Person:John Carpenter (4)

John is the third son listed in his father's will, but it is suspected that Richard (the last named, as co-executor and one of the principal legatees) was the eldest. In 1606, John was under apprenticeship. Gene Zubrinsky suggested an age between 14 and 21 years, making his birth between about 1585 and 1592. The birth year 1588 is midrange.

1.   Zubrinsky, Eugene Cole. Abiah³ Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, and his family. Appendix 1: Were William¹ Carpenter of Providence and William² Carpenter of Rehoboth first cousins?, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   159(2005):66.

   'Robert's will, dated 12 January 1606[/7?] and proved 21 May 1607, names sons William, Robert, John, and Charles, daughters Edith and Alice, brother Richard, "my sonnes childe Will[ia]m," and (as co-executors and principal legatees) son Richard and wife Elinor. Neither the will nor any other known record indicates which, if any, of Robert's children he fathered with Elinor.'

2. ↑ Church of England. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Ancestry.com (comp.). England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database]. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2013)
   PROB 11: Will Registers, 1599-1623, Huddleston, Quire Numbers 1-47, page 327.

   The will is written in the probate record. It includes:
   
   "Item I geve to my sonne John Carpenter Tenne powndes to be payde him when the yeares of his apprentishippe are expired."