William "of the Bevis" Carpenter

William Carpenter

• Birth: 1576 - England
• Death: Unknown (probably after June 1638)
• Parents: UNKNOWN
• Wife: Alice Unknown (perhaps)
• Child: William Carpenter (b 1605 d 1659) ONLY KNOWN CHILD married Abigail Briant

Best known as "William Carpenter, of the Bevis." Also known as William Carpenter of Shalbourne.

Genealogical Studies

Update April 2018

William1 sketch's most recent revision (on 4 April 2018) discusses the possibility (tending toward unlikely) that his wife was Alice Swithen (see pp. 2 - 3) of http://carpentercousins.com/Wm1_Shalbourne.pdf

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Please see this Article written about the family in The American Genealogist October 1995 Vol 70 #4 See Summary pg 203, (edit 10/2/2015)

WILLIAM1 CARPENTER OF NEWTOWN, SHALBOURNE, WILTSHIRE (BEVIS, 1638)

• Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG, Ojai, California, 2008. Last revised 16 October 2010
• Prepared for Carpenters Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2008 Update

WILLIAM1 CARPENTER was born in England about 1575 and was still living a few days before 2 May 1638; he died probably at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, or Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (see BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATION, and RESIDENCES sections, below; TAG 70:193 94, 203). [While the foregoing genealogical data is presented in Register style, the embedding, grouping, and severe abbreviating of source citations are conveniences that depart from it. Sources are cited in full in KEY TO SOURCE NOTES, at the end of this sketch. The format below is patterned loosely after that used by Robert Charles Anderson in his Great Migration series.]

BIRTH: William1 was of Newtown, parish of Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England, by 1608, when he became a copyholder (semipermanent leaseholder) at Westcourt Manor (Westcourt Recs 7). Shalbourne, completely in Wiltshire since 1895, previously 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.

The record of 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 (NEHGR 14:336; TAG 70:193, 203; see also IMMIGRATION, below). From these facts is calculated a birth year of about 1575. A William Carpenter was baptized in the parish of Great Coxwell, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire), on 5 May 1576, son of Henry Carpenter (GCPaR). Evidence that this is more than coincidence has not been found. But since Great Coxwell is only about thirty road miles due north of Shalbourne, further research in the vicinity of the former place is warranted.

DEATH: The latest known record of William1 is the aforementioned Bevis passenger-list entry of 2 May 1638. His namesake son, William2 Carpenter, settled at Weymouth probably in 1638 and certainly before 13 May 1640, when he was admitted a freeman there. That William1 was not made a freeman at the same time was perhaps because he haddied. It might, on the other hand, have been due to his modest station, when considered apart from that of his son (see TAG 14:336, 70:193, 195n13; EDUCATION/OFFICES, below).

MARRIAGE: Despite claims to the contrary, the identity of William1 wife (or wives) is unknown. His having emigrated only three months after the death of Alice Carpenter, who was buried at Shalbourne on 25 January 1637[/8], suggests that she had been his wife (though not necessarily William2s mother); it is possible, however, that she was an unmarried sister or daughter (TAG 70:194 95).

A William Carpenter married at St. Thomas the Martyr, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 18 April 1605, Mary Bath (not Batt, as per various informal sources) (WiltPaR 5:22). Christopher Batt, a tanner of [New] Sarum (i.e., Salisbury), Wiltshire, was one of the Carpenters fellow passengers on the Bevis. Records of the Batt family of Salisbury, however, indicate that he and a Mary Batt of appropriate age (baptized at St. Thomas 7 Aug. 1584, daughter of Richard and Agnes (Danyell) Batt) would be no more than distant cousins (NEHGR 14:336; Martin, citing NEHGR 51:181 88, 348 57, 52:44 51, 321 22). It has not been established that William1 Carpenter was the man of that name who married Mary Bath.

IMMIGRATION: William1, with son William2 and the latters family, embarked at Southampton, Hampshire, on the Bevis. The preamble to the ships passenger list indicates that by 2 May 1638 they [had been] some Dayes gone to sea (NEHGR 14:336). They landed probably at Boston (the point of all but a handful of Bay Colony arrivals) in June or July 1638 (the average ocean crossing took five to eight weeks).

