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GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL
HISTORY
OF
LYCOMING COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF EMERSON COLLINS, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
AND
JOHN W. JORDAN, LL.D., of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserveth the highest praise. Herein consisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's oren self. It is a great spur to look back on the worth of our line."-LORD BACON.
"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man."-SIR WALTER SCOTT.
ILLUSTRATED. VOLUME II.
NEW YORK CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1906
INDEX. 1136132
Adams, William, 55. Allen, Riley W., 161. Antes, Oscar C., 272. App, Hyman H., 297. Artley, Walter J., 370.
Ball, John, 283. Bardo, Eugene B., 440. Bartles, Charles, 530. Barto, John C., 347. Bastian, Robert H., 134. Bates, Charles H., 495. Belles, Melchi, 85. Bennett, James O., 169.
Bennett, W. Asher, 127. Bickell, S. Ellsworth, 378. Bloom, William H., 513. Bower, Henry, 269. Bower, Jacob, 92. Brittain, William F., 86. Brown, Daniel E., 528. Brown, George A., 234. Brown, John S., 320. Brownlee, Robert, 56. Budd, Joseph C., 106. Burkholder, Clinton, 302.
Campbell, Judson R., 143. Campbell, Lorenzo D., 160. Campbell, Michael, 475. Campbell, William R., 333. Chaapel, Victor P., 74. Chesnut, James M., 201. Childs, Harry S., 210. Childs, J. Bradley, 21I. Childs, The Family, 209. Childs, William H., 212. Christman, J. W., 322. Clapp, Daniel, 94. Cochran, George G., 260. Cole, Henry S., 288.
Connor, Abner, 361. Cook, The Family, 214. Costello, John, 325.
Crawford, John K., 451. Crawford, The Family, 449.
Crawford, William B., 155.
Crooks, William D., 397.
Cruse, Ellis M., 96.
Culver, Newton H., 471. Cupp, John E., 462.
Dauber, George, 189.
Decker, Albert, 277.
Decker, Alexander, 65.
Decker, A. G., 88.
Decker, George, 54.
Decker, Oliver J., 356.
Decker, Samuel E., 224. Denniston, Gilbert J., 185.
Denniston, Lawrence H., 199.
Dingler, Tunison C., 203.
Doherty, James A., 98
Dougherty, William A., 354.
Dun, Clarence J., 536. Dunkle, Forrest B., 349.
Ebner, William C., 285.
Eck, Augustus, 330. Eger. Luke, 53.
Egli, John, 44.
Egly, Daniel, 287.
Else, Hervey, 289.
Emery, William, 308.
Fague, Harry S., 171. Farr, C. B., 398. Ferguson, Andrew, 183.
Fessler, Daniel A., 502. Fiester, Edward K., 207. First National Bank of Williamsport, 410. Fisher, Hugh D., 108. Fleming, J. Frank, 382.
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Flock, Charles F. W., 423. Flock, Herman F. W., 428.
Flock, Jacob G., 427. Flock, John H., 426. Flock, The Family, 422. Follmer, William, 256. Forsborg, Charles, 136.
Fox, Matthew, 131.
Frantz, Peter M., 105.
Frey, Charles, 270.
Fritz, Charles H., 474. Fritz, John A., 279. Frontz, Harry K., 275.
Gann, Levi, 251. Gann, William, 328.
Gann, William E., 351.
Garverich, Wellman L., 164. Gee, Moses L., 252.
Gibson, T. H., 316.
Gibson, William A., 167.
Gilmore, George, 237. Gilmore, Thomas J., 520. Glass, James, 276. Good, George H., 372. Green, E. M., 89.
Green, John C., 140.
Griggs, Daniel C., 371.
Gross, Daniel, 69. Gundrum, William, 91.
Haag, John P., 396. Hall, J. Collins, 119.
Harder, George W., 391.
Hardt, Albert F., 490. Harman, Charles, 419. Harman, George B., 421.
Harman, Samuel B., 420. Harman, The Family, 418. Hart, William W., 338. Hartman, William H., 341. Hauser, John, 332. Hayes, Follmer A., 152. Hayes, Randall B., 153. Hayes, The Family, 150. Heiney. Charles W., 494. Henderson, Ambrose, 50. Herritt, Charles R., 314. Herritt, Lancaster D., 367. Hess, John, 51.
