On 12 November 1627 Pieter de Carpentier sailed from the East Indies as Head of the Fleet.

These vessels were the Batavia (under Francisco Pelsaert) the Dordrecht (under Isaac van Swaenswyck) and the Assendelft (under Cornelis Vlack).

De Carpentier was made member of the board of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in October 1629.

One of their daughters, Agnita de Carpentier, married Ernst, brother of Coenraad van Klenck.

When Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz) and Willem van Coolsteerdt landed the Pera and the Arnhem on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier.