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Matthew PETTENGELL
(1648 –1714)
Sarah NOYES
(1653 – Abt 1713)
Samuel FRENCH
(Abt 1652 –1692)
Hester UNK
(Abt 1657 – )
Matthew PETTENGELL
(1678 –1756)
Joanna FRENCH
(1683 – )
Abraham PETTENGELL
(1704 – )

 

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1. Hannah FRENCH

Abraham PETTENGELL 2 3 4
  • Born: 4 December 1704, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
  • Marriage (1): Hannah FRENCH on 29 February 1728 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts 1 2

bullet   Other names for Abraham were Abraham PETTENGILL 4 5 and Abraham PETTINGAL.1

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bullet  General Notes

He was enrolled in Captain George Berry's Company 36 weeks and one day in 1747, also in Lieutenant Benjamin Morgridge's Company in 1749.  Was captured by the Indians while in service, and taken to Louisburg, whence he was brought with other exchanged prisoners to Boston in the schooner Brittania, Captain Sylmer Granville.

October 26, 1729, he bought of John Stevens one-half right in Captain John Alden's lot number 94, at North Yarmouth, Maine, not far from that time he removed to that place.  He witnessed the will of Benjamin Ingersoll there April 9, 1755.  In 1765, he sold land to Elisha Pettengell, both of North Yarmouth.  Sold part of three islands at the same place.  Was a Juryman there in 1760.  The date of his death has not been ascertained by the compiler.  (Our Colonial Lines, p. 80)

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He served in the military: Served in the French and Indian war and was captured by the French and taken into Canada, along with Benjamin Lake and others. They were brought back to Boston on October 6, 1748, on an English ship. 6 7
  • He was Admitted to the Salisbury Church in 1727.
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Abraham married Hannah FRENCH, daughter of Edward FRENCH and Mary WINSLEY, on 29 February 1728 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.1 2 (Hannah FRENCH was born on 19 August 1706 in prob Massachusetts, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts Marriages, 1633 –1850 [database on-line] (Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Family History Centers throughout the United States.).
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 80. 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. 53, 79-81. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  6. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 53. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  7. New England Genealogical and Historical Register.


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