Mary Carpenter

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Carpenter was born on 26 February 1739, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Eleazer Carpenter, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Warfield, was 21. She died on 9 May 1756, in her hometown, at the age of 17, and was buried in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Eleazer Carpenter
1704–1778
Elizabeth Warfield
1717–
Elizabeth Carpenter
1736–1810
Mary Carpenter
1739–1756
Rachel Carpenter
1741–1807
Eleazer Carpenter Jr
1744–1781
Abishai Carpenter
1746–
Benjamin Carpenter
1749–1752
Elihu Carpenter
1752–1827
Mary Carpenter
1756–1848

Sources (6)

  • IMAGE 656 OF 1014 TAGGED IN MEMORIES; BIRTH; Mary Carpenter, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
  • IMAGE 892 OF 1014 TAGGED IN MEMORIES; DEATH; Mary Carpenter, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
  • Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850

Name Meaning

English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).

Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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