Deaths on September 7

William Carpenter (Rhode Island)

Died on September 7, 1685

William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b. 1605)

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 colony.

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French colonization of Texas
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Monmouth Rebellion
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