. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. , where he purchased severallots, as well as buying from the company somevaluable tracts of land in Ghautauqua 1810 he came to Mayville, when there werebut two or three cabins there, and where heacted as agent for the Holland Land companyuntil it disposed of the last of its unsold laudsin 1836, when his office was destroyed l)y a mobof debtors of the company, who sought l)y thisunlawful measure to obliterate all record of theirindebtedness to tiie company, but in which theywere signally foiled, as he had sent copi
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. , where he purchased severallots, as well as buying from the company somevaluable tracts of land in Ghautauqua 1810 he came to Mayville, when there werebut two or three cabins there, and where heacted as agent for the Holland Land companyuntil it disposed of the last of its unsold laudsin 1836, when his office was destroyed l)y a mobof debtors of the company, who sought l)y thisunlawful measure to obliterate all record of theirindebtedness to tiie company, but in which theywere signally foiled, as he had sent copies of allhis papers to the general oftioe of the full account of this trouble will be found inthe history of the Holland Land company whichis given in another ])laoe in this volume. JudgePeacock was a very accurate surveyor and busi-ness man, and had often exposed iiimself to greatdangers while|in the service of the Holland Landcompany. After 1830 he devoted his timemostly to the management of the valuable realand personal estate which he possessed at Moy-.
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