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John Lithgow

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Elizabeth Carpenter

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of John Lithgow — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 119 
  • Father:
  • Jotham Carpenter Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mehitable Thompson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1746 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Carpenter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 May 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:59 )

• Sources for Elizabeth Carpenter

  • ¹ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Providence, Vol 3, p. 5-20, Marriage record for Nathaniel Carpenter and Elizabeth Carpenter.
  • ² Carpenter, Amos B., A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 142, 238.
  • ³ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield and John Bradley Arthaud, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 237.
  • ⁴ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 109.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 256, 314.

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