Son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785 in Suffield, Connecticut. Aged 55 years. According to his Philadelphia death certificate, he died of "dysentery."
Originally interred in Range H 18 North of the Second Presbyterian burial ground, upper ground, on Noble Street. Removed to Washington, Pennsylvania on Oct. 13, 1855.
Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser. Thursday, Sep 02, 1819, Philadelphia, PA. Page 3∼Seth Pease was a distinguished early American surveyor who played a significant role in the division and settling of the lands that became public domain after the American Revolution. In 1798 while employed by the Holland Land Company, under the directions of Joseph Elliott , Mr Pease laid out two square miles of the Tuscarora Indian Reserve in New York. Seth Pease had the additional skills of a professional astronomer, which he used while surveying the unmarked boundary lines of lands originally known as Connecticut's "Western Reserve" (now Ohio) where he relied "entirely on the stars" to accomplish his job. Born in Suffield, Connecticut, he was the fifth of eleven children, the son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Mr. Pease married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785. Father of Betsy (Noah Fletcher), James,Gamaliel and Alfred Pease. He was buried in the Second Presbyterian church yard.
Originally interred in Range H 18 North of the Second Presbyterian burial ground, upper ground, on Noble Street. Removed to Washington, Pennsylvania on Oct. 13, 1855.
Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser. Thursday, Sep 02, 1819, Philadelphia, PA. Page 3∼Seth Pease was a distinguished early American surveyor who played a significant role in the division and settling of the lands that became public domain after the American Revolution. In 1798 while employed by the Holland Land Company, under the directions of Joseph Elliott , Mr Pease laid out two square miles of the Tuscarora Indian Reserve in New York. Seth Pease had the additional skills of a professional astronomer, which he used while surveying the unmarked boundary lines of lands originally known as Connecticut's "Western Reserve" (now Ohio) where he relied "entirely on the stars" to accomplish his job. Born in Suffield, Connecticut, he was the fifth of eleven children, the son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Mr. Pease married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785. Father of Betsy (Noah Fletcher), James,Gamaliel and Alfred Pease. He was buried in the Second Presbyterian church yard.
Son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785 in Suffield, Connecticut. Aged 55 years. According to his Philadelphia death certificate, he died of "dysentery."
Originally interred in Range H 18 North of the Second Presbyterian burial ground, upper ground, on Noble Street. Removed to Washington, Pennsylvania on Oct. 13, 1855.
Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser. Thursday, Sep 02, 1819, Philadelphia, PA. Page 3∼Seth Pease was a distinguished early American surveyor who played a significant role in the division and settling of the lands that became public domain after the American Revolution. In 1798 while employed by the Holland Land Company, under the directions of Joseph Elliott , Mr Pease laid out two square miles of the Tuscarora Indian Reserve in New York. Seth Pease had the additional skills of a professional astronomer, which he used while surveying the unmarked boundary lines of lands originally known as Connecticut's "Western Reserve" (now Ohio) where he relied "entirely on the stars" to accomplish his job. Born in Suffield, Connecticut, he was the fifth of eleven children, the son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Mr. Pease married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785. Father of Betsy (Noah Fletcher), James,Gamaliel and Alfred Pease. He was buried in the Second Presbyterian church yard.
Originally interred in Range H 18 North of the Second Presbyterian burial ground, upper ground, on Noble Street. Removed to Washington, Pennsylvania on Oct. 13, 1855.
Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser. Thursday, Sep 02, 1819, Philadelphia, PA. Page 3∼Seth Pease was a distinguished early American surveyor who played a significant role in the division and settling of the lands that became public domain after the American Revolution. In 1798 while employed by the Holland Land Company, under the directions of Joseph Elliott , Mr Pease laid out two square miles of the Tuscarora Indian Reserve in New York. Seth Pease had the additional skills of a professional astronomer, which he used while surveying the unmarked boundary lines of lands originally known as Connecticut's "Western Reserve" (now Ohio) where he relied "entirely on the stars" to accomplish his job. Born in Suffield, Connecticut, he was the fifth of eleven children, the son of Joseph and Mindwell (King) Pease. Mr. Pease married Bathsheba Kent on Dec. 21, 1785. Father of Betsy (Noah Fletcher), James,Gamaliel and Alfred Pease. He was buried in the Second Presbyterian church yard.