RESIDENCES: He was living at Newtown by 1 June 1608 and until at least about 18 September 13 Charles [1637]; on the latter date a new family assumed tenancy of the parcels previously leased by the Carpenters (Westcourt Recs 7). The last Carpenter record at Shalbourne is that of Alice Carpenters burial, in 1637/8 (see MARRIAGE, above). Although her place in the Carpenter family is uncertain, we may be fairly confident that the others were present in or near Shalbourne at this time (TAG 70:194 95).

Amos B. Carpenter's claim that William1 (whom he inappropriately numbers as William2) resided in London prior to emigrating is completely baseless (see Carpenter [1898] 34, 38). As above, William was at Shalbourne by 1608. In 2004, John R. Carpenter of La Mesa, California, requested a search by Guildhall Library, London, of that city Carpenters Company freemen lists (begun in the sixteenth century) and of various catalogs; no reference to a William Carpenter was found.

Despite the Bevis passenger list description of William1 (and son William2) as "of Horwell" that is, Wherwell, Hampshire (about 15 air miles south-southeast of Shalbourne) the aforementioned Shalbourne records make it clear that he was at the former place no more than a few months, perhaps only a day or two (see William2 of Rehoboth sketch, RESIDENCES).

Apparently based solely on the absence of any record of William1 in Massachusetts, Amos Carpenter claims that William1 returned to England on the ship that brought him (see Carpenter [1898] 38). There is no evidence of this, however, and no reason to suppose it. His having endured the rigors of the voyage to Massachusetts (assuming he completed it), it is doubtful that William1, an old man by the conditions and standards of the time, would have opted to face, unaccompanied, the physical demands of a return trip. And to what would he have returned? William2 was his eldest (perhaps only) son and heir. (This we infer from the inclusion of William Carpenter Jr. with his father in the Westcourt Manor copy court roll beginning with the initial record of their tenancy.) Where better for this father and grandfather to spend his last years than in the company of those with whom he had come? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: considering his age (advanced), marital status (single), and position in his family (almost certainly subordinate to his son), it is not significant that William1 fails to appear in Massachusetts records as a freeholder or town officer, for example. And with deaths at this time being the vital event least-often recorded, it is unremarkable that no such record is found for him. (Also unrecorded is the birth, probably in late 1638, of his grandson Samuel3.)

OCCUPATION: The Bevis passenger list describes William1 as a carpenter (NEHGR 14:336). That his copyhold included not only a messuage (house and adjoining land) with a garden but also a small number of acres in nearby common fields indicates that he was also a husbandman (subsistence farmer) (see Westcourt 7; Recommended Reading GMN16, no. 3).

EDUCATION/OFFICES: William Crpentr, church warden, signed with his mark a glebe terrier (describing lands belonging to the Shalbourne vicarage) dated 6 June 1628 (SVGT). William2s obvious literacy excludes him from consideration as the subscriber (see William2 of Rehoboth sketch, EDUCATION). The only other man of that name found in Shalbourne records is William1.

CHILDREN: The only known child of William1 Carpenter is the son named with him in his record of tenancy at Shalbourne Westcourt and with whom he emigrated: the eventual William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth (Westcourt Recs 7; NEHGR 14:336; see also William2 of Rehoboth sketch). The Carpenters Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009 main databases attribution to William1 of additional children, through alleged wife Mary Batt (see MARRIAGE, above), is baseless.

