5. Capt. James PENDLETON (Brian ) was born about 1627/1628 in London, London, England. He died 29 Nov 1709 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

HISTORY OF STONINGTON Ct, by Wheeler, page 532, 533.
    Was first at Watertown MA, then at Sudbury MA, and came to Westerly RI in 1669. He was in the early Colonial wars. He was admitted to the First Church of Stonington, CT, Nov 7, 1680.
    His will is dated Feb. 9, 1702, but does not mention his son James, by the first wife, nor daughters Sarah or Patience by the second wife. They probably died young or without children.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    Capt. James Pendleton, was born in England about 1627, or 1628, ans indicated by the facts that he was admitted freeman at Watertown, Mass., 10 May 1548, and that on the 26th of July 1672, he testified at Portsmouth, NH, he was forty-four years of age.
    On the 21st of Oct 1650, James Pendleton and Mary, his wife, of Watertown, Mass., sold to George Parkhurst, "Same towne" five or six acres known as "crocked meadow" (Middlesex Co., Mass., Deeds, I, 17). Shortly afterwards he removed to Sudbury, Mass., where he served on a coroner's jury in May, 1654.
    In 1671, James began to dispose of the property he had accumulated at Portsmouth and vicinity, with his wife, Hannah, he sold land and buildings at Portsmouth to Thomas Thatcher.
    On the 25th Jany. 1688, James Pendleton bought of Nathaniel Lynde 1,000 acres on the sea-coast of Westerly, including Watch Hill. He sold a small part of this land and the rest he willed to his sons, Joseph, Edmund, and Caleb.
    His death occurred in Westerly on the 29 Nov, 1709. Like his father he was active in public affairs until the time of his death and like his father too, wherever he went he became at once one of the leading citizens.
    The will of James-2 Pendleton, names wife, Hannah, sons: Joseph, Edmund and Caleb, daughters Ann Borwn, Eleanor Pendleton and Dorothy Pendleton, "children by my present wife, Hannah," and daughters Mary and Hannah "had by my former wife."
    No reference is made by Capt. James Pendleton to his sons, James-3 and Brian-3, named in his father's will in 1677, or to any heirs of these sons, and as no mention of any such has elsewhere appeared, it would seem indisputable that James-3 and Brian-3 died without issue. James-3 had died previous to 1698, but we have nothing to show what became of Brian-3.
 
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  Sources: History of Stonington by Wheeler, Genealogical and Biographical
Record of New London County, Conn., by Beers; Westerly and Its Witnesses
(974.59, H2d); Early New England Pendletons by Everett Hall Pendleton; Babcock and Allied Families; National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars; AF; R.I. Genealogical Register, v4, #4, p355; NEHGR, v7, p 357; v12, p238, and v17, p255.

