LOWELLs of Penobscot
Date:	98-03-30 02:10:08 EST
Courtesy of the Hancock Co, Maine USGenWeb Project
From George A. Wheeler’s History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville,
Maine. Privately printed in Cornwall, NY, 1923.

Pages 172-3:


LOWELL, PERCIVAL.
	Percival Lowell, with his two sons, John and Richard, and one daughter,
came from Bristol, England and settled in Newbury in 1739 [sic]. JOHN
had eight children. The sixth was Benjamin born September 12, 1642.
Benjamin married Ruth Woodman, October 1666, and had eight children. The
seventh, Joseph, was born September 12, 1680; he married Mary Hardy,
December, 1707, and had six children, of whom the fifth was Joseph, who
probably removed to Penobscot in 1762. Joseph married Mary Hones
February, 1745. They had eight children born in Newbury and two in
Penobscot. There names are as follows: -
1.  ANN, born February, 1746, - married Reuben Grindle and had seven
children. She was the ancestress of the Doctors Grindle of Bluehill and
Mount Desert.
2.  ELIPHALET, born August 1747. He married Elizabeth Haney in 1777 and
settled at North Penobscot at what is now called Lowell’s Corner. They
had ten children. She was the daughter of Archibald Haney.
3.  HANNAH, born February, 1749. Died August 9, 1759.
4.  FRANCIS, born November, 1751. Died at Penobscot, March 28, 1763.
5.  MARY, born May, 1754 - married Joseph Webber and had seven children.
6.  STEPHEN, born July 1756. - Supposed to have been captured at sea by
Algerine pirates.
7.  HANNAH, born January, 1760, - married Reuben Grindle and had
thirteen children.
8.  LYDIA, born January, 1762. - - -
9.  JOSEPH, born at Penobscot December 13, 1765. Married Judith Freeman
in January 22, 1802 and had three children. The youngest one, Hannah,
died at North Castine in 1867.
10. NANCY, born April 7, 1769. She married Captain David Jenkins.

Eliphalet’s children were: -
1. Josiah, born June 26, 1775. 2. Mary, born May 10, 1778. 3. Nancy,
born in 1780. 4. George, born October 3, 1782. 5. William, born October
23, 1785. 6. Stephen, born September 8, 1787. 7. Lydia, born February 2,
1789. 8. Marcy, born February 15, 1791. 9. Robert, born June 15, 1796.
10. Harry, born September 23, 1798.

Harry, the only survivor (in 1875) lives on the old homestead at North
Penobscot. He married Sarah Emerton of Bucksport in 1834 and has had
seven children. He was at one time a captain in the Penobscot Company of
Militia. Josiah was an ensign in the same company, when the English took
Castine in 1814. George was the father of William Lowell, of Portland
and learned his trade - that of a tailor - off Jimmy Scott of Castine.
(Letter of William Lowell, August, 1875.)
The LOWELL family is very numerous in Penobscot, - so much so that a
settlement in North Penobscot has for many years been called
colloquially as Lowelltown.

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