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Facts and Events
Further Reading
Carpenter Sketches[2] includes an article on Abiah Carpenter by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, which the reader is referred to for more extensive information, as well as source citations. Zubrinsky periodically updates the article, and the reader is encouraged to check it for his latest research.
Amos B. Carpenter's book A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, brought down from their English ancestor, John Carpenter, 1303, with many biographical notes of descendants and allied families also referred to as Carpenter Memorial presents an English ancestry that has since been debunked, as well as much other misinformation, and should be used only in consulation with the work of Zubrinsky.
References
- Abiah Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island and His Family, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
159:56, 2005. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Abiah3 Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Warwick, Rhode Island, 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 1, 5.
'ABIAH3 CARPENTER (William2 of Rehoboth, William1) was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 9 2nd month [April] 1643 and died intestate in the Pawtuxet section of Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island and Plymouth Plantations, after 14 December 1687 and probably before 26 December 1689 (certainly before 22 March 169[8/]9).'
'He was presumably deceased when “Rebecka Carpenter Daughter of Abiah Carpenter” was recorded in the “Orphants” section of a list of grantees appended to Major William Bradford’s quitclaim deed to the town of Rehoboth, dated 26 December 1689 (Early Rehoboth 1:56–57; see NEHGR 159:56n6 for more-detailed discussion).'
'Clerical errors in and misinterpretation of original Weymouth vital records caused that town’s published vital-records volume to attribute to William2 Carpenter a son Abraham and to identify him as Abiah’s twin. Amos Carpenter correctly concludes that Abraham did not exist but nevertheless retains the idea that Abiah had a twin—his sister Abigail (see Carpenter [1898] 46). It has since been established, however, that she was several years older than Abiah ... There was neither an Abraham nor a multiple birth in this family (TAG 70:200–3).'
- ↑ Abiah3 Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Warwick, Rhode Island, 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)
page 3.
'Amos Carpenter calls him a mariner, but the extent of Abiah’s land holdings and the nature and frequency of his public service point to his having been a planter (see Carpenter [1898] 46; MD 14:232; WarTR2 43–44; RILE 1:47; ...). Not a single seafaring reference is found in records pertaining to Abiah3. The mariner label probably reflects confusion with Abiah5 Carpenter (Oliver4, Abiah3), who died in 1729, apparently in the West Indies, and whose death record calls him captain and
mariner (RIVR 2:1[Providence]:263; Brady Anc 138).'
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