  Went to Watertown, Mass., with parents from England. They moved to Sudbury, and he was given 140 acres of land by his father. Moved to Portsmouth, N.H., where he was in business with his father. There he was a selectman, 1663 to 1668; town clerk, 1663 and 1664; one of the commissioners (local magistrates) to determine small actions from 1667 to 1671, and captain of the Portsmouth military company from 1666 until 1674, his last year in Portsmouth. He owned property on the Great Island and continued in business after his father moved to Winter Harbor (Saco), Maine, in 1665.
  He moved to Stonington, Conn., being granted land, and also had some 700
acres of land given him by his father. Those 700 acres are in what is now
Westerly, Rhode Island, but both Connecticut and Rhode Island once claimed
the Westerly area. (The land was given him in trust, with instructions it be
passed on to his children by his second wife.)
  James, a staunch Puritan, favored Connecticut over the more liberal Rhode
Island, but he eventually lost that fight. He continued his business activities and was affluent enough to be referred to as "Esquire" and "Gentleman."
  He was a selectman in both Stonington and Westerly, sold intoxicants,
imported sugar from Barbados and had dealings with tobacco planters in
Maryland. Dealing in liquor was not considered reprehensible in those days, and a man could engage in that business, as well as in politics, and still be a community leader and a pillar of the church.
  About the time he moved to Stonington, the King Philip's War broke out, and Capt. James took part. He also may have participated in the great Narragansett fight. He was awarded land in Voluntown for his services during the war. He also obtained captive Indians whom he sold into slavery.
  Eventually, James obtained more property in Rhode Island, buying 1,000 acres at Watch Hill in Westerly. His Watch Hill home still stands. It is unclear when he moved from Stonington to Westerly.
  There is a great deal more information in Early New England Pendletons.
  Westerly: Capt. James Pendleton, among Westerly freemen named in 1727. Page 151.
  Babcock and Allied Families: James Pendleton, born in England in 1627 or
1628. He resided in Watertown and Sudbury, MA; Portsmouth, N.H., and Westerly, RI. Made a captain of the Portsmouth military company 2 Oct. 1666. Served in King Phillip's War from Connecticut, receiving land in Voluntown, CT, for his services. [Much more info on pages 81-83.]
  Colonial Wars: James Pendleton, born 1627/8 in London, England; died
Westerly, R.I., 29 Nov. 1709. Married (2) Hannah Goodenow 2 April 1656/9 in
Sudbury, Mass. "Captain in the Portsmouth (N.H.) Military Company, 10 Oct. 1666 by Court." Also saw active service in King Philip's War on 17 May 1676; in Cedar Swamp Lot Drawing 1701, Connecticut Colony. [See pages 645 and 646 for children and grandson.]
  RIGR: Westerly Town Council and Probate, Vol. 2 (1), 1699-1719. Capt. James Pendleton of Westerly, being aged. Will dated 9 Feb. 1702/3 and codicil, proved 21 Dec. 1709, pgs 104-6, 108. Mentions father Brian Pendleton, deceased, testate; Unnamed former wife; present wife Hannah; daughters Mary and Hannah (no surnames) that I had by former wife, 5 pounds each, no more because they received land in Wells, Maine, from testator's father, Brian Pendleton. [Note: pg 108: Nicholas Mowrey signed a receipt for 5 pounds due me from Capt. James Pendleton's will, dated Freetown 7 Sept. 1716--suggesting that Nichoas Mowrey married one of the two daughters, Mary and Hannah.]; sons of present wife Hannah, Joseph, Edmond and Caleb Pendleton; daughters of present wife Hannah, Ann Brown, Eleanor Pendleton and Dorothy, no surnamed. [Note: pg 108: 9 Jan. 1709/10 We John Lewis, Nocholas Cottrell Jr. and Caleb Pendleton, husbandmen, and Hannah Pendleton, widow, all of We stand bound unto the town council for 250 pounds re will of James Pendleton--suggesting that possibly John Lewis and Nicholas Cottrell Jr. married the daughters Eleanor and Dorothy. Further note the will dated 1745 of Caleb Pendleton (the last son this will, without doubt, since he had the same child as the son...]
    Ancestral File records list two other death dates: Nov. 20 and 29,
1709.
   NEHGR: Cited in Sudbury, Mass., records as father of Brian and James
Pendleton.  From Vol. 7 article, "Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk":
James Pendleton, Portsmouth (New Hampshire), 1668; wife Hannah. Vol. 12, listed as a free inhabitant of Westerly 3 March 1679/80.

James married (1) Mary PALMER, daughter of Walter PALMER, on 22 Oct 1647 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Mass.. Mary died 7 Nov 1655 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    James Pendleton married 1st at Sudbury, Mass., 22 Oct 1647, Mary Palmer, whos parentage is unknown. She died in Sudbury, 7 Nov 1655.

NEHGR, Vol. 153, October 1999, page 501. A book review of A GENEALICAL RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM PALMER OF HAMPTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1638, by John Calvin Palmer (Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Company, 1998.
    One distinctly useful addition to the genealogical literature is the inclusion here of facsimile of William Palmer's unprobated will. Although this genealogy does not say so, the original (and a framed tyuped coyp) of this will are found among the treasures of the Tuck Memorial Museum operated by the Hampton Historical Society. A photo-reproduction of the original will, and a transcription of it, are in cluded here. Unknown except to a few of us descendants of William Palmer, this will is now fortunately preserved in the literature.
    Of considerable interest in its own right, the will proves that Mr. Palmer had a daughter Mary, who must be the Mary Palmer of Watertown, Massachusetts, who married in Sudbury, on 22 October 1647, Captain James-2 (Brian-1) Pendleton of that place.
    William Palmer had earlier been of Watertown, and his older daughter, Martha, was married to John Sherman and lived there. The will was signed by Mr. Palmer's mark, which resembles a zero, and was witnessed by "Timothie Dalton Seniour" and "John Shearman". It is not known why this will was never submitted for probate, but fortunately it was preserved over the centuries and found its way to a relavively safe place.

