freelove.

He passed away in 1739.[3]

Lydia Kingsley was the widow of Oliver Kingsley,[1] with whom she had 5 children, when she married Jotham Carpenter, widower of Mehitable Thompson, with whom he had eight children in 1748.[2]

Freelove Hale and Jotham Carpenter had an additional four children:

1. Freelove, born 1749, married Job Whipple;
2. Jotham III, born 28 Nov 1750, married Hannah Gulley;
3. Oliver, born 15 Nov 1753, married Joanna Ballou; and,
4. Desire, born 26 Oct 1755, married William Lang.

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1803 CARPENTER Mrs. Freelove, widow of Deacon Jotham, at Cumberland, in 91st year. Gazette of Feb. 26, 1803 Death Providence

"Carpenter, Freelove, of Cumberland, widow, far advanced in years. Will dated 12 Oct 1801, proved 28 Feb 1803, pgs 62-63. Mentions: Sons Jotham Carpenter & Oliver Carpenter. Daughters Freelove Whipple, Desire Ballou, Lydia Blake, & Anna Bliss."

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Family links:

Parents:

• John Haile (1677 - 1718)
• Hannah Tillinghast Haile (1682 - 1731)

Spouse:

• Jotham Carpenter (1708 - 1777)

Children:

• Freelove Carpenter Whipple (1749 - 1834)*
• Oliver Carpenter (1753 - 1845)*

Siblings:

• John Hale (1703 - 1731)*
• Barnard Haile (1709 - 1738)*
• Freelove Hale Kingsley Carpenter (1712 - 1803)
• Lillis Hale Mason (1714 - 1797)*
• Hannah Hale Mason (1716 - ____)*
• Calculated relationship

Burial: Cumberland Cemetery Cumberland Providence County Rhode Island, USA

Created by: Bob Furtaw Record added: Jul 08, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 54643404

References

1. SOURCE: Mary W. Peckham, "Concerning John Lapham and Some of His Descendants: A Copy of an Article Published in 1948 in The American Genealogist with Corrections and Additions" (Santa Barbara? 1948?), p. 23. (Microfiche at Brigham Young University Library, call no. CS43.G46x G4457). Gives name as Freelove (Hale) (Kinsley) Carpenter.
2. Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 15 2020, 15:52:06 UTC
3. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch [1] : 4 December 2014), Jotham Carpenter Jr. and Freelove Kingsley, 06 Feb 1748; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 1,987,644. Page: p. 72
4. Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 Abbreviation: Swansea MA VR to 1850 Author: H. L. Peter Rounds Publication: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992, reprint