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Charles Pinel,6 b. 1758; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Mattingly, by whom :
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PENNELL FAMILY.
I. CHARLES, EsQ.,7 present representative of the family of the parish of S. Trinity, Isle of Jersey.
2. ELIZABETH MARY,7 m. James Le Varasseurdit Durel, of the royal navy.
3. AMELIA.7
AMERICAN BRANCHES.
Walter Pennell1 was living in Saco as early as 1647, when he married Mary, dau. of Robert Booth. He had a grant of land in Biddeford, then in- cluding Saco, July 12, 1653, described as follows: " To have all ye neck of land commonly called ' Stonie Strand,' being 60 poles bredth or there abouts be it more or less, and so up into ye woods southwest until 150 acres be com- pleted with all ye profits thereto blonging to the same." In 1657, he was granted "7 akers next to Richard Hitchcock." He d. in 1682. Children :
I. WALTER,2 b. Dec. 1, 1649. He removed to Cape Porpoise before his father's death, and was presented before the grand jury, receiving severe punishment. In 1681 he was again complained of by Lieut. Purington, as appears by the following presentment : "We present Walter Penwell Jr. for marking Mr. Watts his horse, as I apprehend to appropriate to himself, and upon his reproof for so doing sayd Penwell sayd Devil take him, and turned him agoing." After his father's death he returned to Saco, and as an inhabitant of that town, in 1682, he received fifteen stripes for killing the cow of Joseph Bowls, of Wells. He subsequently moved to York, where he was living in 1722, at the age of 74 as he stated in an affidavit. I have no proof to show connection between this Walter Pennell and the families in various parts of the state, but believe all to have been his descendants. The family was settled in Saco more than a hundred years before Clement Pennell, of Falmouth, who heads that branch, was married in 1742.
2. MARY,2 b. May 12, 1652 ; m. Giles Hibbins.
3. DEBORAH,2 b. Dec. 30, 1654.
4. SARAH,2 b. Aug. 2, 1664.
5. SUSANNA,2 b. Mar. 29, 1669.
6. JOHN,2 d. the same year of his father, 1682.
Thomas Pennell' m. Lydia Sands, Nov. 15, 1770; lived in Buxton, where he d. April 9, 1802 ; his wife d. Jan. 31, 1823. Children as follows:
1. MOLLY,2 b. Nov. 18, 1771 ; m., Oct. 23, 1794, Zebulon Murch, of Gor- ham, Me.
2. BETTY,2 b. April 13, 1774.
3. THOMAS,2 b. Oct. 18, 1775; m. Jane Berry. He d. Mar. 14, 1864 ; had issue, whose names follow:
1. THOMAS,3 b. Sept. 3, 1805; d. Mar. 12, 1824.
II. JAMES,3 b. Aug. 26, 1808.
III. BENJAMIN,3 b. July 3, 1811.
IV. HORACE,3 b. May, 27, 1819.
V. ANNA,3 b. Aug. 15, 1821.
4. LYDIA,2 b. April 13, 1776; m. John White, of the "Plantation called Greene near Belfast," Feb. 4, 1810.
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5. WILLIAM,2 bapt. June 14, 1778.
6. EPHRAIM,2 b. Jan. 15, 1779 ; m. Lydia -, and d. Jan 7, 1839. Chil- dren, born in Buxton :
I. ZEBULON,3 b. Feb. 7, 1802 ; d. Dec. 11, 1823.
Il. HANNAH,3 b. May 21, 1804.
III. PAULINA,8 b. Feb. 12, 1809 ; d. Jan. 4, 1826.
IV. MARY,3 b. Feb. 22, 1812.
V. SALLY,3 b. Sept. 13, 1816.
VI. LEVI,3 b. June 6, 1819 ; d. Feb. 24, 1850.
VII. ANSEL,8 b. Feb. 5, 1822 ; d. Dec. 30, 1872.
7. JAMES,2 b. Apr. 10, 1780; m. Jane Berry, Sept. 15, 1803.
8. SAMUEL,2 b. Mar. 20, 1782 ; m. Deborah -, who d. Aug. 30, 1872. He d. Dec. 28, 1835. Their children, b. in Buxton, were as follows :
1. SAMUEL,3 b. Apr. 5, 1810.
II. ALVAH,3 b. Aug. 25, 1812; d. Nov. 30, 1880.
1I1. NANCY,3 b. April 25, 1815 ; d. May 4, 1835.