James also married (2) Mary PALMER on 22 Oct 1647. Mary died 7 Nov 1655 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.

  Sources: NEHGR, v17, p172; Wheeler.
  Wheeler: Mary Palmer, Capt. James Pendleton's first wife. Had three children
before her death.
  NEHGR: Mary, wife of James Pendleton, died 7 Nov. 1655. Sudsbury, Mass.,
records cited.

James also married (3) Hannah GOODENOW, daughter of Edmund GOODENOW and Anne Hannah BARRY, on 29 Apr 1656 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Mass. Hannah was born 28 Nov 1639 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. She died 5 Apr 1688 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    James Pendleton married 2nd, 29 April 1656, also at Sudbury, Mass., Hannah Goodenow, daughter of Edmund and Hannah (  ) Goodenow. She was born in Sudbury MA 28 Nov 1639 and was living in Westerly RI as late as 1725. Her father was a native of Dunhead, Wiltshire, EN (N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg. 1x, 357), and was a prominent man in Sudbury which he represented in the General Court for several years.

HISTORY OF STONINGTON, page 531 & 532, & Genealogies by R.H. Wheeler, page 388,

GENEALOGIST DICTIONARY OF NEW ENGLAND Vol. 3, page 271, Vol. 2.
    by James Savage, books in the City library, 220 State St., S. MA.

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  Sources: AF; Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors...; Early New England
Pendletons; Pioneers of Massachusetts; Vols 6 and 17, NEHGR.
  Three Hundred: Hannah Goodenow, born 28 Nov. 1639; married 29 April 1656,
James Pendleton.
  She was living in Westerly, R.I., in 1725. An Ancestral File Record says she
was born Nov. 28, 1639. But Sudbury, Mass., birth records put date as 25 June
1640.
  NEHGR: Vol. 6, p378: Hannah, daughter of Edmund Goodnow, born 25 June 1640
(Sudbury records cited).
  [Vol. 17, p170, (again citing Sudbury records) says she was born 25 June
1640. This appears to be an error in transcribing the records. In the birth
record below, for Mary Goodnow, her cousin, the same birth date is listed.
Apparently the transcriber picked up this date for Hannah by mistake.]
  Various sources say she the daughter of Jane Goodenow and Hannah Goodenow as
well as of Ann(e) Barry. Latter cited most frequently. And one of the children
of Capt. James and Hannah (Goodenow) Pendleton was named Ann. None named Jane
or Hannah.

  Name also spelled Goodenowe and Goodenough.

Batch #: 7407803, Sheet #: 29, Source Call #: 934366
Batch #: A184639, Source Call #: 184639, 184640
Batch #: A458808, Source Call #: 458808
Batch #: 7023617, Sheet #: 94, Source Call #: 538623
Batch #: 7519604, Sheet #: 23, Source Call #: 884585

9. Caleb PENDLETON (Brian ) was born about 1630 in Sudbury, Middlesex, England. He died before 9 Aug 1677 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    That Brian Pendleton had at least one other son besides Capt. James seems evident from the Middlesex Co., Mass., deed already referred to in which Brian refers to James as his "eldest sonne." That Caleb Pendleton was brother to James seems resonable certain.
    In the list of landholders at Portsmouth, NY, in 1657, Caleb is set down as the owner of 19 acres of land, and his name occurs immediately after those of Brian and James. In 1661 the town allotted an acre of land to Capt. James Pendleton which was bounded on Caleb's property. Tje following year Caleb was at Boston, and we have no further record of him until in the list of inhabitants at Westerly, RI, 1689, it is stated that "Lot 41 originally granted to Caleb Pendleton is given to George Landfeare." [Lanphere]. Caleb, son of James-2, was but ten years of age in this year, and so would hardly have had any grants of land made him.
   

Caleb married Judith.

10. Mary PENDLETON (Brian ) was born about 1635 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. She died about 1690.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    Mary Pendleton, only known daughter of Major Brian Pendleton, married Rev. Seth Fletcher, probably before 1655. He may have been son of William Fletcher of Concord, Mass., who died 3 Apr 1677, age 85 years. As early as 1655 Mr. Fletcher became the minister at Wells, Me., but owing to certain unorthodox views of his, was dismissed in October 1660. From this time until the outbreak of the Indian war in 1675 he resided in Saco supplying the pulpit except for short intervals from year to year.

Mary married Rev. Seth FLETCHER before 1655.