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A road was laid by his farm and from the Rutland road to the county road, February 14. 1733-34. He bought his homestead March 7. 1722-23, but the deed was not acknowledged until May 12. 1726, from Elisha Bruce, of Marlborough, Massachu- setts. in the eastern part of Worcester. thirty-seven acres adjoining land of Eph- raim Curtis on the county road to James Taylor's farm. He probably moved in 1,28 to a farm containing sixty-eight acres that he bought April 17. 1728, on North Pond brook, land laid out to Isaac Miller, but pur- chased of James Gleason, of Marlborough. In 1731 he became a proprietor of the town. buying the right ("tens" they were called ten-acre rights ) of Palmer Goulding. But he gave a farm of fifty-five acres to his "well- beloved son. John Pibles, for love and affec- tion." dated February 28. 1731-32. A plan of this farm is recorded in the Worcester deeds. John's farm was north of Robert's and was bounded by common land and land of Jolin Waldo. The farm was sold to Cornelius Waldo in 1739. when Peebles was preparing to leave town. He was a black- smith by trade, and evidently prosperous.
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He bought thirty acres of the south part of the original right of Ephraim Curtis, Sep- tember 11, 1727; forty-seven acres of John Hubbard, of Worcester; undivided land and a four-acre house lot granted to Isaac Wheeler, deed dated March 13. 1727-28. He also bought the twenty-acre house lot granted to William Pain. of Boston, from James Dunlap, of Canterbury. Connecticut. November, 1736, the land being on the road to Lake Quinsigamond. His son John deeded his farm back to his father in 1739-40 for some reason but April 18, 1741, Robert Peebles, then of Lisbon, now Pelham, Mas- sachusetts, proprietor. deeded this place. fifty-five acres on both sides of North Pond brook, back to his son John.
Robert Peebles and James Thornton, of Worcester, were the founders of Pelham. Massachusetts. These two Scotchmen bought a tract of land three and one-half miles wide by seven and three-quarters in length. the present site of Pelhamn, containing six- teen thousand six hundred and eighty-six and one-half acres of land, of Colonel Stod- dard, of Northampton, Massachusetts. Stod- dard bought it of the state of Connecticut. the title of which was given to Connecticut by Massachusetts, though jurisdiction was retained. The lands were called Equivalent Lands, because they were given to com- pensate Connecticut for the towns of Wood- stock, Somers, Enfield and Suffield. then held by Massachusetts, despite the fact that by some mistake the grants had been made south of what was afterward fixed as the Massachusetts line. The two purchasers agreed to settle forty families within two years. They were all ready, however, for the deed to the proprietors was made February, 1738-39. naming the settlers. It was called the Lisbon, Lisborn, or Lysburn propriety. and the first five meetings were held in Worcester, the fifth April 10, 1740. The sixth meeting was the first in the new settle- ment, held August 6. 1740. He was on the committee, May 19. 1741, to raise the new meeting house, and November 3, 1741,
when they began to have service he was appointed to keep the minister at twelve shil- lings a week. He led the movement to in- corporate as a town and the bill was signed by the governor. January 15, 1742. Rob- ert Peebles was directed to call the first town meeting for April 1, 1743, and a fac-simile of this call, drawn and signed by him, is reproduced in the Pelham town history. Lisbirn, or New Lisborn, the name of the propriety, was changed to Pelham. Lis- born is the name of a town on the river Lagan in Antrim county, Ireland. At the first town meeting hie was elected select- man and re-elected in 1744. perhaps served later. He protested against the mecting of 1751. He was moderator in 1744. The town took steps May 26. 1743, to call a minister and Robert Peebles was on the committee for that purpose. Rev. Robert Abercrombie was settled, but in 1747 trouble had developed over the minister. Mr. Peebles continued to board the minis- ters; in 1755 he was paid for ten weeks' board and for entertaining the presbytery. In 1756 for keep of minister and horse five weeks and next seventeen weeks. He had three shares in each division and be- came a large land owner. He lived on lot sixteen of the first division. He died about 1760. As late as 1757-59 his son was called "Jr."
