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Andrew Peters (abt. 1634 - 1713)

Pvt Andrew Peters aka Peeters
Born about in Englandmap
Son of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married before 18 Nov 1659 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died at about age 79 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Contents

Biography

Birth

Andrew Peters (aka Peeters) was born probably in England about 1634/35,[1] as he was aged 79 at his death.[2][3]

Disputed Parentage

Some believe that Andrew could be the son of William Peters and Elizabeth Treffery, however, this information is disputed as there is no real poof to this claim.[4] See below.

Marriage

Andrew married Mercy Beamsley Willborne, daughter of William Beamsley of Boston and widow of Michael Willborne,[5] by 18 Nov 1659, most likely in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[2][6][7]

Children

Andrew and Mercy Peters had the following children:[1][2]

  • John, b.28 Feb 1660, d.14 Aug 1689, m.Mary Edwards 1680;
  • Elizabeth, b.26 Aug 1662, d.31 Oct 1703, m. John Sady 1678;
  • Andrew, b.ca.1664, d.14 Aug 1689, m.Elizabeth Farnham 1685;
  • Mary, b.12 Jun 1668, d.21 Jul 1753, m.Thomas Chandler 1686;
  • Mercy, b.27 Jan 1670, d.25 Dec 1690, m.John Allen 1686;
  • William, b.7 Feb 1672, d.13 Aug 1696, m.Margaret Russe 1694;
  • Samuel, b.c.1674/75, d. 2 May 1736.

Three of the four sons of Andrew and Mercy Peters were killed by Indians in Andover, Massachusetts: Andrew and John on 14 Aug 1689 and William on 13 Aug 1696.[1]

Military

Andrew was a soldier in King Philips War,[1] serving from 10 Dec 1675–21 Feb 1676, fighting with the British Army against the Wampanoag Indians in the Narragansett campaign.[2] King Philips War (the chief of the Wampanoag was called King Philip) was fought throughout the New England colonies.

Andrew was to receive a grant to land located in Amherst New Hampshire as payment for his service in King Philip's war. However, the land didn't come into his family's possession in 1733, long after Andrew's death.[2]

Will of Andrew Peters

On 16 Nov 1702, Andrew wrote a will endorsed in his own handwriting:[2]

my Will & Testament. I Andrew Peeters of Andover the county of Essex in New England Being in Good health & memory ... To my dear wiffe Mercij Peeters I will & bequeth my whole estate in houses Lands & Cattle, goods, money & —Dureing her natural Liffe, or whilst Shee Remains my widdow for her Comfortable subsisting in this world,...Samuell Peeters hath been my Copartner Euer Since, & also hath purchased a Great part of Said Land for himselue, of Col Dudley Bradstreet &c: Only I make this Exception, Giue to my two daughters Tenne pounds in paij Each of them, that is to Say Elizabeth Wright & Mary Chandler, Itm : I Giue to my two Grand Children, Andrew & Mary Peeters, which are ye Children of my Son John Peeters, deceased. Each of them fiue pounds in pay, or ye Land I bought of Sargt Jeremiah Belcher, on ye north side of Merrimack Riuer...."

Death

Andrew Peters died in Andover, Massachusetts Bay on 13 Dec 1713,[1][2][8] aged 79 years, and is buried at the Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.[3]

Disputed Relations

Peters of New England: A Genealogy, and Family History states that Andrew is not able to be shown to be related to William Peters or Hugh, etc.[2]

The following excerpt has no supporting evidence of a relationship with Hugh Peters, etc. to Andrew Peters:

Rev. Hugh Peters, minister of Salem about 1636, afterwards executed by Charles II, had a brother William, of Boston, and was a son of William Peters of Torrey, Cornwall, England. The young men came over in 1634. William's son Andrew, of Ipswich and Andover, came here some time after the arrival of Mary Beamsley, and an amusing account of Andrew's arrival and first experience of Boston mud is given in a private manuscript belong to Rev. Anson Titus. (His notice led to a marriage) by C. H. Abbott, Andover.[9]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, eds. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. Accessed online at Ancestry.com. Vol. 3, p.393: Peters Lineage, Andrew & children's DOB/DODs.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Edmond Frank Peters and Eleanor Bradley Peters, Peters of New England: A Genealogy, and Family History, (New York, NY, USA: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903), accessed online at GoogleBooks. Pages 1, 10, 14, 27-30.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Find A Grave, database and images: accessed 8 Aug 2018, Andrew Peters (1634–14 Dec 1713), Memorial #7868342, citing Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by anonymous (contributor 46588835). Headstone photos.
  4. Peters, Samuel and Samuel Jarvis McCormick, The Rev. Samuel Peters' LL. D., General History of Connecticut. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877), access online at Archive.org, pages 50-52.
  5. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Published 1860 by Little Brown & Co. Accessed online at Archive.org. Vol. 1, Page 147.
  6. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes 1-4, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Genealogical Society, 1995), Vol 1, page 141. "MERCY, b. 9 Dec 1637 (erroneously called son in town record [BVR 4] bp. 10 December 1655 Michael Willborne (she called "Mary" incorrectly) [BVR 57]; m. (2) by 18 November 1659 Andrew Peters [BChR 287]; d April 1641 [BVR 10].
    NOTE: (BVR): Boston, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699, Ninth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883; rpt. Baltimore 1978)
    (BChR): The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-2868, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volumes 39, 40 and 41, ed Richard D Pierce (Boston 1967)
  7. HathiTrust Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, vol. 1, pg. 85.
  8. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, Provo, UT, USA. DOD 13 Dec 1713 in Andover.
  9. The Essex Antiquarian Salem, MA: The Essex Antiquarian, 13 vols. 1897-1909. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006.) vol 1, (1897), page 134. Queries #36.

See also:

  • Rix, Guy S., comp. "History & Genealogy of the Rix Family of America." New York: The Grafton Press, 1906. Page 182: children's names, Andrew DOD 14 Dec 1713, Mercy DOD 6 Nov 1726, both d.Andover.
Note: Sources below listed in Georgiana Dye Malone notebooks. Her notes read, 7 children - will and gravestone) no names listed.
  • William Smith Tilden, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886, G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1887; Page 455.
  • Sarah Loring Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, Massachusetts, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1880; Page 124.
  • History of Medfield, by Chenery. Page 338.
  • Dover on North of Medfield (Part of Dedham).




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Has there been any further documentation of his ancestry? If so, and there are no objections, I will mark his parentage as uncertain.
posted by K. Stromsted