The Peshine Family in Europe and in America
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THE PESHINE FAMILY IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR A GENEALOGICAL TREE FROM THE BEGINNI NG OF TH E FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY WITH SOME BIOGRAPHI CAL SK ETCHE S AND MUCH DATA A A A A REL TING TO THE B LL , MULFORD ND PYE F MILIES C A A A A E E A OMPRISING LL INFORM TION T H ND . WH TH R B SED ON TRADITION OR ON E" ISTING RECORDS C CT A A A C THE WHOLE OLLE ED . RR NGED ND OMMENTED UPON JOHN HENRY HOBART PESHINE UNITED STATES ARMY A A A A CA . S NT B RBAR . L 1916 oommmn'r 1916 BY OHN nm v H OB ART P n n . , J s m n ALL m em e nnsnnvnn THI S EDITION CONSISTS OF SI" TY NUMBERED C E C OPI S . OF WHI H THIS IS NUMBER F RAN K M ORLE Y P RI NTER anta. arb ara Cal . S B , 1916 ” ONE WITH ANCE STORS IS A RE PRE SE NTATIVE OF THE PAST . FAIRE LES MEMES CHOSES QUE DEPUIS DES AGES SANS NOMBRE ONT A ANOETRE S AV E F ITES LES , ET REDIRE EUGL MENT LES E AR FOI UNE E A S UNE M MES P OLES DE , EST SUPR ME S GES E . S UPREME FORCE . THE GLORY OF ANCE STORS SHE DS LIGHT AROUND POSTE RITY . ANI E N MOQUE SUP RSU T J AM PROPE POST ANIMAM . " V THE F E UE E TO WHOMSOE ER HOLY DEAD ARE O NO CONS Q NC . H I M K E T ” TO LI EWISE AR HE LIVING . NOTICE A f ew copies only of this booklet have been printed ; no s ereo e e e ee e ro he e t typ plat s hav b n mad f m t s t type. I n distri bu tion ee the e re to c , it has b n d si pla e the copies in such a manner as best to assure their transmission to posterity ; and it is the intention that they should pass down through the re e c re or r c re re ere ce e e to p s nt hild n g and hild n , p f n b ing giv n o e ec to o e ho e r o s ns , and sp ially th s w , by th i ambiti n , indomitable e er e u r o e to or e e r to the will and n gy , manif st a p p s f g th i way r the ff r of the or A f ew co e e ee f ont in a ai s w ld . pi s hav b n dis tribu ted to the more important libraries f or fu tu re reference on r of e e o c e rc er ru e th e r r e o f pa t g n al gi al s a h s ; and , as a l , lib a i s e e ee e ec e o e of the co i e interior citi s hav b n s l t d , th s ast l n s being r a e of war r u o be tr c m ore liable to the av g s . Dist ib ti n will s i tly f e confined to various branches o th Family . e e cr c e orrec e Fu ll comm nt, as w ll as iti ism , is invit d . C tiv and amplificative data and valu able suggestions are solicited at e t the ue of new e o T e o . all tim s , with a vi w iss diti ns his data r e e ce of all rt should cove fu ll dat s , fu ll nam s and pla s bi hs , rr e orce e ur u e baptisms , ma iag s , div s , d aths and b ials ; f ll nam s f c er r e or r e e of o Offi ciating l gyman , p i st magist at , as w ll as u e u e ce of r of re witnesses ; f ll nam s , f ll dat s and pla s bi th pa nts r e w ere n of th e v the of hu sband o wif ( h ot Family blood) , gi ing a e of th e o er full m id n name m th . o o e e e e to er I n fu ture editi ns , s m att mpt may b mad ins t f h ore ro e e er of the portraits o t e m p min nt m mb s Family . e the work o e be co ue U pon my d ath , , it is h p d , may ntin d by e Dr o e r o r of e e . L o my distinguish d n ph w , J hn H n y H ba t y n , S r . ho t Hills , N . J E R ART P E HINE JOHN H N Y HOB S . TO MY COUSINS OF THE VARIOUS LINES OF DESCENT The information contained in the pages of this f booklet has been gathered with the greatest di ficulty , for, as a people , we , Americans , have paid very little attention to the memory of our lineage . The true worship of ancestors has come only with the Slow growth of civilization , the early races of the world having neglected even the heaping of earth above the grave to mark , at least for a time , the place of n burial . I behalf of Christianity , it may be said that the Church of Rome began , as early , perhaps , as the eleventh century , the faithful recording of the names of those who went through its various rites in the way of baptisms , marriages and funeral ceremonies ; and only by such records , or by the inscriptions of chapel or cemetery , can we now justify researches extending back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . While , in the Middle Ages , there was , no doubt, considerable carelessness as to the record of date of birth , great attention appears to have been paid to listing children , legitimate and illegitimate , in the strict order of infancy . In marriages , the date is as most carefully recorded , well as the place of birth and the parentage of each of the contracting parties . In the record of deaths , not only the date but the place of burial also are entered for the benefit of posterity . The separation of the Anglican Church from that of Rome no doubt gradually brought in a certain con TO MY COUSINS n dition of neglect, o part of the former, in such matters of record ; while the rude temples of worship an of the Puritans d of our early settlers , north and ff south , proved but indi erent places for the proper care of records of any sort. As already stated, the family altars we erect to the loving memory of those who have passed before us are the growth of civilization ; they have been firmly established , at least in Europe , by the monumental and n solidity perma ency of places of worship , with their costly chapels , as well as by the solemnity and public celebration of the feasts of the Church and of the rites for the dead . In our colonial days , the puritanical simplicity of life soon swept away all u the tho ght of departed , as attests the poverty of n in monume t or stone the burial places of the times . But whatever may be said in palliation, the fact remains that the American people , of a new race — upon the face of the earth unlike the disciples of Confucius , venerable long before the time of our Christ — have been indifferent to the memory of the lines of their families ; and though some i nterest has been — aroused by our societies Colonial , of the Revolution no and of our Wars, concerted effort has , as yet, been made , by Society or by Legislature , to assure, for their descendants , the transmission of the records of those who pass in daily life The family Bible is neglected in its records , if it has not already gone out of fashion ; family portraits , in their antiquated frames and costumes , are, in mean shame , hidden in attics ; n f ffi and , in the present i dif erence to church a liation, little attention is paid to the solemn rites of religion . Th u ere are , however, neglects of m ch more serious nature, and I deem it proper to register them , with a view to their correction. In determination of dates , vi TO MY COUSINS many cemeteries have been carefully looked over for records of interments as well as monumental inscrip n tions ; and , while it has been distressi g to witness the freq uent want of care and attention to a tidy ap r n pea ance of the family plot, we must deeply lame t for those of our blood whose graves are not only unmarked by the most insignificant stone, but, at the same time , have completely lost, under stress of storm and years , even the slight mound of earth once carefully raised above the surface . n I order , therefore , to inculcate on their daily life some serious conceptions as to the Family Altar and the Worship of the Dead , I beg my cousins constantly “ to study the opening chapters of The Ancient City , P u n by stel de Coulanges, a work which has made upo me the most profound impression , and to which may be ascribed the labor of this compilation .