SAMUEL

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• SAMUEL PENHALLOW (1665—1726)

PENHALLOW (1665—1726)  , American colonist and historian, was born at St Mabon, Corn, . Al, England, on the 2nd of July 1665 . From 1683 to 1686 he attended a school at Newington Green (near London) conducted by the Rev . Charles Morton (1627—1698), a dissenting clergyman, with whom he emigrated to Massachusetts in 1686 . He was commissioned by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England to study the Indian languages and to preach to the Indians; but he was soon diverted from this work . Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married a daughter of John Cutt (1625—1680, president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679--168o, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth) . In 1700 he was speaker of the Assembly and in 1702 became a member of the Provincial Council, but was suspended by Lieut.-Governor George Vaughan (1676—1724) . Penhallow, however, was sustained by Governor Samuel Shute (1662—1742), and Vaughan was removed from office in 1716 . In 1714 Penhallow was appointed a justice of the superior court of judicature, and from 1717 until his death was chief justice of that court; and he also served as treasurer of the province in 1699—1726, and as secretary of the province in 1714—1726 . He died at Portsmouth on the 2nd of December 1726 . He wrote a valuable History of the War of New England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative of their Continued Perfidy and Cruelty (1726; reprinted in the Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, vol. i., 1824, and again at Cincinnati in 1859), which covers the period from 1703 to 1726, and is a standard contemporary authority .