Pendleton Hill

Pendleton Hill is an area in North Stonington, Connecticut, United States. It was home to the Pendleton family which included prominent citizens and state legislators. The Narragansett Trail passes through. Joseph Byron Totten had a farm in Pendleton Hill. Luther Palmer was Pendleton Hill's postmaster. According to a poem in the Walter Palmer family history published in 1881 from its reunion, the hill was originally known as Pauchunganuc. Another account gives various alternate spellings and ascribes to name to a story involving a large boulder in the area. The view was lauded and the rock noted in a 1935 guide to connecticut.
It is topped by Pendleton Hill Church and surrounded by farmland. Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was established in 1743. The current Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was built in 1830. The church was built on land donated by Luther Palmer whose Pauchunganuc Farm was opposite it. The farm was acquired from Pequots by Gershom Palmer in 1711. Captain Nathaniel Palmer is a family member.
History
Pendleton Hill is named for Nathan Pendleton (1779-1827) who farmed there, served in the state militia, served in the Connecticut legislature, raised a family there, and died there. James Monroe Pendleton's family lived there and he was born there. Actor, playwright, and director Joseph Byron Totten had farmland in Pendleton Hill. There is a Pendleton Hill Road and a Pendleton Hill Brook. There is a monitoring station on it. Etymologists are amused that the segments of the name come from words meaning hill so Pendelton Hill can be translated to mean hill hill hill hill.
Enoch Burrows Pendleton, another son of Nathan Pendleton, became a state senator in Rhode Island and attended the first Republican National Convention. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him postmaster of Westerly.
Totten had a kennel and raised horses and cows on his 47 acre Pendleton Hill farm.
Anna Coit left money to help maintain Panguhanux??? Farm and stipulated plans for its weathervane in her will. The property was in the Palmer family from 1711.
Geography
Pendleton Hill Road connects it to Voluntown, Connecticut.
There is a Pendleton Hill Cemetery.
Pendleton Hill is near the border with Rhode Island.
There is a Pendleton Hill Brook.

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