Issac Peace

Isaac Peace was a wealthy merchant and highly respected citizen of Charleston, South Carolina. Joseph Peace, father of Isaac, embarked at Gravesend, England, for America, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he became possessed of the Brandywine, the Bristol and the Trenton flouring mills, together with a very large landed estate in and about Bristol and Trenton, including a goodly portion of Penn Manor. He died when his two daughters were minors and his sons, Joseph and Isaac, in infancy. Through the negligence of a fox-hunting guardian — an uncle Allen — the estate was mostly dissipated and alienated, leaving the heirs in comparative poverty. One of the daughters married ----------- Austin ; the second — Sarah — married Sir Richard Chubb, whose gold sleeve-button with coat of arms thereon I have in my possession. I knew both these- great-aunts in my boyhood. They lived and died in Philadelphia. Joseph Peace settled at New Garden, North Carolina, where many of his descendants remain and are highly respected.

Isaac Peace married and first settled in the Island of Barbadoes, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He afterwards removed to Charleston, where he followed the same business. During the devastating period of the Revolutionary War, he was again ruined in property, but long before his decease retrieved his circumstances. Finally, in his old age, he removed north and settled in Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a man of great strength of mind and of sterling integrity. Isaac Peace married Elizabeth Gibson, of Barbadoes, July 12, 1770, and died in Bristol, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1818, aged 80 years. His wife died November 30, 1800, and was buried at Speights Town, Barbadoes. Their children were : 1. Joseph, born May 10, 1771 ; died May 31, 1826; married Anna Maria Rudhall, of Charleston, S. C. Their children were : Elizabeth G. ; Ann Maria ; Rebecca; Sophia; Isaac; Joseph; William Rudhall ; Edward ; Carolina ; Mary, and Washington. 2. Sarah, born in Charleston, S. C, January 13, 1774 ; died January 14, 1795. 3. Mary P., born March 6, 1775 ; married Rowland Hazard. 4. Francis P., born Feb- ruary 16, 1776 ; died in infancy. 5. Isaac, born May 9, 1777 ; died July 16, 1780. 6. Rebecca, born August 22, 1781 ; married Dr, Nathaniel Cole, March 25, 1807 ; died November 13, 1851. Dr. Cole died July 18, 1848. Their children were: Elizabeth, born July 9, 1808 ; Sarah P., born October 1, 1810 : married Samuel Starr and had children, Samuel and William ; Rebecca, born August 10, 1813. Dr. Cole, his wife and children, all lived and died in Burlington, New Jersey.

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Recollections of olden times: Rowland Robinson of Narangansett and his unfortunate daughter with genealogies of the Robinson Hazard, and Sweet families of Rhode Island by Thomas R. Hazard