James Pendleton

The book by Everett Hall Pendleton (1910) says of him: "James5 Pendleton, Jr., (James4, Caleb3) was born 21 November, 1710, at Westerly, R.I., and died there in 1792. He removed to Stonington, Conn., shortly after the birth of his first child, and bought land there of Benajah Billings for £155 on the 14th of May, 1742. He continued to live in that town until 1753, when on the 6th of July of that year he sold his property to his half-brother, Thomas Pendleton, for £2100 and returned to Westerly. In 1757, he paid a tax there of 7s. 10d. The Rhode Island Census of 1774 shows him as a resident of that town with a family consisting of three mailes over 16 and one female over 16 -- evidently his wife. He son Simeon and himself would account for two of these males, but the third one is unkonwn -- his son, Ichabod, being deceased, and James, 3rd, having a family of his own -- unless his grandson, Joseph-7 Pendleton, bron 1754, survived till then and was brought up in James' family. On the 6th of December, 1791, James Pendleton of Westerly was drawn as a grand juror (Westerly "Town Meetings", i.v., 119). The will of James-5 Pendleton, dated at Westerly, R.I., 10 October, 1792 (C. & P. Rec., v, 218), names wife Abigail; sons, Simeon and James; daughters, Desire, wife of Stephen Niles, and Hannah, wife of David Wilbur. Inventory was taken 12 January, 1793, and amounted to £19 4s. 9d. James -5 Pendleton married at Stoningham, Conn., 22 Mar 1731, Abigail-4 Brown. That she was the daughter Abigail-4 born 3 Feburary, 1712, of Eleazer and [11] Ann (Pendleton) Brown, is shown by the signatures of James Pendleton and his wife Abigail, appearing in the deed given 30 July, 1734, by the heirs of Ann (Pendleton) Brown, to Joseph and Edmund Pendleton, of all their rights in the estate of Capt. James2 and Major Brian1 Pendleton (Rockingham Co., N.H., Deeds xx, 227). The children of James5 and Abigail4 (Brown) Pendleton were (first and last frmo Westerly Recs., others from Stonington Rec.): ..." [Listing condensed here. shown with details are: Ichabod, Desire, David, James, hannah, Anna, Simeon]