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• Birth	21 Jun 1728	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Nov 1821	Westerly,Washington Co.,Rhode Island,aged 93 years
  Person ID	I34417	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	10 May 2000 00:00:00
  Father	William PENDLETON, Sr., b. 23 Mar 1704, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Mother	Lydia BURROWS, b. 19 Apr 1703, Groton, New London, Connecticut
  Family ID	F3823	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Susannah CHESEBROUGH, b. 5 Jul 1732, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Married	1 Feb 1753	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Amos PENDLETON, b. 5 Nov 1754, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   2. Andrew PENDLETON, b. 7 Jul 1756, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 3. Mary PENDLETON, b. 4 Aug 1758, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   4. Zebulon PENDLETON, b. 27 May 1760, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   5. Charles PENDLETON, b. 24 Apr 1762, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   6. Lydia PENDLETON, b. 7 Oct 1764, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   7. Frederick PENDLETON, b. 13 Jun 1766, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F5076	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Anna FOSTER, b. 1737
  Children	> 1. Jonathan PENDLETON, b. 19 Sep 1769, Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island   2. Nancy PENDLETON, b. 22 Jul 1773, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   3. Acors PENDLETON, b. 28 Jul 1773, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   4. William PENDLETON, b. 23 Jul 1775, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   5. Isaac PENDLETON, b. 22 Nov 1777, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   6. Otis PENDLETON, b. 7 Mar 1780, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   7. Gilbert PENDLETON, b. 7 Sep 1782, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   8. Harris PENDLETON, b. 17 Nov 1786, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Family ID	F5077	Group Sheet

• Notes

  BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett HallPendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington,DC. Page 89. Amos Pendleton, who was one of the longest lived men in the family,spent nearly all his ninety-three years in his native town except forwhat time he was away at sea. Dennison's "Westerly & Its Witnesses"speaks of him as a master mariner, and he is generally referred to as"Capt." Amos in the Westerly records. Yet in the deed given him byWilliam and Judith Pendleton of Stonington, to a mansion house and landat Westerly, on the 24th of March, 1760, he is called "Blacksmith". andhe may have followed this occupation first. For this property Amos paid2000 pounds. (Westerly Land E., ix, 355). As befitted a son of Col. William Pendleton, he took an active partin the affairs of the town, serving as one of its councilmen from 1784 to1792, besides holding minor offices. In May, 1765, he was appointedLieutenant of the First Westerly Co., King's County Regt., and wasre-appointed in 1766 (RI Civil & Mil. App'tments). The Rhode IslandCensus for 1774 shows that Amos Pendleton was the woner of two slaves inthat year. On the 30th of May, 1774, the Town Council "Voted that Capt. AmosPendleton have an order on the Town Treasurer for 6/8 for 40 quarts ofmilk for the sick in the Small Pox [hospital] (Westerly C. & P. Rec., iv.241). In the Supplement to "New York in the Revolution" it is stated thatAmos Pendleton was one of the refugees from Long Island to Connecticut.It would not appear, however, that he had removed to Long Island, as allhis children born during the Revolutionary War had Westerly as theirbirth-place. It is more likely that Amos as captain of a vessel, assistedthe refugees to leave the island. On the 18th of Sept., 1776, he was the sixty-fifth signer of the"Resistance Act" drawned up at Westerly on that day by tested theirloyalty to the Continental government. Just what services Amos performedin the Revolution cannot be determined absolutely, owing to the fact thatthe records do not distinguish between him and his son, Amos, Jr., exceptonce, all other accounts referring merely to "Amos Pendleton." It wasprobably Amos, Sr., however, who was one of the "Alarm Men" of Westerly,Edward Bliven, Captain, drawn for three months on the 16th of Jan. 1777,to serve the third month (Westerly "Town Meetings," iii, 160), as thesewere the older men of the town who did guard duty while the younger oneswere away at the war.