IV. LYDIA,3 b. Dec. 20, 1817.
V. ELIZA,3 b. Jan. 6, 1820.
VI. MERCY,3 b. Dec. 20, 1825.
VII. HARRIET,3 b. Feb. 28, 1828.
VIII. ALMIRA,3 b. May 2, 1831.
9. JABEZ,2 b. Aug. 11, 1783 ; m. Mercy Redlon, Dec. 14, 1809, and had issue. Sons lived at Bar Mills. Widow lived to be very aged.
IO. RACHEL,2 b. Nov. 18, 1786.
II. HANNAH,2 b. Sept. 11, 1790.
12. SALLY,2 b. June 20, 1792.
Thomas Pennell, of Buxton, m. Sarah - -, and had eight children, born there. I do not know whose son he was. Issue as follows :
I. THOMAS, b. Mar. 18, 1810.
2. CHARLES, b. Oct. 20, 1811.
3. JONES, b. Aug. 27. 1813.
4. GEORGE, b. Sept. 24, 1815.
5. EUNICE, b. July 1, 1817.
6. JOHN, b. Mar. 14, 1819.
7. SOPHIA, b. Mar. 11, 1821.
8. EPHRAIM, b. Mar. 7, 1823.
Henry Pennell, of Buxton, m. Eunice Thomes, Aug. 24, 1820, and had, born there :
I. THOMAS T., b. June 22, 1821.
2. ALEXANDER H., b. Mar. 27, 1826.
Alvah Pennell married and had issue. Levi Pennell married and had issue.
Doingdestre-Bendexter.
From ancient documents preserved in Normandy it appears that as early as 1250 Geoffroy and Rarnel Poingdestre were land owners in the Isle of Jersey. In 1424 John Poingdestre was bailly of the island, and in 1452, his son of the same name filled the office. A grandson of the first John was bailly in 1467. In 1485 John Poingdestre was lieutenant-bailly, as was his descend- ant of the same name, in 1669. For several generations the Poingdestres have possessed the fief of Grainville, in the parish of S. Saviour. They have always held a high social position in the island.
An eminent member of the family was John Poingdestre, son of Edward, born in 1609. He became fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and was one of the earliest who shared in the benefits of the Jersey scholarships. He was possessed of those faculities which adorn public and private life, and these were employed in his intercourse with his fellow-men. He was a master of the Greek language and wrote it with great facility and beauty. He was an official during the reign of Charles I; was dismissed from his fellowship by Parliamentary visitors, when he settled in Jersey. He was in Elizabeth Castle during its siege by the Republicans; was commissioned to visit France to confer with Charles II, in relation to affairs in Jersey. After the expulsion of the Royalists from the island, he went voluntarily into exile, and at the Restoration, he was rewarded for his loyalty by the office of lieut .- bailly, in 1669. After many years of faithful service he retired from that office, but continued to hold his seat as jurat until death. He was interred in the church of S. Saviour, where an epitaph in Latin exists to his memory. His portrait is preserved at the family seat.
For five successive generations the representative of this family sat as jurat of the Royal Court of the island of Jersey, the last dying in 1831.
The eldest branch is now represented by Edward Gibbs Poingdestre, Esq., of Grainville House, and a junior branch of the family, by the Rev. George Poingdestre, of S. Anastasius.
PEDIGREES OF POINGDESTRE OF JERSEY.
I. GEORGE,1 m. Gisette, niece of Sir Thomas Ahaier. He was Seigneur of the fief es Poingdestre; d. in 1514, leaving two sons, viz. :
2. JOHN,2 Seig. of fief es Poingdestre, d. in 1583, leaving issue, and
3. THOMAS,2 m. Catherine, dau. of Thomas Lampriere, widow of Richard Langlois and Clement Messervy. He was constable of S. Saviour; had issue, of whom hereafter.
4. EDWARD,3 was twice married. His first wife was Margaret, dau. of Clement Messervy, to whom m. in 1562 ; second wife, Pauline, dau. of Guyon Ahaier. Issue by both unions. He eldest son of John2 (2).
