Benjamin Carpenter
b. January 27, 1680, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Barney, January 23, 1706
Jotham Carpenter
b. June 1, 16821/July 1, 16832, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. 1760
m. Desire Martin, July 10, 1707; Isabel Sherman, June 6, 1728
Renew Carpenter
b. April 14, 1684, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. December 4, 1703, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. John West
Elizabeth Carpenter
b. February 28, 1685/1686, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. ____ Winslow
Hannah Carpenter
b. May 3, 1688, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. October 2, 1768
m. David Thurston, October 23, 1725
Jane Carpenter
b. Mar 31, 1690, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. June 15, 1690
John Carpenter
b. March 25, 1691/1692, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. 1766
m. Sarah Thurston, September 12, 1717; Martha H___; Hannah Martin, March 19, 1748
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 ____; 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

Siblings

John Weekes
b. February 23, 1651/1652
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 · d. August 8, 1735
m. John Blackman, March 26, 1685
Sarah Weekes
b. Abt. August 1666
m. John Macomb
Hannah Weekes
b. Abt. September 1668
Samuel Weekes
b. January 25, 1669/1670
Submit Weekes
b. February 3, 1671/1672
m. Robert Cook Jr, October 26, 1693

In brief

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

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.

At a glance

Lived

Dorchester, 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).