COMMENTS: The will of Robert Carpenter of Marden, Wiltshire, dated 12 January 1606[/7?] and proved 21 May 1607, names (among others) adult sons William and Richard. It has been claimed that these brothers were William1 Carpenter (father of William2 of Rehoboth) and RichardA Carpenter of Amesbury, Wiltshire (father of William1 of Providence, R.I.). While it is not impossible that William1 of Shalbourne was the son of Robert of Marden, evidence of it has not been found; it is unlikely that Richard of Amesbury was Robert's son. Genetic testing of agnate descendants of William of Shalbourne and Richard of Amesbury has established with a high degree of probability that the two were in fact related but far more remotely than generally believed. For more-detailed discussions of these matters, see NEHGR 159 (2005):64 66, 67n63; William2 of Rehoboth sketch,

COMMENTS

In Carpenters Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2001 (CECD 2001), compiler John R. Carpenter presents an extensive ancestry for the subject William1 Carpenter and RichardA Carpenter of Amesbury, beginning with the aforementioned Robert Carpenter of Marden and his widow, Elinor, as their parents. Most of this ancestry back from Rev. Richard Carpenter of Herefordshire and Wiltshire (d. 1503) has been proven invalid (NEHGR 159:65n53 66n53[contd.]); as above, the remainder is unsubstantiated and, particularly for the Amesbury man, dubious. Earlier versions of this ancestry, which differ from it for the first few generations (beginning with parents), are even more improbable than the CECD 2001 version (see, for example, Carpenter [1898] 1, 34). The ancestry of William1 Carpenter, including his parentage, is unknown (as is that of RichardA).

Amos Carpenter, the first to assert that Richard A Carpenter was William1s brother, further claims that AlexanderA Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire, and Leiden, Netherlands, was another brother (Carpenter [1898] 34). There is absolutely no support for this.

A Robert Carpenter was among those who took the estate inventory of William Shefford of Shalbourne in 1609 (Shefford Inv). Although it seems reasonable to suppose that he is related to William1 (perhaps a brother [born by 1688]), evidence linking them has not been found. Robert is not a Rehoboth Carpenter forename.

A Wikipedia article about Culham, Oxfordshire, states that [r]ecords from Culham Manor of the late 1500s to the early 1600s . . . show a William Carpenter senior and his son William Carpenter junior, who emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1638 and helped found Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1645 [sic] (Wikipedia1). Another Wikipedia article, about the Rehoboth Carpenters (the same person is the main contributor to both), asserts that [m]anor records from Culham . . . contain various references to a father-son William Carpenter whose activities conform to Shalbourne records. The Carpenters [of] Culham [were] a prosperous yeoman family . . . William Carpenter Sr. served as assessor of fines in the Culham Manor Court. Many pages of Latin records bearing his name are now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. William Carpenter Sr. educated his eldest son Robert at Oxford for the church.

Many of what were perhaps Roberts books made there [sic] way to Massachusetts in the possession of Carpenters son William Carpenter Jr. (b. 1605) (Wikipedia2). These passages reflect one of the most common types of error in genealogy: right name, wrong man, the merging of different persons of the same name into a single identity; in this case, four are reduced to two. The author of the above-quoted statements ignores important evidence refuting his identification of the Carpenters of Shalbourne, Weymouth, and Rehoboth with those of Culham. Far from being the scholarly yeoman (land-owning farmer) who sat on a manorial court at Culham, William1 Carpenter of Shalbourne (35 miles distant) was an illiterate carpenter and husbandman (see OCCUPATION, EDUCATION/ OFFICES, above). And as such, he was in no position to send a son to Oxford.
(There is no evidence that the Robert Carpenter recorded at Shalbourne in 1609 was a clergyman; in any case, he was too old to have been William1s son [see above].) On 22 November 1636, moreover, William Carpenter of Culham was appointed to administer the estate of his son Thomas of London, whose will failed to name an executor (PCC Probate Acts 83). By this time, William1 Carpenter and his only known son, the eventual William2 of Rehoboth, had been living at Shalbourne for twenty-eight years! In summary, there is absolutely no basis for the claim that the two immigrant William Carpenters formerly of Shalbourne were identical to a Culham father and son of the same name, or that the two pairs of men were connected at all.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: See, for example,

• Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New England Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1991; repr. 1992 [paperback]);
• Francis J. Bremer, The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards, rev. ed. (Lebanon, N.H., 1995 [paperback]);
• John Chandler, Marlborough and Eastern Wiltshire (Salisbury, England, 2001), and Shalbourne Concise History, online at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getconcise.php?id=199, a Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire Community History webpage;
• Shalbourne History Project, Shalbourne to the Millennium (Shalbourne, England, 1999);
• Stephen Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570 1700 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1991; repr.1996 [paperback]);
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Archbishop Laud: 1573 1645 (London, 1940; repr. 2000 [paperback]);
• Keith Wrightson and David Levine, Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525 “1700, 2nd ed. (Oxford, England, 1995 [paperback]).

