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Of Newbury 1641; freeman 1642; landholder in Haverhill in 1645. 10Hewas made a "townsman" of Amesbury in 1656, recieved land there in 1656and 1658. Joseph came from England in 1638 and first settled in Newbury MA; thento Salisbury in 1641, and was one of the 32 landowners in Haverhill,MA in 1645. While he was residing in East Salisbury, he fell out offavor with the established church and moved out of it's jurisdictionto west of the Powow river in what is known as Amesbury Mills. Hecontinued to have problems with the East Salisbury church who extendedtheir jurisdiction, forcing Joseph and others to move farther west andmaking a permanent settlement in Haverhill, in that part which was inMA before the state line was established in1741. He was a Quaker andcontinued to be prohibited by the Puritans in practicing his belief.Joseph, a successful farmer, owned a large amount of property both inSalisbury and Haverhill. On Nov. 11, 1660 his will was written: The last Will and Testament of Josef Peasly is that my debts shall bepayedout of my Estate and the remainder estate----my debts being payedI doo give and bequeath unto Mary my wiff During her life and I doo mydaffter Sara all my hous and lands that I have at Salisbury and I doogive unto Josef my sonne all my land that I have upon the plain atHaverhil and doo give unto Josef my sonne all my medo ling in Eastmedo at Haverhil and doo give unto Josef my sonne five shares of thecommon rites that doo belong to me on the plain. I doo give unto mydaffter Elizabeth my fourty fower acres of upland ling westwards ofHaverhil and doo give unto my dattfer Elizabeth fower acres and a halfof medo ling in the---- at Haverhil and doo allso give my daffterElizabeth fower of the common rites that doo belong to the plain anddoo give unto daffter Jean fower shillings and to my daffter MaryFower shillings. I doo give unto Sara Saier my grandchild my uplandand medo ling in -----medo. And I doo give unto my sonne Josef all the remainder of my land atHaverhil which is not herein disposed of. I doo allso make Mary mywiff my Soule executrer and doo allso leave Josef my sonne and theestate I have given him to my wiff to poss on till Josef my sonne betwenty years of age. http://genforum.genealogy.com/peaslee/messages/172.html My father and I have done some research on our original ancestor'sorigins in England, and more importantly we found a couple people inEngland who were much better at looking up old records than we were.Over the past 10 years we have put together a set of circumstantialbits of evidence that point to Joseph Peaslee's lineage in Englandprior to 1635. There are several assumptions we have to make and about20 years of his life still missing from documents before his arrivalin New England, but I think this is a much more plausible explainationthan the current Lord Calvert connection that one sees on the webseveral places. While a William Peasley did marry Anne Calvert, he ismuch more likely to be directly related to a southern branch of thePeasley/Peaslee/Peaseley family that settled in the Virginia coloniesas early as 1629. Lord Calvert and his family being strong catholics,it is unlikely that the protestant Joseph (who was fined for preachingwithout a license in Boston around 1640) would be a closerelative...perhaps a first or second cousin at best. I offer thefollowing set of stories written as our best guess at the moment ofour ancestry in England. Sorry it is so long-winded, but it does makefor interesting reading I hope... ============= While the connection between the original Joseph and ancestors inEngland/Wales has never been absolutely confirmed, my father and Ihave stumbled upon some rather convincing evidence that he was the sonof a Robert and Jane Peaslee, born in Chipping-Sodbury,Gloucestershire, England, around 1598. The summary of some of ourrecords is listed here: JOHN PEASLEE, SADDLER OF BRISTOL The Bristol Records Office has documents [1] showing that one JohnPeasly/Peasley/Peaseley, saddler of Bristol, took a number ofapprentices in the decade 1532-42. For about the first half of thisperiod, his wife was Agnes; later it was Edith. Ten years later, in1551/52, a saddler in Chipping Sodbury named Robert Peasley sent hisson Christopher [1] as apprentice to an apothecary. Subsequentsaddlers in Chipping Sodbury were William Peaslie, his son (another)Robert Peasley, and his son Joseph Peasley who was born around 1600and is likely to be the Joseph who emigrated to New England in1630-40. Arguments can be made [2] that the first Robert Peasley