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• Birth	9 Jun 1756	Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	11 Jul 1836	Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts
  Person ID	I65542	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	05 Jun 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Nathaniel PEASE, b. 29 Sep 1728, Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut
  Mother	Eunice ALLEN
  Family ID	F28476	Group Sheet
  Family	Betsey LAWRENCE, b. 1762, Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Connecticut
  Married	25 Nov 1779
  Children	> 1. Elizabeth PEASE, b. 16 Oct 1788, Stockbridge , Berkshire , Massachusetts   2. Sallie Aurelia PEASE, b. 7 Aug 1801, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts   3. Flavius PEASE, b. 23 Nov 1780, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts   4. Sarah PEASE, b. 30 Jan 1783   5. Pelera PEASE, b. 6 Feb 1785   6. Martha PEASE, b. 19 Dec 1786   7. Electa PEASE, b. 22 Feb 1791   8. Phineas PEASE, b. 19 Dec 1792   9. Peter Pindar PEASE, b. 12 Apr 1795, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts   10. Hiram Abiff PEASE, b. 19 Apr 1797, Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts   11. Alonzo PEASE, b. 4 Aug 1799   12. Amanda S. PEASE, b. 18 Apr 1804
  Family ID	F21698	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Phineas Pease settled in Stockbridge, MA after the Revolutionary War in which he served as a musician. He built a house there about 1780 which is still standing and was lived in at least as late as the 1960s. He was a tanner and a shoemaker by trade. The following is taken from the book Pease Genealogy. An apprentice to Mr. Phineas Pease tells the following: Mr. Pease purchased a tract of land from an Indian among the remaining natives of the place (Stockbridge, Mass.) A part of the price was paid down, the remainder was put in a note to be paid at stipulated times. The Indian one day came to Mr. Pease saying he was going off to a distance hunting and expected to be gone a long time and did not know what might happen. Desiring the note to be in safe keeping, he wished he would "take him and keep him until he returned." Mr. Pease told him that was not the way to do business, possibly he might not be honest and would not give up the note on his return, and so cheat hin out of his money. "No" said the Indian. "Mr. Pease be a good man, he be honest, he no cheat poor Indian." So it proved for Mr. Pease took the note and when after many months the Indian returned, the note was restored and in due time cancelled.