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Elizabeth Peabody was about seventeen when she married James White and her sister Hephzibeth somewhat younger when she married Jonathan Leavitt. In most cases the families were large and the "olive branches" doubtless furnished sufficient occupation for the mothers to keep them from feeling the loneliness of their situation. James Simonds had fourteen children.
About the year 1772 Jonathan Leavitt married Capt. Francis Peabody's youngest daughter, Hephzibeth, then about sixteen years of age, and thus became more closely identified with James Simonds and James White, whose wives were also daughters of Capt. Peabody. The concluding part of Capt.
Peabody's will is of interest in connection with the above: "Item, I give to my daughter Elizabeth White thirty dollars to be paid by my two eldest sons in household goods. "Item, to my daughter Hannah Simonds five dollars to be paid by my two eldest sons. "Item, to my daughter Hephzibeth I give three hundred dollars to be paid by my two eldest sons in household goods on the day of her marriage.
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