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William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (born 1605)
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William Carpenter was a co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, born about 1610, probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. He died September 7, 1685, in the Pawtuxet section of Providence, now in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was listed by 1655 as a "freeman" of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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