 He was among the founders (at Weymouth in late 1643) of the Plymouth Colony town of Rehoboth (settled 1644).His son, William (Gen. 3) Carpenter (b.1631 in England - 1702/3 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts), was for many years Rehoboth town clerk, by virtue of which his name—not that of his father—appears with some frequency in Plymouth Colony records, in association with a number of local vital-records lists that he certified and forwarded to colony authorities.