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Jotham Carpenter Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 238 
  • Father:
  • Jotham Carpenter 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Martin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Aug 1708 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 May 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Elder Ballou Meeting House Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Thompson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 May 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sybil Carpenter

  Elizabeth Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:119 )

• Additional marriages for Jotham Carpenter Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Freelove Haile
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Mar 1747/1748
  • Marriage Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for Jotham Carpenter Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/20/2013).
  • ² Rehoboth, MA: Vital Records, 1642-1896, Page 575, Birth record for daughter Sebbell Carpenter.
  • ³ Carpenter, Amos B., A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 123-124, 142, 238-239.
  • ⁴ 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), 69, 235-238.
  • ⁵ 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), 36, 108-109.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 4, 255, 314.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 440.

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