Luther Palmer House

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The Luther Palmer House is a historic residence on Pendleton Hill, an area in North Stonington, Connecticut, United States. [1] The property is also known as Pachunganuc Farm, as the former name of the hill area was Pauchunganuc. It was home to the part of the Pendleton family which included prominent citizens and state legislators. The Narragansett Trail passes through. Joseph Byron Totten had a farm in Pendleton Hill. Luther Palmer was Pendleton Hill's postmaster. [1] According to a poem in the Walter Palmer family history published in 1881 from its reunion, the hill was originally known as Pauchunganuc. [2] Another account gives various alternate spellings and ascribes to name to a story involving a large boulder in the area. [3] The view was lauded and the rock noted in a 1935 guide to connecticut. [4]

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First Baptist Church, built 1830, on Pendleton Hill Narragansett Trail - First Baptist Church on Pendleton Hill (opposite Groton Sportsman Club preserve).jpg
First Baptist Church, built 1830, on Pendleton Hill

It is topped by Pendleton Hill Church and surrounded by farmland. Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was established in 1743. [5] The current Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was built in 1830. [6] [7] The church was built on land donated by Luther Palmer whose Pauchunganuc Farm was opposite it. The farm was acquired from Pequots by Gershom Palmer in 1711. Captain Nathaniel Palmer is a family member. [1] Luther Palmer House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]

History

Pendleton Hill is named for Nathan Pendleton (1779–1827) who farmed there, served in the state militia, served in the Connecticut legislature, raised a family there, and died there. [8] James Monroe Pendleton's family lived there and he was born there. [9] Actor, playwright, and director Joseph Byron Totten had farmland in Pendleton Hill. There is a Pendleton Hill Road and a Pendleton Hill Brook. There is a monitoring station on it. Etymologists are amused that the segments of the name come from words meaning hill so Pendelton Hill can be translated to mean hill hill hill hill. [10]

Enoch Burrows Pendleton, another son of Nathan Pendleton, became a state senator in Rhode Island and attended the first Republican National Convention. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him postmaster of Westerly. [8] State legislator DeWitt Clinton Pendleton (1812–1872), son of Nathan Pendleton, was born in Pendleton Hill. [8]

Totten had a kennel and raised horses and cows on his 47 acre Pendleton Hill farm. [11]

Anna Coit left money to help maintain Panguhanux??? Farm and stipulated plans for its weathervane in her will. The property was in the Palmer family from 1711. [12]

Geography

Pendleton Hill Road connects it to Voluntown, Connecticut. There is a Pendleton Hill Cemetery. [13] There is a Pendleton Hill Brook.

Pendleton Hill is near the border with Rhode Island. [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/d575699e-1cc5-4d7c-be0d-a984211cb33c
  2. ↑ Palmer, Noyes Fink (1881). "Volume No. 1 of Palmer Records: Proceedings, or Memorial Volume of the First Palmer Family Re-union Held at Stonington, Conn., August 10 & 11, 1881, the Ancestral Home of Walter Palmer, the Pilgrim of 1629. Being Also a Part of the Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Records of the Family, as Contained in the Several Addresses, Etc. Delivered on the Occasion of the Re-union".
  3. ↑ Hiscox, Edward Thurston (1894). "A Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer, D.D.,: Preacher, Pastor, Poet, Scholar".
  4. ↑ "The Connecticut Guide: What to See and where to Find it". 1935.
  5. ↑ Holden, Lynne C. (June 15, 2011). The Pastor Has Gorgeous Legs: A Memoir of an Ordinary Pastor on an Extraordinary Journey Who Met Exceptional People. AuthorHouse. ISBN   978-1-4567-6533-0 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "History". www.fbcofnorthstonington.com.
  7. ↑ baptisthistoryhomepage.com/ct.stngtn.hist.html
  8. 1 2 3 Pendleton, Everett Hall (November 24, 1910). Brian Pendleton and His Descendants 1599-1910. Рипол Классик. ISBN   978-5-87738-340-1 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  9. ↑ Barnes, William Horatio (November 24, 1874). "The American Government ...: Biographies of members of the House of representatives of the Forty-third Congress". Nelson & Phillips – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "HILL HILL HILL HILL". THE ETYMOLOGY NERD.
  11. ↑ "Nickelodeon". November 24, 1915 – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ "Among centenarian's gifts, body goes to medicine".
  13. ↑ Spencer, Thomas E. (November 24, 1998). Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN   978-0-8063-4823-0 – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Company, D. Appleton and (November 24, 1888). "Appletons' Atlas of the United States: Consisting of General Maps of the United States and Territories, and a County Map of Each of the States, Together with Descriptive Text Outlining the History, Geography, and Political and Educational Organizations of the States, with Latest Statistics of Their Resources and Industries". D. Appleton – via Google Books.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

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