Daniel married Anna WARDWELL on 31 Oct 1813 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Anna (daughter of Jeremiah WARDWELL and Elizabeth BANKS) was born on 7 Apr 1790 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 16 Sep 1876 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Capt. Daniel Wardwell Cemetery, Penobscot, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Husband and wife are 1st cousins. Anc: Daniel Wardwell & Sarah Staples

Other Events:

• Questions: Find his parents
• DNA Fact: Gedmatch line A699269
• Military Event: American Revolution - Impressed aboard British ship
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y
• Parents Unproven: Y
• Census: 1800, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine
• Probate: 12 Nov 1821, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine

Notes:

During the Revolutionary War, he was impressed on board an English man-of-war and kept there for 2 years. He escaped by swimming to shore.
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Several published sources have claimed that Josiah was a s/o Daniel Wardwell of York by his first wife, Sarah Staples. This was probably based on the fact that Josiah named his first son and daughter Daniel and Sally, supposedly for his parents. Daniel Wardwell filed intentions at York on 24 January 1755 to marry Sarah Staples, only 2 days before the recorded birth of Josiah. Nine Months later, Daniel and Sarah brought their son Eliakim in for baptism at the York 1st Parish Church. All of Daniel's later children were also baptized at this church, but they included no son named Josiah. The only other adult Wardwell males living in York at the time of Josiah's birth were Daniel's older brothers Joseph and Jeremiah. Little is known of Joseph other than that he had a wife Mary, but he would seem the best candidate to be Josiah's father.
Maine Families in 1790.
Source: Samuel Wardwell of Andover, Hanged For Witchcraft in 1692
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/u/n/g/Neil-Ungerleider-MA/
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Based on triangulated DNA on the same segment of chromosome 9 between known descendants of Eliakim Wardwell, it is highly likely that Josiah is either a son of Daniel Wardwell or grandson of Eliakim Wardwell. GEDmatch kits SX533971C1 is Tryphena's line, ZM1801440 is Jeremiah's line, and A699269 is Josiah's.
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1800 census shows 5 children under 16 years old: 2 males, 3 females
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His estate was administered by Samuel Wardwell, Jr.

Josiah married Hannah WESCOTT on 15 Jun 1790 in York, York, Maine. Hannah (daughter of Samuel WESCOTT and Olive PERKINS) was born on 16 Oct 1766 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died in Nov 1858 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Penobscot, Hancock, Maine

Jeremiah married Elizabeth BANKS on 14 Sep 1779 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Elizabeth (daughter of Aaron BANKS and Mary PERKINS) was born on 5 Jun 1764 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; died on 26 Nov 1853 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine; was buried on 28 Nov 1853 in Jeremiah Wardwell Cemetery, Penobscot, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: School teacher
• Military Event: American Revolution - Committee of Safety
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y

Notes:

Capt Daniel was Master of the privateer Tryphena in 1775, his two sons Jeremiah and Daniel serving aboard as crew. Daniel was one of the four men of Penobscot serving on the Committee of Safety in March of 1776.

In 1776, daughter Tryphena, 15, married Finlay MALCOLM and around 1778 daughter Abigail, 17, married Daniel BROWN. Later, both men would be named as "Loyalists". At the end of the War in 1783, Daniel's two eldest daughters, Abigail and Tryphena, with their husbands and children, were transported by the new United States government to St. Andrews, Nova Scotia. His 13-year-old daughter Mercy WARDWELL went along as a "nanny" but soon returned to Penobscot. Two years later at St. Andrews, daughter Sarah Wardwell, 20, married Neal BROWN, a British soldier.

Daniel and his family moved to what was the original Hosea Wardwell Farm on Wardwell's point in 1778.

In 1779, the British took possession of the port of Bagaduce, and Captain Daniel's sloop Polly was seized by Commodore Mowatt, of infamous memory, and confiscated for the use of King George. Mrs. WARDWELL, whose maiden name was Sarah Staples, started on foot for Bagaduce, a distance of seven miles, to demand of General McLean the release of her husband's sloop. On the way she was met by a British officer of rank, who demanded her business with the General. She opened her broadside on the officer, all her guns double shotted. He, in a burning passion, drew his sword and threatened to thrust her through; undaunted, she bared her bosom, and bade him strike, at the same time calling him a (word faded here) cowardly British dog. The Briton did not strike, but such was his admiration of her pluck that he made a favorable report to General McLean and the sloop was released with ransom.

It was also in 1779, that Daniel, his son Jeremiah, and son-in-law Findlay MALCOLM, were listed as owners of the schooner Thomas Williams.

After the War, Daniel served twice as Representative to the General Court at Boston, as Maine was still under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. He was said to be "a man of sterling qualities".
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Captain Daniel Wardwell was 68 years of age when he died in 1804 in Penobscot. Sarah (Staples) Wardwell was a widow for over 15 years, dying in 1817, age 83.

Daniel married Sarah STAPLES on 24 Jan 1755 in York, York, Maine. Sarah (daughter of William STAPLES and Elizabeth JONES) was born on 11 Sep 1731 in Kittery, York, Maine; died on 23 Sep 1817 in Hancock, Hancock, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 26 Oct 1755, York, York, Maine

Notes:

Mrs. Sarah (Staples) Wardwell, of York acted as neighborhood physician, and practiced midwifery for many years before a regular physician was settled here. In this capacity she was succeeded by Lucy Newberry of Vinal Haven. Sarah was said to be the first to practice mid-wifery east of the Penobscot River and to have attended 500 cases and never lost a woman or child under her wonderful skill and care.

Samuel married Olive PERKINS on 23 Dec 1762 in York, York, Maine. Olive (daughter of John PERKINS and Elizabeth PIERCE) was born on 17 Jan 1738 in York, York, Maine; died on 5 Aug 1800 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aaron married Mary PERKINS on 6 Jul 1764 in York, York, Maine. Mary (daughter of John PERKINS and Elizabeth PIERCE) died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]