Col. Thomas Carpenter III House


The Col. Thomas Carpenter III House is a historic house at 77 Bay State Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
The Georgian architecture style house was built in 1755 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Family

was born October 24, 1733 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts and died April 26, 1807 in Rehoboth. He married on December 26, 1754, Elizabeth Moulton and they moved into the newly built house now on 77 Bay State Road before it was fully finished in September 1755. On December 22, 1755 their first daughter Elizabeth was born in their new home.
By August 1776 they would have twelve children born in the now historic house. Unfortunately, several children would also die within the walls of their home. These were an unknown child in 1759, Sarah in 1775 who was age 15, William in 1763 as an infant, James in 1764 as an infant, and Nathan in 1772 who died as an infant. Another Nathan, age 12½, in 1789 may have died due to an accident outside the house. Those children who reached maturity were Elizabeth, Thomas, Stephen, James, Rebecca, and Peter.
Colonel Thomas Carpenter was the son of Thomas Carpenter and Mary Barstow.