Person:Peter Garland (15)

His origins are uncertain but was probably from the Devon branch of the Sussex family. He died testate and it is clear he had two wives Grace and Joan. Peter Garland was the husband of the Joan (Unknown) Garland. Both John Moone and William Wilson call him son-in-law. So it would appear Mary, Prudence and Abigail are Peter Garland's wife's children but not his. None of these three children are named in Peter Garland's 1694 will. The children named in his will are Samuel, Sarah, John, Deborah and Ann. There are no other children named in probate records or recorded in vital records.

1.   Sources.

   These two sources are for Peter Garland the immigrant:
   
   The Great Migration Directory p 128: Garland, Peter: Unknown; 1626; Casco, Charlestown, Dover, Saco [Trelawny 239; ChTR 27, 29, 33, 36, 38, 42; ChBOP 46; Lechford 60-61; NHPP 10:701, 40:17; GDMNH 254].
   
   Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939), 254.
   GARLAND. One Peter G. had ch. bap. at Northam, co. Devon, 1601-1615. Ano. Peter, s. of Christopher, was bap. there 1613. See Briar (6)
   
   Garland: 8 PETER, dep. in Saco Ct. 18 Sept. 1640 that he had freq. Casco Riv. ab. 14 yrs. A mariner with N. Y. connections, he was of Charlest. 1637, Boston 1638, Dover 1640. Walter Abbott (5) his atty. in N. H. 1645. Lists 21, 351b, 71. One Peter and w. Joan had dau. Mary rec. Bost. 1654. Peter a Mystic Side abuttor in 1662. Robt. Wyar and John Garland, called boys, and two girls were in Mass. Ct., 1643.

2.   Garland, James Gray. Garland genealogy : the descendants (the northern branch) of Peter Garland, mariner, admitted resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, in 1637. (Biddeford, Me.: Watson's Illuminator Print, 1897).

   This is a very poor source. The author proposes a catch all Peter Garland who came from England to Virginia and New England and was father to the immigrants to New England John, Peter and Gorge Garland. In fact we know nothing of the parentage or relationships of any of these immigrants. Although GDMNH does presume they are of the branch of Northam, Devon, England.

3.   Chapman, Blanche Adams. Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800: Reprinted in an Improved format With a Consolidated Index By Jessica Budick and Anita Comtois. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975).

   Nov 10 1665: William Wilson having died intestate, Peter Garland requests administration in the right of Mary, Prudence and Abigail, daughters of his late wife, Joan Garland, the sister of the said William Wilson. Security: John Pitt & Richard Penny. Recorded Jan 19 1666.The will of John Moone dated Aug 12 1655 includes the following:"...To Joan Garland my wife's daughter or her child if living the year after my decease; William Wilson, my wife's son; Peter Garland my wife's son-in-law."
   
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   September 9, 1694: Will of Peter Garland. "In ye name of God amen ye 6th day of September 1694, I Peter Garland of ye Isle of Wight County being very sick & weak in boddy, but of sound & perfect memory (praise be to Almighty God for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of this life upon earth & being desirous to sett things in order. Doe make this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form following, that is to say, first & principally I commend my soule to Almighty God my creator assuredly believing yt I shall receive full pardon & remission of all my sinns, & be saved by ye pressious death & merritts of my blessed Savior & Redeemer Christ Jesus, & by boddy to ye earth from whence it was taken, to buried in such desent & Christian manner as to my Exer, hereafter named shall be thought most convenient. & as touching such worldly estate as ye Lord in mercy hath lent me, my will & meaning is that same shall be employed & bestowed as follows hereafter by this my will is expressed. & first I denounce, frustrate & make void all Wills by me formerly made. & declare & appoint this my last will & testament. I give & bequeath unto my loving wife Grace Garland all my Cattle & household goods. I doe give & bequeath unto my son Samll Garland two hundred acres of my land, to him, & his heires for Ever. I doe give to my son Jno Garland one hundred acres of my land to him, & his heires for Ever. I doe give & bequeath to my three daughters Sarrah, Deborah, & Anna ye rest of my land being one hundred, fifty seven acres to them & their heires for Ever to be equally devided betweene them, Sarrah & Deborah to have their shares when their husbands named doe dresst yt is Wm. Mecone, William Daniell, & I doe appoint my loving Wife, & my son Samuell my whole Executors to this my Will.
   
   My will is that my sonnes Samuell & Jno Garland, & my sonenes in law Wm. Mecone, & Wm. Daniell doe pay 400 of Toba a year to my said loving wife during her naturall Life, in confirmation hereof, I have hereunto sett my hand & seal ye day and year above written.
   
   Jno Gales Jno I. Turby
   
   Recorded Chas. Chapman",

4.   Chapman, Blanche Adams. Isle of Wight County marriages, 1628-1800. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).

   Peter Garland III was born 1630 in Braunton (Devonshire) England & died September 7, 1694 in (Isle of Wight) VA. He was married 2 times. Peter's 1st wife was Joan (possibly Wilson) married second to Grace.