Giles Pease

• BIRTH 13 Apr 1763 Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
• DEATH 26 Sep 1823 (aged 60)
• BURIAL West Cemetery, Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA

MEMORIAL ID 51600380

A Congregational Church was formed in the Washington Village in Coventry in Oct 28, 1831, It had never enjoyed the labors of a regularly settled minister, being small and sustained chiefly by missionary aid. Rev. Pease commenced his labors in 1830 and continued for three years. During his ministry, the church was formed and by the aid of neighboring churches, a convenient house was erected for public worship. [2]

Rev. Giles of the Puritan Congregational Church in Sandwich, did not impede slavery discussions. He delivered an antislavery address at Centerville's Liberty Hall as part of the Fourth of July 1847 celebration. This property at 12 Jarves ST., Sandwich, MA of Reverend Giles Pease, ca 1840, was approved for a historical Marker by the Sandwich Historical Commission on FEb 2, 2011.

    EASE, GILES, M. D., of Rockville, was born in Somers, Conn., December 2d, 1805. He was educated primarily for the Gospel ministry ; entered on its public duties in February, 1828, and was engaged in evangelistic labors incessantly for five years. He accepted a call to the pastorate of a Congregational Church in Lowell, Mass., in 1833. He had an attack of severe illness in 1836, culminating in throat disease and nervous prostration. Having given the old school remedies a faithful trial, without much apparent benefit, he was persuaded to try the homœopathic treatment.

In October, 1834, while in Lowell, Mass., he was assailed by the first New England pro-slavery mob, in connection with the distinguished philanthropist, the honorable and reverend George Thompson of England, whom he was first, in this country, to welcome to the hospitalities of his home and to his pulpit, to lecture on American slavery.
The immediate beneficial results constrained him to a careful and thorough study of the new science, anti to enter on its practice. He first opened an office for homœopathic practice in Cambridge, Mass., in 1840. After a busy and successful practice of two years, his health having become confirmed, he accepted a call to Sandwich, Mass., in 1842, where he continued fourteen years in the discharge of the duties of the ministry, superadded to those of an extensive homœopathic practice. From Sandwich he removed to Boston in 1856, continuing in the practice of homœopathy without pastoral charge, though not abandoning the functions of the ministry.
In 1871, constrained by solicitations of family friends, he removed to Rockville, Colin., leaving an excellent practice in the city with his son, G. M. Pease, M. D. He has always been singularly successful in the treatment of all pulmonary diseases and the diseases of children. With measles, whooping-cough, croup, diphtheria, pleurisy, lung, bilious, rheumatic and puerperal fevers, diarrhœa, cholera and cholera-morbus he has never lost a patient. Of patients in infancy and childhood he has lost four only. Being among the pioneers of homœopathy in New England, he was often subjected to very cool treatment from sundry brethren of the allopathic school, though treated courteously by not a few.
Dr. Pease has been a minister of the Gospel for more than forty-five years, and a practitioner of the Hahnemann school for more than thirty-two years. During his long career of active service in both the clerical and medical professions, he has delivered numerous lectures on slavery and temperance ; has written much for the newspaper and periodical press ; published a "Congregational Church Manual ;" a treatise on the "Egyptian and American Systems of Servitude, as compared with the Mosaic System of Service and Labor," and brief histories of a score and a half of churches. He enjoys excellent health ; uses no tobacco, tea or coffee ; can read the finest print without glasses, and continues both to preach and to heal. [3]
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Parents
Noah Pease 1740–1818
Mary Ward Pease 1737–1807

Spouse
Jerusha Pitkin Pease 1767–1854

Children
Theodore Pease 1789–1819
Noah Pease 1792–1876
Jerusha Pease Kellogg 1796–1872
Rebecca Pease Russell 1798–1870
Henry Pease 1800–1887
Giles Pease 1804–1805
Sanford Pease 1810–1837

Sources

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51600380/giles-pease

[2] The Quarterly register and journal of the American Education Society, p. 271

[3] Cleave's Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By Egbert Cleave Presented by Sylvain Cazalet