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I. David Goch ap David, Lord of Penmachus, Caernarvon. Married Ancharad, daughter of Herlin ap Sir Tudor. Knt. of Nant and Llawgynhafal, and had issue, Griffith
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ap David Goch (of whom there is a stone figure recum- bent in armour in the Church of Bettysy Coed, near Llanwst), ancestor of the Lloyds of Esclausham au Dulasew, Getheiss of Fedwdeg, etc. Guladys verch David married Griffith (was living July 22, 1284), son of Jorwerth ap Osivain Brogyntyn, Lord of Edeirioin Dinmoel and Abedtanat, and by him was mother of a son, David ap Griffith, ancestor of the Hughes of Gwer- clas, Barons of Kynmaer-yn-Edeirnion.
II. Cadell ap Rhodri Mawr, King of South Wales, took pos- session of the kingdom of Powis after the decease, in 900, of its sovereign, Mervyn ap Rhodri Mawr, and dying in 907, was succeeded by his son, Howell ap Cadell, King of South Wales, who annexed Powis to his hereditary domains and, in 947, also usurped the crown of North Wales. This celebrated monarch, the Justinian of Cambria, died in 948, and left an elder son, Owen ap Howel Dha, King of South Wales, who married twice. By his second consort Angharad, Queen of Powis, he had a son and heir who was also successor to his mother, viz., Meredith ap Angharad, King of Powis, from whom came lineally, the Hughes, of Gwerclas, Barons of Kymmer-yn-Edeirnion.
III. Mervyn ap Rhoderic Mawr, King of Powis, of whom we will give more later.
IV. Mewric ap Rhodri Mawr; died in Ystrad, without issue. V. Tudwal ap Rhodri Mawr, surnamed "Gloff," or "the lame," from a wound in the knee which he received in the battle of Cynwyd, a place within two miles of the present town of Conway.
The eighth in desecnt from Tudwall Gloff was Cadwir ap Dyfuwal, Lord of Castle Howel, who lived in the reign of Henry I. of England, and acquired martial renown in an age when every one capable of bearing arms was bound to be a soldier. In the second year of Henry II, he took by escalade the castle of Caerdi- gan from the Earl of Clare, and in recognition of his valor was given the right to bear a new shield by his sovereign lord, Rhys
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ap Tudor Mawr, King of South Wales. The new shield was "sable, three scaling ladders, and between the uppermost a spear head, arg, its points imbrued on a chief, gu, a tower triple turreted on the second."
Cadwir ap Dyfuwall was ancestor of the Owens of Cefu Hafod, and subsequently of Glen Severn, in Montgomery; Owens, of Lean Dulas ; Lords, of Foes y Bleiddreid ; Lloyd, of Dale Castle ; Lloyd, of Pound, County Devon.
III. Returning now to Mervyn ap Rhodri Mawr: He succeeded to the kingdom of Powis. Pengwern or Shrewsbury was the an- cient metropolis and residence of the Powysian sovereign until the time of Offa, King of Mercia, who, passing the Severn about 780, with a great force, expelled the Cambrians from their fruitful plains and reduced the kingdom to the western side of the cele- brated ditch (Cawdh Offa), still known by his name. The royal residence was in consequence transferred to a district not less fertile "Mathrawal," in the beautiful vale of Merefold, in the present county of Montgomery. There, on the steep bank of the river, Rhodri Mawr built a castle palace, the site of which is easily traced at the present time. Mervyn ap Rhodri Mawr died A. D. 900, having had issue :
I. Llewellyn ap Mervyn.
II. Triffyn ap Mervyn, ancestor of the inheritors of "Rhewy Llyn," and from whom descended Sir William Jones, of Caernarther, one of the "Justices of the King's · Bench" (temp Chas. II) ("Jones" is one of the forms of Evans.)
III. Jartha ap Mervyn, drowned in 952.
IV. Arandreg, verch Mervyn married. Idwal Voel, King of North Wales, and was the mother of Meuric ap Idwal Voel, ancestor of the sovereign of North Wales.
