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• Birth	Abt 1626	Amesbury, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Christened	8 Oct 1626	Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  BIRT	1628  [3]
  Died	23 May 1695	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Buried	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I6134	Wanicki/Rozhon and Kapusta/Jemiola
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2005 18:46:05
  Father	William CARPENTER, b. 23 May 1605, Whirwell, Wiltshire, England
  Mother	Abigail BRIANT, b. 27 May 1604, Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England
  Family ID	F2372	Group Sheet
  Married	9 Feb 1679/1680	Howell, England   [1]
  Children	1. Samuel CARPENTER, b. 1643, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F2371	Group Sheet

• Notes

  John came from England with his father and when young went to Connecticut; was there previous to 1646, when he must have been about 17 years old. It appears that he drifted about Connecticut several years working at the trade of a carpenter. He had some difficulty with one Gibbons and was assisted by Thomas Osborn. His brother Joseph appeared as plaintiff at Hartford, June, 1648. In the year 1660 John bought land in Hempstead, Long Island and in the deed he is called "John Carpenter of Huntington, Conn." He is mentioned in his fathers will of April 21, 1658, in which he gives him one mare, being the old white mare, etc, and to the grandson, (son of the aforesaid John) twenty shillings to buy him a calf. It appears that the name of the son was not known at the time or it would have been mentioned. John Carpenter was in Stratford, Conn., in the year 1646. Hinman says that the John Carpenter of Hempstead, Long Island, was accepted as a freeman by the General Court of Connecticut where he chose to be a freeman of that State, May, 1664, and with him were some twenty others. He was chosen Townsman of Hempstead, Long Island, in the year 1663. He bought land in Jamaica, Long Island, in the year 1665. Captain John, Sr. and Captain John, Jr. received their titles by virtue of being Captain of Jamaica Fusileers, a military Company of that day. The first Captain John Carpenter (McDonald), was captain of a company of fusileers in the year 1673, and is also mentioned in the Doc. History of New York as being ordered in 1673, with his company, to defend Fort Jamaica, NY, against the fleet of the Prince of Orange. It was at the time of the re-capture of New York by the Dutch. Captain John Carpenter was a resident of Jamaica, L.I. previous to the year 1664; was one of the patentees of the town under the "Dongan Patent" of 1680. John Carpenter and Nehemiah Smith were a committee to settle the Rev. John Pruden over the church at Jamaica, June, 19, 1681. Judge Morgan Carpenter, now deceased, of Poughkeepsie, NY, had among his papers the sale dower dated 1704, in which Hannah Carpenter, of Jamaica, L.I., sells her rights in houses and lands, left by her late husband, Captain John Carpenter, to her son, William Carpenter. A tract of land was bought by John Carpenter 1st, in Jamaica and occupied by him and three generations after him, each named John; the last one died young and was not married. The tax of Captain John Carpenter 1st, in 1683, was on 186 pounds sterling; the list on which the above rate was made up stood as follows: Two horses, two oxen, five cows, eleven yearlings, 10 swine, fifty-two acres of land, and two heads, valued as above. His will of Nov. 10, 1694, stated "Now ancient, crazy in body, but sound in mind," etc. The names in the will are Hannah, his wife; John, Hope, Samuel, and William, his sons; Ruth, his daughter; Solomon, a grandson; Abigail and Hannah, granddaughters. He leaves his carpenter tools to his sons. He appeared to have been a man of superior judgment who did much to assist in building up the community. His brother-in-law, Joseph, a son of William of Providence, settled at Musceta Cove, L.I. at about the same time; the relationship probably had much to do with the settlement of the families in that locality.

• Sources

  [S42] Rich Van Wagenen, richvw68111@yahoo.com. [S44] Ken Warkentin. [S43] TEIncNJ@aol.com. [S46] Family Search: Ancestral File.