Hess, Peter, 112. Hill, George A., 527. Hill, Jacob R., 491. Hill, J. Clinton, 527. Hill, The Family, 491.
Hill, The Family, 523. Hinkleman, Harry L., 246. Hinkleman, Peter M., 247. Hinkleman, The Family, 244. Horn, Clarence T., 483.
Horn, George B., 479. Horton, Charles S., 36. Hull, Alem P., 100. Hull, Waldo W., 493.
Huston, Robert M., 367. Hyndman, James, 174.
Irvin, H. Monroe, 393.
Jarret, David, 67. Johnson, John, 67. Johnson, Nathaniel C., 114. Jones, John M., 205.
Kahler, Thomas W., 78.
Kast, Alfred B., 323. Keller, G. M., 133.
Kelley, John D., 468. Kiess, Abraham H., 542.
Kiess, Edgar R., 305.
Kinsey, Leonidas C., 120.
Kirk, John S., 458. Kline, Charles W., 182. Konkle, William B., 83. Krause, Franklin, 93. Kuester, H. M., 545.
Kurtz, Isaac, III.
Larson, Nils, 360. Laubach, William F., 315. Lewis, Charles E., 318.
Litchard, Jacob, 280.
Little, Charles L., 116.
Little, William H., 145. Littley, John C., 304. Lloyd, Rex, 547. Lloyd, The Family, 546. Lloyd, William Q., 547. Long, Joseph T., 233. Lose, Lewis P., 353. Lucas, William, 273.
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Lumley, Edward D., 463. Luppert, George, 193. Lyon, Howard, 558. Lyon, Thomas, 402.
Marsh; Peter P., 109. Masters, Warren B., 188. Matchett, William M., 117.
McCormick, Frank H., 293.
Mccullough, Clinton B., 357.
Mckinney, J. Harris, 217. McMichael, Robert R., 48. Merrill, George B., 437. Messimer, Nelson B., 139.
Meyer, Leander I., 80. Michael, Joseph F., 375.
Michael, Joseph E., 378.
Mick, David D., 236.
Miller, Henry, 158. Miller, John J., 300. Milnor, Gardner B., 340. Montanye, William J., 336. Moore, H. J., 247.
Moyer, Frank L., 444. Myers, Michael, 507.
Nevins, John, 368. News, The Evening, 431.
Oechler, Christopher, 222. Oechler, John, 223.
Opp, Charles W., 433.
Opp, Coleman O., 241. Opp, John P., 239.
Opp, John P., 242. Opp, J. Reed, 241. Opp, The Family, 239.
Painter, William P. I., 511. Peaslee, Clarence L., 35. Peaslce, Joseph B., 28. Peaslee, Isaac D., 32. Peaslee, The Family, I. Persun, Wilson, 365. Petrikin, Henry W., 292. Piper, George T., 477. Plankenhorn, Charles F., 387. Plankenhorn, Daniel, 387. Plankenhorn, George, 389.
Rakestraw, James W., 281. Ramsey, George A., 328. Ramsey, Thomas, 325. Randall, G. S., 320. Rank, Lewis D., 505.
Rayhorn, Luther, 350. Rentz, Charles A., 484.
Rentz, The Family, 484.
Rothfuss, Adam, 555.
Riley, William C., 31I.
Ritter, Thomas J., 166.
Robinson, James Sr., 229.
Rogers, John C., 532. Ross, Michael, 414.
Schaefer, Joseph E., 538.
Seagar, Joseph, 299.
Sechler, Michael, 363.
Seward, Harrison A., 122.
Sheadle, Annie J. W., 124.
Sheffer, Elmer E., 173.
Sherman, John H., 99.
Shipman, John S., 374.
Shoemaker, Elmer E., 107.
Shollenberger, Darius W., 62.
Siegel, Andrew W., 516.
Siess, G. E. O., 430. Smith, Hervey, 70. Smith, James D., 192.
Smithgall, D. C., 231.
Snyder, Munro C., 266.
Stamm, Henry, 130.
Sweely, James W., 213.
Talley, Wilson G., 455. Tallman, A. S., 291. Tallman, Henry, 290.
Tallman, Lewis, 303.
Thomas, Clinton L., 128.
