The Georgian architecture style house was built in 1755 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

He married on December 26, 1754, Elizabeth Moulton (born 1736 Bristol County, Massachusetts, died May 17, 1804, in Rehoboth) and they moved into the newly built house now on 77 Bay State Road before it was fully finished in September 1755.

[3][4] By August 1776 they would have twelve children born in the now historic house.

Another Nathan, age 12½, in 1789 may have died due to an accident outside the house.

[3][4] Colonel Thomas Carpenter was the son of Thomas Carpenter (born 1692 and died 1779 in Rehoboth) and Mary Barstow (born about 1696 and died 1783 in Rehoboth) and he was the great great grandson of the William Carpenter the immigrant who was born in England in 1605 of the Rehoboth Carpenter family).