Herbert lll Pelham, Esq.

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Herbert lll Pelham, Esq.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: after January 01, 1673
Ferrers, Bewer's Hamlet, Essex, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Herbert Pelham, Jr and Penelope DeLaWarr Pelham
Husband of Jemima Pelham and Elizabeth Pelham
Father of Nathaniel Pelham; Penelope Winslow and Edward Pelham
Brother of John Pelham and Penelope Bellingham

Occupation: First Treasurer of Harvard College
Managed by: Carole (Erickson) Pomeroy,Vol. C...
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About Herbert lll Pelham, Esq.

Graduated at Oxford 1619, and bore his father's Arms in the Hastings muster the same year. He came to Massachusetts in 1638, was first treasurer of Harvard College and returned to England 1649, where he died in 1673.

From Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1 (Google eBook) Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee Smith, Elder & Company, 1903 - Great Britain. Page 1022

PELHAM, HERBERT (1600-1673), colonist; joined the Massachusetts Company, 1629, and went to Massachusetts, 1635; took an active part in the settlement of Sudbnrv ; returned to England, 1647. [xliv. 248]

Will dated at Ferrers in Bewers Hamlet, co. Essex, 1 Jan 1672 gave to sisters Elizabeth Pelham & Penelope Bellingham; sons Waldegrave, Edward, Nathaniel & Henry; daughters Penelope Winslow, Anne P., Katherine Clark, & ?, wife of Cuthlach Eliot.


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Herbert lll Pelham, Esq.'s Timeline

1601
1601
Boston, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
1632
1632
1632
Bures, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1643
1643
Age 42
1st Treasurer of Harvard College
1650
1650
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
1673
January 1, 1673
Age 72
Ferrers, Bewer's Hamlet, Essex, England
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