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- Carpenter Family - Rehoboth Branch - page 55.
Noah Carpenter was b. March 28, 1672; m. Sarah Johnson, Dec. 3, 1700; she was b. April 4, 1677, she d. Sept. 29, 1726, and was the daughter of Matthew Johnson, and grand-daughter of Edward Johnson who was b. at Hernehill, near Canterbury, County of Kent, England, and come over with the fleet with Winthrop in 1630.
------ Edward Johnson was commissioned Captain to do military duty in Samuel Groton's rebellion, at the time when William Carpenter and others of the Providence Plantation, put themselves under the protection of Massachusetts.
------ The company to which Lieut. Johnson belonged was called, "The Military company of Middlesex, Mass." He was called Capt. in 1650.
------ He was elected deputy from Woburn, Mass., in 1643 and was appointed or elected deputy year after year for many years, and at one session he was chosed speaker of the house of Deputies.
THE GREAT MIGRATION, NEGHS, VOL 2 :
Includes Edward Johnson but does not reference Matthew as a son. DO CHECK THIS OUT IN THE FUTURE.
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