Joseph married Hannah ATKINS on 6 Apr 1819 in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine. Hannah was born on 30 Aug 1796; died on 19 Dec 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

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]

Other Events:

• Witchcraft connection?: Y
• Witch Description: He was 5 when his parents were accused of witchcraft, and was sent to live with neighbors.

Notes:

Eliakim, the youngest s/o Sarah (HOOPER) Hawkes and Samuel WARDWELL, was born August 17, 1687, at Andover in the Massachusetts Colony. He was named for his paternal uncle of New Jersey. The baby's grandfather, Thomas Wardwell, with his wife Elizabeth (maiden name unknown), had emigrated from the Parish of Alford, Lincolnshire, England, to the Bay Colony in 1634, probably aboard the “Griffin”. The biblical given name of "Eliakim" appears only in the descendants of the Thomas Wardwell branch of the Wardwells in America.

In mid-August of 1692, when Eliakim was just five years old, his father, age 49, was accused of witchcraft and imprisoned at Salem. A few weeks later, on September 1, Eliakim's mother, 42, his sister, Mercy, 19, and his half-sister, Sarah Hawkes, 21, were also accused and imprisoned at Salem. The sheriff seized Samuel's moveable property, and then the Selectmen of Andover, fearing that the four younger Wardwell children remaining at home (Samuel Junior, William, Elizabeth, and Eliakim) might be endangered---even imprisoned, or become a tax burden to the town, placed them out in neighboring homes in Andover with the county court's approval. Eliakim was sent to the home of Mehitable (OSGOOD) and Daniel POOR. Only Eliakim's half-brother, Thomas, 21, remained on the Wardwell homestead, his age precluding any action by the Selectmen. Sister, Rebecca had been cared for by her maternal aunts since her mother's imprisonment.

The Court Order placing the minor Wardwell children in Andover homes had said, "for ye time being should place out, of if need require, binde out said children", and in Eliakim's case, "until he was 21". While Eliakim may have worked for or was apprenticed to Daniel POOR until he was 21, in all probability he lived at home as did the other "bound out" Wardwell children.

Eliakim married Ruth BRAGDON in Oct 1710 in York, York, Maine. Ruth (daughter of Samuel BRAGDON and Mary MOULTON) was born on 9 Apr 1691 in York, York, Maine; died after 16 Oct 1753 in Kittery, York, Maine; was buried in Old York Cemetery, York, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Noteworthy: Captured by Indians, had a daughter, and later returned to Kittery.

Notes:

In one of the several York massacres, Eliakim's wife, Ruth, was carried off by the Indians, forced to become the wife of one of the chiefs and by him had a daughter. Later she escaped and returned to York with the child. (From The History and Genealogy of the Malcolm Family of the United States and Canada, p. 7)

William married Elizabeth JONES. Elizabeth died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth PIERCE about 1734 in York, York, Maine. Elizabeth (daughter of John PIERCE and Elizabeth SMITH) was born on 3 Jan 1716; died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]