Mercy (Brown) Carpenter (1699 - 1751)

Born 25 Nov 1699 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Jediah Carpenter — married 25 May 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Ichabod Wiswall — married 9 Nov 1736 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1751 at age 52 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

When Mercy Brown was born on November 25, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts, her father, James, was 44, and her mother, Margaret, was 42. She married Jedediah Carpenter and they had five children together. She then married Ichabod Wiswell and they had two children together. She died on December 23, 1751, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, at the age of 52.

Mercy Carpenter, then of Rehoboth, and Ichabod Wiswall of Attleboro were married by Rev. John Greenwood on 09 November 1736.^[1][2] The birth record of Mercy's Wiswall children mention that she was the widow of Jediah Carpenter of Rehoboth, although it does not supply her given name.^[3]

Children of Ichabod Wiswall and Mercy include:

1. David Wiswall, b. 14 Mar 1738, Attleboro.^[3]
2. Esther Wiswall, b. 01 Jul 1740, Attleboro.^[3]

She passed away in 1751.

Died 12 23 1751. Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

Sources

1. ↑ Attleboro, Mass., Vital Records of Attleborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849" (Salem, MA : Essex Institute, 1934) p. 618.

   "Wiswall, Ichaboyd, of A[ndover], and Marcy Carpenter of Rehoboth, Nov. 9, 1736."

2. ↑ James N. Arnold, compiler, Vital record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, intentions, births, deaths (Providence, R.I. : Narragansett historical publishing company, 1897), Part 1, page 408, citing original Vol. 2:149.

   "Wiswell, Ichabod of Attleboro and Mercy Carpenter of Rehoboth, married by Rev. John Greenwood Nov. 9, 1736. Int. Oct. 9, 1736."

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} VRs of Attleborough p. 299.

   "Wissel, David, s. Ichabod and ____ Carpenter, formerly wid. Jediah, of Rehoboth, Mar. 14, 1738."

   "Wissell, Easter, d. Ichabod and ____ Carpenter, formerly wid. Jediah, of Rehoboth, July 1, 1740.

• Lainhart, Ann Smith. Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 23, Part 1, Family of John Howland, General Society of Mayflower Descendents, Plymouth, MA., 2004.
• Carpenter, Amos B., A genealogical history of the Rehoboth branch of the Carpenter family in America, brought down from their English ancestor, John Carpenter, 1303, with many biographical notes of descendants and allied families. Published 1898

• Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 15 May 1905, 7521; 27 Mar 1907, 9149; 10 Apr 1907, 9149

• Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850; Spouse: Jedediah Carpenter, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0562559.

• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 July 2018, 19:18), entry for Marcy Brown(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KH29-DBZ); contributed by various users.
• Ancestry Family Tree