Peleg Manchester

Male 1789 - 1866  (77 years)

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  • Name Peleg Manchester 
    Birth 3 Aug 1789  Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Aug 1866  Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Adamsville Church Cemetery, Colebrook Rd., Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I00944  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Philip Manchester, Sr.,   b. 12 May 1755, Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Oct 1835, Westport, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Mary Coggeshall,   b. 30 Jan 1759, Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1 Jun 1850 (Age > 91 years) 
    Marriage Abt Oct 1777  Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F00368  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail "Abby" Durfee,   b. 30 Mar 1777, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Apr 1857, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 5 Dec 1816  Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Emily Manchester,   b. Jun 1816, Westport, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1841, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)
     2. Abby Manchester,   b. Jan 1819, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Nov 1838, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 19 years)
     3. Content D. Manchester,   b. 15 Dec 1820, Westport, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Feb 1892, Little Compton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    Family ID F00366  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • In the 1850 Federal Census, Peleg is 61 and Abigail is 72; they are living at Westport, MA, next to (probably brother?) Ellery & Lucy and their son Benjamin. In the household with Peleg & Abigail Manchester are Content & Philander Gifford and their son Theodore. Content is their daughter. They are next door to William & Christiana Manchester & family.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database.

    2. [S012363] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, compiler, Little Compton Families, (Providence: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967), 203.