He married Sarah . Children : I. Patrick, mentioned below. 2. John, men- tioned below. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. Saralı, born May 20, 1719, in Worces- ter ; married. February 10, 1755, at Pelham, Alexander McCulloch. 5. Mary, October 12, 1722, in Worcester: married April 26, 1757, David Histon. 6. Robert, mentioned below. 7. Ann, May 25, 1726, in Worces- ter ; married, November 17. 1757. Rev. John Huston. 8. Archibald, mentioned in ad- ministration of estate of brother John.
(II) Patrick, son of Robert Peebles, was born in Ireland about 1710-11. He had a seat in the Old South meeting house. Worcester, and was a field driver there
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in 1732. He was one of the proprietors of Lisbon when the first division was made, having a one-sixtieth share. He was the only son who was a proprietor. He drew lot No. 7 in 1739. He signed the appli- cation for the first town meeting : went to Hadley to post notice of the first meeting. June 9, 1762, he owned three shares, prob- ably inheriting two from his father. He was town surveyor in 1743. school com- mitteeman in 1751, selectman in 1752, col- lector 1757. In 1766 he and John Peebles occupied pew No. 2. He was a blacksmith by trade, doubtless succeeding his father at Pelham. He married ( first) Frances ---; and (second ) March 8. 1757. at Pel- ham, Margaret Taylor. Children. son. born April 14, 1737 : probably Jolin : James, 1739: Patrick, selectman, 1796. resided in Pelham; daughter, born May 22, 1752. Children of second wife: Daughter, born May 20, 1759. Son. April 20, 1760.
(II) John, son of Robert Peebles, was born about 1715, in Ireland, died in 1756. He married November 7. 1740. Dorothea, daughter of Rev. John Harvey. Jr. He had a farm at Worcester, near North Pond brook, but left about the time his father ‹lied. He was a school teacher, and seems to have lived at Palmer, Brimfield, Gran- ville. Pelham, Massachusetts, and Middle- field, Connecticut, where he died. Adminis- tration was granted to John Harvey of Peterboro. New Hampshire, his father-in- law. September 15. 1756. He had one right at Pequoige, Rutland District ( now Barre ), sold later to Samuel Reed. He was a proprietor of Worcester in 1732. having three tens or shares, and was chair- man for surveying lots in the third division of the common land. He was tythingman in 1762 and seems to have been living on his father's homestead. through which a road was ent in 1755. Two of his children were baptized by his wife's father at Palmer. Massachusetts: 1. John Harvey, born No- vember 9. 1745. baptized December 5. 1745. 2. Jean, September 15. 1748. He seems
to have married second in Pelham in 1752 (intention May 2) Sarah Conkey, and had a child : 3. Daughter, June 1I, 1754.
- (II) James, son of Robert Peebles, wa- born about 1717. probably in Worcester. died October 3, 1752, in Pelham. Children (according to best evidence at hand ) : James, mentioned below ; John, born about 1748; married, March 17, 1770 (inten- tions), Anne Shaw ; was selectman in 1784: blacksmith in Pelham, 1768, and revolution- ary soldier from Chesterfield, Massachusetts. in same company with his brother John.
(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (I) Peebles, was born about 1725 : married (in- tentions January 30, 1761), Elizabeth Cone: was in a company of horse under Captain Robert Lotherdige, Colonel Israel Billings regiment in 1757. and in the same war was in Colonel William Williams' regiment. Captain Salah Barnard's company.
(III) James (2), son of James ( I) Pee- bles, was born in Pelham about 1740. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain David Cowden's company, Fourth Hamp- shire regiment, at the battle of Bennington. August, 1777. His brother John, Jr. (prob- ably called junior to distinguish him from an older man of the same name, son of Patrick Peebles) was in the same company. Both settled at Chesterfield. James was la- ter of New Salem. The census shows that he was living there in 1790. Children: 1. James, born about 1760: died 1860, said to. be nearly a hundred years old. at Orford. New Hampshire ; settled for a time at Nes Salem, Massachusetts; soldier in the revo- lution: married Martha Haskell. who was born at New Salem; children : James, Jobo. Seth, Robert. Mary and Mahala, of Ply- mouth, New Hampshire. 2. John, men- tioned below. Perhaps others.
