Peter Gee
A Peter Gee appears in Massachusetts records in the year 1653. This Peter Gee and his wife Grace had sons Thomas, John, and Joshua. Joshua's son, Rev. Joshua Gee, was a colleague of Cotton Mather at the Old North Church in Boston. Rev. Gee succeeded Mather as pastor of the Old North Church and preached at Mather's funeral.
Peter Gee was christened on January 25, 1614 in Newton Ferrers, Devon, England. He was the son of a John Gee. Peter came to America and he was the master of a fishing vessel that sailed out of the Isle of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was on the Isle of Shoals at least by 1653 and left to settle in Boston by 1673. The whereabouts of Peter's son Thomas was unknown by 1673 but the other two sons, John and Joshua, were respectable citizens of Boston and prosperous in the ship building trade. There is an interesting reference in a deed from Peter to one of these two sons relinquishing a life annuity in a piece of property in consideration for that son's efforts in paying a ransom to secure the release of the other son from slavery in Algiers to which he had been sold by pirates. Both of these brothers can be traced forward for several generations.
Thomas Gee was christened on March 2, 1643. There are numerous references to Thomas Gee as a possible ancestor of the Gee family in Virginia. Specifically he is possibly the father of Charles and Henry Gee. There are references to a "tradition" in the Gee family of Virginia that Charles and Henry were the sons of a Thomas Gee of Boston, Mass. In an article about Pattie Williams Gee contained in The North Carolina Booklet of the NC Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Vol VII, No. 1 July, 1907), Pattie stated that she is a great-great granddaughter of Charles Gee of Virgina who was a descendant of Thomas Gee of Boston, Massachusetts. W. J. Fletcher, in an article that appeared in an Atlanta newspaper, June 1, 1930 made reference to the tradition that the Virginia family was descended from Thomas Gee of Boston. For reasons unknown Mr. Fletcher chose to leave this reference out of his book on the Gee family. None of the references to Thomas Gee as the ancestor of the Virginia family have been substantiated insofar as I know.
Peter Gee was christened on January 25, 1614 in Newton Ferrers, Devon, England. He was the son of a John Gee. Peter came to America and he was the master of a fishing vessel that sailed out of the Isle of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was on the Isle of Shoals at least by 1653 and left to settle in Boston by 1673. The whereabouts of Peter's son Thomas was unknown by 1673 but the other two sons, John and Joshua, were respectable citizens of Boston and prosperous in the ship building trade. There is an interesting reference in a deed from Peter to one of these two sons relinquishing a life annuity in a piece of property in consideration for that son's efforts in paying a ransom to secure the release of the other son from slavery in Algiers to which he had been sold by pirates. Both of these brothers can be traced forward for several generations.
Thomas Gee was christened on March 2, 1643. There are numerous references to Thomas Gee as a possible ancestor of the Gee family in Virginia. Specifically he is possibly the father of Charles and Henry Gee. There are references to a "tradition" in the Gee family of Virginia that Charles and Henry were the sons of a Thomas Gee of Boston, Mass. In an article about Pattie Williams Gee contained in The North Carolina Booklet of the NC Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Vol VII, No. 1 July, 1907), Pattie stated that she is a great-great granddaughter of Charles Gee of Virgina who was a descendant of Thomas Gee of Boston, Massachusetts. W. J. Fletcher, in an article that appeared in an Atlanta newspaper, June 1, 1930 made reference to the tradition that the Virginia family was descended from Thomas Gee of Boston. For reasons unknown Mr. Fletcher chose to leave this reference out of his book on the Gee family. None of the references to Thomas Gee as the ancestor of the Virginia family have been substantiated insofar as I know.
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