5. JOHN,3 second son of John 2 (2), m. Perotine, dau. of Peter Laell, and had issue, of whom hereafter.
6. THOMAS,3 son of Thomas? (3), b. in 1544; m. Jane, dau. of Stephen La Cloche, and had issue.
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7. BENJAMIN,3 brother of the preceding.
8. THOMAS,4 son of Edward3 and Margaret Messervy, b. in 1582; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Effard, and had issue as will appear. He was Seig. fief es Poingdestre.
9. JOHN,4 son of Edward 3 and Pauline, b. in 1609; m. Ann, dau. and co- heir of Lawrence Hamptoune, Viscomte of Jersey, by whom issue. He was M. A. fellow of Exeter College, Oxford ; also lieut .- bailly of Jersey.
IO. THOMAS,4 bro. of preceding, b. in 1613; m. Mary, dau. and co-heir of James Ripon, and had issue. He was rector of S. Saviour.
II. EDWARD,4 bro. of preceding, d. sine prole.
12. MARY,4 sister of preceding, m. Richard Ainley.
13. EDWARD,4 son of John3 (5), m. Barbara, dau. of Michael Regnault, and had a son.
14. THOMAS,4 b. in 1571 ; m. Magdalen, dau. of Thomas Durel, by whom issue.
15. CLEMENT,4 bro. of preceding, b. in 1576.
16. PHILIP,5 son of Thomas4 (8), b. 1620; m. Sarah, dau. of Rev. John Pinel, and had issue. He was Seig. of fief es Poingdestre.
17. JACOB,5 bro. of preceding, m. and had three children.
18. GEORGE," bro. of preceding, settled in Virginia, and was probably an- cestor of the southern branches of the family.
19. RACHEL,5 sister of preceding.
20. CHARLES,5 son of John+ (9), m., in 1684, Ann, dau. of Hilgrove, by whom seven children.
2I. ELIZABETH,5 sister of preceding, m., in 1684, George Baudinel.
22. JOHN,5 son of Thomas + (10), m. Susan, dau. of John Seale; had issue.
23. THOMAS,5 brother of preceding, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Louis Roudel, minister at Plour, Brittany.
24. PAULINE,5 sister of preceding, m. Thomas DeLacy.
25. MARY,5
26. ELIZABETH,5 sisters of preceding.
27. ANN, 5
28. JANE,5 1
29. PETER,5 son of Edward4 (13), m., first, Mary, dau. of - Fillenel ; sec- ond, Catherine, dau. of Gilles Dolbel.
30. THOMAS,5 b. 1602 ; m., 1625, Sarah, dau. of - Janvrin; had issue.
31. JANE,5 sister of preceding, m. Stephen Amy.
32. BLANCHE,5 sister of preceding, m. Nicholas Anthoine.
33. EDWARD,6 son of Philip5 (16), m. Susan, second dau. of Peter Poing- destre, and had issue, a numerous family. He was Seig. of fief es Poingdestre.
34. PHILIP,6 brother of preceding.
35. SARAH,6 sister of preceding.
36. JOHN,6 son of Jacob 5 (17).
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37. THOMAS,8 brother of preceding.
38. MARY,6 sister of preceding, m. G. Nicolle.
39. JOHN,6 son of Charles 5 (20), b. in 1693 ; m. Jane, dau. and co-heir of Philip Amy, of the Castillon de Haute, by whom issue.
40. COLLETTE,8
41. ANN,6
42. RACHEL, 6 daughters of Charles Poingdestre 5 (20).
43. SUSAN, 6
44. JANE, 6
45. ELIZABETH, 6 J
46. JOHN,6
47. MARY, 6
48. THOMAS, 6 children of John Poingdestre,5 (22).
49. EDWARD,6
50. GEORGE,6 son of Thomas5 (30), b. in 1661; m. in 1698, Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Charles Marett, and had issue, five daughters.
5I. PHILIP,6 brother of preceding.
52. ELIZABETH,6 sister, m. Robert Smith.
53. MARY,6 sister, m. George Pinel.
54. JOHN,7 son of Edward,6 (33), b. in 1671 ; m. Mary, dau. of Rev. Francis Le Conteur, and had issue. He was Seig. of the fief es Poingdestre.
55. PETER,7 brother of preceding.
56. EDWARD,7 brother of preceding.
57. NICHOLAS,7 brother of preceding, m. and had a son.
58. CHARLES,7 brother. of preceding.
59. JANE,7 sister of preceding.
60. JOHN,7 son of John,6 (39), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Ripon, Seig. of Nourmont, and had issue. He was jurat R. C.
