- BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO THE ABBE FAMILY, CHECK OUT THE ABBE-ABBEY GENEALOGY, IN MEMORY OF JOHN ABBE AND HIS DESCENDANTS ( Abbe--Abbey genealogy : in memory of John Abbe and his descendants BY Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916; Nichols, josephine Genung) ON THIS SYSTEM
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Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants on pages 17 & 18 states: 10. MARY (3) ABBE, daughter of John (2) and Hannah ( ) Abbe, born in Wenham, Mass., September 16, 1684; baptized there before 1685. Lived in Somers and Enfield.
Some authorities have given Mary, wife of James Pease, as the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Fairfield) Abbe of Enfield. But Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah, died in Wenham, Mass., October 15, 1705 (Wenham Vital Records). Moreover, Richard Abbe, son of John and Hannah ( ) Abbe, in his will mentions his sister Mary, ye wife of James Pease. Her mother divided land belonging to her first husband, John Abbe, among his children, June 16, 1710, using these words,'' moved by the love and affection I bore to my beautiful daughter Mary Abbe.''
Married November (or October) 15, 1710, JAMES PEASE, born in Salem, Mass., 1677 or 1679, son of John, jr., and Margaret (Adams) Pease. The first of the Pease family in America was Robert, who married Marie________ , father of John Pease, Sr., called the FATHER OF ENFIELD. John Pease, Sr., married Mary Goodell and had a son, Captain John Pease, jr., a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, served in the Colonial Wars, and married Margaret Adams, daughter of James and Frances (Vassall) Adams.
James Adams was a son of John Adams, who came to the Plymouth Colony in the ship Fortune in 1621, and liis wife Eleanor Newton. James Pease removed with his father to Enfield when he was a child, was living in Enfield in 1710, and in Somers in 1713. He served as sergeant in one of the military companies.
Children, born in Enfield:
1 - Mary Pease, b. Oct. 8, 1711.
2 - James Pease, b. May 4, 1713 ; m. Abigail Ford.
3 - Margaret Pease, b. May 16, 1715.
4 - Richard Pease, b. Sept. 22, 1717 ; m. Elizabeth Parsons.
5 - Hannah Pease, b. April 20, 1722.
6 - John Pease, b. June 19, 1725 ; d. July 25, 1730.
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