(IV) John, son of James ( 2) Peebk . was born at New Salem, Massachusett .. December 31. 1764. Like his father he wa- a blacksmith by trade, this trade having been passed down for many generations from father to son. When John was onl.
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ten or twelve years old, his father being away on military duty. he was called upon to shoe his first horse, and from that time he followed the trade almost continuously as long as he lived. He removed to Salem, New York, in 1789, and his name appears among the heads of families reported in the first federal census of 1790 as having one male over sixteen, one under sixteen and one female in his family. His father had only three females and himself at that time at New Salem, Massachusetts, and his broth- er James appears to have been absent from home, for his wife Martha is given as head of the family. He may have been in New Hampshire as early as 1790, preparing for his new home. In 1804 John came to Lewis county and made his home at Martinsburg. He was the first blacksmith to follow his trade there. He received a hundred acres of heavy timber land for erecting the first sawmill .in Martinsburg. In 1805 he brought his family to Martinsburg and his sons cleared the farm while he toiled at the anvil. He was a prosperous farmer and blacksmith, thanks to his sturdy physique and thrifty Scotch management of his busi- ness. In religion he was a Presbyterian. He was an earnest. upright man, of ex- emplary character, having the respect and confidence of all who knew him. He died in August. 1834.
He married. at Salem, Washington coun- ty. New York, April 7. 1789. Deborah Sat- ford (by Rev. John Warford). His wife was born in Stonington, Connecticut. April 20. 1771, died in 1825. Children born at Salem. New York: William, February 3. 1790; John, Jr., November 10, 1791, men- tioned below. Sanford S .. August 18. 1703: Miner. November 21, 1705: Cath- erine. April 28. 1797 : Samuel S .. March 30. 1700: Henry, April 24. DOI : Ann. May 5. 1805. Born at Martinsburg: Chillus Doty. 1807 : Charles F., March 8, 1809, mentioned below: Edward Savage. January 11, 1812; Sally D .. February 6, 1815.
( V) John (2). son of John (1 ) Peebles.
was born at Salem, New York, November IO, 1791. When a lad of fourteen he came with his father's family to Martinsburg. New York, where he was brought up on a frontier farm and educated in the district schools. He was a shrewd and successful farmer, accumulated a large property, and at the time of his death owned several large farms. He was a Republican in his later years. He belonged to the Union Church of Martinsburg. He married Mary Bunce, born April 11. 1795: died November 7. 1829. Children : Susan, born December 22. 1817 : married Charles Shepherd Lee. Bet- sey, married Alfred Arthur : Charles, men- tioned below: Warren: Venando, drowned in 1834 in Black river.
(VI) Charles, son of Jolin ( 2) Peebles, was born at Martinsburg, May 18. 1821. He was educated there in the public schools. He worked on his father's farm in his na- tive town until he came of age, when he settled on another farm owned by his fa- ther in that town. He made a specialty of his dairy and was one of the most success- ful in this department of any of the farm- ers of this section. He was a member of the Union Church of Martinsburg. In politics he was a Republican and active in town affairs. He was supervisor of Mar- tinsburg for a number of years. He died there April 14. 1864. He married, Decem- ber 14. 1843. Permelia Arthur, born at Martinsburg. August 20, 1820, daughter of Levi and Sally Arthur. She died De- cember 23. 1896. Children: 1. Furman F .. born September 22, 1844: married (first) Caroline Richardson and had a son John : ( second ) Julia Bush. 2. Venando F .. January 9. 1846; resided at Port Leyden: married ( first ) Ellen Williams: ( second ) Sarah Williams. 3. Elizabeth, March 2. 1847: married. August 6, 1873. Dr. M. H. Waters of Terra Haute, Indiana, and has one son, Arthur. 4. Edna .A .. January 2. 1851 : resides on the homestead. 5. Mary I., March 22. 1836; died April 9. 1899: married. September 28, 1877. W. H. Smith,
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of Watertown, New York, and has a daugh- ter Bertha. 6. Ruhamah, November 22, 1857 ; died June 10, 1899 ; married, October, 1886, Rev. F. E. Arthur: children: Irving, Frank, Boyd, Robert, Maud and Lincoln. 7. Elmer E., mentioned below.
