Pendexter, John (1752-1835)

Name:

Pendexter, John (1752-1835)

Title:

Bartlett/Conway, NH (Lower Bartlett aka Intervale, NH):
At first town meeting (n.d.) elected first selectman;
1792 chosen treasurer & chairman of special committee to lay out roads;
1801, 1805 elected moderator and first selectman;
Elected surveyor of highways (n.d.);
1806- held important county offices;
1820 appointed chief justice of court of sessions.

Other Names:

Hon. John Pendexter

Born:

08/21/1752

Birthplace:

Bartlett or Portsmouth, NH

Died:

11/17/1835

Death Location:

Bartlett, NH

Residence:

Conway, NH
Bartlett, NH (Lower Bartlett, known also as Intervale)

Occupation:

Carpenter
Farmer
Innkeeper

Relations:

Parents: said by one source to have come from the Isle of Jersey, and by another source from the Isle of Guernsey.

Spouse:

Jackson, Martha (1753-1846)

Children:

Pendexter, Alice (b. Bartlett/Intervale, NH, 5/28/1776, d. 04/19/1872, m. Col. Jonathan Meserve, 6 ch.)
Pendexter, Nancy (b. 5/18/1778, Bartlett/Intervale, NH, d. 03/30/1798)
Pendexter, Sally (b. 06/18/1780 Bartlett/Intervale, NH; m. Benjamin Pitman)
Pendexter, Susanna (b. 08/16/1782, Bartlett/Intervale, NH, d. 09/27/1828; m. Stephen Rogers)
Pendexter, John (b. 7/29/1784, Bartlett/Intervale, NH, d. 05/21/1840; m. Susan Eastman; 8 ch.)
Pendexter, Joseph (b. 09/23/1786, d. 03/29/1855, Bartlett/Intervale, NH; m. Lydia Densmore, 7 ch. incl. Eliza D. Pendexter m. Cyrus A. Tasker)
Pendexter, Betsey (b. 1/14/1789 Bartlett/Intervale, NH, d. 2/7/1880; m. Daniel Meserve 1778-1829)
Pendexter, George B. (b. Bartlett/Intervale, NH, 04/18/1790, d. 05/27/1797)
Pendexter, Martha (b. Bartlett/Intervale, NH, 10/28/1792 -; m. William Stilphen, 7 ch.)
Pendexter, Samuel (b. 07/18/1794, Bartlett/Intervale, NH, d. 03/6/1883; m. Lydia T. Meserve; 3 ch. Silas M., Betsey M. and Charles Carroll. Silas M. m. Lydia D. Hale, 4 dau. incl. Clara F. who m. William D. Tasker, and Lydia Susan. Charles Carroll m. Caroline Persis Staples Gale who became proprietor of Pendexter Mansion)

Notes:

M. Martha Jackson, Portsmouth, NH, 1774
An early settler in the village of Intervale in Conway, NH. Pendexter moved to Bartlett before 1790 where his family of 13 was recorded in the first national census.
In the early 1770's, he came from Portsmouth in the winter. He walked the eighty miles, hauling the household furniture on a sled, while his wife rode an old horse with a featherbed for a saddle. They suffered many hardships that first winter in their log cabin on the intervale (Conway, NH). Later they built a frame house in which their daughter Alice was born, but the freshets on the Saco (River) soon caused them to move to the upland and build the house which later became Pendexter Mansion (now Region House). A farmer as well as a carpenter by trade, Mr. Pendexter took an important part in the growth of the community and was an able director at house raisings.