Kendall Burdick, son of Stephen, was born in 1778, in Westerly, R. I., where he married Hannah Gray, who was born in 1775, and died in 1843. He served in the war of 1812. While in the East he was engaged as steward on whaling vessels, but in 1825 he removed from his native State, settling in Clifford township, Susquehanna Co., Penn., where he purchased a farm and followed agricultural pursuits; there he remained until his death, in 1871, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He was an earnest Baptist in religious belief, and realizing the need of a Church home in the new settlement he became prominently interested in the construction of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church near his farm. He was a close and accurate student of the Bible, and preserved to a remarkable degree his physical and mental powers in his old age. His children were as follows: Elias, a mechanic, who remained in Rhode Island; Mason, for a time a farmer of Clifford township, who later removed to Lackawanna county; Dolly, who first married Putnam Edwards, and after his death Roswell Ames; Abraham, a farmer of Clifford township; Zebediah, also a farmer, of Clifford township; Philip, born in Rhode Island, July 1, 1814, who married Mary Burdick, his cousin (daughter of Elias); Happy, who married Ezra Carpenter, a farmer of Uniondale; and Harriet, of Clifford, widow of Luther S. Burdick.
