1795 - 1861

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• Birth	12 Apr 1795	Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Oct 1861
  Person ID	I97506	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	05 Jun 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Phineas PEASE, b. 9 Jun 1756, Enfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut
  Mother	Betsey LAWRENCE, b. 1762, Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Connecticut
  Family ID	F21698	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Peter married Ruth H. Crocker of Amherst, Ohio on 12 Jul 1821 and first settled at Brownhelm, Ohio. He was the first settler of Oberlin, Ohio in April 1833. He gives the following account of his experience in pioneer life: "In the fall of 1816, at the age of 21 1/2 years, I left Stockbridge, my native place, to seek my fortune in the West, and settled in what is now called Brownhelm, then an entire wilderness, and known as town No. 6, in the nineteenth range of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Three young men of us built the first house in town, and wintered there in the employ of Col. Henry Brown of Stockbridge, Mass. From whence a colony was formed of about twenty families, who settled the town, enjoying the pleasures and suffering the privations of a pioneer life, common to all new settlements. I, with my family of five children, left Brownhelm in April, 1833, for the express purpose of commencing the Oberlin enterprise, and we were the first family that penatrated this, then dense forest, and thus took a second trial of pioneering, which was much shorter than the first, and I have been an eye witness to what God hath wrought in and for this place, and for this great valley of the Mississippi, and do praise and magnify his name!"