. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . passed authorizing a large bounty, whereby eighty-fivemen were procured to fill the call for five hundred thousandmen, at a cost to the town of $43,640. The subsequentcall was also promptly met. The military list of the countyshows the names of all the resident soldiers in the servicecredited to the town in the adjutant-generals oflice. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. HORACE WHITE PEASLEEwas born on the 4th of November, 1807, in the town ofNew Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y. His
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . passed authorizing a large bounty, whereby eighty-fivemen were procured to fill the call for five hundred thousandmen, at a cost to the town of $43,640. The subsequentcall was also promptly met. The military list of the countyshows the names of all the resident soldiers in the servicecredited to the town in the adjutant-generals oflice. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. HORACE WHITE PEASLEEwas born on the 4th of November, 1807, in the town ofNew Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y. His paternal ances-tors were English, while those on his mothers side were amixture of English and Irish. The former emigrated tothis country at an early time, Ebenezer Peaslee, his grand-father, settling at Quaker Hill, in Dutchess Co., N. Y., andtwo brothers, who came over with him, settling in the vi-cinity of Boston. One of them was killed at the battle ofBunker Hill. Mr. Peaslees maternal grandmother was aBuell. At an early period of the settlement of the countryone of her brothers was captured and killed by the Indians,. y3^r/^m^.^/c c^ fj
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