The eldest son, Llewellyn ap Mervyn, was excluded from his crown by the usurpation of his uncle, Cadell, and his cousin, Howel Dha, who were successively kings of South Wales. He was father of a daughter and heiress, Angharad verch Llewellyn, Queen of Powis, who married Owen ap Howel Dha, King of South Wales, and by him was inother of two sons. Llywrch, the younger, was taken prisoner in 986, with two thousand troops, by Harold the
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Dane, and deprived of sight. The elder son, Meredith ap Angha- rad, King of Powis, left at his decease, in 978, an only daughter and heiress, Angharad verch Meredith, Queen of Powis. This queen married twice: first, Llewellyn ap Seissylt, son of Travst, daughter of Ellis; second, son of Anarawd, King of North Wales. While exercising the sovereignty of Powis in respect of Angharad, Llewellyn usurped, in 1015, the crowns of North and South Wales. By this valiant and successful prince, who was assassinated in 1020, Angharad had an only son. Griffith ap Llewellyn, King of Powis, by maternal inheritance and of North and South Wales by usurpation. Griffith was put to death at the instigation of Harold, the Dane, and his cousins, Bleddyn and Rhywallen, jointly usurped the crown of Powis to the exclusion of the sons of Griffith by his wife, a daughter of Algar, son of Leofric, King of Marcia. Their sons, Meredith ap Griffith and Ithel ap Griffith, asserted, unsuc- cessfully, their claim to the throne. Both died unmarried, and the descendants of Angharad, by her first husband, having thus become extinct, the crown of Powis rested in the eldest son of her second marriage, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn.
Angharad's second husband was Cynfyn, a Lord of Powys, son of Queen Ystan ap Gwarethvoed Vawr, a valiant and powerful chieftain of the kingdom.
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn had a daughter, Efa or Eva, who married (Leolinus Torquatus) Llewellyn Audirchog. Lord of Yale (See display of Heraldry by Davies, 1716, page 64). Blonie, in his "Brittania," published in 1673, included Edward Evans of Rhyd v Carw (Stayford) among the resident gentry of Montgomery. This Edward Evans, by a deed dated April 5, 1652, settled an annnity on his wife, Dorothy, in case she survived him, but she died before him, for February 28, 1660, he married Frances, daughter of John Brice, Esq., of "Park" in Llanwynnig, by whom he had issue :
I. Jane Evans, b. 1663.
II. Catherine Evans, b. 1664.
III. Francis Evans, b. 1665, his mother surviving his birth only one week.
The said Edward Evans, by his first wife, Dorothy, had issue :
I. Edward Evans. Married Martha, and had issue, Edward and Ursula. Edward Evans, Jr., died in the lifetime of his father and was buried in Treveglwys Church, Nov. 30, 1687.
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II. Morgan Evans, settled upon an estate in Leangwig and he and Judith, his wife, are parties to deeds bearing date Feby. 23, 1675 (26 Charles II).
III. Richard Evans went into trade with the western colonies. at Bristol, and finally settled in America.
IV. Ursula Evans devised certain lands to her niece, Ursula, in 1670.
Edward Evans1 survived his son, Edward Evans", ten years and, in 1697, he settled Rhyd y Carw estate on his grandson, Edward Evans3. father of Sarah Evans, an only child and heiress, who married (in 1725) Charles Davies, who died in 1729. His widow married, second, John Pryce Clunne. She had issue, by Charles Davies, an only daughter, Ann Davies, born 1729, married (1745) Owen Owen, Esq., who was born in 1723, and served in the office of High Sheriff of Montgomery County, in 1716, and died in 1789. He left issue by the said Anne, his wife, two daughters and three sons:
I. Arthur Davis Owen, Knight of Clan Severn, served in the office of High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, in 1814, and died without issue, in 1816. He was, for many years, chairman of the quarter sessions and second in command. under the Rt. Hon. Chas. W. W. Wynn. of the Montgomery Yeomanry Cavalry. from its organiza- tion to his death.
II. David Owen, A. M. in Holy Orders, fellow of Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, senior wrangler of the University, in 1777. He died unmarried, in 1829, at Campobello, New Brunswick.
III. William Owen, K. C.
The Arms of Llewellyn Audorchog, Lord of Yale, in Denbigh- land, were "Azure. A lion rampant, regardant, or."
