Jedediah Prendergast

• BIRTH 13 May 1766
• DEATH 1 Mar 1848 (aged 81)
• BURIAL Prendergast Cemetery Chautauqua County, New York, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 10534288

WILL p. 93, Jedediah Prendergast of village of Mayville, Chautauqua County, New York, signed 12 July 1848.

Everything to daughter Catharine wife of William Hamilton Muriett? Esq of St. Catharines, Upper Canada

Executors: Brother Col. William Prendergast, William Marvin Esq son of my sister Minerva, and Alexander T. Prendergast Esq son of my brother James

Witnesses: Deborah Prendergast and Martha Bemus

Jediah PRENDERGAST, 4th son of Wm. and Mehitable WING Prendergast, born Pawling NY May 13, 1766, and married to Penelope CHASE, born Kingston RI Dec 22 1774. He was one of the family tour that went from Pittstown NY to Tennessee, then north to Chautauqua and one of those who went from Ripley to Canada, to winter, where provisions were more plentiful. He did not return with the rest, but being a physician, remained there to practice his profession. In 1811 he left Canada, and settled at Mayville, where he commenced the mercantile business, in partners with his brother Martin, in the fall of 1811.

Dr. Jediah Prendergast was a man of varied accomplishments,was a NY Senator a scientific scholar, and numbered Martin VanBUREN, DeWITT CLINTON, and Peter R. LIVINGSTON among his friends, he died March 1, 1848,(* he is buried Prendergast Cemetery,she may be here or in Canada) His wife Penelope CHASE died while on a visit to her son-in-law, Hon, Hamilton MERRITT at St. Catherines Canada, Feb.1, 1845.

Parents Son of William Prendergast
Mehitable Wing Prebtergast

Spouce
Penelope Chase Prendergast 1774–1845 (m. 1792)

Children
Catherine Rodman Prendergast Merritt 1793–1862

References

Dr. Jedediah Prendergast, NYS Senator

Notes

His name is recorded as Jediah and Jedediah, His Grandfather was JEDEDIAH WING and probably the correct spelling of his;