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Stephen W Pelham

Birth
Vermont, USA
Death
20 Jan 1911 (aged 96)
West Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
Burial
West Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map
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Second husband and widower of Mary Ann (Smith) Willard.

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There has been but one conviction for manslaughter.*

*The case appeared as follows: Two brothers, Stephen and Martin Pellom resided in Guildhill. Stephen went and took a harrow that belonged to Martin and while carrying it away on his back, Martin assaulted him with a club. Stephen thought the treatment a little too harsh, and throwing down the harrow, went in for a regular combat: he also got in possession of a club and struck Martin on the head. The blow was a fatal one, as it hit him on the temple, fracturing his skull, and Martin soon died. This was April 30, 1851, and the authorities arrested Stephen the same day. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to several years hard labor in the States Prison.
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Stephen died on October 7, 1786 in Thetford, Orange County, Vermont.

At a Court of Probate holden at Thetford in said District on the first day of February 1793. Present Timothy Bartholomew Esq. Judge. It is considered by this Court, that the widow of Stephen Pellom late of Thetford in said District deceased, be allowed the sum of six pounds, two shillings and 2d, being all the articles contained in the inventory of said Stephen, excepting the house therein mentioned. It is further considered, that on examination, it being found and made to appear to this Court, that the residue of the estate of the said Stephen, will no pay any man. (?) than (/) for the Doctoring of the sd Stephen in his last sickness, funeral charges and the settling said estate as it respects the administration thereof without paying any part of the Creditors any share of their several claims It is therefore ordered that the administrators to said estate, do pay the espense of the last sickness of the said Stephen, his funeral expenses and the cost that hath arisen in pursuance of Letters of administration, being granted them and in complyance sd administrators to be discharged from their said trust.

Attest J.P. Buckingham Regr.

From an old document at the Thetford Historical Society state that on May 5, 1786 "Stephen Pellom and family, Jemima Pellom, Irene Burros...." were warned out of Thetford.

In Peter Olcott's (of Norwich) account books in Dartmouth's special collections has an entry for Stephen Pellom dated Nov. 26, 1785 and states "Stephen Pellom Negro [of] Theadford."

Thetford Historical Society transcribed pages in Rev. Asa Burton's “The Records of the Church of Christ in Thetford, Vt. 1773 - 1832” and states the following:

Page 145: A Record of Births for ye. year 1780
Jemima Pellom a Child born February 1780

Page 189: A Record of Marriages
Cato Leso married to Betty Pelham October 1791.

Page 209: Record of Deaths for ye year 1780
The Son, and infant, of Jemima Pelham died March 1780

Page 211:
Stephen Pellom died October 7, 1786

The Pellom's were colored people and listed in various census records as Other Free People, Mulatto, Negro and White.

Stephen had one son that I know of named Martin Pellom/Pelham who was born abt. 1773. Martin died Apr. 27, 1850 in Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont. Have

Martin and Ukn. had the following children:

1. Martin J. Pellom/Pelham, male born about 1813 Vt., died Apr. 29 1851 in Guildhall, Essex, Vermont
2. Lumon T. Pellom/Pelham, male born about 1816 in Vt., died April 16, in Newburgh, Orange, New York
3. Stephen W. Pellom/Pelham, male, born about 1817 in Vt., died Aft. 1910 in Stewartstown, Cools Co., NH
4. Charlot J. Pellom/Pelham, female, born Apr. 22, 1822 in Vt., died Jun 20, 1891 unk where, but buried in Guildhall, Essex, Vt.
5. Nancy Pellom/Pelham, female, born Jan 21, 1824 in Vt., dided May 25, 1889 in Hartland, Windsor Co., Vt.