(VII ) Eliner E., son of Charles Peebles. was born January 27. 1802. He was brought up on the farm, and educated in the public schools and Lowville Academy. He succeeded to the homestead and has one of the finest dairy farms in Lewis county. The farm is near the East Martinsburg sta- tion on the Black River division of the New York Central & Hudson River Rail- road. His buildings are commodious and well adapted to the modern methods of dairy farming and he keeps pace with the progress in this branch of farming, adopting new methods and devices for the increase of the product and the saving of labor. He is one of the most progressive and successful farmers in the county, and held in high esteem. His sister Edna .\. resides with him on the homestead.
(V) Charles E., son of John ( 1) Pee- bles, was born in Martinsburg, March 8. 1800. He attended the public schools of his native town, and learned the trade of blacksmith of his father. following that trade all his active life- in the town of Mar- tinsburg. He became one of the leading citizens of the town and was especially ac- tive in the temperance movement. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance and of the Order of Good Templars. He was a member of the local lodge of Odd Fel- lows. In religion he was a Universalist. He was constable of the town, court crier for forty years, and deputy sheriff of the county for twelve years. He was in early life a Democrat. but was one of the organ- izers and an earnest supporter of the Re- publican party. He died October 27. 188 ;. He married, June 27. 18.30. Lydia .Allen. born June 10. 18to, died July 14. 1801. at Carthage, New York, daughter of William R. and Martha ( Woody Allen. Her fa-
ther was born June 18, 1781, and her mothi- er May 6, 1785. Children : 1. Catherine T .. born December 25, 1830. 2. Mary I .... vantia, June 1. 1832. 3. Maretta A., Feb .. ruary 28, 1834. 4. Lorinda, August 20. 1835. 5. Charles W., September 29, 1841: mentioned below. 6. Lydia O., August 14. 1843. 7. Sarah Ann. June 13, 1846. 8 Savialion C., May 24. 1848. 9. Hortense Arvilla, January 17. 1852. 10. Wallace D) .. June 17, 1853.
(VI) Charles W .. son of Charles E. Peebles, was born in Martinsburg. Sep- tember 29, 1841, and was educated there in the common schools. He learned the blacksmith trade of his father and was the fourth in direct line in this family to follow this trade. He had a shop in Martinsburg until 1906. except while l. was in the service in the civil war. He hits been living in his native town since ther. retired from active business. He enlisted .August 6. 1862. in Company I. Fifth Nes York Heavy Artillery, and served to the end of the war. He was mustered out of service. July 1, 1865, and then returned to follow his trade in Martinsburg. He is a Prohibitionist in politics and a Methodist in religion.
He is a member of the G. D. Bailey Post. Grand Army of the Republic. For a period of twenty-two years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the cemetery as- sociation and president all of that time. ! le married. November 2. 1865. Elmira Bradt. born at Martinsburg. January 31. 1842. daughter of Volkert Bradt, who came from Montgomery county, New York, to Lewis county. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Pee- bles: 1. Ezra K., born July 9. 1866: died November 24. 1872. 2. Cora L .. September 30. 1870. 3. Charles Eugene, January 10. 1874, a plumber at Lowville : married. Fel- ruary 1. 1899. Mamie MeGlauchlin: che! dren : Alice Catherine and Marjory Lomi-e 4. Agnes L .. April 14. 1878: married. lub 18. 1900. Eugene H. Ferguson, and his son Charles D. 5. Mary ( twin). 6. Mery
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V. (twin ), May 11, 1881, a paper maker by trade.
