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Wiliam Carpenter
Built-in abt. 1610

Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
Died 7 September 1685

Providence (Pawtuxet section now in Cranston)
Known for First surnamed Carpenter to make permanent residence in America

William Carpenter was a co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, born almost 1610, probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died September 7, 1685 in the Pawtuxet section of Providence, now in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was listed by 1655 every bit a "freeman" of the colony.

Life and career [edit]

William Carpenter was the son of Richard Carpenter, who was born in England, probably in or near the Wiltshire town and parish of Amesbury or the adjacent parish of Newton Ton(eastward)y. His mother may accept been Alice Knight, merely this is non confirmed.

William married Elizabeth Arnold (Nov 23, 1611 - subsequently Sep vii, 1685), who was born in Ilchester, Somerset, England, the girl of William Arnold (June 24, 1587 - 1675/76) and sis of Benedict Arnold, the first governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.[1] William and Elizabeth had eight children together: Joseph, Lydia, Ephraim, Priscilla, Timothy, Silas, Benjamin, and William. The couple were probably buried on their homestead in nowadays-day Cranston, Rhode Island.[2] [3]

William Carpenter is the first person bearing the surname "Carpenter" to make permanent settlement in America.[4] He settled in Providence Plantation and was instrumental in its development as a Colony, holding many public offices.

Original 1600s town layout of Providence, RI with many of the street names on the East Side named later on the original homestead strip owners. William Carpenter's lot is left of the letter "D" in Providence Neck.

Providence Plantation [edit]

William Carpenter was not one of the first six settlers of Providence Plantation with Roger Williams[five] in 1636, but he arrived early the side by side spring with seven others.[6] His name is listed in the commencement act executed in the settlement by Roger Williams.[vii] [8] In 1640, his name appears with the names of 38 others on an understanding to class a government in Providence.

Carpenter congenital a block house on his property before long after settling there for defense force confronting Indian attacks, the first in the colony. Many of the surviving Providence Plantation settlers gathered at that place for protection from an Indian attack during Rex Philip's War, and their dauntless stand compelled the Indians to retreat. Carpenter'due south son William Jr. was killed in the attack, along with many other settlers.[ix] During King Philip'south War, the counsel of the most judicious inhabitants of the colony was sought by the General Assembly, and Carpenter was one of sixteen individuals named in this request.

Public offices [edit]

William Carpenter was one of four appointed by Boston authorities "to keepe the peace in [Pawtuxet]," 1642[–1658?].

Commissioner (deputy?) for Providence to Rhode Island General Court Associates
1657-1665, 1675, 1676, 1679.
Appointed juror, Full general Court of Trials
1657/8 (merely did not serve), 1661[/two], 1663, 1664; juror for Grand Inquest, 1658/ix, 1663, 1665; then warden (magistrate) for General Court of Trials, 1660/1.
Providence town meeting moderator
June 1662, June 1665, September 1665, April 1666, September 1666, October 1670, December 1670, Feb 1670/i, April–September 1671.
Full general assistant for Providence to Rhode Island General Assembly
1665-1672.
Providence justice of the peace
1665/6, 1667, 1668 and officiated marriages from his office as an banana for the Providence to the Rhode Isle Full general Assembly from 1669-1671/72.
Providence town councilman
January 1670/ane, June 1673.

Section References:[10] [11] [12] [xiii] [fourteen] [15] [16] [17] [xviii] [19] [20] [21]

Meet also [edit]

  • List of early settlers of Rhode Island
  • Colony of Rhode Isle and Providence Plantations

References [edit]

