Re: Otis Peaslee and Pearl Carpenter
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In reply to:
Re: Otis Peaslee and Pearl Carpenter
8/07/00
Dear Shelly,
This may be a red herring, but while wandering through some records I found a candidate family in Maine that may be closely related to the Isaac Peaslee that settled in Wisconsin and begat Herman and his lineage....
There is a family that descends from the original Joseph as:
Joseph, Joseph, John, Nathan, Ezekiel (who moved to Whitefield, Maine with his four brothers), and one of his sons was named Abraham. Abraham was bornin Whitefield. ME around the 1780's, and was listed in a US census in Kennebec County in 1810. He had at least four male children: Jacob, Abraham, Edward and Isaac. These children were all born somewhere in Maine.Abraham moved to Indiana late in life, and his sons are listed as moving to Iowa (Jacob) and Indiana (Abraham, Edward, Isaac).I have eight children listed for Isaac, including another Isaac, Jacob, Samuel, William, John, but no other details.Is it possible that this family from Maine that moved so far into the Midwest, then picked up again and moved to Wisconsin in the 1850's?I apologize my records on this family are so spotty, but than makes it all the more possible that one of these Isaac's, or at least a nearby relative are the Isaac you are looking for.
I have the following vague reference in the Peasley Paper published in 1980 (volume 10, no1), which says: "We know that several families from the same area in Maine came to Dearborn County, part of which later became Ohio County, Indiana."You might want to check census records for this part of Indiana and see if you can find any Isaac's that disappear in time to show up in Wisconsin....just an idea.Hope it helps,
GRAHAM