Peter Plunkett Portrait, c1850.
Courtesy of the Bibb-Hammond family.
Photograph of portrait by Steve Hammond.
Note: the original photograph was a daguerreotype
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Birth information: (Source: Peter Plunkett - Primary Declaration of Intent - Folio 110, Suffolk County Boston Municipal Court at the Massachusetts State Archives. Research by Jim Meyer, September 22, 1999)
"...Peter Plunkett of Boston aforesaid Labourer that he was born at Lismelore in the County of Fermanagh in Ireland on or about the sixth day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred and Nine..."
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Peter Plunkett married his first wife, Catherine Farrell, on August 13, 1831. Peter and Catherine had six children: James (1832), John (1833), Mary Elizabeth (1835), Anne (1838), Catharine Ellen (1839) and Mathew (1843). Catherine Farrell Plunkett died on April 4, 1850, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married his second wife, Mary Broderick, on December 31, 1854, in Bangor, Maine. Peter and Mary had two children: Peter (1855) and Joseph (1857). Mary Broderick Plunkett died on November 30, 1857, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married Eleanor Mitchell Doyle, widow of Owen Doyle, on September 26, 1858, at St. Benedict's Church in Benedicta, Maine.
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"In time, several outlying farms and clearings came into view, heralding their arrival in Benedicta. One of these plots belonged to Peter Plunkett, whose experience was typical of most new settlers. In 1838 Plunkett had begun transforming the landscape-cutting and clearing the forest, making fences around the perimeter of his holding, and building the beginning of a farmhouse. A Catholic priest passing through the township remarked, "Plunkett is hard at work clearing off his piece. I dined with him and eat [sic] a hearty meal of pork and bread. He has only a very poor camp in which he sleeps and eats - his wife and children stay at Mr. Bradys until he can have time to build a log house"... Benedicta at this time was still a hardscrabble community. In 1840 the settlement numbered forty families, over two hundred people in all. Most like Plunkett, lived on outlying farms.." - [Source: McCarron, Edward T. "A Brave New World: The Irish Agrarian Colony Of Benedicta, Maine". pp. 121-137. Published in: "They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine", edited by Michael C. Connolly. Orono, Maine, University of Maine Press, 2004. Page 129]
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Courtesy of the Bibb-Hammond family.
Photograph of portrait by Steve Hammond.
Note: the original photograph was a daguerreotype
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Birth information: (Source: Peter Plunkett - Primary Declaration of Intent - Folio 110, Suffolk County Boston Municipal Court at the Massachusetts State Archives. Research by Jim Meyer, September 22, 1999)
"...Peter Plunkett of Boston aforesaid Labourer that he was born at Lismelore in the County of Fermanagh in Ireland on or about the sixth day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred and Nine..."
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Peter Plunkett married his first wife, Catherine Farrell, on August 13, 1831. Peter and Catherine had six children: James (1832), John (1833), Mary Elizabeth (1835), Anne (1838), Catharine Ellen (1839) and Mathew (1843). Catherine Farrell Plunkett died on April 4, 1850, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married his second wife, Mary Broderick, on December 31, 1854, in Bangor, Maine. Peter and Mary had two children: Peter (1855) and Joseph (1857). Mary Broderick Plunkett died on November 30, 1857, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married Eleanor Mitchell Doyle, widow of Owen Doyle, on September 26, 1858, at St. Benedict's Church in Benedicta, Maine.
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"In time, several outlying farms and clearings came into view, heralding their arrival in Benedicta. One of these plots belonged to Peter Plunkett, whose experience was typical of most new settlers. In 1838 Plunkett had begun transforming the landscape-cutting and clearing the forest, making fences around the perimeter of his holding, and building the beginning of a farmhouse. A Catholic priest passing through the township remarked, "Plunkett is hard at work clearing off his piece. I dined with him and eat [sic] a hearty meal of pork and bread. He has only a very poor camp in which he sleeps and eats - his wife and children stay at Mr. Bradys until he can have time to build a log house"... Benedicta at this time was still a hardscrabble community. In 1840 the settlement numbered forty families, over two hundred people in all. Most like Plunkett, lived on outlying farms.." - [Source: McCarron, Edward T. "A Brave New World: The Irish Agrarian Colony Of Benedicta, Maine". pp. 121-137. Published in: "They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine", edited by Michael C. Connolly. Orono, Maine, University of Maine Press, 2004. Page 129]
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Peter Plunkett Portrait, c1850.