  1. ^ John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, 1887, p 242
  2. ^ 36; John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, rev. ed. (Baltimore, 1969)
  3. ^ five:323–25, 6:141, 150, 17:62–63; The Early on Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892–1915); digital images online at http:// books.google.com and www.ancestry.com
  4. ^ SEE: "GENEALOGICAL & Family HISTORY OF WESTERN NEW YORK", LEWIS 1912, Folio 274.
  5. ^ Run across: Pawtuxet at: http://world wide web.pawtuxetcove.com/
  6. ^ 3:90–91, 4:73, 14:274; The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892–1915); digital images online at http:// books.google.com and world wide web.ancestry.com
  7. ^ See as well: William Carpenter in New England appears in Providence records under the heading "Agreements & orders the second twelvemonth of ye Plantation" (Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, THE GREAT MIGRATION: IMMIGRANTS TO NEW ENGLAND 1634-1635, Vol. i (A-B) [Boston, 2000], p. 84, citing Hingham Volume of Possessions, p. 30; THE Early RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF PROVIDENCE, Vol. i [Providence, 1892], p. iii).
  8. ^ SEE: "Genealogical History of the Carpenter Family" aka "The Carpenter Memorial", by A.B. Carpenter 1898, page 34 (No. ix-four).
  9. ^ Amos B. Carpenter (1898). Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family. Carpenter & Morehouse. p. 34+. (No. 9-4)
  10. ^ Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628–1886, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, v vols. in vi, four:ane: 332, 333; (Boston, 1853–1854)
  11. ^ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, ed. (1853). Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: 1642-1649. Vol. 2. Massachusetts: West. White, printer to the commonwealth. pp. 26–27.
  12. ^ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, ed. (1854). Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: 1642-1649. Vol. v. Massachusetts: Due west. White, printer to the democracy.
  13. ^ passim, 4:52, 6:103–4, seven:227, 8:11, 47, 15:84–149; The Early on Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892–1915)
  14. ^ Horatio Rogers, George Moulton Carpenter, ed. (1892). The Early on Records of the Town of Providence. Vol. 1. Providence (R.I.). Metropolis Council: Snow & Farnham. p. 28.
  15. ^ Horatio Rogers, George Moulton Carpenter, ed. (1893). The Early Records of the Boondocks of Providence. Vol. two. Providence (R.I.). City Council: Snow & Farnham. pp. 110, 114, 118–19, 128, 131.
  16. ^ Horatio Rogers, George Moulton Carpenter, ed. (1893). The Early on Records of the Town of Providence. Vol. three. Providence (R.I.). Urban center Quango: Snow & Farnham. pp. 2–247.
  17. ^ 1:366, 419, 428, 468, 480, 492, 501, 504, 508, 2:38–449, passim, 3:28–29; Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, 10 vols., ed. John Russell Bartlett (Providence, 1856–1865); digital images of vols. 1 and 3 online at www.familysearch.com
  18. ^ i i:39, 50–51, 70, two:42–75, passim; Rhode Island Court Records: Records of the Court of Tri-als of the Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647–1670, 2 vols. (Providence, 1920–1922); digital images online at www.beginnings.com
  19. ^ 1, six, 7, eight; Rhode Isle General Courtroom of Trials, 1671–1704, transcr. Jane Fletcher Fisk (Boxford, Mass., 1998)
  20. ^ 159; More than Early Records of the Town of Warwick, Rhode Is-state, ed. Cherry Fletcher Bamburg and Jane Fletcher Fiske (Boston, 2001)
  21. ^ For other assignments, activities, etc., run across: ii:123–24, 3:19, 28, 31, 42–43, 58; The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols. (Providence, 1892–1915); digital images online at http:// books.google.com and www.ancestry.com. and RICR ane:430, 444, 482, 507, two:151–537, passim; Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, ten vols., ed. John Russell Bartlett (Providence, 1856–1865); digital images of vols. i and 3 online at www.familysearch.com and 46; Rhode Island Full general Court of Trials, 1671–1704, transcr. Jane Fletcher Fisk (Boxford, Mass., 1998)

Bibliography [edit]

  • Virginia DeJohn Anderson (1991; repr. 1992). New England'southward Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Gild and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Printing. ISBN978-0-521-44764-5.
  • Francis J. Bremer (1995). The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards. Lebanon, Northward.H.: UPNE. ISBN978-0-87451-728-6.
  • Carl Bridenbaugh (1974). Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Order in Rhode Island, 1636–1690. Providence: Chocolate-brown Academy Printing. ISBN978-0-87057-143-5.
    • The Bridenbaugh volume is a good general introduction to Rhode Isle history only nevertheless misinterprets Weeden (Early RI 87) in saying that, to build William Harris's Pawtuxet house, William Carpenter was brought from Amesbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony (encounter Bridenbaugh 38, 141).
  • Samuel Hugh Brockunier (1940). The Irrepressible Democrat Roger Williams . New York: The Ronald Press Company. ISBN978-0-471-07041-2.
  • Bruce C. Daniels (1983). Dissent and Conformity on Narragansett Bay: The Colonial Rhode Island Town. Middletown, Conn.: Books on Demand. ISBN978-0-608-03570-iii.
  • Stephen Foster (1996). The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Civilization. Chapel Hill, N.C.: UNC Press. ISBN978-0-8078-4583-vii.
  • Harris Papers, Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Gild, vol. ten (Providence, 1902);
  • Anne Keary, "Retelling the History of the Settlement of Providence: Speech communication, Writing, and Cultural Interaction on Narragansett Bay," The New England Quarterly 69(1996):250–86;
  • Glenn W. LaFantasie, ed., The Correspondence of Roger Williams, 2 vols. (Providence, 1988);
  • Patricia Eastward. Rubertone (2001). Grave Undertakings, An Archeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN978-1-56098-975-ii.
  • William R. Staples (1843). Annals of the Town of Providence. Providence: Knowles and Vose. Annals of the Boondocks of Providence.
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper (1940; repr. 2000). Archbishop Laud: 1573–1645. London: Orion Publishing Grouping, Limited. ISBN978-i-84212-202-0.
  • Keith Wrightson; David Levine (1995). Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525–1700. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-820321-6. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Further reading [edit]

History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America From the Settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901, Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, The Marion Press, Jamaica, New York, 1901

See likewise [edit]

  • William Arnold (settler)
  • Benedict Arnold (governor)
  • Stukeley Westcott
  • Roger Williams (theologian)

External links [edit]

  • Pawtuxet Cove
  • Urban center of Cranston Official Site
  • genetic research on William Carpenter.
  • Carpenter Cousins research

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