EVANS IN AMERICA.
In the early part of the Eighteenth Century, Richard Evans, son of Edward Evans, of Rhyd y Carw, Montgomery Co .. England. and Dorothy, his wife, made frequent trips on his own ships from the port of Bristol, England, to Portsmouth and Boston, in New England, and to the West India Islands. His son. John Evans,
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when a young man, left Portsmouth on one of these ships for Grenada, West Indies, one of the Windward Islands, where his father had lands, and established a plantation. They had branches for extensive trading on the triangular route between Bristol, England; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Grenada and other West India islands. The house had as many as fifteen vessels at sea at one time.
John Evans, while living at Grenada. being a prominent Free Mason of high standing in the Grand Orient of France, was em- powered as a delegate of that body to establish lodges of the French rite in the West Indies. His diploma, emblazoned on parchment, for this work, excited great interest when shown to members of other rites of the order in America. With many other valuable papers, family portraits, ete., this document was destroyed by a fire in Hyattsville, Md., which consumed the residence of his grandson, Richard Stuart Evans.
About the year 1774, Richard Evans1, Sr., having died, John Evans2 returned to New England to live, and took charge of the Portsmouth house. He was the principal merchant in foreign trade in New England and very prosperous when the Revolution began. John Evans made the cause of the colonists his own, al- though it involved the immediate and utter ruin of his business. All his vessels were burnt or captured by the British crnisers and his property in the West Indies and in England was confiscated.
John Evans became a commissary of subsistence and contractor for supplies of the army of General Washington in the New Eng- land colonies.
During the time of his prosperity John Evans had painted, by the celebrated artist, Copley, a full length portrait of himself. In it he was represented standing under a tree gazing at a ship under full sail. His son, Estwich Evans, presented this painting to the Smithsonian Institute, of Washington, D. C., where it was burned with other valuable pictures in a fire some years later, which destroyed the art gallery of the Institution.
About the year 1776, John Evans married Susan March, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Rev. Edmund March, of New- buryport, Massachusetts, and Mary Whitmore, his wife, daughter of Peletiah Whitemore and Margery Pepperrell, his wife, daughter of Col. the Hon. William Pepperrell and Margery Bray.
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Susan March's people were all American patriots. This lady was a very pious woman. but at the same time very cheerful and pleasant in disposition.
In the performance of his duties to the army, John Evans was compelled to absent himself from his family for long periods of time. For greater safety. he moved his wife to the family seat of her ancestors on one of the coast islands near Kittery, Maine. There she was in the immediate neighborhood of treacherous and half-hostile Indians, exposed to many dangers. She spoke in after years of the terrors which beset her, of strange noises at night ; and in her nervous fright she would think that a cold hand had clutched her arm in her sleep. This lady was the lineal descendant of the Pepperrells of Kittery Point, Maine. Richard Stuart Evans, her grandson. had a full sized portrait in his parlor of Lady Pepperrell in a satin robe, primly smelling a flower. There was also a portrait of Sir William Pepperrell in uniform. They were burned with the other records and relics of the family at Hyatts- ville, Maryland.
Richard Stuart Evans had a diary which had been kept by his grandfather. John Evans. the Commissary, in which he referred to many of the people of Portsmouth before the Revolutionary War. In this diary John Evans speaks of having already lost some seven or eight vessels. After the war John Evans' affairs became very much embarrassed financially; indeed, he was practically ruined.
He picked up any employment he could find, and among other places was Town Clerk of Portsmouth. He had, as is usual with poor people, some dozen or more children. The eldest was :
Richard Evans3, b. in 1777.
Estwich Evans3, b. in 1787.
The youngest child, Sarah Ann Evans3, married Count Louis Ferdinand de Lehmanoski. a Polish refugee. This Count had considerable literary ability and Ann, his wife, was a lady of much merit, as a writer. It was their mutual love of literature that brought this couple together and encouraged their acquaint- ance, resulting finally in their marriage. They supported them- selves by writing stories for papers and magazines, some of which were published in book form. She died during the war. Sarah Ann Evans kept a diary from her girlhood. In it she spoke of
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the loss of two brothers at sea, one named Edmund; she also lamented the loss of two sisters. There were no children by their marriage.
