CONFLICT: Even though the tombstone gives the year of birth as 1726 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts - there are Massachusetts records that give the birth as 1725 in Swansea, Massachusetts. Rehoboth and Swandea are right next to each other and share a border.
Additional children - burial unknown:
Lucinda Carpenter Chase Wheeler 1751-
Lydia Carpenter Gore 1760-1841
CONFLICT: Even though the tombstone gives the year of birth as 1726 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts - there are Massachusetts records that give the birth as 1725 in Swansea, Massachusetts. Rehoboth and Swandea are right next to each other and share a border.
Additional children - burial unknown:
Lucinda Carpenter Chase Wheeler 1751-
Lydia Carpenter Gore 1760-1841
Inscription
"Sacred to the Memory of the Late
HON BENJAMIN CARPENTER ESQ
Born in Rehoboth, Mass A.D. 1726
A Magistrate in Rhode Island in A.D. 1764
A public teacher of righteousness,
An able advocate to his last for Democracy,
And the equal rights of man.
Removed to this town A. D. 1770
Was a field officer in the Revolutionary War,
A founder of the first constitution and government of Vermont,
A counsellor of Censors in A.D. 1783
A member of the Counsil and Lieutenanet Governor of the state in A.D. 1779
A firm professor of Christianity in the Baptist church 50 years. Left this world
and 146 persons of lineal posterity March 29, 1804, aged 78y 10m 12d;
with a strong mind and full faith of a more glorious state hereafter. Stature
about 6 feet, weight 200. Death had no terror."
Gravesite Details
Burial and death information from Guilford Town Clerk's office - given on a Carpenter Cemetery information card.
