<< How did Mr. Redaway become a yeoman? >> He, like most of his neighbors, was a Rehoboth proprietor. As such he received periodic grants of land from the town and then made the most of them. << It would be interesting to do a kind of class analysis of the the eldest son's wife if that is possible. Samuel who married a Redaway was last in the pecking order. >> Samuel was the next-to-youngest of William2's sons; Abiah was the youngest. (For a discussion of Samuel's approximate date of birth [say 1638] and proper place in the birth order, see TAG 70:193-204, at 195-98, to which add the following: Samuel Carpenter was sworn as a grand juryman at Plymouth on 4 June 1661, indicating that he had been born no later than 1640 [see Plymouth Colony Records, 3:215].) That it was the two youngest of William2's sons who married Redways had to do with their place in the birth order only in that they were much closer in age to James1 Redway's daughters than were their older brothers. Eldest daughter Sarah Redway (m. Samuel Carpenter) was born about 1642; Abiah Carpenter's wife, Mary Redway, was the next eldest, born in 1646. Neither they nor their younger sisters were of age when the elder three Carpenter brothers married. John4 Carpenter, who married Rebecca Redway (youngest of the sisters), was the eldest of William3 Carpenter's thirteen children. There's nothing in these facts to suggest a connection between birth order and class endogamy. Gene Z.