Friday, March 17, 2023

52 Ancestors - Week 472: #749 Elizabeth (Tefft) Carpenter (a1683-b1750) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts and South Kingstown, Rhode Island

 Elizabeth Tefft (a1683-b1750) is #749 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #748 Solomon Carpenter (1677-1750) in about 1702 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

I am descended through:

*  their son #374 Daniel Carpenter (1712-1763), married #375 Renewed Smith (1717-after 1763), in 1733.
*  their daughter #187 Elizabeth Carpenter (1741-????), married #186 Stephen Hazard (1730-1804), in 1760.
*  their daughter #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857), married # 92 Joseph Oatley (1756-1815) in 1781.
*  their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872), married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1813.
*  their daughter #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864), married #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913), married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                    Elizabeth Tefft[1–3]
*  Alternate Name:    Elizabeth Carpenter[4-5]

*  Sex:                       Female

*  Father:                  Samuel Tefft (1644-1725)
*  Mother:                 Elizabeth Jenckes 1658-1740

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:              about 1683, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[3]

*  Distribution:   20 December 1725 (about age 42), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[4]

*  Distribution:   12 May 1740 (about age 57), mother's will proved; South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[5]

*  Death:             before 30 May 1750 (before about age 67), husband's will written; South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[6]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:             Solomon Carpenter (1677-1750)
*  Marriage 1:          about 1702 (about age 19), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1–3]

*  Child 1:               Elizabeth Carpenter 1703-    
*  Child 2:               Solomon Carpenter 1706-1743
*  Child 3:               Joseph Carpenter 1708-    
*  Child 4:               Daniel Carpenter 1712-1763
*  Child 5:               Samuel Carpenter 1714-    
*  Child 6:               Sarah Carpenter 1716-    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Elizabeth Tefft was born in about 1683 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Jenckes) Tefft[1-3].

She married Solomon Carpenter (1677-1750) in about 1702 in South Kingstown; he was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Redway) Carpenter[1-3].  They had six children, all born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

*  Elizabeth Carpenter (1703-????), married 1722 James Braman (1679-1741).
*  Solomon Carpenter (1706-1743), married 1732 Deborah Reynolds (1708-1778).
*  Joseph Carpenter (1708-????).
*  Daniel Carpenter (1712-1763), married 1733 Renewed Smith (1717-after 1763).
*  Samuel Carpenter (1714-????).
*  Sarah Carpenter (1716-????), married 1730 William Cahoon (1701-????).

Elizabeth's father, Samuel Tefft, died after 16 March 1725 (when he made his will) and before December 20, 1725 when the probate of the will is mentioned in the South Kingstown Probate Records[4].  In his will he bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth Carpenter:
"Item I Give to my Welbeloved Daughters (Viz) Elizabeth Carpenter Esther Mumford and Mary Newton Each of Them Twenty pounds Apiece to be paid to them by my said son John Tefft within one year Next after my Decease."
Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth (Jenckes) Tefft of South Kingstown, died testate, having written a will dated 4 July 1739, which was proved on 12 May 1740[5].  The will reads (transcribed by Randy Seaver from the clerk's copy on South Kingstown (RI) Probate and Town Council Records, Volume 3, Pages 136-139, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,931,833).  In her will she bequeathed to her daughter Elizabeth Carpenter:
"Item To my Daughter Elizabeth Carpenter I give one Sixth part [of the rest and residue of my estate]."
Elizabeth (Tefft) Carpenter died before her husband wrote his will on 30 April 1750, since she is not mentioned in Solomon's will[6].

5.  SOURCES

1. Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, "Carpenter Sketches: Links to Sketches And Articles Representing the Most Current and Reliable Scholarship Concerning Early Generations of the Carpenter Families of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island and Their Ancestors," online articles, Carpenter Sketches (revised 22 January 2022, https://www.carpentercousins.com/carplink.htm: accessed 8 March 2023), "Samuel Carpenter (William2-1) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," family sketch.

2. Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America (Amherst, Mass. : Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1898), page 81 (Solomon Carpenter sketch) and page 141 (Daniel Carpenter sketch).

3. Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, California, 1998), pages 617-619, Samuel Tefft family sketch.

4. South Kingston (R.I.) Town Clerk, "Town Council Records, 1704-1943,"  (South Kingston, R.I.), on 8 microfilm reels (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah), Volume 2, pages 22-39 (accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,931,833), Samuel Tefft probate records, 1725.

5. South Kingston (R.I.) Town Clerk, "Town Council Records, 1704-1943", Volume 3, Pages 136-139 (accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,931,933), Elizabeth Tefft probate records, 1740.

6. South Kingston (R.I.) Town Clerk, "Town Council Records, 1704-1943",  Volume 4, Pages 318-320, Solomon Carpenter will, 1750 (accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,931,834).

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.


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