Elizabeth (Elwell) Drinkwater (1795 - 1866)

Born 13 Jan 1795 in Northport, Waldo, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of West Drinkwater Sr — married 22 Sep 1814 in Northport, Waldo, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Aug 1866 at age 71 in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth Elwell was born on January 13, 1795 in Northport, Waldo, Maine, United States. Her parents were Alban Elwell and Sarah Pendleton.

She married West Drinkwater on September 22, 1814.

West Drinkwater and Elizabeth Elwell were married at Northport, Maine, September 22, 1814, and the next morning, after the bridegroom had gone to his work, his young wife saw two barges filled with armed British soldiers approaching the shore. She notified the first man she could find, Zachariah Lawrence, and he went to the shore with his musket and secreted himself. When the boats approached he began giving orders as to a force of soldiers, and to increase the deception dodged from tree to tree and fired at the boats from different points. The boats withdrew for re-inforcements, and while they were gone, West Drinkwater, Alban Elwell, Solomon Frohock and David Alden collected a force and prepared to meet them. The party soon returned with re-inforcements, and by use of a swivel gun on one of the boats drove the defenders back. The British plundered the store of Jones Shaw and several houses, taking among other things, the dresses and other finery worn by the ladies at the wedding the night before. Capt. Amos Pendleton afterwards went to Castine and recovered some of the property.

During the latter part of October, the same year, a crew consisting of West Drinkwater, Kingsbury Duncan, Jonathan Clark, Samuel Duncan and John Duncan, under command of Major Noah Miller, went on a cruise in Penobscot Bay for the purpose of preventing supplies being carried to Castine for the British. Nov. 1st, the overhauled the sloop Mary near Turtle Head, Islesboro, and after a chase and some trouble with her crew, succeeded in capturing her. She had on board a valuable cargo consisting principally of satins, laces, shawls, clothing, bales of cloth, etc., for the British officers and their families at Castine. The sloop and cargo were sold in Portland, the new proceeds being $66,426.34. One-half was paid into the treasury of the United States and the other half was divided among the men who made the capture. Major Miller and Collector Hook of the custom house each claimed and received $14,106.58, and the men received but $1000 each. The injustice thus done the crew was remedied in 1856, by Congress voting to give to Drinkwater, Clark and the three Duncans the half formerly taken by the Government, and the amount, $22,213.17, was equally divided among them or their heirs.

Together they had 5 children:

1. Thomas Drinkwater
2. Emerson Drinkwater
3. Priscilla Drinkwater
4. Bradford Drinkwater
5. West Drinkwater

She died on August 15, 1866 in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States

Note

Note: This info has been compiled from many sources, such as family bibles, birth & death certificates, obituaries, other family trees, and e-mails from many helpful family members.

Internet sources : Ancestry.com, 'LDS'FamilySearch.org, Rootsweb.com, Lineage.com, contacts from Genforum.com and many, many others. Books : "Descendants of William McIntyre" by Robert H. McIntire, 1984. There are many other sources too numerour.

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Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VH-H4C : 12 April 2016), West Drinkwater, Northport, Waldo, Maine, United States; citing family 167, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). 17:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

West Drinkwater M 57 Maine, mariner

Elizabeth Drinkwater F 55 Maine, United States

Priscilla A Drinkwater F 18 Maine, United States

Emerson P Drinkwater M 11 Maine, United States

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDHG-6BS : 12 December 2017), West Drinkwater, 1860. 17:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

West Drinkwater M 68 Maine, merchant

Elizabeth Drinkwater F 65 Maine

Acknowledgements

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Elwell-427 was created by David Sylvester through the import of Small-Drinkwater-5-gen.ged on Dec 9, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.