Lois Carpenter

Generation 8 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

In brief

Born September 8, 1753, in Warren, Rhode Island.

Family

Father

Benjamin Carpenter

Mother

Amie Carpenter

Spouse

John Slater

Children

Joseph Slater
b. July 26, 1772
m. Hannah Spaulding in December 1791
d. February 26, 1861
Hannah Slater
b. September 4, 1774
m. Ezra Gleason Ayers, March 7, 1797
d. March 14, 1835
Rhoda Slaughter · in this line
b. May 23, 1778, in Guilford, Vermont
m. Alanson Hayes, August 13, 1801, in Guilford, Vermont
d. February 14, 1862
Hulda Slater
b. November 1, 1780
m. William Richardson
m. Jacob Lombard
m. Sylvanus Nelson
d. January 24, 1866
Prudence Slater
b. February 5, 1783
m. Johnathan “John” Hammond, November 18, 1801
d. May 30, 1852
John Slater
b. August 27, 1786
m. Sarah Gove, August 5, 1810
d. December 16, 1853
Lois Slater
b. April 10, 1788
m. Leverett Mallory, February 18, 1817
d. October 5, 1860
Ira Slater
b. Born: November 15, 1790
m. Sarah Liscom, September 19, 1809
Fanny Slater
b. February 21, 1796
m. Luther Fuller, February 12, 1815
d. September 1, 1868

Siblings

Asaph Carpenter
b. July 22, 1746, in Warren, Rhode Island
d. Hudson, New York
Joseph Carpenter
b. February 24, 1749
m. Tamer Carpenter
m. Eunice ____
d. May 1829
Lucinda Carpenter
b. March 6, 1751
m. Stephen Chase
m. Judge ____ Wheeler
Rhoda Carpenter
b. May 1765, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
m. Samuel Nichols
John Carpenter
b. December 2, 1758
d. October 25, 1759
Lydia Carpenter
b. October 1760
d. October 6, 1780
Amy Carpenter
b. September 1763
d. October 6, 1786, in Scituate, Rhode Island
John Benjamin Carpenter
b. June 8, 1766, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Anne Fisher, February 7, 1788
d. 1832 in Henderson, Kentucky
Cyrus Carpenter
b. September 12, 1769, in Killingly, Connecticut
m. Betsey Barney
m. Betsey Putnam, March 18, 1814
Eunice Carpenter
b. Abt. 1771 in Guilford, Vermont
m. Amos Gore

Life story

A Vermont Inheritance

Lois Carpenter was born September 8, 1753, in Warren, Rhode Island, daughter of Benjamin Carpenter, and married John Slater, settling on land in Guilford, Vermont, next to her parents' own property before later moving to Jay, New York. She stood to inherit half her great-grandfather Abraham Carpenter's personal possessions after his and his wife's deaths.

Sources (3)

Reverend Edmund F. Slafter A.M., Memorial of John Slafter (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869), 55; reprinted from original images by Scholar Select.
Gail Lynde, Carpenter House Stories, 2 October 2022; privately held by a family member.
Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America (Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898).