(V) Sanford S. Peebles son PEEBLES of John Peebles IV (q. v.), was born August 18. 1793. He settled at Martinsburgh. New York. He married Sally Bowen. Children : Woolsey, mentioned below : Ezra; Julia Ann; Hiram; Deborah; Morris; Duane: Samantha ; George ; Henry.
(VI) Woolsey, son of Sanford S. Pee- bles, was born November 21. 1818. at Mar- tinsburgh. He died July 2. 1888. He lived at that town and was a farmer. He married Harriet Gould. Children, born at Martins- burgh: 1. Cyrus J., mentioned below. 2. Duane A., June 4. 1851 ; married Addie Rose Phillips, in November, 1875. 3. S. Cornelia, December 9. 1855: married. De- cember 24. 1879. Norman Greene. 4. Alice M., July 2. 1860: married Judson Damuth ; she died September 2. 1892.
(VII) Cyrus J .. son of Woolsey Peebles. was born at Martinsburgh. November 28. 1849. He attended the public schools of his native town. the Martins Institute and the Lowville Academy, and afterward for sev- eral years taught in the public schools. Eventually he settled on the homestead. however, and has conducted it with notable success to the present time. "The Maples." as the farm is called. is advantageously sit- uated in the town of Martinsburgh, within a short distance of the railroad station, and is well cultivated and very productive. Mr. Peebles makes his dairy a specialty and de- votes his attention to raising Holsteins. He is one of the best known and most success- ful farmers in this section. In polities he is a Republican. and a man of influence in party and town affairs. In religion he is a Methodist.
Mr. Peebles married. September 15. 1874, Emma A. Burdick, daughter of Ste- phen and Margaret ( Lonas ) Burdick. Chil- dren: Elsie L., born March 25. 1876, died July 7. 1878: Hattie Mae.
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GOULD born in England, settled in New Britain, Connecticut. He married Catherine Lewis, who was also of English ancestry.
( II ) John (2), son of John (I) Gould, was born at New Britain, Connecticut. He was left an orphan at the age of nine years, and when a young boy went to sea as a cabin boy, following the sea for twelve years. After his marriage he located at Harrisburg. Lewis county, New York. then almost a wilderness, cleared land and fol- lowed a farmer's life. He was a Whig in politics until that party was broken up, aft- erwards being a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church. He married Persis Johnson, a resident of Oswego county. New York. Children: Seth P .. John. Horace W .. Adeline, George Washington, who is mentioned below, and Harriet.
( III) George Washington, son of John (2) Gould. was born at Harrisburg. New York, March 20. 1827. He followed the trade of machinist for several years and in later life was a farmer. He was a faithful member of the Methodist church. He was interested in public affairs and held various town offices in Watson. He was a Repub- lican. He married. April 11. 1848. at Martinsburg. New York. Mary Ann Clo- bridge. born July 6. 1831. at Turin, New York. daughter of John and Charlotte (Case ) Clobridge, granddaughter of Chris- topher Columbus Clobridge, who came from Ireland. a soldier in the British army under Burgoyne. deserted and joined the Ameri- can army under Washington. At the close of the revolution. he married Hannah Burk and followed the occupation of farmer in Connectient. Children, four born at Har- risville. three youngest at Watson: 1. Sarah Georgietta, born September 11. 1849. 2. George Hudson. November 8, 1851, men- tioned below. 3. Lewis Johnson, Novem- ber 27. 1854 4. Cassius Emm. July Q. 1858. 5. Sanford P .. May 30. 1865. 6.
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Emily J., July 3. 1868. 7. Persis E., July II. 1878.
