"In the great fire of 1813, the town clerk's room, which was in the northeast corner of the Brick school-house on State street, was burnt. In this room, in a wooden chest, were the old and new records and papers of the town, which but for the thoughtfulness and efforts of an individual, Hon. Hunking Penhallow, would have been consumed. Had he not timely entered the room and secured the papers, we should now have been without any town record previous to that time." 6

"Hunking, Benjamin and John Penhallow were the sons of John P., the grandson of President John Cutts." 6

A house built by Richard Wibird

Hunking Penhallow was a member of New Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1821-22

A genealogy link for Hunking Penhallow and Harriet Pearce.

"Richard Wibird, son of Richard Wibird, of Portsmouth, was born July 7, 1702. He was appointed collector of customs for the port of Portsmouth in 1730, and counsellor in 1739. He died in 1765, aged 63." 6pounds in fifteen shares to twelve purchasers, namely, Theodore Atkinson, Mary Hunking Wentworth,

"1746: John Tufton Mason, who inherited the title to New Hampshire, had suffered a common recovery in the Courts of this province to dock the entail on that estate. He had offered it to the General Assembly, but could obtain no definite answer from them. On the 30th of January, he sold it for fifteen hundred Richard Wibird, John Wentworth, George Jaffrey, Samuel Moore, Nathaniel Meserve, Thomas Packer, Thomas Wallingford, Jotham Odiorne, Joshua Pierce, and John Moffat, all of who were inhabitants of this town, except Wallingford. Atkinson held three fifteenths, M.H. Wentworth, two, and all the others one fifteenth each. They immediately executed a deed, by which they released to all the towns, which had been previously settled or granted, the lands within their respective boundaries, excepting what they had heretofore held in such towns." 10

"Towards the close of the seventeenth century a person named Richard Wibird, came to this town in one of the King's ships. He was steward of the ship, or in an office subservient to the steward. His business was to furnish the table for the officers, and was generally called the King's poulterer. He married a Mrs. Due of Hampton, who had been in the practice of bringing small articles to market, and afterwards kept a retail shop in what is now called Market street. He engaged in navigation, and was successful. By their joint exertions, they amassed a large estate. Mr. Wibird erected the first brick-house ever built in Portsmouth. They left three sons, Richard, Thomas, and John. John died in early life, and left one son, whose name was Anthony, who settled in the ministry at Braintree. Richard Wibird was educated at Cambridge, and received his first degree in 1722. Soon after he left College, he engaged in marchandize, and pursued that business with diligence through life. He was one of the original proprietors of Mason's patent. In 1739 he was admitted one of his Majesty's Council, and in 1756, received the appointment of Judge of the Probate, and he retained these offices until his death, which took place the 25th of September, in the sixty-third year of his age. His house was the seat of hospitality; and many, especially among the clergy, partook of his munificence."

Richard Wibird was one of the delegates chosen from New Hampshire to attened the Congress held on June 19th, 1754.

"Tuesday, November 12th. Thomas Wibird, Esq. died in the 59th year of his age. He was educated at Harvard College, and was graduated in 1728. Having experienced the benefit of a liberal education, he esteemed all useful learning, and patronised literary institutions. In his will he left a legacy of fifty pounds sterling to Harvard COllege, and sixty pounds sterling to the school for the instruction of Indians, at Lebanon, in Conncecticut, under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Wheelock. Mr. Wibird gave sufficient silver to make two large flagons to the north church, of which he was a member. In his Christian course, he endeavoured to regulate his conduct by the precepts of the gospel, and to adorn his profession by a virtuous life and conversation. He was never married, and being possessed of a handsome estate, it was inherited, after the payment of several legacies, by some distant relations." 10

Andrew was the son Hunking Penhallow and Harriet Pearce. A genealogy link for Andrew Jackson Penhallow.