"10. James Pease,4 (John,3, John,2, Robert,1 second son of John and Margaret (Adams) Pease, was born at Salem 1679, and removed with his father from Salem to Enfield, an infant. He married Mary Abbe, daughter of Thomas [John] Abbe, 1710, and settled in Somers. He seems to have commenced operations in Somers by way of improvement, as early as 1713, and is said to have spent his summers there, and his winters in their old settlement at Enfield, until 1717. He was one of the first settlers, if not the first, of what is now Somers, and died there."
