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From the Garland Genealogy: "PETER GARLAND, mariner. Born in England. Married Elizabeth , who died in 1687, aged 88 years. Residence, Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay. He owned vessels and "coasted" between Massachusetts Bay and Virginia and the "Dutch plantations." "He died in the South while on a voyage." Before his death he requested his sons to take his body to the North for burial, where he had sons, and perhaps daughters. While his body was being brought North in one of his vessels, a storm arose and the coffin containing his body was washed overboard. "He was admitted inhabitant to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, in 1637, with seventeen others, including John Harvard, founder of Harvard College." He was allotted in 1637, as inhabitant of Charlestown, "five acres of a ten acre lot in 1st Division Mystic Side, No. 13," and "permitted to purchase Mr. Wainwright's house that he bought of Robt. Molton, and to have a meadow between Whitehead's land and Capt. Sedgwick's, in 1638."
Extract from Thomas Letchford's Note Book, in Massachusetts Bay, 1638-1641, as follows: "Thomas Beech, I pray you to pay unto my good friend, Mr. Isaac Allerton, the above somme of thirty-three pounds four shillings and six pence. And I further desire you to demand, recover and receive for me the above somme £6 3s 6d of the same partys, who owe the same unto me, and upon payment, give them acquittance, which when you have received, pay over to my said friend, Mr. Isaac Allerton, according to my Letter of Attorney to him made the Date hereof in that behalf." Witness my hand the twenty-nynth of March, Anno Dni., 1639. (Signed) Peter Garland." "To all whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, Thomas Beech, now remayning att the Dutch Plantations, standeth indebted unto me, Peter Garland, of New England, mariner," &c. Names of persons whose land " adjoined or was bounded by lands of Peter Garland, in Charlestown, Mass Bay : Ed. Converse, James Pemberton, Thomas Molton, Geo. Hepbourn, Francis WainWright, Robt. Hankness, Abraham Hills, Thomas Caules, Robert Molton, James J. Pemberton.""

Birth	1599	England
Death	1687
Marriage		Living

Spouse	Living ( - )
Child	Peter GARLAND (1615 - )