Robert Carpenter was a well-to-do sheep proprietor. He married his cousin Eleanor.
!Source: An update of the gen. of the New England Carpenter family. by Raymond G. Carpenter, pt. 2: The English Lineage.
WFT # 945 "His will mentions eldest son William and granchild William, plus sons Richard, John, Charles and Robert, and daughters Edith and Alice. Even though he came from a family of sheep farmers, he appears to have put his children to trades. His will speaks of them completing their apprenticeships. Marden is a small village 12 miles north of Amesbury" from Helen Carpenter Burns correspondence 1990. Place of birth, date and place of death from Inez Meitz, Keego Harbor, MI 1991