61. PHILIP,7 brother of preceding, m. Margaret, dau. of Geellichan, and had three daughters.
62. ANN,7 eldest dau. of George 6 (50), m. Charles Marett; was co-heir.
63. JANE,7 sister of preceding, m. Jacot Le Tonze.
64. SARAH,7
65. MAGDALEN,7 &sisters of the preceding.
66. MARTHA,7
67. MARY,8 dau. of John7 (54,) and co-heir, m. Philip Pinel, of S. Trinity. She was lady of the fief es Poingdestre.
68. JANE,8 sister of preceding, d. sine prole.
69. ANN,8 sister of preceding, d. sine prole.
70. SARAH,8 sister, m. Nicholas Le Bas.
71. NICHOLAS,8 son of Nicholas7 (57), m. and had issue as will appear.
72. JOHN,8 son of John7 (60), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Matthew Gosset, and had issue. He was a jurat R. C.
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73. JANE,8 eldest dau. of Philip7 (61,) was co-heir. She m. John de Cateret, Seig. of Vincheles-de-Bas.
74. MARGARET,8 sister of the preceding. A sister, name unknown, m. Germain Aubin.
75. JOHN,9 son of John 8 (72), was twice m. First to Jane, dau. of Clement Hanery, by whom a dau .; second, Martha, dau. of Clement Rueling, by whom issue.
76. JAMES,9 son of John8 (72), m. Grace, dau. of Laird at S. Martin, 24 April, 1828, aged 31, and had issue, two sons.
77. ELIZABETH,9 sister of preceding, m. O. R. Lampriere, Seig. of Rozel.
78. ANN,9 sister of preceding, m. John Leigh.
79. JANE,ยบ sister of preceding.
80. PHILIP,9 son of Nicholas 8 (71), m. and had issue, two daughters.
81 JOHN,9 bro. of the preceding.
82. MARY,9 sister of preceding, m. Peter Le Fairre.
83. EDWARD GIBBS,10 son of John 9 (75), now (1890) of Grainville House, Isle of Jersey, in the parish of S. Saviour. Head of the Poingdestre family.
84. JAMES, EsQ,10 clerk in House of Commons, son of James 9 (76).
85. JOHN,10 brother of preceding, d. at Rozel Manor, Mar. 13, 1849, aged 23.
86. PETER, b. 1619; m. Jane, dau. of John Pallot, by whom six children, namely : Peter; Jane, eldest dau. and co-heir; Susan, m. Edward Poing- destre ; Elizabeth, m. - Machon; Martha, m. John Mowrant; Sarah, m. Thomas Le Breton.
87. ANN,10 eldest dau. of Philip9 (80), and co-heir, m. Moses Gibant.
88. MARY,10 sister of preceding, m. Matthew Le Gallais, of Surville; third, Charles De Ste Croix.
POINGDESTRES OF S. PETER.
I. THOMASI m. Janette, dau. of Baudaius, in 1641; had issue as follows :
2. THOMAS,2 b. in 1644; m. dau. of Payn and had issue.
3. JAMES,2 b. in 1650.
4. SARAH,2 b. in 1642.
5. THOMAS," son of Thomas 2 (2), b. 1674; m. Mary, dau. of Des Laudes, and had issue.
6. PHILIP, 4 b. in 1706.
7. CHARLES,4 b. in 1708; m., in 1732, Jane, dau. of Le Feuvredit-Filatre, and had issue.
8. CLEMENT,4 b. in 1709.
9. THOMAS,4 b. in 1713; m., 1738, and had Thomas,5 Jane,5 and Elizabeth.5
IO. ELIZABETH,4 b. in 1715.
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II. CHARLES,5 b. in 1736, 2
children of Thomas+ (9).
