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