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From: "lawrence bragg" <>
Subject: RE: NEW-ENGLAND-ISLANDS Digest, Vol 1, Issue-10 -PETER BRAGG
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:26:40 -0700
In-Reply-To: <mailman.527.1183532473.16594.new-england-islands@rootsweb.com>

Peter Bragg, born in 1750 and raised on the Isles of Shoals, came off the
islands to enlist in the revolution at the time the Isles were abandoned to
avoid capture or exploitation by the British. Also there was some fear that
some Islanders were perhaps more loyal to the British than the Colonies.

He joined Captain Eaton's company from the Salisbury area, Massachusetts,
and marched, walked, sauntered (?) to New York where he spent several months
guarding a warehouse full of supplies. Peter returned to Seabrook, New
Hampshire, married Peggy Beckman and started a family. Soon after the war he
moved to Loudon, New Hampshire, bought a farm and settled down. When Vermont
was carved out of New York he moved his family to the Thetford area, bought
a farm near Lake Fairlee, turned it over to two of his sons in exchange for
a promise to care for him and their mother, Peggy, including maintaining
him with a horse and also undertaking to outfit their younger sister with a
wedding trousseau and dowry if needed.

Peter died in 1838 and is buried in Post Mills Cemetery, Vermont, where his
grave is carefully maintained and posted with a new flag and revolution war
veteran emblem every Veteran's day. Every time I visit the cemetery, which
is not often because I live in California, I am touched by the care given by
the townsfolk for these Veterans' graves.

Peter was at least a 3rd generation Shoaler, since his parents were John
Bragg and Hannah Saunders and John's parents were Peter Peter Bragg, born
1700 on the Isles, who married Anne Ball from Kittery, Maine. I believe the
Braggs migrated to the Isles of Shoals from Devon, England in the 1600s ,but
so far I have not made the definitive connection.

In the 1840s, the industrial revolution, some of Peter's sons moved off the
farm and to the Newburyport area to work in the factories, settling in
Salisbury, Amesbury and Newburyport. My father was born and raised in
Salisbury. I was born in Massachusetts, raised in Pennsylvania and now
reside in California since 1952. I am eight generations removed from the
original Peter Bragg of 1700 but I still consider myself a Shoaler. There
are still many descendants of Peter Bragg in Vermont, however.

I, of course, would welcome any information and am happy to provide what I
know.

Lawrence Bragg



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>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:01:13 -0600
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>Today's Topics:
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> 1. Independence Day Genealogy (David Sylvester)
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>Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:15:04 -0400
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>Members,
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>In the U.S.A. we celebrate the Independence of our nation every July 4.
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>Tell us a story about the hero or heroine in your ancestry. Was he
>a soldier? Was she a nurse? A leader? A wife or other family member
>who stayed home to run the farm? A political leader? A patriot?
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>If your ancestor helped to win Independence in another land we'd
>like to hear about him or her.
>
>If your ancestor was instrumental in gaining Independence in any
>other way tell us that story.
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>If your ancestor does not fit any of the above criteria but was
>just plain Independent we'd love to hear about that one! :)
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>I look forward to hearing your story.
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>
>David
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>http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/newenglandislands.html
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