Thomas, Gideon, 227.
Thomas, Thomas A., 416. Thrall, Franklin B., 550.
Tomb, George W., 344. Tomb, Sylvester R., 345.
Tomb, The Family, 342. Truman, Irving L., 384.
Ulman, Moses, 465. Updegraff, Abraham, 548.
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Villinger, John W., 282.
Wallis, Samuel P., 302.
Waltz, Daniel, 33I.
Waters, Hiram J., 156.
Weaver, Byron A., 179.
Weaver, John, 457.
Wolf, John H., 200.
Wolf, The Family, 337.
Worthington, Alexander B., 76.
Wenck, Frank C., 249. Wertman, John P., 73.
Whippel, Henry, 265.
White, Asa A., 41I.
White, Ebenezer, 137.
Willard, Lucius H., 125.
Williams, Alexander S., 82.
Williamsport Sun, 435. Willits, I. L., 346. Wilson, Albert, 447.
Wolf, Benjamin G., 337.
Wolf, Benjamin T., 338.
Wolf, James M., 261.
Welshans, Charles, 313.
Yorks, Henry E., 243.
Young, John M., 176. Youngman, Samuel L., 308.
Zellers, Elmer B., 116. Zellers, Samuel L., 115.
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ONE BRANCH OF THE PEASLEE FAMILY.
CLARENCE LOOMIS PEASLEE-GENEALOGICAL LINE.
I. Joseph Peaslee, (1612 ?- 1660.)
II. Dr. Joseph Peaslee, ( 1646-1734).
III. John Peaslee, ( 1679-1752).
IV. Ebenezer Peaslee, (1716-).
V. Rev. Isaac Peaslee, ( 1751-1814).
VI. Rev. Thomas Peaslee, ( 1782-1857).
VII. Joseph Babcock Peaslee, (1810-1882).
VIII. Rev. Isaac Dorman Peaslee, (1840).
IX. Clarence Loomis Peaslee, (1871).
BIBLIOGRAPHY. The history of the members of the Peaslee family is found in various records, among them being Chase's "History of Haverhill"; Coffin's "Newbury"; Merrill's "Amesbury"; Bouton's "Concord"; and "New Hampshire State Papers"; Pickard's "Life of John Greenleaf Whittier"; and "Part One" of Hoyt's "Old Families"; Record of Friends Monthly Meeting at Haverhill, Amesbury, New York, Oblong and other localities; Kimball's "The Peaslees and Others of Haverhill and Vicinity"; and ancient and original family papers and records in the possession of George F. Beede of Fremont, New Hamp- shire, Thomas Peaslee of Stamford, New York, and Clarence Loomis Peaslee of Williamsport, Pennsylvania; the records of Haverhill, Ames- bury and Methuen; also the Probate Records and Essex Registry of
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Deeds at Salem, Massachusetts; also the "Sketch Book," by Rev. Will- iam C. Smith of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., published in 1859 by Pelton and Porter, New York; Edward P. Cheyney's "Anti-Rent Agitation in New York," ( Philadelphia 1887, being No. 2 of the Political Economy and Public Law Series, published by University of Penna. ) ; Jay Gould's "Delaware County"; Barnard's "Rensselaerswyck"; Jenkin's "Silas Wright"; D. D. Brainard in American Whig Review, 1840, II., 577; New Englander IV., 92; A. J. Colvin's "Review of Anti-Rent Decis- ions" ; J. Fenimore Cooper's "Little Page Tales"; Roberts' "History of New York" in the American Commonwealth's Series, edited by Horace E. Scudder, Vol. II., Chapter XXXV ; also "New York in the Revolution, as a Colony and State," by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, second edition published in Albany, N. Y. in 1898, page 242; New York State Records at Albany, New York; Records of Civil War at Washington, D. C .; "Catalogue of the Records of or relating to New York Yearly Meetings, and their Subordinate Branches," by John Cox, Jr., New York; "Manuscripts of the Colony and State of New York in the Revolutionary War."
