'DAUGHTER, b. between 1662 and 1671; place in birth order uncertain. The Martha Carpenter who was born ca. 1663 and died at Swansea 22 March 1735, in her 73rd yr.,
is often said to have been Joseph and Margaret’s daughter (see, for example, Carpenter [1898] 58; Stevens–Miller 266). She was in fact their daughter-in-law Martha (Bliss) (Toogood) Carpenter, 2nd wife of their son Benjamin (no. ii, above) (NEHGR 159:361–62; see also WILL/ESTATE, above). Her proper identification eliminates
the sole basis for the assertion that Joseph and Margaret had a daughter Martha.'
