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John Lithgow

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Benjamin Carpenter

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 952 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Carpenter 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Sutton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jan 1657 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 May 1727 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Knockum Hill Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Renew Weeks
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1680 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Jotham Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:476 )

  Kezia Carpenter

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Carpenter

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha Toogood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1706

• Sources for Benjamin Carpenter

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 3, Pages 240-241.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rehoboth, Vol. 1, p. 571, Birth record for Benjamin Carpenter.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, Page 49.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index, Cemetery record for Benjamin Carpenter.
  • ⁵ Swansea, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 9, Birth record for son Jotham Carpenter.
  • ⁶ Swansea, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 12, Birth record for daughter Keziah Carpenter.
  • ⁷ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 500.
  • ⁸ Carpenter, Amos B., A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1898), 58, 74.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 440.
  • ¹⁰ Thompson, William Baker, comp., Thompson Lineage with Mention of Allied Families, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Telegraph Printing Company (1911), 83.
  • ¹¹ Weeks, Robert D., Geo. Weekes: Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes, of Dorchester, Mass., 1635-1650, Newark, New Jersey: Press of L. J. Hardham (1885), 36.

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