inChipping-Sodbury came originally from Hambrook in Winterbourne parish,where he probably had a younger brother John. No direct link toWilliam, the next saddler in Chipping Sodbury, is now known; but itseems reasonable to suppose that he was a fairly close relative - say,either a son or nephew (Robert of Hambrook apparently had at least oneother brother, Thomas). Since saddlery in Chipping Sodbury seems to have been such a closefamily affair, one is tempted to wonder whether there was a similarlink to the vigorous saddler John Peasley of Bristol. In thisconnection, it should be noted that one John Peseley appears in therecords of Sturden Manor [3] as a tenant who died in about 1562without repairing his cow-house. The most likely scenario with such linkage probably assigns theBristol saddler John to be the younger brother of the original Robert,father of Robert of Chipping Sodbury and his brother John. This olderJohn of Hambrook could have been born about 1485 and been wellestablished in Bristol by 1530: in fact, successful enough to attracthis nephew Robert to his service. In about 1530 Robert struck out forhimself, first returning to Hambrook/Winterbourne and then proceedingto Chipping Sodbury. The death of John's first wife Agnes in about1535 suggests an advanced age for those times, and John himself nolonger appears in the records after 1542. In this account the John Peseley in Sturden Manor appears as Robert ofChipping Sodbury's younger brother. THE PEASLEES OF CHIPPING-SODBURY The survey "Men and Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 "includes forChipping-Sodbury one Robert Peasely, sadler, with a notation to showthat his age was nearer 20 than 40 years. Also listed is JohnWilliams, mercer, with an age notation closer to 40 than 20. Robert's will in the PCC is dated May, l6l7: probate granted to widowJane the following February. Widow Jane herself left a PCC will datedMay, 1618: probate granted to son Joseph in May, 1619. Since Josephwas the only son, this sequence of wills indicates that he had notattained the age of majority (21) by May, 1619, but he probably was 21by February, 1618; hence he was born in 1597/98. Robert's will is unusually explicit and orderly in distributing hisproperty: to the benefit of wife Jane "during her naturall life".Thereafter son Joseph inherits the shop with responsibilities to his 4sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Gertrude and Sarah. The detaileddevolvement of Robert's leaseholds among his daughters makes it clearthat they are listed in birth order. The only specific date now knownis in the IGI: Elizabethe Peaslye, daughter of Robte Peaslye,christened in Chipping Sodbury on 10 May, 1607. One can then guessapproximate birth years of 1602, 1610 and 1613 for Jane, Gertrude andSarah. The last known reference to Joseph Peaslee in England is from "TheContinuing Story of the Sodburys" (1972), a privately duplicatedaccount published and distributed by the author, Mr. P. A. Couzens. Onpage 104 appears the statement, "For some time prior to this year[1628] there had been premises in High Street........at Sodburyoccupied by Robert Peaslie and his son Joseph who were sadlers. Nowhowever they pass to John Williams, who has a wife Jane and a daughterSara, and whose business is that of a mercer." This is the strongestsuggestion in print that this Joseph Peaslee had picked up and leftthe Chipping-Sodbury area around 1628 despite the fact that his familyhad resided there for 100 years ?all about 10 years before a JosephPeaslee shows up in New England. We contend that Joseph resurfaces inthe records of the Massachusetts Colony between 1638 and 1641, alongwith a wife Mary and 3 daughters - Mary, Jane and Elizabeth. He now islisted as a husbandman. Sister Jane was singled out in her mother's will to receive the bestof the widow's household goods, presaging her marriage soon. Thispresumably occurred between 1620 and the passage of the shop premisesto Jane as the wife of John Williams, mercer. If this was the manmentioned in the Gloucester muster of 1608, he must have been some 30years older than his wife; it seems more likely that he was a son whohad inherited both the name and the business. Elizabeth was most likely a teenager when sister Jane was married,Joseph having departed Chipping Sodbury at that time or before. Shemay have been sent to "help out" among the numerous Peaslee cousinsand their friends in Thornbury. An Elizabeth Peaseley/Peasliewitnessed baptisms of Charles and Judith Tayer in 1635 and 1640. Gertrude was less fortunate: buried in Chipping Sodbury in 1632, shewas