Family History and Research
Pendexter variant spelling in America
Pendexter appears to be a variant spelling from the Poingdestre family of the Isle of Jersey. Families with this spelling seem to have first settled in New England and are a separate Poingdestre branch from the George Poindexter that settled in Virginia in the 1650's (which is the primary focus of the Poindexter Descendants Association and this web site. Pendexter researchers may contribute to this page by contact the webmaster.
Other web sources for researching Pendexter:
Pendexter research contributed bt researchers of this surname or collected by the PDA:
Patti
Pendexter:(February 5, 1999)
I was told by an older English gentleman that the name
was a derivative of a name from the Channel Islands but was changed to
Pendexter when they immigrated to Maine.
Donna
Howes (date unknown) from posting at SurnameWeb:
I believe the original name was "Poingdestre",
a French name originating from the English Channel Islands. It is not
verified, but my father, a Pendexter, was told by ancestors that two brothers
sailed from the Channel Islands and landed in Virginia by the name of
Poingdestre, one moved west, changing his last name to Poindexter, the
other one moved to the north east, changing his name to Pendexter. If
anyone has verifiable information to this effect, please post it.
Dana Edgecomb: (deceased) (Maine, November 16, 1999 to the Channel Islands list) (Email updated 2009 Novenmber)
Perhaps Pendestre researchers would check to see if they
have anyone who could be my ancestor, Henry Pendexter (as he was known
in the U.S.). I don't know when he arrived in the United States. Saco
Valley Settlements, p. 1111 gives the following "The Poindestres
were Huguenots, which probably accounts for their settlement in the Isle
of Jersey...".
(Note
from webmaster, we know that George's, the PDA's Poindexter immigrant,
mother was the daughter of a Huguenot preacher, Rev. Nicolas Effard [.
The Poindestres had been a major fief family in Jersey long before there
were Huguenots. George appears to have been Church of England as he was
a vestryman at Bruton Church in what we today call Williamsburg, VA.)
Isaac
Pendexter, born 1664 at St. Hiliers, Isle of Jersey, is listed as a mariner
age 34 in 1698 on a Jersey ship in Newcastle, New Hampshire, U.S. No connection
to any descendants is given in that record (GDMNH, p. 537). Isaac may
have been related to my Henry.
Henry
was living in Biddeford, Maine, U.S. when he married Deborah Littlefield.
In 1728 he paid four pounds for land in the township, and on May 27, 1730,
he paid cash for his privilege. He probably came from Portsmouth or Newington,
New Hampshire. He had a large family, and several sons were married in
Biddeford. Henry was of the same family as the Pendexters in Bartlett,
New Hampshire, USA. The Bartlett family originated from John and Martha
(Jackson) Pendexter, who moved from Portsmouth to Bartlett in the winter
of 1775/6. Edward was the ancestor of the Bartlett Pendexters, so may
have been Henry's brother.
Henry's
last child was born in 1750. His will was dated March 6, 1764 (Maine Probate
Abstracts, 1:573.
Dana's
web site: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgecomb (link updated 2009 November)
Alex
Glendenning, a Channel Islands researcher, in response to Dana:
Isaac Poingdestre bap. (St H) 30.8.1663, g/p pére & Thomas
de Ste Croix & Susanne s.f., married Anne Beresford fille Robert Beresford
& Rachel Gresley (St H) 12.9.1688 and had six children between 1689-98.
The whole
family then disappear from Jersey's records so they may have settled in
the U.S.
Isaac was
the 2nd son and last of 5 children of Isaac Poingdestre and Catherine
Fallu, m. (St H) 25.11.1646. His father Isaac Poingdestre, bap. (St H)
30.10.1625 g/p péré & Jean Langlois, bur. (St H) 5.8.1669,
was the 2nd of 6 children of Michel Poingdestre and Marie Langlois, m.
(G) 21.11.1621
Michel Poingdestre
was the younger of 2 brothers, bap. (St H) 12.2.1597/8 g/p pére
& Jean Fyott, bur. (St H) 29.1.1640/1
His father
was also Michel Poingdestre whose origin is unfortunately unknown at present.
bur. (St H) 8.4.1620
Michel the
elder married twice: (1) Marie (?) bur. (St H) 26.6.1598 who bore him
Pierre (1596-7) and Michel before she died and (2) Marguerite Le Brun
m. (St H) 28.2.1600/1 who bore him no children.
