William Pepperrell the younger

Sir William Pepperell, 1st Baronet (1746–1816)[1] of Boston, of the 2nd creation, or Pepperrell, birth name William Sparhawk, was an American landowner. The grandson on his mother's side of Sir William Pepperell, 1st Baronet of the 1st creation, he inherited most of his grandfather's estate; but as a Loyalist of the American Revolutionary War then lost it.[2]

Early life

William Sparhawk was born at Kittery Point, at that time in York County, Massachusetts, where he later resided in the Sparhawk Mansion.[3] His parents were Elizabeth Pepperrell (1723–1797), only daughter and heir of Sir William Pepperell the elder and his wife Mary Hirst, and her husband Nathaniel Sparhawk (1715–1790) whom she married in 1742. He was a student at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1766.[1][4][5][6]

His younger sister Mary (1754–1815) married the Boston physician Charles Jarvis, and his mother Elizabeth moved to the Jarvis home after the death of his father Nathaniel. The Sparhawk Mansion had been built for Elizabeth by her father.[7]

Pepperell inheritance

Usher Parsons, in his 1855 biography of Sir William Pepperell the elder, wrote:

In his will, rewritten with great care in January, 1758, he gives, after the decease of his wife and daughter, portions of her real estate to his grandchildren, Nathaniel, Andrew, Samuel, and Mary Sparhawk; but the great bulk of it, including his Saco lands, was left, unspecified, to a fourth grandson, William, as residuary legatee, on condition of his changing his name from Sparhawk to Pepperrell. All these grandsons remained loyalists or tories, and left the country, and these vast domains passed into other hands.[8]

Later life

Pepperell was a Councillor and Mandamus Councillor in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.[9]

As Loyalists, Pepperell and his family left America for Great Britain in 1775. His wife Elizabeth died at the age of 26 on October 9, 1775, during the voyage, and was buried in The Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia.[10] He was proscribed in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778.

Pepperell spent the latter part of his life in London, where he helped to found the British and Foreign Bible Society.[11] He died at home at Portman Square in 1816.[12]

Family

Pepperell married in 1767 Elizabeth Royall, third child of Isaac Royall and Mary McIntosh of Massachusetts.[4][5][13] Their only son William Royal Pepperwell predeceased his father, in 1798, and the title became extinct in 1816.[5][14] The couple's three daughters were associated by family connections with West Indian planters.[15] They were:[16]

  • Mary and Elizabeth Royall, 1758 double portrait by John Singleton Copley
  • Sir William Pepperrell and His Family (1778), family group portrait by John Singleton Copley
  • Mary Hirst Pepperell

Thomas Palmer

The plantation and slave owner Thomas Palmer in Surinam, who had married a sister of Elizabeth Royall, left his estate on his death in 1820 in equal shares to the three daughters and their husbands.[25]

Joseph Royall

The daughters also had had monetary legacies from Joseph Royall (died 1814), slave owner in Jamaica.[26] The family connection was left open by Vere Langford Oliver, who gave Royall's birth date as 5 May 1721;[26] Edward Doubleday Harris in The New-England Royalls makes a probable identification with the son Joseph, born 13 May 1721 in Dorchester, of Robert Royall (1688–1757).[27] He died in Great Cumberland Street, London, on 3 June 1814, aged 93.[28]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "William Pepperrell Sparhawk 1746 - 1816". chsi.emuseum.com.
  2. ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1906). Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. p. 183.
  3. ^ Drake, Samuel (9 June 2010). Pine-Tree Coast. Applewood Books. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4290-4059-4.
  4. ^ a b Roberts, Oliver Ayer (1897). History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888. A. Mudge & Son, printers. p. 56.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Burke, John (1844). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the extinct and dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. John Russ Smith. p. 405.
  6. ^ Cutts, Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis (1869). The Life and Times of Hon. William Jarvis: Of Weathersfield, Vermont. Hurd and Houghton. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-598-99495-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  7. ^ Winship, John Perkins Cushing (1899). Historical Brighton: An Illustrated History of Brighton and Its Citizens. G. A. Warren. p. 164.
  8. ^ Parsons, Usher (1855). The life of Sir William Pepperell, bart., the only native of New England who was created a baronet during our connection with the mother country. Boston, Little, Brown. p. 327.
  9. ^ Essex Institute (1888). Essex Institute Historical Collections. Essex Institute Press. p. 282.
  10. ^ Browning, Charles Henry (2010-06-13). The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American, John Wentworth, Little, Brown & Co., 1878. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
  11. ^ Parsons, Usher (1856). The Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. p. 339.
  12. ^ The Will of Sir William Pepperrell, Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Portland, 1898. 1890. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
  13. ^ Bowen, Richard LeBaron (1945). Early Rehoboth: Documented Historical Studies of Families and Events in this Plymouth Colony Township. Vol. 1. Priv. print. by the Rumford Press. p. 78.
  14. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Pepperell, William Royal" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  15. ^ "Sir William Pepperell Bart. née Sparhawk ???? - 1816". ucl.ac.uk/lbs.
  16. ^ Betham, William (1804). The Baronetage of England. Miller. p. 3.
  17. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Hutton, Henry (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  18. ^ a b The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal. S.G. Drake. 1866. p. 4.
  19. ^ "Died". Sun (London). 2 July 1855. p. 8.
  20. ^ "History of Little Moreton Hall". nationaltrust.org.uk.
  21. ^ a b The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal. S.G. Drake. 1866. p. 5.
  22. ^ a b Cutts, Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis (1869). The Life and Times of Hon. William Jarvis: Of Weathersfield, Vermont. Hurd and Houghton. p. 428. ISBN 978-0-598-99495-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  23. ^ "Married". True Briton. 15 July 1802. p. 4.
  24. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. p. 551.
  25. ^ "Thomas Palmer ???? - 1820". ucl.ac.uk/lbs.
  26. ^ a b "Joseph Royall ???? - 1814 Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  27. ^ Harris, Edward Doubleday (1885). The New-England Royalls. David Clapp & Son, printers. pp. 19–20.
  28. ^ "Died". London Chronicle. 8 June 1814. p. 7.
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