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• Birth	22 Feb 1705	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Feb 1760	Guilford,Connecticut
  Person ID	I34315	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	03 Feb 2000 00:00:00
  Father	Joseph PENDLETON, b. 29 Dec 1661, Sudbury,Middlesex Co.,Massachusetts
  Mother	Patience POTTS, c. 12 Aug 1683, 1st Church of New London,New London,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F14558	Group Sheet
  Family	Dorothea WARD, b. 4 Jan 1708
  Children	1. Joshua PENDLETON, Jr., b. 1728   2. Andrew PENDLETON, c. 4 Jun 1732, 1st Church of Stonington,Stonington,New London,Connecticut   3. Deborah PENDLETON, c. 10 Mar 1733/1734, Second Church of Stonington,Stonington,New London,Connecticut   4. Increase PENDLETON, b. Abt 1735
  Family ID	F14646	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett HallPendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington,DC. Pages 58, 59 & 60. 20. (Lieut.) Joshua-4 Pendleton, was born at Westerly, RI, 22February, 1705, and died at Guilford, Conn., 29 Feb 1760 (T.R.), or 28February, 1760 (G.S.). His mother and step-father, Samuel Rogers, removedfrom Westerly to Branford, Conn, about 1725, and it is not unlikely thatJoshua went with them, as on the 12th of February, 1727/9, he bought ofAbial Eliot for 22 pounds a tract of land in the adjoining town ofGuilford (Guilford Deeds, iv. 18). On the 25th of April, 1729, Eliotmortgaged to him an adjacent lot of one quarter acre (Ibid., p. 92), andon the 23rd of the following December he sold or mortgaged to Eliot theproperty he owned in Guilford. Not long afterward he returned to Westerly, where on the 27th ofMarch 1732, with his wife Dorothea as a party to the deed, he sold toStephen Wilcox about 100 acres of land with house, etc., thereon, "Itbeing part of Capt. James Pendleton's farm" (W.I.E., v.345-6). On thesame day he bought of Wilcox for 650 pounds land in Stonington, Conn.(Stonington Deeds, iv, 298). Joshua does not appear to have settled at Stonington immediately, asin October, 1733, he was admitted freeman at Westerly (T.R.), but he iscalled "of Stonington" in the deed he and his wife made to John Richmondof their Stonington property, 15 Jan 1734 (Stonington Deeds, iv, 502-3).They went back to Guilford soon after this date, where on the 8th ofApril, 1736, Joshua bought of Daniel Hubbard for 304 pounds, three andthree quarters acres of land with house and other buildings thereon(Guilford Deeds, v, 231). On the 17th of April, 1741, he bought anadditional tract of land on the "Great Ox Pasture." After these various movings about, Joshua settled down permanentlyat Guilford, where he sepnt the rest of his life except for such time ashe was in the Colonial army during King George's War. Like nearly all themen of his day he engaged in farming and stock raising, but to noconsiderable extent, his will shows that his chief occupation wastanning, with its old time adjunet of making shoes, and that he carriedon this business to a large way in Guilford. Outside of his being one of those chosen to build a wharf at Jones'sBridge in 1744, he does not appear to have taken much active part in thecivil affairs of the town, but he was ddeeply concered in the militaryenterprises of the Colony. In February, 1745, the Connecticut Assemblyappointed Joshua Pendleton of Guilford "To be Ensign in the Regiment ofFoot to be raised and sent from this Government on the expedition againsthis Majesties enemies at Cape Breton, etc. and orders that he becommissioned accordingly." (Conn. Col. Rec.) This regiment saw activeservice in the first campaign against Louisburg, and it is reasonable tosuppose that Joshua was one of Pepperell's hardy New Englanders whobesieged that fortress and effected its capitulation, 17 June 1745. After such an adventgure as this it was to be expected that Joshuawould continue to take an active interest in military affairs, and weaccordingly find that in May, 1718, the Assembly appointed him Ensign ofthe 2nd Company or Train Band in the 7th Regiment of the Colony, and thatin May, 1755, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the same Company andRegiment *Conn. Col. Rec.). A reference to his soldier life is made inhis will in which he leaves to his son, Increase, "My Artillery andImplements of War." This will, dated 27 Feb 1758, proved March 1760 (SeeAppendex VIII), names wife, Dorothea, son Increase, and daughter DeborahFowler. Lieut. Joshua Pendleton married Dorothea Ward, daughter of Capt.Andrew and Deborah (Joy) Ward of Killingworth, Conn. (Goodwin's"Genealogical Notes"). She was born 4 Jan 1708, and died at Guilford, 5Nov 1763.