Renew Weeks

Generation 11 back

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 ← Edward Carpenter ← Renew Weeks

In brief

Born August 12, 1660, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She died July 29, 1703, in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Family

Father

William Weeks

Mother

Elizabeth ____

Spouse

Benjamin Carpenter

Children

Benjamin Carpenter
b. January 27, 1680, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Barney, January 23, 1706
Jotham Carpenter
b. June 1, 1682/July 1, 1683, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Desire Martin, July 10, 1707
m. Isabel Sherman, June 6, 1728
d. 1760
Renew Carpenter
b. April 14, 1684, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. John West
d. December 4, 1703, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Carpenter
b. February 1685, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. ____ Winslow
Hannah Carpenter
b. May 3, 1688, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. David Thurston, October 23, 1725
d. October 2, 1768
Jane Carpenter
b. Mar 31, 1690, in Swansea, Massachusetts
d. June 15, 1690
John Carpenter
b. March 1691, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Sarah Thurston, September 12, 1717
m. Martha H___
m. Hannah Martin, March 19, 1748
d. 1766
Submit Carpenter
b. June 22, 1693, in Swansea, Massachusetts
d. February 9, 1741, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Job Carpenter
b. March 16, 1695, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Anne ____
m. Barbara Miller, December 17, 1764
Kesiah Carpenter
b. March 26, 1697, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Thomas Horton
Hezekiah Carpenter
b. March 27, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts
d. March 19, 1750
Edward Carpenter · in this line
b. December 8, 1700, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Wilson, August 12, 1724, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
d. December 12, 1778, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Siblings

John Weekes
b. February 1651
m. Sarah Hammond, November 4, 1674
Elizabeth Weekes
b. September 16, 1653
m. Terrence Henley, April 2, 1694, in Boston, Massachusetts
William Weekes
Mary Weekes
b. November 10, 1656
m. Henry White
George Weekes
b. November 26, 1658
d. October 27, 1659
Jane Weekes
b. September 30, 1662
m. John Blackman, March 26, 1685
d. August 8, 1735
Sarah Weekes
b. Abt. August 1666
m. John Macomb
Hannah Weekes
b. Abt. September 1668
Samuel Weekes
b. January 1669
Submit Weekes
b. February 1671
m. Robert Cook Jr, October 26, 1693

Life story

A Dorchester Inheritance

Renew Weeks was born August 12, 1660, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, daughter of William Weeks, and received a small remembrance in her grandmother Jane's 1667 will. She was admitted to the church in March 1677 and later married Benjamin Carpenter. Renew died July 29, 1703, in Swansea, Massachusetts.

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).
Robert D. Weeks, Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes of Dorchester, Mass. (Newark, New Jersey: L.J. Hardham, 1885).
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).