Nancy is my grgr Grandmother and married to a Roswell O. Spaulding. They divorced and had children. Nancy's death notice states she died on cancer of the womb and was mulatto.

https://vermonthistory.org/journal/90/VH90_01_InformantsAndArtifacts.pdf
ThePelham family relocated frequently over three generations until settling in Guildhall, where Stephen Pelham, grandson of Stephen Pelham warned out of Thetford over sixty years prior, became the first individual convicted of manslaughter in Essex County in 1851. Pg 14.
Bio Submitted By FIND A GRAVE ID 47496789
EMAIL [email protected]

Second husband and widower of Mary Ann (Smith) Willard.

http://genealogytrails.com/ver/essex/history/Page1.html
There has been but one conviction for manslaughter.*

*The case appeared as follows: Two brothers, Stephen and Martin Pellom resided in Guildhill. Stephen went and took a harrow that belonged to Martin and while carrying it away on his back, Martin assaulted him with a club. Stephen thought the treatment a little too harsh, and throwing down the harrow, went in for a regular combat: he also got in possession of a club and struck Martin on the head. The blow was a fatal one, as it hit him on the temple, fracturing his skull, and Martin soon died. This was April 30, 1851, and the authorities arrested Stephen the same day. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to several years hard labor in the States Prison.
http://www.genealogywise.com/forum/topics/pellom-pelham-and-other
Stephen died on October 7, 1786 in Thetford, Orange County, Vermont.

At a Court of Probate holden at Thetford in said District on the first day of February 1793. Present Timothy Bartholomew Esq. Judge. It is considered by this Court, that the widow of Stephen Pellom late of Thetford in said District deceased, be allowed the sum of six pounds, two shillings and 2d, being all the articles contained in the inventory of said Stephen, excepting the house therein mentioned. It is further considered, that on examination, it being found and made to appear to this Court, that the residue of the estate of the said Stephen, will no pay any man. (?) than (/) for the Doctoring of the sd Stephen in his last sickness, funeral charges and the settling said estate as it respects the administration thereof without paying any part of the Creditors any share of their several claims It is therefore ordered that the administrators to said estate, do pay the espense of the last sickness of the said Stephen, his funeral expenses and the cost that hath arisen in pursuance of Letters of administration, being granted them and in complyance sd administrators to be discharged from their said trust.

Attest J.P. Buckingham Regr.

From an old document at the Thetford Historical Society state that on May 5, 1786 "Stephen Pellom and family, Jemima Pellom, Irene Burros...." were warned out of Thetford.

In Peter Olcott's (of Norwich) account books in Dartmouth's special collections has an entry for Stephen Pellom dated Nov. 26, 1785 and states "Stephen Pellom Negro [of] Theadford."

Thetford Historical Society transcribed pages in Rev. Asa Burton's “The Records of the Church of Christ in Thetford, Vt. 1773 - 1832” and states the following:

Page 145: A Record of Births for ye. year 1780
Jemima Pellom a Child born February 1780

Page 189: A Record of Marriages
Cato Leso married to Betty Pelham October 1791.

Page 209: Record of Deaths for ye year 1780
The Son, and infant, of Jemima Pelham died March 1780

Page 211:
Stephen Pellom died October 7, 1786

The Pellom's were colored people and listed in various census records as Other Free People, Mulatto, Negro and White.

Stephen had one son that I know of named Martin Pellom/Pelham who was born abt. 1773. Martin died Apr. 27, 1850 in Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont. Have

Martin and Ukn. had the following children:

1. Martin J. Pellom/Pelham, male born about 1813 Vt., died Apr. 29 1851 in Guildhall, Essex, Vermont
2. Lumon T. Pellom/Pelham, male born about 1816 in Vt., died April 16, in Newburgh, Orange, New York
3. Stephen W. Pellom/Pelham, male, born about 1817 in Vt., died Aft. 1910 in Stewartstown, Cools Co., NH
4. Charlot J. Pellom/Pelham, female, born Apr. 22, 1822 in Vt., died Jun 20, 1891 unk where, but buried in Guildhall, Essex, Vt.
5. Nancy Pellom/Pelham, female, born Jan 21, 1824 in Vt., dided May 25, 1889 in Hartland, Windsor Co., Vt.

Nancy is my grgr Grandmother and married to a Roswell O. Spaulding. They divorced and had children. Nancy's death notice states she died on cancer of the womb and was mulatto.

https://vermonthistory.org/journal/90/VH90_01_InformantsAndArtifacts.pdf
ThePelham family relocated frequently over three generations until settling in Guildhall, where Stephen Pelham, grandson of Stephen Pelham warned out of Thetford over sixty years prior, became the first individual convicted of manslaughter in Essex County in 1851. Pg 14.


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