Courtesy of the Bibb-Hammond family.
Photograph of portrait by Steve Hammond.
Note: the original photograph was a daguerreotype
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Birth information: (Source: Peter Plunkett - Primary Declaration of Intent - Folio 110, Suffolk County Boston Municipal Court at the Massachusetts State Archives. Research by Jim Meyer, September 22, 1999)
"...Peter Plunkett of Boston aforesaid Labourer that he was born at Lismelore in the County of Fermanagh in Ireland on or about the sixth day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred and Nine..."
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Peter Plunkett married his first wife, Catherine Farrell, on August 13, 1831. Peter and Catherine had six children: James (1832), John (1833), Mary Elizabeth (1835), Anne (1838), Catharine Ellen (1839) and Mathew (1843). Catherine Farrell Plunkett died on April 4, 1850, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married his second wife, Mary Broderick, on December 31, 1854, in Bangor, Maine. Peter and Mary had two children: Peter (1855) and Joseph (1857). Mary Broderick Plunkett died on November 30, 1857, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married Eleanor Mitchell Doyle, widow of Owen Doyle, on September 26, 1858, at St. Benedict's Church in Benedicta, Maine.
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"In time, several outlying farms and clearings came into view, heralding their arrival in Benedicta. One of these plots belonged to Peter Plunkett, whose experience was typical of most new settlers. In 1838 Plunkett had begun transforming the landscape-cutting and clearing the forest, making fences around the perimeter of his holding, and building the beginning of a farmhouse. A Catholic priest passing through the township remarked, "Plunkett is hard at work clearing off his piece. I dined with him and eat [sic] a hearty meal of pork and bread. He has only a very poor camp in which he sleeps and eats - his wife and children stay at Mr. Bradys until he can have time to build a log house"... Benedicta at this time was still a hardscrabble community. In 1840 the settlement numbered forty families, over two hundred people in all. Most like Plunkett, lived on outlying farms.." - [Source: McCarron, Edward T. "A Brave New World: The Irish Agrarian Colony Of Benedicta, Maine". pp. 121-137. Published in: "They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine", edited by Michael C. Connolly. Orono, Maine, University of Maine Press, 2004. Page 129]
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Courtesy of the Bibb-Hammond family.
Photograph of portrait by Steve Hammond.
Note: the original photograph was a daguerreotype
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Birth information: (Source: Peter Plunkett - Primary Declaration of Intent - Folio 110, Suffolk County Boston Municipal Court at the Massachusetts State Archives. Research by Jim Meyer, September 22, 1999)
"...Peter Plunkett of Boston aforesaid Labourer that he was born at Lismelore in the County of Fermanagh in Ireland on or about the sixth day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred and Nine..."
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Peter Plunkett married his first wife, Catherine Farrell, on August 13, 1831. Peter and Catherine had six children: James (1832), John (1833), Mary Elizabeth (1835), Anne (1838), Catharine Ellen (1839) and Mathew (1843). Catherine Farrell Plunkett died on April 4, 1850, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married his second wife, Mary Broderick, on December 31, 1854, in Bangor, Maine. Peter and Mary had two children: Peter (1855) and Joseph (1857). Mary Broderick Plunkett died on November 30, 1857, in Benedicta, Maine.
Peter married Eleanor Mitchell Doyle, widow of Owen Doyle, on September 26, 1858, at St. Benedict's Church in Benedicta, Maine.
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"In time, several outlying farms and clearings came into view, heralding their arrival in Benedicta. One of these plots belonged to Peter Plunkett, whose experience was typical of most new settlers. In 1838 Plunkett had begun transforming the landscape-cutting and clearing the forest, making fences around the perimeter of his holding, and building the beginning of a farmhouse. A Catholic priest passing through the township remarked, "Plunkett is hard at work clearing off his piece. I dined with him and eat [sic] a hearty meal of pork and bread. He has only a very poor camp in which he sleeps and eats - his wife and children stay at Mr. Bradys until he can have time to build a log house"... Benedicta at this time was still a hardscrabble community. In 1840 the settlement numbered forty families, over two hundred people in all. Most like Plunkett, lived on outlying farms.." - [Source: McCarron, Edward T. "A Brave New World: The Irish Agrarian Colony Of Benedicta, Maine". pp. 121-137. Published in: "They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine", edited by Michael C. Connolly. Orono, Maine, University of Maine Press, 2004. Page 129]
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Peter Plunkett / died / Dec. 27, 1882 / Æ 75 years.
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