- CHAUNCEY C. PEASE, farmer, Sec. 2 [Newark Twp.]; P.O. Beloit;
born in Hartford, Vt.,
- near White River, in 1816. His parents moved to Sherbrooke,
Canada, where he remained till 1836; he then left home and went
to Durham Co., in Province of Ontario, Canada; married there,
in 1842, Sophia EASTMAN, of Durham Co.; they had no children.
He came to Rock Co., Wis., and located in Newark in 1845. He
bought and improved two farms, sold them, and, in 1868, he bought
120 acres in Secs. 2 and 3, Newark Township, part of the GRANT
farm, with residence on it and partially improved. He made more
improvements, and is at present living on it.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 773.
- Courtesy of Carol
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