12. PHILIP,5 b. in 1742,
13. HENRY,5 b. in 1752 ; m. dau. of George Ingourville, by whom issue.
14. JANE,5 b. in 1745,
15. ELIZABETH,5 b. in 1747,
16. MARY,5 children of Thomas + (9).
17. SUSAN,5 1
18. GEORGE,6 m. Ann, dau. and co-heir of Philip Lesbrrel, and had issue. Lieutenant-colonel, R. J. M.
19. MARY,6 sister of preceding, m. Joshua Picot.
20. ELIZABETH,6 sister of preceding, m. Aaron De Ste Croix.
21. REV. GEORGE,7 M. A., m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. William Smith, R. N., and has issue. He is principal of grammar school and incumbent of S. Matthew's. Children : Georgiana,8 Elizabeth,8 and Emily Frances,8 dec.
AMERICAN BRANCHES.
INTRODUCTORY.
The Poindestres were Huguenots, which probably accounts for their settle- ment in the Isle of Jersey. Members of the family came to Virginia about the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and were evidently Hu- guenots direct from France. A Thomas Poindexter came from England to Virginia in 1740, and his descendants are scattered through nearly all of the southern and northwestern states; a very numerous people. A descendant was senator to Congress from Mississippi in 1835; another was the distin- guished Poindexter Dunn, of Arkansas, M. C., who died in 1884; another, the famous minister of religion, Rev. A. M. Poindexter, of Virginia, who died in 1874. In the work by S. S. Cox entitled "American Humor" there is refer- ence to the southern families of this name, in which they are said to be lead- ing men in the states where they domiciled. J. D. Poindexter, M. D., assist- ant surgeon in the U. S. Army, son of Thomas, son of John, son of Thomas, was from Franklin county, Va. The clerk of courts for this county informs me that the name abounds in his records, and gives the names of C. T. Poin- dexter, Martinsville, Va., and W. C. Poindexter, S. F. Poindexter, and John W. Poindexter, of Union Hall, Va. The recorder of Louisa county says his county was formed in 1742 and finds many names of Poindexters on the rec- ords. A Mr. Poindexter is now librarian of the Virginia State Library in Richmond.
PENDEXTERS OF MAINE.
Henry Pendexter1 was an inhabitant of Biddeford, Dec. 20, 1727, and at that date he married Deborah Wellfeald there. In 1728 he paid four pounds for land in the township, and May 27, 1730, he paid cash for "his privilege over the stares." We suppose he came from Portsmouth or Newington, N. H., and was of the same family as the l'endexters in Bartlett. His family was large and several sons were married in Biddeford, whose subsequent history is unknown. We give the names as found in the early town records.
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I. ABIGAIL,2 b. Dec. 6, 1729; d. Dec. 23, 1729.
2. MARY,2 b. Dec. 23, 1730.
3. HENRY,2 b. June 18, 1732; m. Sarah Sheperd, Ang. 10, 1755, and set- tled on a farm in Biddeford, where he continued to reside until 1774-5, when he sold his land and homestead for a parsonage to the Congrega- tionalist parish and removed to Francisborough, now Cornish, with his sons and daughters. He was one of the first who entered the wilder- ness of this township; a tradition says the first. It has been reported
that he carried up his household chattels on hand-sleds. He certainly built a cabin on the stream that issues from Trafton's pond more than a year before moving his family from Biddeford. He made a clearing and planted a piece of "burnt ground corn," and two of his sons lived there alone about three months while keeping the bears from the grow- ing crop. They betimes went to a hill-top and looked down the valley with the hope of seeing their father coming. They were lonesome but dutiful; they enjoyed excellent health, killed plenty of game with the gun left with them, caught fish from the stream near their cabin, were stimulated by the howling of wolves at night; they were not harmed and survived until a good old age to relate to their descendants the adven- tures of their pioneer days. Mr. Pendexter was probably dead in 1778, as his name does not appear on the tax list that year; however, he may have conveyed his estate to his sons.
4. RACHEL,2 b. April 9, 1736.
5. PAUL,2 b. Oct. 21, 1737 ; m. Hannah March, in Biddeford; no other information.
6. THANKFUL,2 b. Sept. 15, 1742; m. William March, in Biddeford.
7. SIBBLEY,2 b. Oct, 14,' 1744; m. Mary Joy, in Biddeford, Feb. 28, 1766.
8. BARSHEBA, b. Sept. 10, 1746 ; m. Moses Stevens, in Biddeford, Nov. 20, 1765.
9. HANNAH,2 m. David Sawyer, Jr., of Saco, in 1765.
IO. STEPHEN,2 m. Hannah Curtis, of Biddeford, May 6, 1797, and had issue, Mary,3 b. May 28, 1798; Rhoda,3 b. Dec. 12, 1801.
