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Matthew PETTENGELL
(1678 –1756)
Joanna FRENCH
(1683 – )
Edward FRENCH
(Abt 1676 – )
Mary WINSLEY
(Abt 1681– )
Abraham PETTENGELL
(1704 – )
Hannah FRENCH
(1706 – )
David P. PETTENGILL
(1734 –1778)

 

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1. Mercy LAKE

David P. PETTENGILL 2 3 4
  • Born: 5 September 1734, North Yarmouth, Maine, USA
  • Marriage (1): Mercy LAKE on 23 November 1758 1 2
  • Died: 6 January 1778, Saratoga, New York, USA at age 43

bullet   Cause of his death was killed in the Revolutionary War.

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bullet  General Notes

He resided at North Yarmouth and New Glocester, Maine.  Was in the squad of Scouts under Sergeant Jacob Parsons at New Gloucester 21 weeks and 2 days, roll dated at Boston, March 15, 1757, also in roll dated Boston, December 22, 1758, in Captain Joshua Freeman's Company June 13, to October 31, 1758 was with the detachment at New Gloucester under Sergeant William Stevens:  also November 17, 1759 under Captain Charles Leissner, seven weeks and one day as Scout to the eastward.

Later he served in the Revolution under Captain Nicholas Blaisdell's Company 13th Massachusetts Regiment Colonel Edward Wigglesworth, enlisted Feb 26, 1777, to serve three years, name appears on muster roll dated Springfield, April 23, 1777.

In camp at Valley Forge, Feb 5, 1778.  He was in Smart's Company, Smith's regiment, Feb 26, 1777 to January 6, 1778.

(Our Colonial Lines, p. 81)

bullet  Death Notes

killed in the Revolutionary War

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He had a residence in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA.
  • David served in the military: fought and died in the Revolutionary War.
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David married Mercy LAKE, daughter of Benjamin LAKE and Mercy EATON, on 23 November 1758.1 2 (Mercy LAKE was born on 27 February 1740 in prob Maine, USA 5.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 53, 81. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 54, 81. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  4. John Mason Pettingell, Pettengell Genealogy (Boston, 1906).
  5. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 81. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.


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