Here is a quick listing of the Pee family in Bedford Co, PA.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...
Andrew Pee Sr is son of Abraham Pie/Pee, born ca. 1742 who was brother to my 6th great grandfather Jacob Pie. They all lived in Lancaster Co, PA, prior to Bedford Co, and attended the First Reformed Church of Lancaster (plenty of online records for them on Google).
If you would like access to my Ancestry.com Pea/Pee/Pie/Pease family tree please send me an email to
richard_pea@dca.ca.gov and I'll send you an invite. I have over 16000 individuals so far for the descendants of Unknown duPre/Pie and Magdalene, parents of Magdalene (b.1738), Jacob (b.1739), Maria (b.1741)and Abraham (b.1742) Pie/Pee/Pea of Lancaster, PA. The sisters married leBrandt/Braun/Brand and Gurrier families. Abraham went south (using the Pee spelling) while Jacob (using the Pea spelling) and family moved to Nelson Co, KY, Knox Co, IN, Moultrie Co, IL, and further west.
I am currently trying to find any immigration records for this family prior to 1760, since the earliest records we know of are in Lancaster Co, PA, but show no records of where they came from before they lived in PA. The Peay and Dupuy variations are NOT for this family. duPre may be a possible variation, but was only used a few times in land records for Indiana for this family. The Pease/Peas/Pees variation was used in later generations for this family, and family oral history says that the original spelling of the Pie/Pea/Pee surname may have had the S at the end, but was silent, so was removed by the British clerks at the time to sound more British like. Some family says the S was removed to hide this family from ruling powers overseas, but there are no connections so far with that route.
We also have this family's Y-DNA online for those Pea/Pie/Pee/Pease family members who might think we're connected, in the States or overseas. Again, email me so I can add you to our family tree if we're related.
Possible names for our Pea forebear may be Jean Jaque(Jacques) de la Pie, duPie, duPees, la Pea, based on the fact that Jacob Pie (my 6th ggf) and wife Rachel named 3 sons John Jacob, John Henry, and John, which continued down the line for several generations. We know Unknown Pie was married to a Magdalene, because her name was written as being present during the baptism of her granddaughter Elizabeth in Lancaster, with the sermons being preached in French.
The DuBois/DePoy family is also connected to this family in the early years of Pennsylvania. Conrad DuBois/DePoy is the earliest person from this line connected with our family, his children and grandchildren married into the Maquinet side (Rachel Maquinet was Jacob Pie's wife). I've been trying to find any connection between the DuBois/DePoy family and our Pea/Pee family. There are no records showing these two families intermarried, and they lived very close to eachother, both sides marrying Maquinets around the same times.
I've tried to look into the possibility that our Pea family could have been Acadians from Nova Scotia, with the surname spelled DuPuis, but no luck there. Records of the DuPuis families that were forced out of Nova Scotia and went to PA show that they left soon thereafter (going to Louisiana and elsewhere as duPre's) and no descendants were shown to live in Lancaster Co, PA, where our Pea/Pee family is from.
Hopefully down the road, the Y-DNA can be used to verify family relations, but we need other DNA testings to be done by other Pea families to compare and find any connections between us.
Happy hunting to all!