CHILDREN OF HENRY AND DEBORAH:
I. ELIAB,3 b. April 1, 1761 ; m. Mary Thomas, of Biddeford, Sept. 19, 1783, and settled in the township called Francisborough, now Cornish. He d. Nov. 23, 1842 ; his wife d. Oct. 28, 1846, aged 82 years and 8 months. These were buried in a small walled enclosure by the road-side near their old home. Several of his eleven children were interred in the same ground.
I. LYDIA,4 m. Stephen Day.
II. SUSAN,4 m. Philip Severence, and was the mother of Eliab, James, and Darling.
III. ELD. SAMUEL,4 b. 1795 : m. Katherine Morrell, and built a log-house on the mountain-side, some distance from the present carriage road, by the side of which his homestead buildings, subsequently built, were recently burned down. In a small lot, enclosed by a stone-wall, far back on the hill-side, among the tangled bushes and menacing
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briars, we found the graves of this man and his wife. He was a licensed preacher of the old stamp Freewill Baptist denomination; an earnest advocate of temperance. He d. Mar. 6, 1869, aged 74 years; his widow d. Dec. 5, 1876, aged 82 years and 10 months. Six children, of whom hereafter.
IV. JOHN,4 m. Sarah Stewart, and lived on the homestead.
v. ELIAB,4 entered the army during the war of 1812, and d. near Bur- lington, Vt.
IV. OLIVER,4 m. Nancy and Eliza Bickford .*
VII. DAVID, + never married.
VIII. SALLY,4 m. Samuel Day.
IX. AURELIA, 4 d. June 7, 1835, aged 32 years.
x. ALMIRA,4 m. Edmund Kennard, who d. April 24, 1881, aged 74 years and 3 months. She d. April 2, 1891 (?), aged 82 years and 9 months. XI. MARY,4 never married (some say Hannah).
2. PAUL,3 m. Hannah Wales, or Whales, of Cornish, and settled in that town. He and wife were buried in the same lot with his brother Eliab, in what is now called the "Kennard neighborhood." No records of his family were found. Names as follows:
I. PAUL,4 m. Lydia Haley, Dec. 2, 1817.
II. HENRY,4 m. Hannah Pendexer; second, Jane Pendexter, and had issue.
III. WILLIAM,4 m. Elizabeth Morrill.
IV. NATHAN,4 m. Charlotte Meserve.
v. SARAH,4 m. Theodore Stuart; second, John Pendexter.
3. EDMUND,8 m. Mary, dau. of Daniel Field, of Hollis, Oct. 15, 1794, and settled in Cornish, where his children, whose names follow, were born :
1. NOAH,4 m. Judith Alley.
II. OLIVER,4 m. Clarissa Johnson.
III. ANNIE,4 m. Henry Pendexter and is now living (1894) with her son Edmund in Cornish.
IV. SIBBLEY,4 m. Abigail Johnson.
V. RACHEL,4 m. Matthias Ridlon, of Sweden, Me.
VI. SARAH,4 m. Jonathan Pendexter.
4. HENRY,3 m. Polly Watson and had issue, six children, as follows :
I. DANIEL,4 m. Mercy Weeks, Oct. 18, 1821.
II. JAMES,4 m. Sally Hammond.
III. HENRY,4 m. Clarissa Hammond.
IV. EDMUND,4 m. Jane --.
* While visiting the neighborhood where Henry Pendexter and his sons settled, in the autninn of 1893, we left the main road near a white schoolhouse and entered a narrow valley. guarded on either side by high hills, and proceeding a quarter of a mile emerged upon a broad farm, in the middle of which stood the base of an old-fashioned big chimney surrounded by scattered and decaying timbers from the frame of a dismantled dwelling. It was a beautiful, solitary, seqnestered spot, and beneath the shadow of a great maple we found nine graves, slightly mounded still, only marked, with one exception, by low, rough blocks of granite at the head and feet of those who reposed below. Here were buried Oliver Pendexter, his wife, Nancy Bickford, and a daughter. These isolated memorials were all that marked the locality of a once pleasant home, and the silence and loneliness of the place were impressive .- AUTHOR.
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v. JANE,4 m. Henry Pendexter, Dec. 6, 1833.
