In brief

Born about 1575, in England. May 2, 1638: William and his son William along with his son’s family were at sea having left from Southampton, England aboard the ship Bevis. He died about 1638/about 1641 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.

Family

Spouse
Alice ____

Children

  • William Carpenter · in this line
    b. Abt. 1605 in England
    m. Abigail Briant, April 28, 1625, at St. Michael and All Angels Church in Shalbourne Parish, Wiltshire/Berkshire, England
    d. February 7, 1658[1659], in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (now Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island)
Sources (3)
  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, “William Carpenter of Newtown, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, and Weymouth, Massachusetts,” Carpenter Cousins, 28 March 2023 (https://www.carpentercousins.com/Wm1_Shalbourne.pdf : accessed 7 August 2026).