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• Gender	Male
  Person ID	I34459	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	11 Nov 1999 00:00:00
  Family	Ruth PENDLETON
  Married	28 Dec 1726	Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Children	1. Hannah SMITH, b. 19 Nov 1727, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   2. William SMITH, b. 13 Feb 1729, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   3. Nathan SMITH, b. 22 Dec 1731, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 4. Nathan SMITH, 2nd, b. 11 Feb 1734/1735, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   5. Mary SMITH, b. 2 Oct 1737, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 6. Elizabeth SMITH, b. 22 May 1739, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   7. Eleanor SMITH, b. 22 Jun 1741, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island > 8. Sarah SMITH, b. 11 Jul 1745, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island   9. Joseph SMITH, b. 4 Apr 1749, Westerly,Kings Co.,Rhode Island
  Family ID	F14658	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 75. Benoni Smith was executor of the will of his father-in-law, Caleb-3Pendleton. He was for many years a Justice of the Peace at Westerly andalso a Town Councilman. His own will, dated there 18 Nov 1762 (C & PRec., iv. 18), names wife, Ruth, son Nathan, daughters "Elenor" Saunders,Sarah Lanphere, Hannah Chapman, Elizabeth Burdick and Mary Babcock;grandchildren, Joseph Smith, William Smith and Joshua Smith; Mary Barber,wife of John Barber of Hopkinton (relationship not stated), and CalebPendleton of Stonington; the document then goes on to say "My will isthat wheras I have given bond to the town of Westerly to Indemnify thetown from all Cost and Charges concerning and maintaining of a bastardchild born of the body of Dorcas Clark, single woman, that my aforesaidwife and my aforesaid daughters shall equaly maintain the aforesaid childso long as it may be chargeable." Whether this was a child or grandchildof Benoni does not appear. His wife and son-in-law, Samuel Babcock, Jr.,were named as executors. Inventory amounted to 4925 pounds 10s.