VI. OLIVE,4 m. Robert Brier, Feb. 2, 1832.
5. THOMAS,3 b. in 1767; m. Catherine Whales; second, Mary Sargent, in 1827. He d. July 5, 1852; wife d. in 1868, aged 79 years. He resided in Cornish. Twelve children, as follows :
I. JONATHAN,4 m. Sarah Pendexter.
II. HENRY,4 m. Sarah Weeks, June 29, 1830.
III. THOMAS,4 d. young.
1V. THOMAS,+ d. in Mexican war.
v. ELIZA,4 m. Stephen Fenderson, Aug. 10, 1815.
VI. KATHERINE,4 m. Nathaniel Parker, June 25, 1816.
V11. ANNIE,4 m. Ichabod Weeks, Dec. 28, 1815.
VIII. RUTH, + m. Ezra Miles, Dec. 2, 1824.
IX. JERUSHA,4 m. George Kennard, Dec. 2, 1830.
x. SARAH.4
XI. GEORGE J.,4 b. Oct. 31, 1828; m. Clara B. Watson, a teacher, March 28, 1854 (she b. Feb. 24, 1835). He engaged in the manufacture of clothing at East Parsonsfield from 1858 to 1870; in war times made uniforms for Union soldiers; now agent for a western manufacturing company with home at Auburn, Me. He and wife became members of the Freewill Baptist church at Limerick in 1858, and have since been active in church and Sunday-school work. He and family have a taste for literature, and their home has been well supplied with the best books and magazines. Six of their eleven children are living.
XII. DAVID,4 m. Eliza Pendexter and lives on a farm in Parsonsfield. Issue.
6. HANNAH,3 m. George Allard.
7. SARAH,3 m. James Miles, July 22, 1782 (Int.).
8. RACHEL,3 m. Nathaniel Day.
9. MARY,8 m. John Kennard.
IO. ANNA,3 m. Noah Weeks.
Hannah, of Francisborough, and George Perry, of said town, were m. in Biddeford, Nov. 24, 1785.
Hannah and Peter Smith, of Wiscasset, m. in 1809.
Molly and Jeremiah Goodrich, m. Sept. 2, 1786.
Elizabeth and Francis Simons, of Rhode Island, m. July 30, 1790.
Joseph, of Cornish, and Hannah J. Cole, m. in Freedom, N. H., Jan. 17, 1858.
CHILDREN OF GEORGE J. AND CLARA B .:
I. ALMA,5 b. Jan. 18, 1855, in Limerick; m., in 1886, Charles H. Hayden, at Manchester-by-the-sea, Mass., and has two children. She was edu- cated at Limerick Academy, Parsonsfield Seminary, and afterwards graduated from a four years' classical course at the Maine Central In- stitute; was valedictorian and took first prize for composition. She taught in Norway High school seven years; in Lyndon Literary Insti-
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tute of Vermont ; also in high schools of Sparta, Wis., and Hopkinton, and Medfield, Mass. She has written poems for many popular papers; some of her home pieces are widely copied. She is now engaged in literary work at her home in Haverhill, Mass. We subjoin one of her poems.
SABBATHI STILLNESS.
The bells are done with ringing now, And all the earth seems hushed to hear Some nearing, far off melody, And cautiously as if in fear The birdling answers to its mate. I list and wait but unto me The minstrelsy is not revealed : And yet, I know there anthems be
Throughout the sky, filling the air. As one who cannot hear, hy eye, Or lip, or bowed head, still knows The church is filled with pillars high With harmony of beauteous sound, So, from the listening earth, I know, From smiling skies, from blushing flowers, From reaching oaks, from vines bent low,
I know the earth is filled with song; The music reaches to the stars, And stars beyond, the song prolong.
2. NELLIE,5 b. June 8, 1858, at East Parsonsfield ; m. C. Franklin Durell, of Oxford, Me., in 1882. She graduated at the Maine Central Insti- tute in 1877 ; was proficient in the Latin, French, and German. She was a successful teacher until marriage; was supervisor of schools in 1887. She d. Dec. 8, 1893, leaving a husband and one child. She was a lady of remarkable natural talent and many attainments, who was interested in all movements intended to benefit those about her. All who knew her were impressed with her noble character. Being a skill- ful artist she adorned her home with beautiful paintings, and her gentle ways made it an attractive place.
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