Edward Carpenter
b. May 7, 1727, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Lippitt, November 19, 1749
Lucinda Carpenter
b. April 30, 1737, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Comfort Carpenter
b. December 21, 1739, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Caleb Carpenter
b. September 26, 1742, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. March 22, 1810
m. Hannah Carpenter; Elisabeth Wilson
Beloved Carpenter
b. December 13, 1744, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Williams, April 25, 1763

Siblings

John Wilson
b. January 9, 1694, in Woburn, Massachusetts · d. January 27, 1706[1707], in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Benjamin Wilson
b. November 21, 1695, in Woburn, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth ____; Elizabeth Sprague around 17312/17323 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Jonathan Wilson
b. December 8, 1698, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. September 2, 1729, near Newport, Rhode Island
m. Hannah Haile around March 20, 1723[1724] near Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Rebecca Wilson
b. January 20, 1701, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. March 17, 1776, in Ashford, Connecticut
m. Joseph Whiton, April 9, 1720, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Hannah Wilson
b. October 7, 1702, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Francis Wilson
b. September 7, 1704, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Samuel Wilson
b. January 5, 1707[1708], in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Ruth Wilson
b. April 7, 1710, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. October 4, 1802, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
m. Joseph Jacob, October 26, 1732, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Bethiah Wilson
b. December 4, 1711, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. Abt. October 1776 in Dighton, Massachusetts
m. John Beverly, May 5, 1731, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Daniel Wilmarth, April 18, 1733, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Abigail Wilson
b. August 30, 1713, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. November 5, 1713, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Mary Wilson
b. October 17, 1714, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. March 26, 1794, in Shaftsbury, Vermont
m. Ebenezer Cole, June 10, 1740, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts

In brief

Born July 8, 1706, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. She married August 12, 1724, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. She died April 24, 1791, 2, 3, in Swansea, Massachusetts, 2/Guilford, Vermont.

Life story

A Palmer's River Gift

Elizabeth Wilson was born July 8, 1706, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, daughter of Benjamin Wilson, and married Edward Carpenter there in August 1724. Her father gave the couple parcels of land along the Palmer River in Rehoboth in 1733 and 1735, totaling some fifty-eight acres. Elizabeth died April 24, 1791, in either Swansea, Massachusetts, or Guilford, Vermont.

Sources (3)

Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America (Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898).
Ken Stevens, Wilsons from New England: Volume J, Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts (Walpole, New Hampshire: Ken Stevens, 1991); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/descendantsofjoh00stev : accessed 10 August 2026).
William Utermohlen, “Elizabeth Fuller of Salem and Woburn, Massachusetts; Rehoboth, Rhode Island; and Ashford, Connecticut – Probable Wife of Benjamin Wilson,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178 (Spring 2024): 169-188; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/82242/169/97028178 : accessed 10 August 2026).