- See The Great Migration, Vol 5, M-P, page 419, for a detailed life sketch of this John Pease's father, Robert Pease. Source is attached in Memories and summarized here.
This John's father, Robert, was born about 1607, son of Robert Pease of Great Baddow, Essex. He gave a deposition in 1634 which stated he was then 27 years of age.
Robert married by 1630 Lydia. With wife Lydia he had:
1. Robert Pease
2. John Pease (this John). John was baptized 11 February 1631/2 in Great Baddow, Essex. He married first by 1654 Mary Goodale, daughter of Robert Goodale, and second Anne Cummings, daughter of Isaac Cummings.
By about 1639 Robert married Mary, last name unknown. With Mary, Robert had:
3. Nathaniel Pease
4. Sarah Pease
5. Mary Pease, wife of Nathaniel Carrell.
The marriage record between John Pease and Mary Goodell did not survive, but there is good, primary, original proof that this Mary Goodell married John Pease. In The Great Migration series, Anderson quotes a deed of 7 November 1682 where "John Pease Senior, aged about 53 years, saith...the land that my father-in-law Goodell..." They likely married about 1653 as their oldest known child was born in 1654, and probably where the bride's family was living at the time, which was Salem, as was customary in those days.
John and Mary have several children listed in Salem vital records:
Pease, John, s. John and Mary, 20: 3m: 1654. CTR
Pease, Robert, s. John and Mary, 14: 3m: 1656. CTR
Pease, Margaret, d. John and Mary, Oct. 8, 1658. CTR
Pease, Abraham, s. John and Mary, 5: 4m: 166-. CTR [1662. TC]
Peas, Mary, d. John, bp. 5: 3m: 1667.
Pease, Jonathan, s. John and Mary, Jan. 2, 1668. CTR
There is an attached source below for a Mary born in 1658 the same day as Margaret above was born. It looks like what happened is that in the original record, the name looks like "Marg" so it was identified as Margaret by one set of indexers, and by Mary by another set. Obviously, if there was a Mary born in 1658, they wouldn't have named the daughter baptized in 1667 Mary as well.
From "Three Mary Peases of Salem, Massachusetts..." by Ian Watson, published in The American Genealogist, volume 70, 205 - 208: "Robert's son John ...had a daughter named Mary, born 8 October 1658. Savage, Frederick S. Pease, and A.S. Pease all called her Mary. But the compiler of the published Salem vital records misread her name as "Marg" and extrapolated that to "Marg[aret]"...Most Pease historians since the publication of the Salem vital records have copied this error. But an examination of the original record at the Essex Institute in Salem ... shows conclusively that the entry reads "Mary"...As further confirmation, John's probate shows that he had a daughter Mary living in 1690, but no Margaret...And a Mary Pease was one of four children of John Pease baptized at Salem in 1667 in order by age...Many other pieces of evidence show that John Pease had a daughter Mary but no daughter Margaret."
So in total, I think it is safe to say that John and Mary had five known children:
1. John Pease - 1654
2. Robert Pease - 1656
3. Mary Pease - 1658
4. Abraham Pease - 1662
5. Jonathan Pease - 1668
Unfortunately, Mary died a few days after her youngest son Jonathan was born. Her death is listed in Salem vital records. John remarried after her death (Ann Cummings) and had three more known children:
6. James - 1670
7. Isaac - 1672
8. Abigail - 1675
Although all of John's children with his second wife have birth records in Salem, it appears that he moved the whole family to Enfield, Connecticut about 1682. All of his children have death records there.
Enfield was originally settled in 1679 by settlers from Salem, Massachusetts. Enfield was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1683 as the Freshwater Plantation. Around 1700 the town changed its name to Enfield after Enfield Town in Middlesex. In 1749, following the settlement of a lawsuit in which it was determined that a surveyor's error placed a section of present-day Hartford County (including Enfield) within the boundaries of Massachusetts, the town seceded and became part of Connecticut. So actually the whole time that this John lived there, it was still part of Massachusetts.
See "MEMORIES Section" Area Here On John Pease Page For PROOF Under "3. Mary (Margaret) Pease". The Three Mary's Pease Of Salem, Massachusetts. John Pease & Mary Goodale/Goodell Had A Mary Pease 1658-1737 Who Married Hugh Pasco 1640-1706
NO DAUGHTER NAMED MARGARET PEASE Born To John Pease & Mary Goddale/Goddell
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