Robert MENDENHALL

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 3rd Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
FAMILY: Brother-in-law to John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
FAMILY: Uncle to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
FAMILY: Great-Great-Grandfather of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake

MARRIAGES: Married Elizabeth White a year after his wife Phoebe died
DEATH: Robert was thrown from his riding chair by a runaway horse, struck his head on a stone near the run on the road to Concord Meeting and died on the spot at the age of 71 (early Church Records of Delaware County)

  Research Notes:

-- Mendenhall Family Association (http://mendenhall.org/mfa/tng/getperson.php?personID=I25278&tree=Mendenhall2010)
-- Smith Family Tree (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13769941)

Robert married Phoebe TAYLOR, daughter of Phillip TAYLOR and Anne CONWAY, on 13 Nov 1734 in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (Phoebe TAYLOR was born on 17 Jun 1715 in Thornbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania, died on 13 May 1761 in Concord, Chester County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Chester County, Pennsylvania.)

Robert next married Elizabeth M. (Hatton) WHITE, daughter of William WHITE and Elizabeth HARLAN, on 13 Nov 1734 in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (Elizabeth M. (Hatton) WHITE was born about 1713 in Chester County, Pennsylvania and died in 1777.)

Robert next married Esther METCALF, daughter of Mathew METCALF Jr. and Jane, on 13 Nov 1734 in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (Esther METCALF was born in 1718 in Concord, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died in 1776 in Pennsylvania.)