Person:Joseph Pendleton (7)

"JOSEPH(3) PENDLETON (Capt. James(2), Major Brian(1)), was born at Sudbury, Mass., 20 December, 1661, and died at Westerly, Rhode Island, 18 September 1706.

Although not quite eighteen years old at the time Joseph(3) Pendleton was among those-his father included-who took the oath of allegiance at Westerly, 178 September 1679. We find nothing more relating to him there until the 23rd of August, 1695, when he was chosen Tax Assessor-or Rate Maker-an office to which he was elected from time to time in later years. He was constable there in 1697, and in 1699 was involved with his father and other residents of Westerly in the trouble with Governor Cranston of Rhode Island through their refusal to pay a certain tax levy.

On the 25th of June, 1701, he was chosen Town Clerk of Westerly for the ensuing year, and except for 1704, was re-elected at the Town Meetings held there each June in the five years following. In the election of 1703, he was called "Ensign." He served as a grandjuryman in 1706, and was admitted to the First Church of Stonington, Conn., 24 May, 1702.

Joseph(3) Pendleton married (1), at Westerly, 8 July, 1696, Deborah Minor, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah (Avery) Minor. She died 8 September, 1697, and he married (2), also at Westerly, 11 December, 1700, Patience Potts, daughter of William and Rebecca (Avery) Potts of New London, Conn. She was baptized there, 12 August, 1683. Not long after Joseph's death she married (2), as his second wife, 28 April, 1707, Samuel Rogers, and removed to Branford, Conn. On the following 8th of June, Rogers gave bond to administer Joseph Pendleton's estate and some years later had a draft of 202 acres of land laid out to him "in the behalf of Joshua Pendleton, his son-in-law [step-son], it being part of ye Land held in possession by Capt. James Pendleton deceased."^[4] Deborah Minor and Patience Potts were first cousins.

O2 Feb 1698/9, JP of Faversham (Westerly) deeds to Nicholas "Mooreu" two acres of land in Portsmouth, NH. "One of which was given to my brother James Pendleton". (Rockingham Co., NH deeds, ix.321)

1. ↑ James Pendleton, in Pendleton, Everett Hall. Brian Pendleton and his Descendants, 1599-1910: With Some Account of the Pembleton Families of Orange County, N. Y., Otsego County, N. Y., and Luzerne County, Pa., and notices of other Pendletons of Later Origin in the United States. (East Orange, N.J.: Privately Printed, 1910)
   37.

   Joseph (Pendleton), b. 29 Dec., 1661, Sudbury, Mass., m. (1), Deborah Minor; (2), Patience Potts.

2. ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
   110.

   PENDLTON, Joseph, s. James and Hannah, (born) Dec. 29, 1661 [Middlesex County record (East Cambridge)].

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Joseph Pendleton, in Pendleton, Everett Hall. Early New England Pendletons: With some Account of the three groups who took the name Pembleton, and notices of other Pendletons of later origin in the United States. (South Orange, New Jersey: E. H. Pendleton, 1956)
   53-55.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Abstracts of Westerly Wills, in Alden G. Beaman. Rhode Island Genealogical Register. (The Rhode Island Genealogical Research Institute)
   355, April 1982.

   Joseph Pendleton, of Westerly, yeoman. Will dated 17 Sep 1706, proved 17 Oct 1706. Wife Patience who is to bring up my children until they come of age. Sons Joseph eldest, William and Joshua youngest, all under age. Daughter Deborah under age. Capt. James Babcock and Capt. John Babcock, of Westerly overseers. Witnesses: Samuel Stanton, Isaac Tamson and John Hill. [Westerly TCP 2/1:79-80]