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• Birth	30 Oct 1731	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Female
  Died	Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Person ID	I34425	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 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	Isaac SHEFFIELD, 3rd, b. Abt 1725, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Married	1 Aug 1751	Westerly,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Isaac SHEFFIELD, 4th, b. 10 Feb 1752, Stonington,New London,Connecticut > 2. Sarah SHEFFIELD, b. 31 Aug 1754, Stonington,New London,Connecticut   3. William SHEFFIELD, b. 1 Feb 1757, Stonington,New London,Connecticut   4. Lydia SHEFFIELD, b. 20 Apr 1759, Stonington,New London,Connecticut   5. Freelove SHEFFIELD, b. 20 Jul 1761, Stonington,New London,Connecticut > 6. Mary SHEFFIELD, b. 17 Feb 1764, Stonington,New London,Connecticut > 7. Amos SHEFFIELD, Sr., b. 11 May 1766, Stonington,New London,Connecticut   8. James SHEFFIELD, b. 4 Jun 1771, Stonington,New London,Connecticut   9. Deborah SHEFFIELD, b. 2 May 1777, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F14743	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Sylvester PENDLETON, b. 4 Aug 1730, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Sylvester PENDLETON, b. 1748, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F14688	Group Sheet

• Notes

  PENDLETON GENEALOGY, page 91 & 92. The will of Col. Joseph-4 Pendleton shows that by her cousin,Sylvester-5 Pendleton, Freelove had a son Sylvester-6. b. 1748; m. EuniceCobb. She afterwards married at Westerly, RI Capt. Isaac Sheffield (3rd).He d. 1797. The Probate records of Stonington show that on the 4th Augustin that year there "Appeared in this Court Isaac Sheffield & refused totake Letters of Administration on the Intestate Estate of his father,Capt. Isaac Sheffield, later of Stonington, dec. This Court hathappointed William Sheffield and Amos Sheffield Administration on theIntestate Estate of their father, Capt. Isaac Sheffield." In the division of his property, 20 April, 1799, receipts for 207P11s. 4 1/2d. were given by Reuben and Deborah Cheseborough, Edward andSarah Hancox, Isaac Sheffield, "eldest son of the dec'd," Samuel andPolly Breed, Zebulon and Freelove Hancox, Zebulon Hancox for children ofhis first wife, Lydia, and by William Sheffield for the "heirs of JamesSheffield, fourth son of deceased" (Stonington Prob. Rec., vi, 228).