(IV) George Hudson, son of George Washington Gould. was born in Harris- burg. Lewis county, New York, November 8. 1851. He attended the district schools. and the Martin Institute for a year while Professor Harry C. Northam was princi- pal. After leaving schod he helped his fa- ther on the farin for several years. In 1874 he began to teach school and continued most of the time until 1883. when he en- gaged in business as a lumber contractor and jobber. In addition to this business he has also conducted a large farm and bought and sold lumber. He has been suc- cessful in business. In politics he is a Re- publican. From 1901 to 1008 he was su- pervisor of the town of Watson. He held at other times various town offices, and pos- sesses a great influence in his party. He has been a member of Petrie's Corner Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, since 1890, and was master for two years. He is also a member of Lowville Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons. He is an able, aggressive business man, honest, upright and just in his dealings, a popular and influential citi- zen. He married, at Lowville, October 22. 1877. Mary .A., born in Watson, September 6. 1856, daughter of Richard and Mary ( Rowland ) Shaw. She had sisters : Emma Augusta and Cynthia Eveline: brothers : Emmett James and Richard F. Shaw. Children of George Hudson Gould : 1. Mil- ton Marverse. born July 4. 1879: educated in the common schools and in Utica Busi- ness College : a lumberman : married Nettie M. Saunders ; children : Mary Etta. Lumilla M. and Faith H. 2. Lillian Marion, born February 9. 1881 : married Jonas Ebersol, a farmer; they have no children. 3. Ger- trude Mabel. January 24. 1887: married Robert Oudekirk. a lumberman : she attend- ed school at Lowville and was valedictorian of the class of 1905.
(V) Milton M., son of George Hudson and Mary A. (Shaw) Gould, was born in
the town of Watson, Lewis county. New York, July 4, 1879. He was educated in the public schools, and at Utica, New York. Business College. After leaving school he assisted his father with his farin labor for a time, then engaged with Theo. B. Boss.it. an extensive lumber dealer of Creghan. New York. to become foreman of one of his hun- ber camps. He remained with Mr. Bo -- in for several years. and became an expert lumberman. About 1904 he began business for himself, his first contract being to. cut. skid and put in the stream several thousan 1 cords of pulp logs. This venture was a financial success and encouraged him to con- tinue. He later entered into partnership with his father. George Hudson Gould, who was a successful jobber and contractor. The firm suon gained a strong foothold in the lumber business, where they are highly re- garded. Mr. Gould is a most courteous gen- tleman and thorough man of business. His standing is high among the solid influenti ..! men of his county and town. He is an ac- tive Republican, and interested in all that concerns the welfare of his town. He i- a member of the Methodist church, Low- ville Lodge, No. 134. F. and A. M. : Low- ville Chapter, No. 253. R. A. M. He mar- ried Nettie M. Saunders. December 20. 1000. daughter of Augustus and Harrie' (Van Atta ) Saunders, Children: 1. Mary Etta, born August 20, 1901. 2. Lumilla M. December 12. 1903. 3. Faith H. Sep- tember 20, 1907.
MARTIN It is the generally accepted belief that this surname oris- inated with St. Martin, the son of a Roman military tribune, who was born about A. D. 316 in that part of ancien: Panonia which is the modern Hungary, and figured as one of the early exponents vi Christianity in Western Europe. The nate itself indicates no particular nationality. but is to be found in nearly every country in Europe. The name of Martin w's brought into England by several follower-
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of the Norman conqueror, whose names are recorded in the roll of Battle Abbey, and among them are those of "Le Sire de S. Martin," and Martin of Tours. The Som- ersetshire family, from which some of the American Martins are descended, dates its origin in England from the Norman Con- quest. The name appears in the early rec- ords of Massachusetts. New Hampshire. Connecticut and Virginia, and is variously spelled : Martin. Martyn, Marten, Marteen. Martain. Marttin and Mortine. Robert Martin, an immigrant from England, set- tled in New Haven, Connecticut, prior to 1655, and Samuel Martin, who came over about 1650, settled in Wethersfield. Con- necticut. The Plattsburgh family. men- tioned below. is undoubtedly descended from one of these immigrants.
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