Descendants of Fort Pownal Personnel & Early Settlers

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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