at most in her early 20's. Presumably she had been left with somefamily in Chipping Sodbury, perhaps one named in the wills of Robertand his wife Jane. This is another interesting connection with theJoseph Peaslee who showed up in New England. The original immigrantJoseph had four daughters and a son, and the names of the fourdaughters were Mary, Jane, Elizabeth and Sarah. Mary was his wife'sname, and the three other names of his daughters, although commonnames for that period, were the exact same three names of Joseph'ssurviving sisters. ROBERT PEASLEE,* JR.,+ FROM HAMBROOK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE The Military Survey of Gloucestershire in 1522 [1] lists for thetithing of Hambrook in the parish of Winterbourne, about 10 milesnorth-east of Bristol, the following entries among others: RobertPeseley {worth 20s}, and separately Robert Peseley {worth L 8} and sonJohn {nil worth}. The immediate reading of this is a father Robert andtwo sons - Robert, Jr., who is of age (21 in those times) and John whois not, but sufficiently mature to bear arms. Since their separationin age was probably only a few years, we can take Robert, Jr., as bornabout 1500 and John a bit later. The Bristol Records Office [2] shows that one Robert Peasley acquireda holding in Sturden, one of the 3 estates in Winterbourne, jointlywith wife Alice and son Richard. The timing and location agree wellwith the supposition that this was the same Robert, Jr. A will is extant in the Gloucestershire Record Office from one RobertPeysley who died in 1578 in Thornbury, about 20 miles north ofBristol, leaving to brother Thomas his "wearing clothes", to sonAmbrose his shop tools (but no other property), and "to Alyce my wyffeone hand-spinner which is at my wyffe's..." Alice Peasely is alsolisted [2] as an individual leaseholder in Sturden in 1554. Again thetimes and places invite identification with Robert, Jr. His wifeoutlived him, and there is some suggestion that they were separatedyears earlier. The Apprentice Rolls from the Bristol Records Office [3] include oneChristopher Peasley, son of Robert, saddler of Sodbury, apprenticed toJohn Sprynt, apothecary of Bristol in 1551/2. The Hampshire RecordsOffice has wills [4] dated 1610 from one Christopher {Peaslee},apothecary of Andover, and one dated 1625 from his son Michael, whichincidentally remarks that his father was born in Chipping Sodbury. Ifhis apprenticeship started at age 13, Christopher was born about 1538.Again it is perfectly consonant with the information above to supposethat Robert, Jr., was that saddler of Chipping Sodbury - located about10 miles northeast of Hambrook and about 15 miles east of Thornbury. * Spellings in this era were a function of the particular scribe andvary capriciously; it seems likely that even if the individual knewhow to spell his name, that could be ignored, especially in dictationof wills from a deathbed. + Distinctions like Jr., III, for different generations with the samename were a much later innovation. We use them here to separate 4generations of Robert Peaslees. {} Original document not seen, so present spelling used. From these scraps of information some outline of the man himself canbe drawn: apparently of more than usual energy and ambition, both withregards to property and social status. Names like Christopher andAmbrose sound rather upscale in a world of Roberts and Johns. Hisenergy is suggested not only by his repeated change of domicile but bythe fact that he may have fathered as many as 5 sons. A Robert{Peaslee} is on record [4] as present in Andover, Hampshire as earlyas 1582 and was buried there in 1612. The will of Christopher's sonMichael makes gifts to "the children of Uncle Robert" who thus becomesa candidate for the family position of Robert III in modern terms. Inaddition, there was a William Peeseley renting premises in SturdenManor in 1573 [5] who can be connected to the saddlery in ChippingSodbury [6] and was possibly an additional son of Robert, Jr. It is intriguing to attempt a timetable for this family. The eldestson would traditionally have borne his father's name, so a sequencelike the following suggests itself: Robert(1528), William(1531),Richard (1534 - maybe died young, as he never reappears),Christopher(1538), and Ambrose(1540+). In the early 1540's, the familywould all have been together in Chipping Sodbury; their subsequentwide dispersal suggests enterprising spirit and possible conflicts athome. REFERENCES [1] Ed. R. W. Hoyle, Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,l993. [2] Documents AC/M18/6 & 