In brief

Baptized November 30, 1637, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England. She married November 25, 1655, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. She died 1676 near Swansea, Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts, USA).

Family

Children

  • Joseph Carpenter
    b. August 15, 1656, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    m. Mary ____, February 23, 1681
    d. February 1717, in Swansea, Massachusetts
  • Benjamin Carpenter · in this line
    b. January 15, 1657[1658], in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    m. November 27, 1706, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    d. May 22, 1727, in Swansea, Massachusetts
  • Abigail Carpenter
    b. March 15, 1659, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    d. February 1, 1683
  • Esther Carpenter
    b. March 10, 1661, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    m. Samuel Brentnall/Brintnell, March 19, 1687, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    d. December 20, 1730, in Norton, Massachusetts
  • John Carpenter
    b. Abt. 1667, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    m. ____ Grinnell
    m. Elizabeth ____
    m. Abigail ____
    d. August 25, 1753, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island
  • Hannah Carpenter
    b. March 1671, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    m. Thomas Skinner
  • Solomon Carpenter
    b. April 27, 1673, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    d. October 25, 1674, in Swansea, Massachusetts
  • Margaret Carpenter
    b. May 4, 1675, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    m. Thomas Chaffee, June 4, 1695
    d. May 6, 1751, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • ____ Carpenter

Siblings

  • John Sutton
    b. Abt. October 1621 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
    m. Elizabeth House, January 1, 1661[1662], in Scituatue, Massachusetts
    d. Abt. 1691 in Scituate, Massachusetts
  • Elizabeth Sutton
    b. Abt. May 1623 near Great Saxham, Suffolk, England
  • Mary Sutton
    b. Abt. August 1625 near Great Saxham, Suffolk, England
    m. John Fitch around 1645 in Massachusetts
    d. November 4, 1703, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • Judith Sutton
    b. Abt. November 1629 near Attleborough, Norfolk, England
    d. Abt. July 1631 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
  • Anne Sutton
    b. Abt. 1627/Abt. 1631
    m. John Doggett/Daggett in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, November 23, 1651
  • Esther Sutton
    b. Abt. April 1632 near Great Snoring, Norfolk, England
    m. Richard Bowen, March 4, 1656, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    d. Abt. November 1688 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • Hannah Sutton
    b. Abt. 1640
    d. October 1642 in Hingham, Massachusetts

Life story

A Rehoboth Estate

Margaret Sutton was baptized November 30, 1637, in Attleborough, Norfolk, England, daughter of John Sutton and Julian Adcocke, and married Joseph Carpenter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in November 1655. Margaret died near Swansea, Plymouth Colony, in 1676; her estate was appraised at 87 pounds.

Sources (5)
  1. Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America (Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898).
  2. Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, “The Family of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 70 (October 1995): 193-204; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13130/193/234370203 : accessed 6 August 2026).
  3. Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, “Joseph Caprenter of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts,” Carpenter Cousins, 16 February 2018 (https://www.carpentercousins.com/Joseph3_Rehoboth&Swansea.pdf : accessed 7 August 2026).
  4. Eugene Cole Zubinsky, “Julian Adcocke, Wife of John Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Their Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 167 (January 2013): 7-14; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/14128/7/36729272 : accessed 8 August 2026).
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