THE ORIGIN. The Peaslee family sprang from the granite-ribbed and historic soil of Massachusetts, and its various members, now scat- tered throughout the states of the Union, continue to reflect the positive and independent characteristics of the early New England ancestors. Its members have been distinguished in the arts and in the professions. In poetry, its most illustrious representative is John Greenleaf Whittier. Its roll of honor numbers two governors of the state of New Hamp- shire, two governors of the state of Maine, two United States senators from Maine, a secretary of the United States Treasury, the chief-jus- tice of the state of Massachusetts, and several members of the national house of representatives. In the science of medicine, few men have
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attained higher place than Dr. Edmund Randolph Peaslee, late of New York city, and the bench of New England is now graced by Judge Robert J. Peaslee of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Judge Frederick M. Peaslee of Waterbury, Connecticut. An almost uninterrupted line of clergymen, lawyers and physicians extends from the original and pioneer ancestor, who settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1636, while the family has also produced educators, business men and farmers, who have been active and prominent in the communities in which they re- sided. In the field of education is John Bradley Peaslee, who was su- perintendent of public instruction of Cincinnati, Ohio, for sixteen years, and is a lecturer and author of note, and in the marts of business is James Carr Peaslee of Chicago, Illinois, who is the treasurer of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
The Peaslee Family has furnished its full quota of soldiers to the Revolutionary army, as well as to the war of the Rebellion, and its in- tense religious convictions are reflected from the notable execution of Susanna North Martin for witchcraft at Salem in 1692, down through the exciting early struggles of the Quakers and the Methodists, in which its members bore a prominent part. In that short but decisive struggle for justice and human liberty, waged in eastern New York, and known to history as "The Anti-Rent War," Thomas Peaslee, the "Anti-Rent- er," was a distinguished leader, and to his fearlessness in the field and his sane and wise counsel in debate, may be largely attributed the suc- cessful result of the strife in Schoharie county.
The Peaslee Family has spelled the name variously as "Peaselee." "Peasely," "Peasle," "Peaslee," "Peasley," "Peaslie." "Peasly," "Persley," "Peslee," "Peisley" (Irish), and "Paisley" (Scotch). These variations are more numerous in the first and second generations, the
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later generations choosing either "Peaslee" or "Peasley," and the ma- jority of the present generation spell the name "Peaslee."
(I.) JOSEPH PEASLEE, THE FOUNDER OF THE FAMILY IN AMERICA. Whoever opens for examination the old book of town records of Hav- erhill, Massachusetts, will find on one of its first pages, "Joseph Peasley & Mary, Joseph born Sept. 9, 1646," and further investigation will dis- close repeated mention of the name of Joseph Peaslee, father and son, through the records of three-quarters of a century.
The immigrant ancestor, Joseph Peaslee, came to this country at or about the same time as Edmund Johnson, who left England in 1635. Prior to his emigration he married Mary Johnson, in Wales. She was the daughter of a farmer, who was possessed of a considerable wordly estate, and lived in the western part of England, near the river Severn, adjoining Wales.
The first mention of Joseph Peaslee in America is found in the records of Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1641. He took the oath of freeman, June 22, 1642. This oath was enacted as a law in 1634, and was as follows: "I do solemnly bind myself, that I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge to mine own conscience may best conduce to the public weal; So help me God." Joseph Peaslee received a grant of land in Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 14, 1645, and his name ap- pears in a list of thirty-two landholders of Haverhill in 1645. He re- ceived grants of land from 1645 to 1656, when divisions of land were made by vote of the town of Haverhill. He was a successful farmer, a man of eminent respectability, possessed of a strong character, a self- educated physician of much repute, and was often mentioned in the old records as "a preacher and gifted brother." His most illustrious descendant, the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier, speaks of him as the "brave confessor."
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Joseph Peaslee was one of the commissioners for the settlement of claims, and served as selectman of Haverhill in the years 1649-'50 and '53. The part of Salisbury to which Joseph and Mary Peaslee removed from Haverhill, was given the name of Amesbury, from which was granted Newtown (now Newton), New Hampshire. He laid out the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, in company with Thomas Whittier. He was made a townsman of Salisbury "Newtown," now Amesbury, Massachusetts, July 17, 1656, and was granted twenty acres of upland, bought of Thomas Macy, and ten acres of meadow, "at the pond," for which the town agreed to pay six pounds to Thomas Macy. In divis- ions of land in Salisbury "Newtown," now Amesbury, in 1656-'57 and '58, Joseph Peaslee received liberal shares.
