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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Jeremiah Wardwell Note Born: 19 Dec 1756 at , , York, ME Married: 14 Sep 1779 Died: 25 Oct 1825 at , , , ME
WIFE
Name: Elizabeth Banks Note Born: 5 Jun 1765 Died: 26 Nov 1853 at , , Penobscot, ME Father: Aaron Banks Mother: Mary Perkins
CHILDREN
Name: William Wardwell Born: 23 Aug 1780 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: 26 Aug 1830 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME
Name: Eliakim Wardwell Born: 29 Jun 1782 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: 18 Aug 1840
Name: Ruth Wardwell Born: 15 Jun 1785 Died:
Name: Ebenezer Wardwell Born: 22 Apr 1787 at , , Hancock, ME Died: 19 May 1876 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Wife: Elizabeth Newberry
Name: Anna Wardwell Born: 7 Apr 1790 Died:
Name: Elizabeth Wardwell Born: 7 Sep 1792 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: 5 Apr 1826
Name: Joseph Wardwell Born: 10 Oct 1794 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: May 1819
Name: Robert Wardwell Born: 7 Dec 1796 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died:
Name: Lewis Wardwell Born: 1 Feb 1799 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: 4 Jan 1845
Name: Seneca Wardwell Born: 29 Jan 1802 Died:
Name: Vespasian Wardwell Born: 3 Apr 1804 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died:
Name: Marcy Wardwell Born: 4 Dec 1806 at Penobscot, , Hancock, ME Died: 30 Oct 1838
NOTES
1). Jeremiah came to Penobscot, Maine with his parents. He made the original survey of the town as assistant to John Peters. Jeremiah served as Captain of the First Company, Second Regiment, Second Brigade. Folk of the Majorbagaduce, p.17 He was selectman of Castine, including the town of Penobscot, 1787 88 and again 1793 94. He was living at Penobscot in 1769. He was one of the committee chosen to draw up the agreement of separation of Castine and Penobscot in 1795. In 1796 he was one of a committee to divide the town into eight school districts and apportion the students and money to each district. He built the first schoolhouse in Penobscot on Charles Perkins hill in 1809 at a cost of $700 it was heated by two huge fireplaces and served until 1850. He is said to have taught many young men math, surveying and navigation before the schools were established. His house is presumed that marked J.Wardwell on maps of his era, located on present day route 199 on the Bagaduce River side of the roadjust toward Castine from the entrance to the lower road onto Wardwell s Point. He and Capt. Thatcher Avery together paid for the first church building in Penobscot Methodist in 1801, on Capt. David Dunbar s farm it is reputed to have held 1,000 worshippers. His children are from Penobscot, ME V.R. Jeremiah gave a farm to each of his eight sons and $500 each to his four daughters per great granddaughter Helen Peterson Conner .
2).  Penobscot V.R. give her as  Eliza  and her birth date as June 5, 1764.

						

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