Person:David Peaslee (1)

Marriage(s)

The Vital Records of Amesbury (Mass) and the Kimball's "Peaslee and Others" provide the name and dates for a marriage to Rachel Straw in 1742. The History of Sutton does not mention this marriage and gives "David Peaslee, of Sandown" a wife, Rachel Bean, March 18, 1743. Worthen, adds "David Peaslee married a sister of Samuel Bean.." This date is 13 months after the recorded marriage to Rachel Straw. It is possible then that David had two marriages, the first wife perhaps dying in child birth. A record of this 1743 marriage has not yet been found. Births of children to David Peaslee and a wife Rachel have been found in "New Hampshire Births, Early to 1900."

Residences

David Peaslee is identified as the original settler of Sutton, NH, arriving with his son Samuel, and their families in 1767, in what was then called Perrystown.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 David Peaslee, in Worthen, Augusta H. (Augusta Harvey), and Erastus Wadleigh. The history of Sutton, New Hampshire: consisting of the historical collections of Erastus Wadleigh and A.H. Worthen. (Concord, New Hampshire: Republican Press Association, 1890)
   1:33, 34; 2:857-863.

   (1:33, 34) David Peaslee married a sister of Samuel Bean, 1st, and settled at the base of Kimball's hill, known as Downing Corner. He had a family of eight sons and several daughters, one of whom married Capt. Ephraim Hildreth. David Peaslee was the ancestor of the Peaslees now living in town. He died about the first of the present century.
   (p 857, 858) David Peaslee, of Sandown, m. March 18, 1743, Rachel Bean. Children, b. in Sandown.
   (p 863) David Peaslee, of Sandown, the first actual settler in Perrystown, came in the autumn of 1767, and was soon followed by his many sons. He settled at what was afterwards called "Peaslee's Corner," at the foot of Kimball's hill, north of the John Eaton residence. The sons all set tied in this town. Concerning these men, father and sons, it was said of them by those who knew and remembered them, that they were all men of honor and honesty, were strong, well made, most of them being six feet tall. They all became owners of farms, and made them valuable by their energy and industry ; nevertheless they were more fond of hunting than husbandry. Indeed, some of them were perfect Nimrods. It is not improbable that to this special proclivity they are indebted for the honor of being the first settlers in the wilds of Perrystown.
   
   David Peaslee, the father, died probably about 1800. One of his sons gave his age, at the time of his death, as 87. His widow died at a very great age.

2. ↑ Peaslee, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)
   1:247.

   Peaslee, __, ch. John and Mary (Martin), [born] 2 Apr 1713

3. ↑ John Peaslee, in Kimball, Emma Adeline. The Peaslees and others of Haverhill and vicinity. (Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of Chase Bros., 1899)
   p 26.

   "At the time of David's birth, the family has moved to a "new town of Amesbury, now Newton, N.H. It is said that Joseph [David's grandfather] built for his son John [David's father] a house a few miles beyond the mill at the head of East meadow river, on the King's highway, near its junction with the Plaistow road, where he settled about 1713. His son Moses was born there [Newton NH], in 1714."
   
   The one unnamed in Haverhill record was David.

4. ↑ It would seem that David was born at or about the time of their removal to Newton, NH and it is highly probable that the name given to their son born in 1713 was not conveyed to Haverhill town officials, as they were no longer within their jurisdiction, but that of Amesbury. The published VR of Amesbury, makes not mention of these births.