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Fort Pownal Personnel
in 1759

"List of Soldiers on Governor Pownall's Expedition to
Construct a Fort on the Penobscot River, 1759"


(Information compiled from the muster rolls at the Massachusetts State Archive, Boston)

LIST OF FAMILY NAMES THAT APPEAR ON THE 2007 TAXPAPER LISTS
THAT APPEAR IN THE 305 NAMES FROM THE
FORT POWNAL ROSTER OF SOLDIERS 1759-1770z
s

Avery
Black
Clark
Clifford
Crawford
Cunningham
Eaton
Evans
Fish
French
Gilmore


Griffin
Harris
Heath
Hutchinson
Lawrence
Littlefield
Lowell
McDonald
Martin
Mitchell

Nichols



Orcutt
Pendleton
Pierce
Pratt
Rodgers
Shute
Staples
Stover
Thompson
Varney
York


LIST OF FAMILY NAMES THAT APPEAR ON THE 2007 TAXPAPER LISTS
THAT APPEARS IN THE 305 NAMES OF THE LIST OF SOLDIERS FROM THE
POWNAL EXPEDITION OF 1759:


Adams

Bean
Bennett
Black
Bradbury
Bradford
Bridges
Brown
Bryant
Carle
Clark
Clifford
Cole
Corson
Crawford
Cunningham
Davis
Eaton
Evans
Fletcher


French
Frost
Grant
Gray
Green
Grindell
Gross
Herrick
Hill
Kennedy
Larrabee
Lewis
Littlefield
Lowell
McDonald
McFarland
McKenney
Martin
Mitchell
Moody


Moore
Parker
Perkins
Pomeroy
Roberts
Sawyer
Shute
Small
Smith
Staples
Thompson
Warren
Watson
Webber
Wells
West
White
Whitney
Wood
Young


The actual family connections for many of these have not been established.
Note that there are many descendants from these early families with numerous last names.


(The complete roster list will be entered as time allows)
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Example:     Lt. Joshua Treat
Following just one line of the many descendants of Lt. Joshua Treat
down to the present and one of many of that lineage still living in Stockton Springs:
Joshua Treat m. Catherine James
Daughter Elizabeth m. Nathan Crary Griffin,
these are the grandparents of Capt. Joe Griffin,
(see Letters of a New England Coaster )
Many of their descendants still live in Maine.
Nathan's son John Griffin  m . Elizabeth Dickey
Several Stockton Springs Historical Society members descend from this couple.
A pdf file with the list of this branch of the Joshua Treat family
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"Journal of the Voyage of His Excell'y Thos. Pownall, Esq,.
Capn General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's
Province of the Massachusetts Bay, to Penobscot, and of his
Proceedings in Establishing Possession of His Majesty's
Rights there in Behalf of said Province
"

May 1759


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Links to the history of Fort Pownal and the river:

State of Maine Fort Pownal History page 

1764 Map of route from Fort Pownal to Quebec 

Plans for the fort

Wassaumkeag Hotel at Fort Point


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