Person:Daniel Wardwell (6)

Daniel probably moved with his parents to the Penobscot, Hancock Co, ME area around 1774 from York Co, ME. He was a shipmaster and privateer on the ship Tryphena in the Revolutionary War. In April 1790, Daniel was appointed to be a member of a committee to build a new meeting house. Daniel was listed in the 1790 census at Penobscot town, ME with one male over age 16 and two females. Daniel was listed in the 1800 census at Penobscot with two males under age 10, one male age 28-45, one female under age 10, one female age 10-16 and one female age 16-26. He was probably the Daniel Wardwell enumerated in the 1810 census at Penobscot, ME with two males under age 10, one male age 10-16, one male age 16-26, one male age 26-45, two females under age 10, one female age 10-16, one female age 16-26 and one female age 26-45. In the 1820 census for Penobscot, Daniel was listed with one male under age 10, one male age 16-26, one male over age 45, one female age 10-16, one female age 16-26 and one female over age 45. The household had one member engaged in agriculture and one in commerce. In the 1830 census for Penobscot, Daniel is listed with one male age 10-15, one male age 60-70, one female age 15-20 and one female age 50-60. Daniel and his wife, Mary Hutchings, were first cousins once removed, both being descended from the marriage of Eliakim Wardwell and Ruth Bragdon. --William Colehour

"Capt. Daniel Wardwell died in Penobscot, Me., July 21st, aged about 77. Br. Wardwell had been a member of the M.E. Church about 45 years. He lived a consistent Christian, and when death approached him he was ready and willing to go, feeling that to die would be gain. He has left one brother and several children who deeply mourn their loss, but they trust he has gone to join his companion some eight years since sweetly fell asleep in Jesus, to praise God where parting will be no more. His death is a breach in the Church which may God speedily rise up others to fill. Penobscot, September 14, 1844 Asa Green" -Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal Oct. 2, 1844

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Penobscot, Maine Vital Records.
2. ↑ First Parish York, Baptismals 1750-1800, York County Genealogical Society Journal Vol 8.