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Described as a good singer.
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Died as an infant.
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Married by Parson Milledge.
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Died soon after birth.
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Died by drowning.
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Was a teacher in St. Louis in 1860.
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Died by drowning.
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Deacon James Chute and Mehitable Thurston Chute.
Notes on Deacon James Chute and Mehitable Thurston Chute:
"CHUTE, JAMES. b. 1751, d. 1828, m. 1775 Mehitable Thurston, b. 1753, d. 1819. SERVICE: Pvt. in Capt. Jacob Gerrish's Co., which marched on the alarm of 19 APR 1775
to Cambridge, service 6 days. Pvt. in Col. Pike's Regt. under command of Capt. William Harris, service from 27 Sept. 1779 to 23 Oct. 1779 at Falmouth in defense of
seacoast. Pvt. in Capt. Isaac Parson's Co., Col. Prime's regt. enlisted 2 May 1780, discharged 23 Dec 1780 under Brig. Gen. Wadsworth at Eastword. CHILDREN:
Hannah, b. 1780, m. John Poore.
Source: Indiana DAR, Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors, date unknown, pages 118-119.
"JAMES CHUTE, born in Newbury, Mass., Feb. 16, 1751, married June 13, 1775, Mehitable, daughter of Richard Thurston of Rowley, and lived many years a farmer;
he was a pious deacon in the Congregational church in Boxford. She died Oct 18., 1919, aged sixty-six. After that, the Deacon travelled among his friends and kindred in
the West, and died in Madison, Indiana April 28, 1825."
Source: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families
Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources, William Edward Chute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1894. Page 36.
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"Moved to Pittsburgh, PA the awfully cold summer of 1816 and to Cincinnati, Ohio the next year, where
two of her brothers, James and Daniel, lived; and in 1819 moved to a place 40 miles west of Madison, Indiana."
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Jonathan Prosser, Sr. and Hannah Adams Poor Prosser.
Notes on Jonathan Prosser, Sr. and Hannah Adams Poor Prosser:
WEC: Had 8 children. Son Abram was in Company H, 2nd Minn, V.I. in Ga., late war. [Two children still unaccounted for].
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Went to California and Oregon.
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Emigrated from Great Britain to Salisbury, Massachusetts in 643.
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Died in infancy.
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Lived in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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4 other children died young.
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James Chute Peabody and Margaret Pearson Peabody.
Notes on James Chute Peabody and Margaret Pearson Peabody:
"JAMES CHUTE PEABODY. 1828-1900, Massachusetts. Mr. Peabody was born in Georgetown, then a part of the town of Rowley, Mass., February 20, 1828, and was son of James and
Hannah (Chute) Peabody. He spent his boyhood days at his birthplace, and attended the district school and Dummer Academy. He studied law in the Harvard law school, and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar. He opened an office, and after a few years' practice, concluded to enter journalism, relinquishing his legal profession for which he had
displayed considerable talent. He at first went abroad as a newspaper correspondent. On his return he continued his connection with the press, soon afterward becoming the
editor of the Newburyport Watchtower, and subsequently was employed in the same capacity on the Newburyport Weekly Union. For several years past he has
edited the Newburyport Daily Germ1*. He is also a contributor to other newspapers, and has written both prose and poetry for Harper's, and other
magazines. He has made quite a number of poetical translations from German authors; and has published a translation of Dante's "Inferno." He is a ready, brilliant and
interesting writer, and a natural journalist. His poetry is considered exceptionally good. He still resides in the house in which he was born in the ancient parish of
Byfield.2
1Predecessor of the
Newburyport Daily News.
2This would have been the old Chute farm in Newbury.
The poem which accompanied the biographical article was "The Old and the New".
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW
Once more old Time unbars the silent tomb,
In the past land, where his dead years are lying
All side by side, amid the eternal gloom ;
For now his last-born in the night is dying.
He bids adieu the solemn, dark-robed hours
That one by one glide by his snowy bed;
And now the great bells from a thousand towers
Toll their sad requiem, for the year is dead.
But lo, a new-born cherub, hovering near,
Whose wings shall sweep the starry circle through !
For the death struggles of the passing year
Were still the birth pangs of the coming new.
Now Janus wears a smiling face before,
Yet backward looks a sad, a long adieu;
From the same fountain doth Aquarius pour
Tears for the old, libations to the new.
Time buries his dead, and from the tomb comes forth,
Rolls to the stone, and writes above the door
Another epitaph, that all the earth
May read and ponder through the evermore.
There is the story of the bygone years,
Their joys and sorrows, and their love and hate;
And there the lachrymals of bitter tears
Stand full, forever, by the frowning gate.
There hang the scutcheons of departed nations ;
There glows the red page of their growth and strife,
There lie the ashes of the dead creations;
A world or creed, a god or mortal life.
And all the legends on those stony pages
Shall grow to oracles in coming days,
And unborn minstrels, in the unborn ages,
Shall give them voice in many sounding lays.
Then blot, O Time, the olden error still,—
All jarring discords from their strains to sever,—
What I have written, be it good or ill,
That I have written, and it stands forever.
There is no resurrection of the past;
Its shade may haunt thee, but it lives no more.
Yet mourn it not. Behold, the future vast,
The eternal future, stretches on before !
Take, then, the book of fate into thy hand,
And for the new year write thine own decree;
And what thou writest shall forever stand,
And what thou wiliest that the end shall be.
James Chute Peabody, 1884
Source: Perley, Sidney. The Poets of Essex County Massachusetts, published 1888 by Sidney Perley, printed at the Salem Press, Salem, Massachusetts, pages
123-125. Available from Google BooksTM.
Poem also available in Key-Notes, by J.C. Peabody, 1884. Self-published, printed at the Salem Banner offices. Available from Google BooksTM.
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One son.
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Lived on the Old Chute farm in Newbury. He was in Company H, 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, and in nearly 30
engagements. He was a prisoner in Anderson, Georgia for 2 months and then exchanged.
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Lived in Windham until 1816, when he purchased the Inn, or Elm, House at Naples, and occupied it as a
Temperance House. It was burnt in 1822, but soon rebuilt, and occupied until burnt again in 1876. He was a church clerk
in Windham in 1827.
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