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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Tri-County Biographies
Rebecca Salisbury & Philip
Easterbrook of Wysox
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Subj: Peleg Easterbrook - Revolutionary soldier
Date: 03/12/2002 6:47:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: billbenson@att.net (Bill Benson)
To: JoyceTice@aol.com
Joyce,
Peleg Easterbrook, Pvt., Revolutionary War, 1776-83; spouse: Rebecca
Salisbury, Both in Wysox Cemetery, Bradford Co., Residence: Orwell, Bradford
Co., Descendants: Bill Benson - billbenson@att.net
"Peleg Easterbrook, son of Dr. William and Patience (Salisbury?) Easterbrook,
was b. abt. 1750 at Pomfret, CT. He was an old Revolutionary soldier,
and a ship carpenter by occupation. He m[arried] March 6, 1770, Rebecca
Salisbury of Pomfret, dau[ghter] of William Salisbury of Warren, R.I.,
and desc[endant] of William Salisbury, the first
man killed in King Phillip's war. Members of his family having
settled in Orwell, Pa., in 1812, Peleg and his wife soon after joined them.
He d[ied] in the fall of 1828, and his wife in Feb. 1838, and both are
bur[ied] at Wysox, Pa., where they had gone to live with their son William
S. Both Peleg and his wife became blind, but he regained his sight
a few days before his death." (Source: Twigs from Family Trees, Easterbrooks
section, Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland, p. 637)
In April 2001, Patty Shumway, genealogist and Connie Covey, the keeper
of the Wysox cemetery records, assured me that "there is no individual
stone for Peleg and Rebecca," although they located the Easterbrook plot
where the couple are buried.
Regards,
Bill
