<< In 1656 [William2 of Rehoboth] served as court committee member with Stephen Payne. His last appointment was in 1645 when he was made freeman and court committee member. >> I don't have Plymouth Colony records at hand, but as I recall, they do not explicitly name the deputies to the General Court for 1656 (and perhaps not for 1645). But Rehoboth town meeting records make it clear that William2 Carpenter was a deputy to the General Court at Plymouth in 1645, and his listing in colony records as a General Court committeeman in both aforementioned years indicates that he was a deputy not only in 1645 but also in 1656. His committee appointments were predicated upon his having been seated as a member of (deputy to) the General Court (the colony's legislative body) in those years. Gene