Peter Penfield Jr. (1743 - 1812)

Born 15 Sep 1743 in Fairfield County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Lewis) Penfield — married 1 Aug 1763 in Fairfield, Conneticutt

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1812 at age 68 in Harpersfield, Delaware County, New York, United States

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Biography

Peter Penfield Jr. is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P268163
Rank: Lieutenant

Captain Peter Penfield Jr. served with 1st Battalion, Col. Gold S. Silliman, Wadsworth's Brigade, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Peter Penfield Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A088452.

Peter was born in 1743. He passed away in 1812.^[1]

From Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Pgs. 359, 360: (excerpted)

"Peter Penfield, Jr., born Fairfield, September 15th, 1743; baptized Fairfield, September i8th, 1743, renewed covenant at Fairfield, September 4th, 1763, in company with his wife. He lived for a while in Fairfield and removed and settled at Harpersfield, N. Y., where he died January 12th, 1812. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, He was a son of Peter Penfield who came from England and settled in Fairfield, Conn., by his wife Mary Allen, whom he married in Fairfield, May 28th, 1730."

"The Penfield Mss. (sic) genealogy, which was loaned to me by Miss Frances J. Eggleston of Oswego, N. Y., and which was in all particulars a most carefully compiled volume, is erroneous in stating that Peter Penfield, Jr., who married Hanna Lewis (6), was born September 25th, 1743; as he was baptized September 18th, 1743, I have placed his birth September 15th instead of 25th. The same authority states that his son Joseph Penfield (7), (No. 930) was born in 1785; but as he was baptized October 7th, 1781, I have changed the year of his birth to 1781."

SAR Patriotic Service Description:

LT. 3rd Co. 1st Batt, Capt in Col Gold Silliman Regt.

DAR Record

PENFIELD, PETER Ancestor #: A088452

Service: CONNECTICUT Rank(s): CAPTAIN

Birth: 9-13-1743 FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD CO CONNECTICUT

Death: 1-12-1812 HARPERSFIELD DELAWARE CO NEW YORK

Pension Number: *W16679

Service Source: *W16679

Service Description:

1) ALSO LT, 3RD CO, 1ST BATT,

2) COL GOLD S SILLIMAN

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Sources

• Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, by John Reynolds Totten, published by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910. Peter Penfield, Record #924, is the wife of Hannah Lewis, Record #336, Pg. 359.^[2]
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970: No. 53379, 8 Feb 1934, Sherman Jay Penfield, son of George Starr Penfield and his wife, Hannah Jane Black; grandson of Amos Penfield and his wife, Altana Babcock; great-grandson of Lewis Penfield and his wife, Ada Beardsley; and second great-grandson of patriot Peter Penfield, Jr., SAR Patriot #: P-268163, and his wife, Hannah Lewis.^[3]
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Peter Penfield", Ancestor # A088452.

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #108807544

Footnotes

1. ↑ Profile created by John Beardsley, 21 Jun 2016. Added information from Beardsley family researcher Nick Dann, 11 Aug 2020.
2. ↑ Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy, Record #336
3. ↑ National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Kentucky. Microfilm, 508 rolls