He was married to Catherine Barbara LEY/LOY on 1 Oct 1805 in DRC Lunenburg. They had six children that I know of: Mary Elizabeth PENCE, Sophia PENCE, John PENCE, George PENCE, Susanna Elizabeth PENCE and Catherine Barbara PENCE, all baptized in DRC Lunenburg as well.

Sometime between daughter Catherine's baptism in Dec 1815 and the 1827 census, when his name appears in Lawrencetown, George and his family moved to the Eastern Passage. I have not been able to look at land records for the area yet, but they would of course give the answer as to when he took up permanent residence. The best description of where it is that I have is from the online will of George Bowes, his neighbour and son-in-law: "I hereby devise to my Two Sons, George and James, and their heirs a Tract of Land Commencing at the Sea Shore and bounded by the road leading from Cow Bay to the Eastern Passage, Having John's property on the north and Moser's property on the rear and Pentz's property on the South, Together with all the buildings thereon to be divided equally between my said two Sons George and James."

On the 1827 census, George Pense is listed as Church of England, a farmer, in a household of 3 males and 4 females. One female member has married in the year prior to 1 Oct 1827, which must be Sophia. George Pence also signed a petition in Lawrencetown in Feb 1829, along with 110 others, seeking government support of the erection of a large oat mill on the property of Mr. William Crook.

According to H.W. Hewitt writing in the Dartmouth Patriot in 1901, it was in fact George's son John who first purchased the land. This is a quote from his article:
"The first inhabitants of Cow Bay were Indians. They were scattered over the place and some of them lived there up to recent times. Richard Monday or Munday was left in charge of Capt Rawdon's land. Rawdon went away and never came back again. Monday got the grant of Rawdon's land. Monday's daughter married Christian Bowes. George Bowes, Sr. and Mr. Pentz bought land next to that owned by Christian Bowes. Christian Bowes probably came from south division of Lunenburg, for I find the name Christian Bowes on the assessment roll of that place for the year 1795.

I have stated that George Bowes, Sr. and John Pentz bought land next [to] Monday's grant. Their purchase was on the grant of Enoch Bean. The grant of John Mignor was taken up by a man named Story. A man named Lester also owned a part of the grant which consisted of Osborne's Head. About 100 years ago the ancestor of the Cow Bay Osborne's secured the land of Lester. Other Osbornes bought the Story property from James Fraser and James Wellsman who had bought it. Thus did the land come into the hands of its present occupants.