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m. 17 Feb 1794
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PETER EDMUNDS V.B. after his baptism and his school appearance at Kingston is next encountered at Plattekill church, where on Feb. 17, 1794, he m. Marytje, b. May 22, 1770, dau. of Abr. Low and Rachel De Witt. They lived at Woodstock, N. Y. — he buys property there on June 30, 1814. Much earlier he is found signing a petition to the Rev. Classis of Ulster for a regular church at Woodstock; and on May 26, 1808, he and Maria are received into that church "on confession of faith." On Mar. 22, 1812, he is selected deacon, before Mar. 5, 1818, he is found acting as elder, and in Mar., 1820, he is elected elder, all in this Woodstock church. Peter is said to have died some twenty years earlier than his wife, but his burial place is unknown. Maria died in 1846 at the home of her daughter Rachel Riseley, and is buried in an old graveyard half way between Kingston and Woodstock on the left hand side of the road. References
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