Family:Nathanial Carpenter and Mary Preston (1)

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Marriage[1][2][3][4] 13 Dec 1695 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. William3 Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. Carpenter Sketches: Links to Sketches And Articles Representing the Most Current and Reliable Scholarship Concerning Early Generations of the Carpenter Families of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island and Their Ancestors. (Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters, 2008)
    pages 3, 5.

    'CHILDREN: All born at Rehoboth (RVR 1:9). ... NATHANIEL CARPENTER, b. 12 May 1667, d. prob. Rehoboth or Attleborough, date unknown (not 28 Feb. 1727 [see bro. Josiah, above]), living 1740/1 (will); m. (1) Rehoboth 19 Sept. 1692 or 18 Sept. 1693, RACHEL COOPER, b. Rehoboth 6 Aug. 1671, d. or bur. there 9 July 1694, aged 23, dau. of Thomas Jr. and Mary (Kingsbury) Cooper; of Attleborough when he m. (2) Dorchester 13 10th mo. [Dec.] 1695, MARY PRESTON, b. Dorchester 1 Sept. 1675, d. Rehoboth 26 (not 25) May 1706, in 31st yr., dau. of Daniel and Abigail (Jackson) Preston; m. (3) Rehoboth 18 (not 8) July 1707, MARY (SABIN) COOPER (widow of Nathaniel), b. Rehoboth 8 Sept. 1675, d. there 9 April 1712, aged 36, dau. of William and Martha (Allen) Sabin; of Attleborough when he m. (4) Roxbury, Mass., 13 Nov. 1716, MARY (DAVIS) BACON (widow of George), bp. Roxbury 14 1st or 2nd mo. [March or April] 1675 (Mary, dau. of John) or b. there 6 or 16 April 1676 (Marie, dau. of John), dau. of John and Mary/Marie (Devotion) Davis (Carpenter [1898] 53 [unrecorded will]; RVR 1:7, 10, 89 [not 91], 93a, 162 [not 94], 163 [not 95], 164 [not 96], 160, 175 [not 171], 178 [not 179], 181 [not 173]; NEHGR 5:255, 14:26, 16:338, 36:52; DVR 14, 102; Old Rehoboth Cem 16, 18; RI Cems 69; RVR [pub] 5, 331; RoVR 1:96, 2:17, 62, 108, 459; Davis Fams 43-46; Woodstock Hist 2:281).'

  2. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
    page 136.

    'CARPENTER, Nathaniel (1667-) & 2/wf Mary PRESTON (1675-1706); 13 Dec 1695, 17 Nov 1695; Dorchester/Rehoboth'

  3. Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1934)
    page 364 Marriages.

    'Carpenter, ...
    Nathaniel, of A., and Mary Preston of Dover, Oct. 13, 1695. [footnote: Intention not recorded.]'

    Oct is probably a misinterpretation of the 10th month, which would have been December in 1695.

  4. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    p. 102.

    'Nathaniel Carpenter of Attlebourogh With Mary Preston of Dor: was married the 13 of the 10th month: 1695. by [th]e Reverand mr Danforth:'