The term "Townsman" meant a legally recognized inhabitant, en- titled to vote and participate in town affairs. The organization of the early settlers blended the state and church in the term "General Court," in order to bring and keep in subordination to the Puritan notions of church government all who might take undue liberty among the set- tlers. They came to the wilderness to enjoy their own religious liberty, but not to allow religious freedom to any who differed from them. The inhabitants of the "Newtown" neglected to attend meetings for worship in the "Old Town," and failed to contribute to the support of the min- ister. They held meetings for worship at private houses, and, in the absence of a minister, Joseph Peaslee and Thomas Macy officiated as such.
The "General Court" soon noticed the deviation from the estab- lished order, and thereupon decreed that all the inhabitants of the "New- town" should attend the meetings for the worship of God at the "Old Town," and contribute to the support of the minister, and later. all who failed to attend, unless they had a reasonable excuse, were fined. The
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fine was five shillings each for every offense, and five shillings addi- tional fine to Joseph Peaslee and Thomas Macy if they exhorted the people in the absence of a minister. The people, under the leadership of Mr. Peaslee and Mr. Macy, did not heed the orders of the "General Court," but continued to hold meetings, and Mr. Peaslee and Mr. Macy continued to preach. In 1658 the "General Court" ordered Joseph Peaslee and Thomas Macy to personally appear before the next term of said court, to answer for their disobedience to authority. This man- damus was not heeded. Joseph Peaslee continued to preach, and at the next term of the "General Court" he was fined five shillings per week for his disobedience.
Joseph Peaslee would be termed a "Comeoutee," meaning a person who differed from the established church in his religious convictions or practices. He began to preach before or as early as George Fox, in England, the founder of the Quakers.
The First Friends or Quakers in New England were missionaries from England. Four men and six women came over in 1656. They were sent to jail in Boston, and after about eleven weeks' stay were sent back. The master of the ship, Robert Lock, "being compelled to carry them back on his own charge, and to land them nowhere but in England, having been imprisoned till he undertook so to do." In 1659 Thomas Macy was persecuted and fined for allowing four Friends or Quakers, on a journey, to take shelter one rainy day, about three- quarters of an hour, in his house. This episode is fitly commemorated by the poet Whittier in the stirring verses entitled "The Exiles."
There has been found no evidence to show that Joseph Peaslee was a Friend or Quaker, and no society of that order was established in New England before his death. If he had been a Quaker, or even entertained a Quaker in his house for an hour, he would have been per-
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secuted and fined the same as Thomas Macy in 1659. His son, Dr. Joseph Peaslee, joined the Society of Friends, and many of his descend- ants were and now are members of that religious denomination.
Joseph Peaslee and Thomas Macy appear to have been the leaders of the "Salisbury Newtown" people in their determination not to attend meetings for worship in Salisbury, but to hold meetings of their own in the "Newtown."
Joseph Peaslee and his wife, Mary Johnson Peaslee, were the par- ents of five children, as follows :
I. Jane, who became the wife of John Davis, December 10, 1646, and settled at "Oyster River," Dover, now Durham, New Hampshire.
2. Mary, who married William Sawyer, and resided in Newbury, Massachusetts.
3. Elizabeth, evidently unmarried.
4. Sarah, married Thomas Barnard, Jr., April 12, 1664, and re- sided at Amesbury, Massachusetts.
5. Joseph Peaslee, Jr., mentioned in a following paragraph.
Joseph Peaslee, the immigrant, died at Salisbury "Newtown," De- cember 3, 1660. He made his will November 11, 1660, which, with the inventory of his estate, is on file at the probate court records office at Salem, Massachusetts. His wife, Mary Peaslee, was made execu- trix of his will. The personal estate was appraised at one hundred and forty-three pounds, five shillings, and the real estate at two hundred and twenty-one pounds.
In 1662 the widow, Mary Peaslee, was granted one hundred and eight acres of land in Salisbury "Newtown." The administration of her estate was granted September 27, 1694, to her son, Joseph Peaslee, Jr. Her death occurred in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1694.
In the town of Newton, New Hampshire, near the Junction, in
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The first Quaker meetings in this part of the country were held at the residence of Dr. Joseph Peaslee, and the memories of the "Old Peaslee Garrison House" are kept green by the annual reunions of the "Peaslee Kindred," held in August at Plaistow, New Hampshire.
