1733 - 1810

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• Title	Lieut.
  Birth	9 Jul 1733	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Jul 1810	Searsport,Hancock Co.,Maine
  Person ID	I34427	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	12 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	Anne PARK, b. 28 Oct 1739, Charleston,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Married	Sep 1758	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Peleg PENDLETON, Jr., b. 22 Jun 1760, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 2. Anna Nancy PENDLETON, b. 4 Jun 1762, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   3. Abigail PENDLETON, b. 2 Dec 1762, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   4. Thomas PENDLETON, b. 4 Jun 1767, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   5. William PENDLETON, b. 17 Jun 1769, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   6. Joseph PENDLETON, b. 17 Jun 1769, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   7. Lydia PENDLETON, b. 11 Aug 1771, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 8. Abigail PENDLETON, 2d, b. 11 Aug 1771, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   9. Green PENDLETON, b. 21 Jun 1774, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   10. Prudence PENDLETON, b. 5 Oct 1777, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   11. Phineas PENDLETON, b. 26 Sep 1780, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F14745	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 92. Up to the time Peleg Pendleton was fifty years old he made his homeat Westerly, RI. In 1757 he paid a tax there of 4s 7d. Early in life hebegan going to sea, and on the 4th of Oct. 1762, he bought with JamesBabcock for 6000 pounds "old tenor" (present value about $1.25 a pound),the 36-ton schooner, "Dalphin." In this vessel Peleg had a quarter shareand Babcock the balance (Westerly Records, x, 485). During the smallpox epidemic in Westerly in 1774, it was voted bythe Town Council on the 28th of March of that year, "That Capt. PelegPendleton have an order on the town treasurer for 3 pounds, 12s, 8 1/2d,for his services in sending the nurses and getting the necessaries forthe people in the smallpox [hospital]". (C.& P. Rec., iv. 237). On the first of May, 1775, Peleg was given a deed to 250 acres ofland in the township of Frankfort, Hancock Co., Province of Maine andstate of Massachusetts. Not long afterwards he made a clearing there andleft his son, Peleg, Jr., in charge of the property while he returned toRhode Island for the rest of his family. In the meantime the battle ofBunker Hill and the siege of Boston had shown the colonist that thedifference between them and the mother country could only be settled byprolonged war, and Peleg, believing that his family would be safest inWesterly, decided to remain there until the struggle was ended. He had early opportunity to show his allegiance to the newgovernment the colonies had formed, subscribing his name as thesixty-fouth signer to the "Test Act" circulated at Westerly in 1776. Onthe 3rd of June, 1777, he was elected Lieutenant of Capt. James Babcock'sWesterly Train of Artillery. Between Nov. 6 and Dec. 6, 1777, he servedas a private in Capt. Edward Bliven's detachment from Col. Joseph Noyes'regt. militia (RI Military Returns). No futher record of him appears atWesterly save that on the 17th of Sept. 1781, he witnessed the will ofhis old associate, James Babcock. Upon the colse of the Revolutionary War, Peleg Pendleton with allhis family, except the oldest daughter, removed to Maine and settled uponthe estate he had bought eight years before. He found that the log-househe had built there had fallen to pieces, and no trace of his son, Peleg,Jr., was to be found. What became of him has always remained a mystery. Lient. Pendleton spent the rest of his life upon this farm. On the16 May 1789, he was a petitioner with his son, William and others, fromthe plantation of Frankfort, asking that the Mass. Legislatureincorporate that plantation into a township to be called Knoxburgh. Theirnames also appear in the later petition, 20 Nov 1789, praying forincorporation into a township to be known as Knoxbury. On 24 Feb 1794,Peleg's property came within the bounds of the township of Prospect,organized on that day, and a still later division, 13 Feb 1845, broughtit into the present town of Searsport. In the meantime, Maine, which hadbeen a District, or Province of Mass. ever since Brian Pendleton's time,was set off as a separate state in 1820, and Hancock Co., was divided 7Feb 1827, the western portion, in which lay Frankfort, forming part ofthe new county of Waldo. The reader should keep in mind these variousdivisions and changes when noting hereafter the birth-places, etc., ofPeleg's descendants, for to save repeating these facts so many times weshall generally refer to all of these events as having occurred atSearsport, Maine.