Elizabeth Wilson
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Rhoda Slaughter ← Lois Carpenter ← Benjamin Carpenter ← Elziabeth Wilson
In brief
Born July 8, 1706, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. She married August 12, 1724, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. She died April 24, 1791, in Swansea, Massachusetts or Guilford, Vermont.
Family
Children
- Benjamin Carpenter · in this lineb. May 17, 1725, in Swansea or Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Amie Carpenter, October 2/3, 1745, in Providence, Rhode Islandd. March 29, 1804 · Guildford, Vermont
- Edward Carpenterb. May 7, 1727, in Swansea, Massachusettsm. Mary Lippitt, November 19, 1749
- Lucinda Carpenterb. April 30, 1737, in Swansea, Massachusetts
- Comfort Carpenterb. December 21, 1739, in Swansea, Massachusetts
- Caleb Carpenterb. September 26, 1742, in Swansea, Massachusettsm. Hannah Carpenterm. Elisabeth Wilsond. March 22, 1810
- Beloved Carpenterb. December 13, 1744, in Swansea, Massachusettsm. Mary Williams, April 25, 1763
Siblings
- John Wilsonb. January 9, 1694, in Woburn, Massachusettsd. January 27, 1706[1707], in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Benjamin Wilsonb. November 21, 1695, in Woburn, Massachusettsm. Elizabeth ____m. Elizabeth Sprague around 1731/1732 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Jonathan Wilsonb. December 8, 1698, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Hannah Haile around March 20, 1723[1724] near Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. September 2, 1729, near Newport, Rhode Island
- Rebecca Wilsonb. January 20, 1701, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Joseph Whiton, April 9, 1720, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. March 17, 1776, in Ashford, Connecticut
- Hannah Wilsonb. October 7, 1702, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Francis Wilsonb. September 7, 1704, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Samuel Wilsonb. January 5, 1707[1708], in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Ruth Wilsonb. April 7, 1710, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Joseph Jacob, October 26, 1732, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. October 4, 1802, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Bethiah Wilsonb. December 4, 1711, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. John Beverly, May 5, 1731, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Daniel Wilmarth, April 18, 1733, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. Abt. October 1776 in Dighton, Massachusetts
- Abigail Wilsonb. August 30, 1713, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. November 5, 1713, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Mary Wilsonb. October 17, 1714, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Ebenezer Cole, June 10, 1740, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsd. March 26, 1794, in Shaftsbury, 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).