7. [3] Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, Part I, BRO 1949. [4] Reported by Mrs. Helene P. Cairns of Tipperary, Ireland. [5] Bristol Records Office, document AC/M18/4. [6] A separate treatment of William Peaslee follows. WILLIAM PEASLEE OF CHIPPING SODBURY The will of one William Peaslie of Chipping Sodbury is extant in theGloucestershire Records Office, dated 1599. In it he leaves the waresof his shop, plus some housebuilding material, to the only sonmentioned in the will. That the shop dealt in harness and waspresumably a saddlery is indicated by an instruction to pay 15s to thelorimer, who was a fabricator of metal parts essential for harnesses. How does he relate to Robert, Jr., from Hambrook, who appears to havebeen a saddler in Chipping Sodbury in 1540-50 at least? No record ofdirect connection is currently known, but circumstantial evidenceindicates a close relationship: i.e., William was probably a son ornephew: 1) His date of death is consonant with those of Robert. Jr.'s sonsChristopher and Robert III in Andover, Hampshire; 2) he named his (apparently) only son Robert (here Robert IV); 3) he followed the lead of Robert, Jr., who was the first Peasleefamily member of the Hambrook-Chipping Sodbury area known to have lefta will; 4) Robert IV named his first two daughters Jane and Elizabeth, whichare the daughters' names mentioned in Robert, Jr.'s will. This is nota very strong point, as these were the most popular women's names ofthe day. The simplest scenario at Chipping Sodbury would have been for Robert,Jr., to have taken a young family member as apprentice to thesaddler's trade. Initially this arrangement may have been amicable,but it is not clear whether it remained so through the eventual splitof Robert, Jr., to Thornbury with William remaining in ChippingSodbury. Indeed, the quarter century 1550-75 reads as a rather turbulent onefor the family of Robert, Jr. Before this time the family had beentogether in Chipping Sodbury for a decade or more but appeared rapidlyto break up afterwards. Son Christopher went to Bristol and neverlooked back; wife Alice was perhaps planning a retreat to Sturden(1554); some years before 1578 Robert, Jr., and son Ambrose decampedto Thornbury for reasons unknown but perhaps relating to socialadvancement. Robert III and William could have been left to run theshop in Chipping Sodbury; but Robert III later left to join hisbrother Christopher in Andover. This picture looks as if the breakup was not without acrimony -perhaps Robert, Jr., had acquired recusant notions that most of hisfamily resisted. Under those circumstances it may be plausible thatthe rental of premises in Sturden Manor by Willyam Peeseley in 1573was a retreat by the same William from the quarrels in ChippingSodbury. He would have returned to Chipping Sodbury when the conflictwas resolved in a way that left the saddlery there to him. Whether William was son or nephew to Robert, Jr., he was in eithercase the grandson of the senior Robert Peseley of Hambrook listed inthe survey of 1522. That Robert - who must have been born about 1475 -thus appears as the great-great-grandfather of Joseph Peaslee wholived in Massachusetts, in the decades 1640-60. ======================= Since this is rather long and not the clearest, I have put together achart of the best guess of the four generations previous to Joseph: #-4 Robert Children: Thomas b. ~1470 Robert b. ~1475 m. Alice d? John b.~1485 (sadler of Bristol 1532-1542) d.1562? m.1 Agnes m.2 Edith #-3 Robert Peaslee, Jr (of Hambrook) b. ~1475 d. >1522 m. Alice Children: Richard ? b. <1500 Robert, 3rd. b.~1500 (has sons Christopher & Ambrose) John b. ~1505 Jane Elizabeth William? b. >1520? #-2 William Peaslee b. >1520? d. 1599 Chipping-Sodbury m. ? Children: Robert b. ~1580 #-1 Robert Peaslee b.~1580 d. May-1617 (sadler of Chipping-Sodbury) m. Jane ? b. ? d. May-1619 Children: 1. Joseph b. ~1598 2. Jane b. ~1602 3. Elizabeth b. 10-May-1607 Chipping-Sodbury 4. Gartres (Gertude) b. ~1610 d. 1632 Chipping-Sodbury 5. Sarah b. ~1613 #0 Joseph Peaslee b. ~1598 Chipping-Sodbury? d. 3-Dec-1660 (Amesbury, MA) m1. (Jane Severance)??) d. <1635 Children: 1. Jane b. ~1626 (England) m. John Davis 1646 2. Mary b. ~1628 (England) m. Henry Sayward ~1654 3. Elizabeth b. ~1630 (England) m. John Collins? 1652 ?m. Nathan Gould? m. Peter Brewer? m2. Mary Johnson ~1635 (England or Wales) d. < Sep-1694 (Haverhill,MA) 4. Sarah b. 20-Sep-1642 (Haverhill, MA) m.1 Thomas Bernard 1664 m.2 Thomas Hoyt >1706 5. Joseph b. 9-Sep-1646 (Haverhill, MA) m.1 Ruth Barnardm. 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