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| (Register of St. Benet's). Mrs. Frances (Peavey)
Kehrer of the Pacific Coast writes me that she was born in Queens County,
Ireland, but that her ancestor came to that locality from England to fight
with Cromwell in his Irish Campaigns.
Edward [1] Peavey, as I have shown, was in Portsmouth in 1691, age 21. Charles Thornton Libbey's recent dictionary mentions Edward on a list of New Hampshire men who petitioned in 1692 for equal privileges with Massachusetts. Edward [1] is also mentioned in an allotment of seating in the North Parish Meeting House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1693. It seems that he soon moved over towards the Dover settlement, which joined Portsmouth; for 1700 Col. William Pepperell brought suit against him on a note for a small amount. He was then located at Oyster River (the northern section of Dover — now Durham), and is designated as a yeoman. In the same year a petition against him was filed for fencing up a so-called highway at Oyster River. These instances are taken from the archives in Concord, New Hampshire as well as the fact that he witnessed a deed — Knight to Coleman — in Dover, 1710. He spelled his name Peve. He is next found in a section of Dover near Portsmouth called "Bloody Point", which section was afterwards set off from Dover, together with a portion of Portsmouth, and called Newington. In 1713 a list of petitioners for the new town of Newington included Edward [1]. Among the signers were also John Hudson, John Nutter, and Abel [2] Peavey. A petition in 1713 for a new parish in Newington included Edward [1] Peavey and Abel [2] Peavey. In a list of subscribers to the new church in 1713, we find Nathaniel [2] Peavey, and in the same year among a list |