The Peabody Family

JOHN PEABODY, or Pabody, or Pabodie, was born in England about 1590. He lived at St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, where he married Isabel (sur­name unknown) and where his children were born. John and his family immi­grated to America in about 1636. John Peabody and his son, William, were among the original proprietors of Plymouth and also of Bridgewater. John was admitted freeman on January 2, 1637. He died at Bridgewater about 1667. John and Isabel Peabody had four children, Thomas, Francis, William, and Annis.
WILLIAM PEABODY, born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, in 1620. He first lived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, later in Duxbury, where he held many offices of trust and responsibility. On December 26, 1644, he married Elizabeth Alden (daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens). William Peabody was one of the first proprietors of Freetown, and one of the original purchasers of Sakonet, or Little Compton, R. I., where he moved with his family in about 1684. William died at Little Compton on December 3,1707, at the age of 87; Elizabeth died at the same place on May 31, 1717, in the 93rd year of her life. They had thirteen children, the youngest of whom was Lydia Peabody.
LYDIA PEABODY, born April 3, 1667, at Duxbury, Mass. In about 1684, she married Daniel Grinnell, Jr., son of Daniel Grinnell and Mary Waddell.

The Peabody family thus merges into the Grinnell family.