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Author: ricer3964
Surnames: CALVIN
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Peleg Calvin or Colvin as it was back then, was my great great great great grandfather. He
changed his last name from Colvin to Calvin which was the orginal name of his great
grandfather John Calvin. Peleg is listed on the MO census of 1830 in Pike County. Note:
Peleg Calvin was a farmer who resided first at Manchester, Benningon Co., VT, then
Willsboro, Essex Co., NY, Lancaster Co., PA, Fayette Co., KY, and Lincoln Co., MO. After
his marriage, he followed his wife`s parents to Essex Co., NY where both are found in the
1800 census (Peleg on pg. 309 with 1 maile under 10, 1 male and 1 female 16 to 26). He has
not been found in the 1810 census. Before he left Kentucky, his in-laws, the Dunns, had
removed to Fayette Co., KY where they lived with Peleg. In his Revolutionary War pension
application dated 11 Sept. 1820 in Fayette Co., KY, Duncan Dunn stated that he was then
dependent for support on "a son-in-law." The 1820 census of Peleg`s household in
Fayette Co., KY included a !
male and female over the age of 45, with Peleg himself (age 42) being the male listed as
age 26 to 45. That census also showed that Peleg owned two female slaves, one aged under
14 and the other aged between 14 and 26. According to family tradition, Peleg is said to
have traded "sight unseen" his shard of his father`s estate in Vermont for a
tract of land in Illinois across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, MO which had
belonged to a Veemonter who had been out in that region. When he reched the land, Peleg
found it to be swamp about 3/4ths under water, full of croaking frogs and bull rushes and
apparently valueless. Deciding that he had got emphatically the worst of the trade, Peleg
is said to have crossed the Mississippi with his family and located in Pike Co., MO north
of St. Louis where he acquired several hundred acres of land. The land he abandoned in
Illinois is apparently a part of the later occupied by the extensive factories and
railroad yards at East St. Louis!
, and worth a considerable amount today. You can contact me at ricer39
64(a)yahoo.com
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