William Vincent Carpenter

William Vincent Carpenter (1611-September 7, 1685) was a 17th-century English colonist and a co-founder of Haverhill, Massachusetts.

William was born in 1611 in Nettlecomb, Somerset, England, the son of Richard Carpenter (theologian) and his wife, Alice Knight. William had ten siblings.

On November 1, 1634 William married Elizabeth Peake Arnold, the great-grandaunt of Benedict Arnold of American Revolution infamy. Tehey married in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. She was the daughter of William Walter Stephen Arnold and his wife Christina Peake.

In 1636, two years after their marriage, the immigrated to Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the First Baptist Church of America, which began in 1638. In 1641 William was a signatory on a treaty with Native Americans whereupon the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts was founded.

Later, William moved to Providence, Rhode Island, a town which his father-in-law had helped to found. He continued to live there until his death on September 7, 1685 during King Phillip's War. Two other members of his immediate family were also killed in that conflict.

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*Austin, John Osborne. "160 Allied Families." 1893, reprinted in 1977. pp 56-58.
*Carpenter, Daniel Hoogland. "History and Genealogy of the CARPENTER FAMILY IN AMERICA." Marion Press of Jamacia, Queensborough, NY in 1901.
*Carpenter, James A. and Raymond G. Carpenter. "Carpenter and Related Family History Journal."
*"Dictionary of National Biography."