In 1686, Dr. Joseph Peaslee, with a score of others, was charged with trespassing upon the "Town's ways and common lands by fencing them in." The following year he was chosen constable, and was obliged to perform for the whole town all the work of "warning meet- ings and gathering rates." In 1677 he took the oath of allegiance and fidelity, at Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1692 he was "granted the privilege of erecting a saw mill at the head of East Meadow river upon the stream by or near Brandy Brow." The mill was built the following year, and for one hundred and fifty years was owned wholly or in part by persons of the Peaslee name, the descendants of Dr. Joseph Peaslee. He was also a large land holder by grants, inheritance and purchase. He was a noted physician, a "husbandman" or "yeoman." held many public offices, and was much in public life. He was a selectman of Haverhill in 1689, 1690 and 1698. In 1706 he was chosen one of a committee to examine the claims of persons to the common lands, of which he received a share in 1721, and in 1721 he was elected for the second time to the office of constable.
In 1699, when the town voted "that the new meeting-house should in the future be the place where the people should worship God," then "Joseph Peaslee immediately moved that the town allow him and oth- ers to meet at the meeting-house for and in their way of worship-which is accounted to be for Quakers; it was read and refused to be voted upon," whereupon, not being allowed to worship with his sect in the new house, Mr. Peaslee opened his own doors, and in his house the Friends met, holding there the first meetings of the society in this part of the
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country. In this house crowds were wont to assemble at their quarterly meetings, coming from neighboring towns to listen to addresses made by the most notable speakers of the sect. It was the home and place for meetings when traveling Friend ministers were visiting the settlement of Friends in that locality for three generations.
Dr. Joseph Peaslee married (first) January 21, 1671, Ruth Bar- nard, born October 16, 1651, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor M. Barnard, the former named having been one of the first settlers of Ames- bury. Thomas Barnard was killed by the Indians about the year 1677. Subsequently his widow, Eleanor M. Barnard, became the wife of George Little of Newbury, Massachusetts. The children of Dr. Joseph Peaslee and Ruth (Barnard) Peaslee were eight, as follows :
I. Mary, born in Amesbury, July 14, 1672; married May 24, 1694, to Joseph Whittier, youngest son of Thomas and Ruth (Green) Whittier, and they were the lineal ancestors of John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet, the said Mary Peaslee being his great-grandmother.
2. Joseph, born July 19, 1674; removed in 1732 to Haverhill, West Parish, later to Methuen, Massachusetts, now Salem, New Hamp- shire, and settled on three hundred and sixty acres of land originally granted to Joseph Peaslee, the first. He was a prominent man, and his name often appears in the colonial and town papers of New Hampshire. He married Elizabeth Hastings.
3. Robert, born February 3, 1677; resided on the homestead; he was a wealthy mill and land-owner; at one time he was the owner of two slaves, and was prominent in church and town affairs. He appears as grantor or grantee in more than one hundred deeds of land located in Essex county, Massachusetts. , He married (first) Alice Currier, and (second) Ann Sargent. His four daughters married merchants of
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Salem and Boston, and his grandson, Peaslee Collins, was graduated from Harvard University, February 12, 1729.
4. John, born February 25, 1679, and mentioned in a following paragraph.
5. Nathaniel, born June 25, 1682; was a resident of Haverhill; appears as grantor or grantee in more than one hundred deeds of land located in Essex county, Massachusetts ; held for a long time the highest office in the town, and was for nine years representative in the general state assembly. He and his brother Robert, above mentioned, were members of the famous "Land Syndicate," of four hundred members, the record of whose grants and transactions, including law suits, would fill many volumes. Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent, son-in-law of Nathan- iel Peaslee, was chief-justice of Massachusetts and made a fortune as a lawyer for the syndicate. Nathaniel Peaslee married (first) Judith Kimball; (second) Mrs. Abiah Swan, and (third) Mrs. Martha Hutchins.
6. Ruth, born February 25, 1684, married Samuel Clement.
7. Ebenezer, born March 29, 1688, and died April 11, 1689.
8. Sarah, born August 15, 1690. Married Captain Ebenezer Eastman.
Ruth Barnard Peaslee, mother of these children, died November 5, I723.
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