'SAMUEL4 CARPENTER, b. 15 Sept. 1661, d. Rehoboth 17 Jan. 1736/7, in 76th yr.; m. Rehoboth 8 Jan. 168[2/]3, PATIENCE IDE, b. Rehoboth 25 May 1664, d. there 28 Oct. 1732, aged 68, dau. of Nicholas and Martha (Bliss?) Ide (RVR 1:19, 48, 2:242, 244; Old Rehoboth Cem 15; RI Cems 69; Early Rehoboth 1:132). Their marriage record, entered at Rehoboth with the year 1683, appears in Plymouth Colony records as part of an undated year’s list of vital records forwarded by Rehoboth town clerk William3
Carpenter. The list includes several birth records originally dated in 1682/3 and none of several originally dated in 1683/4 (see PCR 8:87–88; RVR 1:24, 29, 37, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49). The year of marriage is therefore presented above as 168[2/]3.'