The other children of John Evans, the Commissary, and Susan March, all died young or unmarried.
John Evans2 had a somewhat religious tendency, as is, in fact, the trait of nearly all the Evanses. Having been a sea-faring man, thrown in contact with people of different creeds and manners of living, he had a free, unbigoted nature, generally noted in sailors. He had a hatred for puritanical prudeness and speaks sarcastically in his diary of some of the super-pious men and women of Portsmouth, particularly the women, always ready to drive a sharp bargain and exact the uttermost farthing in the collection of debts. He was about sixty years of age when he died.
His eldest son, Richard Evans3, was at the time of his father's death studying for the bar, but this he had to give up in order to assume his position as head of the family. He engaged in business, as a merchant in foreign trade at Portsmouth, Newbury- port and Boston, and resided for a time in Philadelphia. He re- turned to Portsmouth, in 1808, and engaged in politics and law.
In 1809, Gov. Langdon, of New Hampshire, appointed him one of the Justices of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, then the highest State Court. Justices Livermore and Claggett were on the bench with him.
In 1810, Richard Evans3 married Ann Wendall Penhallow, daughter of Samuel Penhallow+ and Hannah, daughter of Henry Sherburne.
Samuel Penhallow+ was the son of John Penhallow and Sarah Wentworth, daughter of Hunking Wentworth and Elizabeth Wibird.
John Penhallow3 was the son of John Penhallow2 and Elizabeth (Butler) Watts, daughter of Peter Butler.
John Penhallow? was the son of Samuel Penhallow1 and Mary Cutt, daughter of President John Cutt and Hannah Starr, daugh- ter of Dr. Comfort Starr.
Judge Richard Evans married Ann Wendell Penhallow, and had issue :
I. Richard Stuart Evans+, b. Feb. 11, 1811; d. Feb. 6, 1892. Married (1850) Catherine Roland.
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Il. John Evans+, M. D., b. Feb. 14, 1812; d. April 13, 1861. Married ( May 16, 1835) Sarah Zane Mills, daughter of Robert Mills and Eliza Barnwell Smith. Issue Volume III.
III. Ann Wendell Evans+, b. 1815. Married (1855) John Steiner; d. Feb. 15, 1883. Issue: one child, d. in infancy.
Richard Stuart Evans+, b. on Sagamore Farm, near Portsmouth, N. H., Feb. 11, 1811, and died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 6, 1892. In 1828 he graduated from Bowdoin College, Massachusetts. and went to Washington, D. C., with his uncle, Estwich Evans? and family. In 1850, at Bull's Ferry, New Jersey, near New York. he married Catherine Roland. Her father, who had immigrated from France, was dead. Her uncle, with whom she lived, was a man of gigantie stature, an ideal of the ancient paladin. Roland of Roncesvalles.
I. Anne Wendell Evans5, the youngest child by this mar- riage, b. April 4, 1857; d. 1861. in the fourth year of her age.
I. Richard Penhallow Evans3, Esq., Attorney at Law, Wash- ington, D. C., was the only other child. He was born at Fort Lee, New Jersey, April 9, 1852. On June 15, 1880, he married, first, Emma Tranter Smith. of Washington, D. C. They had children :
I. Richard Tranter Evans6, b. July 1, 1881.
II. John Penhallow Evans6, b. Feb. 17. 1883.
III. George Wendell Evans6, b. April 26, 1884.
IV. Mary Elizabeth Mills Evans6, b. Oet. 30, 1885.
V. Edwin Stuart Evans6, b. March 6, 1887.
VI. Frank Wesley Smith Evans", b. June 4, 1888.
VII. Evelyn Coleman Evans", b. Jan. 7. 1889.
Emma Tranter Smith, d. Nov. 17, 1893. Richard Penhallow Evans married, second, May 15. 1901, Katherine Coleman Shedd. They have no issue.
(Sketch of Dr. John Evans to be found Volume III, Chapter V; also issue.)
