Ancestry of
Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter

William Carpenter

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Amy Grant — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1168 
  • Father:
  • William Carpenter 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Briant   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1631 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jan 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Miriam Searles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Dec 1663 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Carpenter

  Daniel Carpenter

  Miriam Carpenter

  Obadiah Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:584 )

• Additional marriages for William Carpenter

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  • Spouse:
  • Priscilla Bennett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1651

• Sources for William Carpenter

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/29/2015).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1997, Vol. 14, p. 22.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 52.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1997, Vol. 151, p. 32.
  • ⁵ Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 44.
  • ⁶ Carpenter, Amos B., A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 44-45, 51-57.
  • ⁷ Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland, Carpenter Family of America, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company (2000, Orig. 1901), 44-45, 51-57.

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