KEY TO SOURCE NOTES:

• BCG = Board for Certification of Genealogists, The Genealogical Proof Standard, online at bcgcertification.org/resources/ standard.html
• Carpenter [1898] = Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Reho- both Branch of the Carpenter Family in America [informal title: Carpenter Memorial] (Amherst, Mass., 1898)
• CCS = Consistory Court of Salisbury, wills, bonds, and inventories, ref. P1/C/120, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, England
• ChrRecs = England & Wales Christening Records, 1530 1906, online database at www.search.ancestry.co.uk
• GCPaR = Great Coxwell Parish Records (not paginated) [Family History Library (FHL), Salt Lake City, film #88,267]
• GMN = Great Migration Newsletter, online at www.great migration.org (subscription website; printed issues available)
• Martin = David Kendall Martin, FASG, letter to Gene Zubrinsky, 16 March 1998
• NEHGR = The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 1 (1847) through present
• PCC Probate Acts = John Matthews and George F. Matthews, Abstracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1635 1639 (London, 1903); digital image online at http:// books.google.com
• Shalbourne Map = Parish of Shalbourne, from Andrews and Durys Map of Wiltshire, 1810, online at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/ community/getcom2.php?id=199, a Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire Community History webpage
• Shefford Inv = William Shefford estate inventory, facsimile online at http:// history.wiltshire.gov.uk/wills/P5-1609_71_A1{TCL}.jpg, a Wiltshire County Council Wiltshire Archive Catalogue webpage; abstract online at www.genuki.org.uk/ big/eng/BRKwills/wa10419.html, a GENUKI: UK & Ireland Gen
• SVGT = Shalbourne Vicarage Glebe Terrier, ref. D/5/10/2/8, Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham (formerly Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, Trowbridge), England
• TAG = The American Genealogist, vol. 9 (1932) through present
• Westcourt Recs = Survey of Shalbourne Westcourt (c1610 1639/40), Savernake Estate Collection, ref. 9/24/460, Wiltshire and Swin- don Archives
• Wikipedia1 = Wikipedia contributors, Culham, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cul ham (accessed 5/4/2009)
• Wikipedia2 = Wikipedia contributors, Rehoboth Carpenter Family, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, online at http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboth_Carpenter_Family (accessed 5/4/2009)
• WiltPaR = Wiltshire Parish Registers. Marriages, vol. 5, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore, Edmund Nevill, and John Sadler (London, 1907) [FHL film #496,691, item 4]

Thanks to Jim Bullock (Littleton, Colo.), John R. Carpenter (La Mesa, Calif.), Terry L. Carpenter (Germantown, Md.), and John F. Chandler (Harvard, Mass.) for reviewing the original sketch. Gene Zubrinsky has contributed many articles, including four Carpenter pieces, to the leading genealogical journals and local-history.

Link

1. Wikipedia - Rehoboth Carpenter family

The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644.[1]

Three Carpenter family houses in Rehoboth are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Christopher Carpenter House, Col. Thomas Carpenter III House, and Carpenter House.

William Carpenter

• The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter (generation 1) (b. c1575 in England),
  • his namesake son, William Carpenter (Generation 2) (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 (Gen. 1), 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 (Gen. 2) is buried in the Newman Congregational Church Cemetery with a simple field stone marked with a "W. C.".[2]
• William Carpenter, (Gen. 2) 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 (Gen. 3) Carpenter (b. 1631 in England - 1702/3 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts), 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.[3]

English ancestry

• These Carpenters 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 (Gen. 2, a.k.a. Senior) Carpenter's marriage in 1625 to Abigail Briant of Shalbourne.
  • A search of Westcourt Manor tenants' records reveals William Carpenter (Gen. 1) as a copyholder at Westcourt Manor in Shalbourne from 1608 to late 1637.[2]

