Ens. Abiah Carpenter - Abiah Carpenter wifes parents?

Eddie Presley

6/29/2023 at 1:21 PM

The notes for Abiah Carpenter says he married sisters Sarah and Mehitable Read. If you look at their linked profile they do not have the same parents. Sarah is the daughter of Thomas Read and Elizabeth Read. Mehitable is the daughter of John "of Rehoboth" Read and Sarah Read. If they are sisters one of their parents is incorrect, if they are not sisters then the note is incorrect.
Something else is a little strange it that Mehitable's brother John "of Rehoboth" Read, Jr. has a daughter by the same name and she was born and died the same years as her, just a little off in the day and month of birth. Are these the same two people and if they are which is the father John JR or SR? If John Sr is the father his wife Sarah would have around 53 when she was born.

Erica Howton C

6/30/2023 at 4:59 AM

Hi Eddie,

The wives were not sisters, I removed the note from profile.

See: https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwg06.htm#112

Abiah married Mehitable Read-938, daughter of Thomas Read-7665 and Elizabeth Clark-6591, on 13 May 1690 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts,

Abiah also married Sarah Read-1396, daughter of Daniel Read-119733 and Hannah Peck-119734, on 7 Jun 1702 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

Abiah also married Mary Perrin-1596 on 16 Jul 1726 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

I’ll review their profiles to ensure they conform with the Carpenter Cousins database.

Erica Howton C

6/30/2023 at 5:09 AM

Correction.

https://carpentercousins.com/Group3/aqwn06.htm#938

Followup by Gene Zubrinsky:

"... I give additional information: the vital-record citation RVR 1:21, which has her birth at Rehoboth, 13 April 1667, as being to John and Rachel (______) Read, not Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Read. Thomas Read's wife Elizabeth Clark died in 1674/5; they had five children but no daughter Mehitabel. Thomas then married Hannah Perrin, with whom he had a daughter Mehitabel, but she was born in 1684 and died unmarried in 1743. (Jim Bullock, whose work I respect, agrees with all this.)"

(That’s John Read Jr.)

Mehitable Carpenter daughter of John "of Rehoboth" Read, Jr. & Rachel Wilmarth

Eddie Presley

7/3/2023 at 2:13 PM

OK thanks. You may also want to do another update on Sarah the FindaGrave link states that Mehitable (Read) and Sarah (Read) are sisters as well as wives of (Ensign) Abiah Carpenter. I know that is not your website but you may want put it in the notes of both of them.

Erica Howton C

7/3/2023 at 2:18 PM

I’ll note in the geni profiles that FindAGrave memorial link has errors.

Eddie Presley

7/21/2023 at 8:47 AM

OK, Thanks.

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