Estwiek Evans3, Esq., son of Commissary John Evans and Susan
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March, b. 1777. Married Eliza L. Wade, who died in Philadelphia, Pa. They had issue :
I. Edmund Evans+, was employed for his entire adult life in the New York Custom Service, and was highly es- teemed for ability and probity. He married twice, and had three boys, all of whom died in infancy. Two of the children came at one birth from the second wife.
DR. WARWICK EVANS, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
II. Susan Evans+, died unmarried.
III. Eliza Evans+. Married Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald; she died, April 28, 1904. No issue.
IV. Warwick Evans+, M. D., married twice. First, Mary Mason Washington, a lineal descendant of Lawrence Washington. (See Washington.) Mary Mason Wash-
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ington, the immigrant, who was the ancestor of Gen. George Washington. (See Washington.) Mary Mason Washington died Sept. 22, 1899. Married, second, June 28, 1905, Emma T. Demming, daughter of Israel Dem- ming, of Washington, D. C.
V. Clifford Evans+. Married three times, died a widower. He had two girls and a boy, by his first marriage. The boy, Grafton, lives in California. The daughter, Mary, lives in New York. The other daughter, Virginia, mar- ried and is dead. She had no issue. By his third wife, Clifford, had one child, a daughter, who is living in New York, a widow.
VI. Ellen Evans+. Married Dr. Dale, of Washington, D. C., and had two daughters and one son. The son, George, and youngest daughter, Eliza, are living in Pittsburg, Pa. The other daughter, Ellen, is a widow, with a daughter. They live in New York.
VII. Stafford Evans+. Married twice, and had a daughter by his first wife, married Mr. Swazie, of Philadelphia, and died in childbirth, leaving a son. Stafford Evans had a daughter by his second wife, who is living with her stepbrother in New York. He had also a son who died young.
Dr. Warwick Evans+ married Mary Mason Washington. They were married about 1850. Mary Mason Washington d. Sept. 22, 1899. They had issue :
I. Alice Strother Evans", b. about 1852, married, first, Feb. 16, 1874, Francis Yates Fenwick, of Maryland, mer- chant. He died Sept. 25, 1876, leaving two sons :
I. John Edward Fenwick, b. Dec. 8. 1874; married, Aug. 7, 1901, Miss Rachel Atherton Garrell.
II. Charles Francis Fenwick6, b. July 16, 1896. Married (April 11, 1897) Miss Dorothy Erdman.
Alice Strother Evans5 (widow Fenwick) ; married, second, May 28, 1833, Richard Livingston Wallach, lawyer; he died Jan. 4, 1896, leaving two children :
I. Richard Livingston Wallach, Jr., b. Sept. 18, 1884.
II. Alice Douglas Wallach, b. Nov. 2, 1888.
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John Edward Fenwick6 married Rachel Atherton Garrett. They have issue :
I. Cathbert Garrett Fenwick7, b. Aug. 11, 1902; d. Nov. 7. 1902.
II. Sarah Creecy Fenwick™, b. Oct. 17, 1904.
Charles Francis Fenwick6 married Dorothy Erdman. They have issue :
I. Gertrude Henrietta Fenwick™, b. March 27, 1898.
ITI. Charles Francis Fenwick7, b. Dec. 15, 1904.
Mary Mason Washington Evans" and Livingston Browning, Esq., a lawyer of Washington, D. C., were married, 1878. Mary Mason Washington Evans was born June 1, 1854. Livingston Browning, Esq., was b. March 15, 1847, and d. Aug. 4, 1904. They had issue :
I. William Livingston Browning6, b. about 1880, is a lawyer, married, and has one child.
II. Robert E. Browning6, b. about 1882, not married. Study- ing for the church.
III. Andrew Johnson Browning6, b. about 1884, studying medi- eine.
IV. John Henry Browning6, b. about 1886, is married and has one child.
V. Anna Browning, b. about 1888.
Susan Evans5 (daughter of Dr. Warwick Evans) married Dr. Benson, but had no issne, and both are dead.
Catherine Evans5 (daughter of Dr. Warwick Evans) married Mr. Warden, of Washington, D. C. They have a family.
Lund Washington Evans" died an infant.