Unfortunately
all the Henry Poingdestres in my files died in Jersey. The name was uncommon
(two only in late 1600s early 1700s). He may be on the trees prepared
by the Poindexter Descendants Association of the American descent of George
Poingdestre fils Thomas bap. (St Saviour) 23.12.1627 who emigrated to
Virginia in 1657.
Alex's web site: http://user.itl.net/~glen/CIResearch2.html
Marcus
Poyndestre: (August 2000, Charleston, S.C.)
Does anyone have any info on John Fowler Pendexter at
Yale University class of 58?
Ann
Storer (August, 2000) posted to Rootsweb-List for Pendexter:
Looking for the parents of Mary E. Pendexter, born 1833,
died 1906, married Eban Storer-Jan 1851. They lived in the Wells ,Maine
area.
John Van Essen: (November 2009)
I'm descended from the Portsmouth to Bartlett, NH, Pendexter family. There are few trees speculating on Edward Pendexter's parents being Isaac Poingdestre and Anne Beresford, Jersey, Channel Islands, but no actual sources are given (which I would like to see, like the names and baptismal dates of Issac's children mentioned by Alex Glendenning).
Dana Edgecomb update (see his links above) (November 2009, Maine, USA):
Priscilla Hammond copied the Portsmouth Church records, and many other church records in New Hampshire. Those can be rented on film at a Family History Center. Maine Historical Society has some of them, but not all of her work.
Gloria
Atwater, one of our PDA researchers, submitted the following two reports
(June 1999):
Genealogical
Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, page 537
PENDEXTER, POINDEXTER, a Channel Island family.
Edward, coaster, Portsmouth, depos. in 1766 that he had been there
±62 yrs. Provis. gr. in Scarb. 1720. List 339. In 1748 trustee
for widow Hannah Toogood. His will, 7 Apr.ö22 Aug. 1768. His w.
Elizabeth (LARABEE 6) was rec. into cov. and bp. No. Ch. 27 May
1715; d. 20 Aug. 1771, ag. 81. See also Hull(9). Ch: 1) Elizabeth,
bp. 27 May 1715, d. unm. 2) Margaret, bp. with Elizabeth, m. 13
Nov. 1729 Geo. Seward. Mary, bp. 25 Sept. 1715, m. 3 Nov. 1738 Richard
Tibbetts. 3) Philip, bp. 7 Feb. 1719-20, bur. from St. John's Ch.
18 Apr. 1799. 4 or more ch. 4) John, shipwright, bp. 7 Feb. 1719-20,
m. 7 May 1738 Alice Miller(12); liv. 1765, d. bef. fa. 6 or more
ch. 5) Edward, Portsm., mar. and had 3 or more ch.
Henry,
Biddeford, m. 20 Dec. 1727 Deborah Littlefield of Bid. 9 ch. rec.
there.
Isaac,
Newcastle 1698, ±34; from St. Hilary in Jersey and mariner
on a Jersey ship.
NOTE:
Compare Edward Pendexter who married Elizabeth Larabee, above, to
Elizabeth Larabee, daughter of Thomas, below, which I posted some
time ago;Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, page
416: LARABEE, Leatherby
page
417, Thomas (4) (LARABEE), soldier in Philip's War. (Arch. 100.300).
He m. in Scarboro... He and a son were shot by Ind. while working
in his field 19 Apr. 1723. He m. Elizabeth ROWE (Anthony), and settled
on the upper end of her fa.'s homestead. (Note; GEDfile says m.
1683)
Children: ... Elizabeth LARABEE, b. 1690, m. Edward PENDEXTER of
Portsm.,
(Note; GEDfile says m. @ 1711) d. 20 Aug. 1771, ag. 81.
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From;
www.familytreemaker.com/suvcw/users/d/o/Dow-James-E/
...George
Farnum DOW (the soldier) was the son of Josiah Farnum DOW (1810-1847)
and Sarah Jewett BARKER (1820-1891). George's first wife was Harriet
LIBBY (1848-1870) - one daughter Margaret H. (1870-1918); his second
wife was Mary Emma BLANCHARD (1852-1909) - one son George E. (1875-1958).
Burial in Green Grove Cemetery (BLANCHARD/DOW/DREW allied family
lot), Ashland, Grafton county, New Hampshire.
George
F.'s father, Josiah F. died 10 May 1847, at Concord, Merrimack county,
New Hampshire, when G.F. was four months old. His mother Sarah J.
married secondly Dr. Reuben Morrill POINDEXTER (1818-????) on 6
January 1855, at Cornish, York county, Maine. The family relocated
to Mitchell county, Iowa in 1856. |
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