Immigrant family

• William Carpenter (Generation 1)
  • was born 1576 in Newtown, 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 1576 for his birth.[3]
• His son William Carpenter (Gen. 2)
  • was born about 1605 in or of Wiltshire, England.
  • He died 7 February 1658/1659 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony.
  • He married Abigail Briant, daughter of John & Alice, on 28 April 1625 in Shalbourne Parish, Berkshire, now in, Wiltshire, England.[5]
  • Their children:
    • John Carpenter - Christened 8 October 1626 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
    • Abigail Carpenter - Chr. 31 May 1629 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis passenger
    • William Carpenter (Gen. 3) - Chr. 22 November 1631 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
    • Joseph Carpenter - Chr. 6 April 1634 in Shalborne Parish - Bevis Passenger
    • Samuel Carpenter - Chr. 1 March 1636/1637 d. 20 April 1637 both in Shalbourne Parish [England].
    • Samuel Carpenter - b. abt. 1638 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts - his mother was probably pregnant on the Bevis
    • Hannah Carpenter - b. 3 April 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
    • Abiah Carpenter - b. 9 April 1643 of, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Church Newman Congregational Church and Carpenter graves

• There is no record to confirm it, but it is said that certain Rehoboth Carpenters were among the founders of the Rehoboth (now Newman) Congregational Church
  • (See: Newman Congregational Church and the Newman Cemetery)
    • Rehoboth Congregational Church - Our History,
    • Wikipedia -Newman Congregational Church
    • Wikipedia - Newman Cemetery
    • The Curious Genealogist - The Case of the Wandering Church
  • This much we know: William (Gen. 2) 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 (Gen. 2) 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 (Gen. 2) 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.

Relationship with other New England Carpenter families

• William Carpenter of Rhode Island, (1610-1685) son of Richard Carpenter of Amesbury was a reportedly a first cousin of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, son of William Carpenter of Shalbourne, England.
  • In addition he supposedly was closely related to Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire, and Leiden, Netherlands, of whom his four married daughters were in the Plymouth Colony in the early 1620s.
  • This derives from Amos B. Carpenter's [2] unsupported claim that Richard of William of Shalbourne, and Alexander Carpenter were brothers.
  • No genealogical evidence has been found even hinting at a link between the Wrington Carpenters, on the one hand, and either of the other two afore-mentioned families, on the other; a connection is highly improbable. Traditional genealogical research methods provide good reasons to doubt also that Providence William and Rehoboth William were closely related.[15]

Sources

• 1. Carpenter, Amos B. (1898) [1898]. A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, a.k.a. "The Carpenter Memorial". Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898.Note: This book has been reprinted and duplicated by many organizations in print, CD, DVD, & digital formats. 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.
• 2 Carpenter, Amos B. A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, a.k.a. "The Carpenter Memorial", Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 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. Subject is number 775 on page 136 and 137 in the Carpenter Memorial with his family on page 255 and 256 (# 279).
• 3. 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).
• 4. Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole, FASG. "William Carpenter of Newtown, Shalbourne, Wiltshire (Bevis, 1638)" (Ojai, Calif., 2009).
• 5. Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole, FASG. "The Family of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters," The American Genealogist, Vol. 70 (October 1995), pp. 193-204. This work establishes the English origin of William Carpenter (Gen. 1) of Rehoboth (c1605-1658[/9]); identifies his wife, Abigail Briant; and revises their children's birth order.
• 15. Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009 (DVD format)

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Married- Alice- maybe 1595

(Not sure if he was born about the date or place))

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 24 2018, 1:52:14 UTC

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William Carpenter (Gen. 1) born about 1575 in England. He died after 2 May 1638 (Bevis passenger list)

His son William Carpenter (Gen. 2) was born about 1605 in or of Wiltshire, England. He died 7 February 1658/1659 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony. He married Abigail Briant, daughter of John & Alice, on 28 April 1625 in Shalbourne Parish, Berkshire, now in, Wiltshire, England.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboth_Carpenter_family