Another boy, not named, died an infant.
Edmund Lawrence Evans5, b. about 1864; d. Oct. 1879, aged 15 years, unmarried.
Rose Evans" married Mr. H .. A. Tomlin, of Springfield, Ohio. They have a family.
Virginia Lee Evans5 married Mr. Stuart, of Washington, D. C. She had a daughter, who married Mr. Lewis Yost, and a son William Warwick Stuart.
Dr. Warwiek Evans has been for many years closely identified with Georgetown University, wherein he occupied the chair of
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Anatomy in the Medical Department. Although the only one left of his generation, he is still actively engaged in the practice of his profession, and full of zeal and vigor. He is very highly esteemed, both as a physician and as a public-spirited citizen.
PEPPERRELL.
This is a modification of the very ancient and honorable name of "Peverell," which was established at Hatfield Peverell, Essex Co., England, by Randolph de Peverell, who came over with King William in the Norman conquest. A younger branch of the Peve- rells became seated at Ermington, Devonshire, in the 14th year of King Henry II, and in the reign of King Edward I we find Sir John Peverell, of Weston Peverell, formed a matrimonial alliance with the Carews. Again, later, we have seen a Devonshire Peverell marrying into the Montague family; William de Montague, of Slow, Somerset, married a daughter of Peverell, of Ermington, Co .. Devon. From this marriage descended Robert Mills, of South Carolina, husband of Eliza Barnwell Smith, of Hackwood Park, great-granddaughter of Edward Jaquelin.
In the latter part of the 17th century, William Peverell or Pep- perell, who was born in Tavistock Parish, near Plymouth, Devon- shire, England, emigrated to New England and became known in America, finally, as Colonel, the Honorable William Pepperell. He settled at Kittery, Maine, and died Feb. 15, 1734, and was buried there. In 1680, he married Margery Bray, daughter of John Bray. The Brays came from Plymouth, England. Col. the Hon. William Peperrell and Margery Bray married, 1680; had issue, two sons and six daughters.
Mrs. Margery Peperell d. April 24, 1741; the third child of this couple, Margery Peperell, b. 1689, married Peletiah White- more, who was lost at sea, near the Isle of Shoals. They had four children :
I. Peletiah, b. Jany. 26, 1707 or '08.
II. William, b. March 10, 1710 or 11.
III. Mary, b. Nov. 2, 1712.
IV. Joel, b. Dec. 15, 1716.
Her second husband was Judge Elihu Gunnison, of the Court of Common Pleas, who resided at Kittery. By him she had no children.
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The third child, Mary Whitemore, b. November 2, 1712, married Rev. Edmund March, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, prior to 1758. Their daughter, Susan March, was born about 1758, and married John Evans, the Commissary, of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, in 1774.
Of Margerie Bray, the wife of Col. the Hon. William Pepperell, it is of record that her parents emigrated from England to escape religious persecution, and that she was celebrated for her piety and charity. The most noted of her children was Lieutenant- General Sir William Pepperrell, the hero of Louisbourg, who was born at Kittery Point, June 27, 1696.
In early life he took a personal share in his father's timber trade and warehouses, and grew up robust and hardy. Accustomed from infancy, to the alarms of Indian warfare, he was bred to the use of arms and trained to face dangers. Pepperell and his brother rapidly improved their father's business. His earlier years were devoted to building vessels and planning voyages to Europe and the West Indies, but he was an active officer in the Maine volunteers of which he was elected Colonel, in 1722. He was at that time the foremost man of the Colony, and became almost the sole proprietor of Saco (which for a time was called Pepperrellboro) and Scarboro, with large properties in Portsmouth, Hampton and elsewhere. In 1727 he was elected to the Council of Massachusetts, and was annually re-elected until his death.
The New England colonists of English connection had been long annoyed by French incursions, operated from their base, at Louis- bourg, and, in 1745, the English decided to make an effort to capture the place. It was a bold enterprise for a force of Colonial Militia, aided by a few small ships, to attack one of the strongest natural fortresses in the world. It was called the "Dunkirk of America." Pepperrell, with the approval of the provinces, was appointed to command the expedition.
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