GLANFIELD

1. PETER-

m. MARGARET ______

Peter was a tailor and was taxed in Dover in 1663 yet he was listed as being "of Isles of Shoals" where he bought property.

Peter was a constable in 1666 and was fined in the Maine court for forcibly evicting William Pitts but, he sustained in jailing him. Also in 1666 Peter was an appraiser for the Rev. Joseph Hull's estate. The next year he bought two acres of land near the Portsmouth meeting house where he apparently lived until going to Salem to live with his son.

In 1670 Peter sold his house at the Shoals. He also bought 70 acres from Samuel Knight on Great Cove selling it to Jeremy Sheres shortly thereafter.

On 21 Apr. 1670 William Palmer bound his daughter Rachel, age 3 years, 9 months, to Peter Glanfield until age 20 and deeded him 12 acres of land. in 1674 he sold him the adjoining land.

Map of Kittery- Lower Parish- from Stackpole's Old Kittery And Her Families

Peter was on the grand jury in 1670 and 1672 and in 1684 he was fined for expressing his opinion of Mr. Cranfield.

On 3 June 1678 it was voted by the selectmen: "In pursuance of an additional law of the General Court, made on the 23d of May, 1677, touching the prevention of the profanation of the Lord's day, enjoyning the selectmen to appoint Tythingmen to inspect ten or twelve of their neighbor's families, the selectmen do nominate and appoynt the persons here undernamed to perform that service:... Jno Light for... Peter Glanfield."

He took the oath of allegience to Massachusetts 28 Aug. 1685 and sold land in Kittery in the same year. The last mention of him was in Salem 30 May 1696.