1. Joseph Peaseley was born about 1605 and died 3 December 1660 at Amesbury, Massachusetts. He married first a woman whose name is not known. She died in England before he emigrated. Joseph married secondly Mary Johnson who died at Amesbury in September 1694. By his first wife, he had three children: Jane, Mary, and Elizabeth. By his second wife, he had two more children: Sarah and Joseph. Joseph was a landowner, constable and justice of the peace.
2. Jane Peaseley was born about 1628 and died 18 July 1694 at Durham, New Hampshire. She married on 10 December 1646 at Haverhill, Massachusetts, John Davis, baptized 28 January 1621 at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England and died before 25 May 1686 at Durham, New Hampshire, son of James and Cecily (Thayer) Davis. Jane and John had eleven children: Mary, Sarah, John, Hannah, Jane, Moses, Joseph, James, Jane, Jemima, and Judith.
Sources:
Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury & John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman (2 vols., 1938), p. 531-32.
The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts by David W. Hoyt (Providence, RI, 1897-1919, reprinted Somersworth, NH 1981), p. 280.
History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) with Genealogical Notes by Everett S. Stackpole & Lucien Thompson (2 vols., Rumford Press, Concord, NH, 1913, reprint, Somersworth, NH 1973).
Genealogical Dictionary of ME and NH by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis (Portland, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1988), 536, 185.
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