William
Peters
Born in Andover, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Peters
and Phebe (Frie) Peters
Husband of
Hannah (Chenery) Peters
— married
18 Mar 1729 in Medfield, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Joseph Peters, Benjamin Peters, Mary (Peters) Allen, Adam Peters, Eve (Peters) Pepalow, Taphenes (Peters) Dunton, Andrew Peters, Jethro Peters, Nathan Peters and Finis (Peters) Gookin
Died
at age 84
in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Nov 2016
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Biography
Wiliam was born to Samuel and Pheobe Peeters in Andover on 7 January 1703-4.[1]
Hannah Chenery married William Peters in Medfield on March 18, 1728-9.[2]
Hannah and William had three children possibly born in Dedham or Medfield but not recorded in either town, and seven children in Medfield:[3]
- Joseph, b. about 1729
- Benjamin, b. about 1731
- Mary, b. about 1732
- Adam, b. Oct. 30, 1734
- Eve, b.Aug. 1, 1737
- Taphenes, b. Jan. 29, 1739-40
- Andrew, b. June 24, 1742
- Jethro, b. June 13, 1744
- Nathan, b. Aug. 26, 1747
- Finis, b. June 4, 1749
Hannah was the sole heir of her father's estate, including the homestead on the Dedham-Medway border, which she and her husband William ;sold to her cousin Ephraim Chenery in 1735.[4]
William died in Medfield on January 19, 1788[5]
Research Notes
Georgiana Dye Malone notebooks list sources as : Peters of New England - by. Mrs. Edward McClure Peters Kuckerbocker Press 1903 Tilden - History of Medfield, Mass. Page 455 Bailey. - Historical Sketches Andover. Page 124 etc. Cheney - History of Medfield page 338 Dover on North of Medfield (Part of Dedham)
Sources
- ↑ Essex, Vital Records of Andover Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, p. 298: month and day missing.
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 126 & 164: "Chinery"
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 79-80: "Chinery"
- ↑ Tilden, William Smith, The History of the Town of Medfield. Massachusetts . . . 1650-1886, (Boston, 1887, Geo. H. Ellis), pp. 339 & 455
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 228
See also:
- Edmond Frank Peters and Eleanor Bradley Peters, Peters of New England: A Genealogy, and Family History (New York, NY, USA: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903, Pages 41, 63
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