Brigadier General Jedediah Preble is a grandson of Abraham Preble and Judith Tilden. He was born in York, in the Province of Maine, 1707. Jedediah Preble married (first) Ms. Martha JUNKINS, daughter of Alexander Junkins, on March 21st, 1733. They had four sons and one daughter together before she died at Falmouth, on the 10th of March, 1753.
- Jedediah, who married Avis Phillips of Boston
- Samuel, who died in the West Indies, unmarried
- John, who married Sarah Frost, of Machias.
- William, who went to sea and was never heard from after.
- Lucy, who married Jonathan Webb, of Boston.

On the 9th of May, 1754, Jedediah Preble married (second) Mrs. Mehitable BANGS Roberts, a childless widow of John Roberts, Jr. She was the daughter of Captain Joshua and Mehitable (Clarke) BANGS, then of Falmouth, but who originated in Harwich, Cape Cod. At this time, he was Captain Preble and 47 years old, and she was about 26 years of age. They had five sons and two daughters together.
- Martha, born November 18th, 1754.
- Ebenezer, born August 15th, 1757.
- Joshua, born November 28th, 1759.
- Edward, born August 15th, 1761, who was a Commodore in the United States Navy. (Memorial #7550250)
- Enoch, born July 2nd, 1763, who was President of the Portland Marine Society thirty-one years.
- Statira, born January 3rd, 1767.
- Henry, born January 24th, 1770, who was for many years a Consul for the United States at Palerno and other ports of Europe.

--Information taken from "Genealogical Sketch of the First Three Generations of Prebles in America by George Henry Preble

Note: A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of BRIGADIER GENERAL.
DAR Ancestor # A092655

∼In the late 19th century, a man by the name of Stephen Marion Watson, published 191 inscriptions from Eastern Cemetery in the local newspaper. They are preserved in the Maine Historical Society in Portland as Scrapbook 2 6-11. Jedediah Preble is now listed here. He was not listed in the 1987 book by William B. Jordan, "Burial Records 1717-1962 of the Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Maine".