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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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ABRAM PEASE was born July 22, 1791, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts. The ancestors of this family were from Wales, and came to America more than two hundred years ago, settling in Massachusetts. Abram Pease went to the State of New York when a young man, and was married there, August 18, 1811, to Orpha Southwick. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, from Cayuga County, New York. Abram Pease and wife came to Sangamon county with the family of Jesse Southwick, arriving in 1818 in what is now Ball township. He died in 1832.

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