Person:Maurice Pleas-Place (1)

ALT spelling of name: In the book "Names of Persons for whom marriage licenses were Issued" his name is spelled: Maurice Pleas.

From Judy Place Maggiore: "Maurice moved to Dutchess County, NY, and served in the Revolution but left for North Carolina just before 1800 where he presumably died. Two of his sons, Isaac and William, owned 15,000 acres in the Dismal Swamp area where the canal was built and wherre they were involved in the timber and shingle industry. . . . Maurice was a Major in the Rev. War with the 5th Regiment, and he also held many positions in the township of Beekman. . . . Issac's father, Maurice Pleas, was a Major in the Revolutionary War over the 5th Regiment at Fort Constitution until about 1777. He was most likely the son of William and Zerviah (Brotherton) Pleas, born 1742 in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. The Pleas family lived in the Huntington/Centerport/Northport area. In fact, the brother of Maurice, William Pleas/Place, from whom I am descended, is buried there at the old cemetery. I have visited his grave. He lived to be 90. Also from Judy Place Maggiore: "Maurice married (first) Jerusha Jackson on 29 October 1766, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Hallett) Jackson. He moved to the Clove area of Beekman in Dutchess County by 1772 and served as town clerk for many years, and held various other offices in the town government. About 1800 he left NY and went to the Symon's Creek area of Pasquotank County, NC, to go into the lumber business, as recorded in the Quaker records with Issac's information who joined his father there."

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1.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
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2.   Message Board, Nassau County, NY.